Feenagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Fíonach
- Area
- 184.7 ha
- 457 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 3,433 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feenagh, from 144 m² to 235,721 m² (23.57 ha, 58.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Feenagh 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 Jun 2024Refused
existing caravan park comprising 5No. recreational vehicle stands, 2no. touring caravan pitches, internal access roads and parking area, the provision of a motorised vehicle waste disposal point and holding tank and temporary toilet unit. Permission to retain and complete toilet / shower block and covered picnic area (currently under construction) and 3no. glamping pods. Permission to decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and install a new mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter, new bin store, construct a new vehicular entrance and front boundary wall in lieu of existing vehicular entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24231
9 Mar 2023Conditional
the demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of a replacement dwelling house, connection to public services, boundary treatments & all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360134
30 May 2022Conditional
a single storey extension to the north of existing dwelling house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 22608
27 Mar 2020Conditional
a) demolition of existing storage shed, b) construction of a milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms and collecting yard with underground slatted tanks, c) construction of calf rearing shed, d) erection of feed bin and all other associated site works. This lies within the curtilage of a protected structure
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20262
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 Feenagh.
Recorded monuments
- LI045-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is now apparent as roughly oval area (38m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.25m; Wth 4m) E->SW, but scarp very indistinct elsewhere (H 0.15m; Wth 4m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached two-bay single-storey thatched vernacular house, built c. 1800, having recent porch to front (east) and gable-fronted projecting bay to rear. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Flat bitumen clad roof to porch and pitched slate roof to rear projecting bay. Rendered wall to front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to side (south) and rear (west) elevations. Square-headed window openings having render sills throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to northern bay of front elevation. uPVC casement window elsewhere. Square-headed door opening to porch having double-leaf glazed timber doors. Single-bay outbuilding to south-east of house having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing wall with square-profile piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
- Feenagh House, farm house, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c. 1800, incorporating earlier six-bay single-storey block with dormer attic to rear (west). Later breakfront porch to side (south) of rear block. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched artificial slate roof to rear block with recent skylights, uPVC clad eaves and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered roof to breakfront porch. Whitewashed rubble stone walls to front (east) and side (north) elevations having roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to northern bay of rear elevation and first floor of side (north) elevation. Replacement uPVC casement windows to rear block. Square-headed door openings throughout. Timber doorcase to front elevation opening, having carved nail-head pilasters and architrave, timber panelled door flanked by glazed timber sidelights with carved timber panels. Replacement glazed timber, Dutch and timber battened doors to rear block openings. Rendered enclosing wall with render coping and wrought-iron railing to front of house, having wrought-iron gate. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south with roughcast rendered enclosing wall, having camber-headed door opening with render surrounds and single-leaf metal clad door. Recent farmyard complex to rear of house having splayed entrance with rendered walls and square-profile piers.
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
- Susceptibility 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 Feenagh.
- 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 Feenagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Feenagh · Fíonach
- Area
- 1,847,412 m² (184.74 ha, 456.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Feenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Feenagh electoral division: 340 people in 130 households; 75% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahadagh, Cloonlara, Cloonroosk, Gortmore, Highmount, Kilcolman, Kilmurry (Archer), Kilmurrybog
- Placenames
- Feenagh 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.