Glenacurrane

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenacurrane, from 227 m² to 185,610 m² (18.56 ha, 45.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Glenacurrane 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.

• 28 May 2021Conditional

  a 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, 21745

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  alterations and construction of a two storey (dormer style) domestic extension to the southern facing front elevation of the existing dwelling, associated siteworks and new site boundaries

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20436

• 1 Oct 2018Conditional

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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18956

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenacurrane River Valley 002035

Recorded monuments

• LI057-064 Moated site
  Description

  In wet pasture 420m E of the townland boundary with Coolnamohoge and 340m E of Glenacurrane woods. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 29m NE-SW; 27m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from S-SW, incorporated into a field boundary from N-E-SE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Truncated at W by local roadway running NE-SW. Identified as a possible moated site on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (Strip map 2, site 2/3) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a sub-rectangular area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 10/10/2006. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 9 November 2021

• LI058-013 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Building outlined at this location on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map (Gowen 1988, 179). In pasture on slight SE facing slope. Remains consist of a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 9.5m N-S x 16.6m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank which represents the remains of a collapsed building aligned E-W that is depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A low earthen bank (L 18m) of similar form runs N from gap in E side of earthwork represents the remains of a boundary associated with this building that is depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

• LI058-014 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture on slight E facing slope. No surface remains visible of rectangular-shaped earthwork identified on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline aerial photograph (BGE 1/5000, No. 2628) See attached gas pipeline aerial photo and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenacurrane.

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

At the centre of the townland of Glenacurrane, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Glenacurrane · Gleann an Chorráin

Area

1,703,774 m² (170.38 ha, 421.01 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnamohoge, Geeragh, Kilglass, Lackendarragh

Placenames

Glenacurrane 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.