Fawnlehane
Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Fán Liatháin
- Area
- 187.2 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 2,781 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fawnlehane, from 317 m² to 275,747 m² (27.57 ha, 68.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Fawnlehane 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
28 Apr 2025Conditional
demolition of dwelling house and construct 2 No single storey dwelling units, permission for the erection of 2 No advertising signs at the entrance, the installation of a waste water treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2560379
8 Jul 2024Refused
the demolition of dwelling house and the construction of 2 No. single storey dwelling units, the erection of 2 No. advertising signs at the entrance and all ancillary site development works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24269
23 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a shed for the perpose of storing hay and straw and an extension to existing outdoor sand arena
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24167
21 Dec 2020Conditional
the construction of a slatted house, holding pen and concrete apron
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201396
2 Oct 2019Conditional
new entrance walls on existing entrance an access road serving existing home and farm
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19976
21 Jun 2019Conditional
relocating and increasing the floor area of the office building, granted under planning permission ref. 18/1037 and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19597
4 Feb 2019Conditional
construction of 2 poultry houses, covered litter store and all associated site works. The application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Pollution & Control Licence, now replaced by an Industrial Emissions Licence). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1988
17 Jan 2019Conditional
construction of one poultry house, a storage shed for the storage of poultry bedding and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1928
24 Oct 2018Conditional
construction of external sand ring, external lunge ring, roof structure to cover manure heap, office, waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181037
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 Fawnlehane.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-160 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (41.9m N-S; 42.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.95m) with an external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.7m). Break (Wth 3.2m) through bank at SSW was recently made. A field boundary runs N-S across fosse at WSW, along top of bank WSW->NW, and along outer line of fosse NW->ENE. A track, running NE-SW, skirts enclosure 8m to E. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/2 on 05/10/2002.
- LI036-161 Moated site
Description
In pasture, on slight N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked square enclosure (L c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected but area of site marked by patch of flag irises. (Barry 1981, 84) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-163 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI044-026 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (25m N-S; 23.4m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; 1.4m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 1.2m) SE->W. Interior slopes down to N. Entire site under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Fawnlehane.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Fawnlehane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Fawnlehane · Fán Liatháin
- Area
- 1,871,904 m² (187.19 ha, 462.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Danganbeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Danganbeg electoral division: 433 people in 155 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnacrohy, Ballintober East, Ballinvullin, Moanleana, Shanrath
- Placenames
- Fawnlehane 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.