Geeragh

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Geeragh, from 179 m² to 353,239 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Geeragh 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.

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) attic conversion to existing dwelling, (2) elevational changes including increased roof pitch and (3) associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660349

• 30 Jul 2025Conditional

  a). a single storey extension to side of existing house, b). a timber and zinc canopy to northern and western elevations, an outdoor BBQ area, a 3.5m high stone wall to front elevation, external paving and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560750

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  erection of a dormer type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22115

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, provision of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211804

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  erection of a dormer type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21110

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  erection of a two storey type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201003

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

  the construction of 2 no. cattle underpasses and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18956

• 13 Jan 2017Conditional

  permission for dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance, boundary fences, drainage and all associated work

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 1719

• 11 May 2005Conditional

  Slatted storage tank, walking passage & straw beds

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3171

• 13 Apr 2005Incompleted application

  Slatted unit straw beds

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2343

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Geeragh.

Recorded monuments

• LI060-001 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture on upper slope of a low hill. Remains consist of a raised rectangular shaped area (dims. 44m NNW-SSE x 37m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank (base Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) with external fosse (base Wth 2.6m; ext. D 0.4m) filled in from W-N-E-SE. Entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at S appears to be modern. Interior slopes slightly to SSE. NW, NE and SE corners of platform are raised slightly See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

Architectural heritage

• Geeragh Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over the River Geeragh, erected c. 1810, with render over rubble sandstone walls having square-profile piers. Inscribed datestone of 1927 to south parapet wall. Cut alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. Carved U-cutwaters.

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 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Geeragh.

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.

No address of the register names Geeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Geeragh · An Gaorthadh

Area

1,717,449 m² (171.74 ha, 424.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilglass electoral division: 315 people in 119 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anglesborough, Carrow, Garrane (Co. Cork), Glenacurrane, Kilglass, Lackendarragh

Placenames

Geeragh 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.