Feeagh
Feeagh is a townland in the civil parish of Nantinan, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Fíobhach.
- Area
- 37 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 33,062 m² (3.31 ha, 8.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feeagh, from 1,590 m² to 329,761 m² (32.98 ha, 81.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 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 Feeagh 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
13 Dec 2022Conditional
the construction of roof over existing slatted feeding area and all associated site works. Permission for retention of cubicle shed is also required
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221336
28 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of a 30 metre lattice mobile and broadband tower with headframe, carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets, enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound with access track
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2170
2 Jan 2018Conditional
the construction of an unroofed slatted tank and to extend existing slatted tank
Permission · Limerick County Council, 182
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 Feeagh.
Recorded monuments
- LI020-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope, below brow of hill. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still evident as circular area (22m E-W) defined by very gradual scarped edge NE->W (H 1m; Wth 11.5m), which is truncated by passageway leading to newly constructed house W->NE. A pump house stands on top edge of scarp at SSW. Interior, under pasture, has shallow drain (D 0.1m; Wth 0.6m) crossing it on E-W axis. There is a dump of quarry stones near centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-053 Ringfort - rath
Description
In marshy ground, on E edge of break in E-facing hillside. Site occupies NW corner of small paddock, immediately E of farmyard. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.35m) best preserved at NW and S. Entrance at SW (Wth 5.4m) and cattle gap at N (Wth 2m). Interior, heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, slopes down to E. There is an abandoned car in SE quadrant. Rubbish has been dumped against external bank face N->ENE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-135 Mill - unclassified
Description
On S bank of stream flowing NW to join River Deel. Fragmentary remains of rectangular structure survive in area between stream to N and steep rocky face to S; entire area covered by mature deciduous trees. West end of rectangular building (6m N-S) whose walls are reduced to foundation level except for short section (L c. 2m) of N wall which stands to c. 1.9m. North wall traceable for c. 5m; S wall traceable for 5.5m to where a square brick-built structure (L 2m) has been built on its line; this contains a hydraulic ram which supplied water to Nantinan House until c. 1970. On E side of brick structure, and c. 1.6m from it, is another section of low walling (L c. 2m; H c. 4m) which appears to be continuation of S wall of structure to W. Entire area strewn with loose rubble stone. 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 Feeagh.
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 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_551 (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 Feeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Feeagh · Fíobhach
- Area
- 370,433 m² (37.04 ha, 91.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nantinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Nantinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardgoul North, Ardgoul South, Bullaun, Nantinan
- Placenames
- Feeagh 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.