Durraclogh
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Dorchlach
- Area
- 179.7 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 8,090 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Durraclogh, from 128 m² to 193,476 m² (19.35 ha, 47.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Durraclogh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
26 Jan 2023Conditional
the refurbishment and alterations to an existing 2-storey house and for the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing house, a new waste-water treatment system, the relocation of the site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2351
6 Mar 2020Conditional
installation of wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all other associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20199
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Durraclogh.
Recorded monuments
- LI037-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.85m) with an external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 3.6m). Gap (Wth 2.4m) in bank at SSE. Level interior, under pasture; it has been levelled up on N side to compensate for slope of ground. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope at E end of E-W running ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. The 1923 OS 6-inch map shows site bisected by N-S field boundary with enclosing element present only on E side of boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-067 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Formerly circular area (diam. 22.8m N-S) has been reduced to D-shape (18m E-W) by partial removal of interior and enclosing element on E side. Enclosing earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.6m) survives SE->NW; E side now defined by scarped edge. Field boundary runs N-S along top of bank and across fosse SW->NW. Interior level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-069 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.4m), and external bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.45m) S->N; enclosing element overgrown with thorn bushes. Incorporating external bank and entirely surrounding enclosure is field boundary, abutted by other field boundaries at E, S, SW and NW. Level interior overgrown with briars and nettles. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1840, having recent single-storey extension side (north). Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystacks. White-washed rubble stone walls to front (east) and side (south) elevations with dressed rubble stone quoins. Rendered plinth to side (south) elevation. Rendered walls to rear (west) elevation with rendered buttresses. Square-headed window openings throughout, having splayed reveals to rear elevation with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings throughout, having timber battened Dutch door to front elevation. Double-leaf glazed timber doors to rear elevation. Rubble stone enclosing walls with rubble stone coping. Square-profile gate piers having rubble stone coping and timber battened gate.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Durraclogh.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Durraclogh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Durraclogh · Dorchlach
- Area
- 1,796,856 m² (179.69 ha, 444.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballynoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynoe electoral division: 496 people in 181 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyneale, Ballynoe, Glenwilliam, Gortroe
- Placenames
- Durraclogh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.