Ellaha
Ellaha is a townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Oilche.
- Area
- 40.4 ha
- 100 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 20,784 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ellaha, from 2,524 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 249,249 m² (24.92 ha, 61.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ellaha 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
4 May 2023Conditional
the construction of a 44.7m underground medium voltage(38kV) grid connection cable from the consented Ballinknockane and Ellaha Solar Farm(PA Ref:17/1220) to the section of Solar Farm currently in planning(PA Ref:22/1258) comprising the laying of underground cables and associated infrastructure
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23237
29 Nov 2022Conditional
The development will consist of permission for a solar farm comprising the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, installation of 9 transformer containers, a temporary construction compound and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works on lands 24.7 hectares located at Ellaha and Mullagh, Co. Limerick. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the application for planning permission
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221258
16 Jun 2022Conditional
a new 110kV substation to feed into the existing Aughinish - Kilpaddoge 110kV overhead line
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22313816
16 Jun 2021Conditional
to amend condition 6 of planning permission ref 20/688. The amendment will allow for an increase in the maximum tonnage of waste allowed per calendar year from 15,000 to 24,000. On completion of the importation of waste, the site(including the areas previously filled under permissions 06/233, 11/7059, 12/164, 17/250 & 20/688) is to be covered with topsoil throughout and seeded with grass seed. Thes works are to take place at my landfill site and will require a waste permit
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21849
20 Jul 2020Conditional
the completion of the existing landfill and storage of timber overground (previous planning ref:s 06/233, 11/7059, 12/164& 17/250. The permission requires a waste licence
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20688
21 Dec 2017Conditional
a ten year permission for the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 61.29 hectares, to include one Transmission System Operator (TSO) electrical substation with associated switchgear, TSO compound and control building, one customer substation with transformer, communications pole, compound and control building, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage containers, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171220
29 Aug 2017N/a
the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 65.76 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings and associated compound, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, one customer substation with one communications pole attached, storage modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage container, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17807
23 Mar 2017Conditional
for the completion of the existing landfill and storage of timber overground (planning ref:s 06/233, 11/7059 & 12/164, the permission requires a waste licence.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17250
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 Ellaha.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ellaha.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ellaha.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ellaha, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_462 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ellaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ellaha · Oilche
- Area
- 403,928 m² (40.39 ha, 99.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Robertstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Craggs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinknockane, Deelish, Oldabbey, Rincullia, Robertstown, Stokesfield
- Placenames
- Ellaha 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.