Eyon

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Eyon, from 91 m² to 227,485 m² (22.75 ha, 56.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Eyon 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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  refurbishing and extending existing dwelling house to include installation of wastewater treatment system and vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561185

• 16 Feb 2023N/a

  the construction of an underground slurry storage tank including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360071

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  an extension to existing dwelling comprising part single, part two storey construction, demolition of existing shed, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21845

• 28 Sept 2018Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18949

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI015-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the floodplains of the Mulkear River to the W, overlooking Brittas Castle (LI014-058----) on W side of the river. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a raised sub-oval shaped platform (approx. dims. int. 20m NW-SE; ext. 36m NW-SE) defined by a fosse from NW through to W, spoil heap bank from river drainage scheme intersects the site from W to NW. Partially levelled monument described in 1964 (O’Dwyer 1964, 96) as ‘a platform 20 foot [6m] in diameter, 8 foot [2.4m] high. Encircled by a 12 feet [3.6m] wide ditch which has traces of an outer bank. Only about one third of the site remains’. Monument inspected in 2005 when it was recorded as heavily overgrown with scrub vegetation making detailed examination impossible. Monument not clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 3 July 2020

• LI015-051 Megalithic structure
  Description

  Identified by archaeologist Celie O Rahilly in 1995 while preparing an EIS for a quarry extension. She noted "some large erratic boulders on the surface. It was not possible to examine these closely as they were separated by a boundary. They may be a natural formation or they may form an alignment of archaeological significance". In a further report in 1999, she wrote "it would now not be possible to examine this area as it is now backfilled". Extensive land clearance has taken place in this area and the feature described by O Rahilly is no longer evident. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 23 October 2013

Architectural heritage

• Brittas Bridge, bridge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge over the River Mulkear, built in 1874. Dressed walls with carved copings and stringcourse. Cut voussoirs to elliptical-headed arches. Plaque reads: 'A.D. 1874 Built under the superintendence of Thomas Fosbery Esq. C.E. by Michael Walsh of Foynes contractor'.

• Eyon House, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey former country house, built in 1826, with single-storey extension to rear (south). Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows having limestone sills. Round-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door and fanlight. Ranges of L-plan outbuildings to rear having hipped slate roofs and rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber fittings.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1173 (ZIP).

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.

• Eyon, Murroe6 sales

Name

Eyon · Eidhean

Area

2,183,418 m² (218.34 ha, 539.53 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherconlish East electoral division: 576 people in 187 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyart, Brittas, Cappanouk, Drombane, Dromcluher, Dromeliagh, Rathwood, Tinnatarriff

Placenames

Eyon 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.