Glenagragara
Glenagragara is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfergus, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Gleann an Ghrágaire.
- Area
- 448.4 ha
- 1,108 acres
- Land parcels
- 128
- registered freehold, median 6,379 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
128 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glenagragara, from 63 m² to 326,558 m² (32.66 ha, 80.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Glenagragara 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
24 Nov 2025Conditional
the extension to the front and side of the house and retain the garage as constructed to the rear of the house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561220
12 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary wall and entrance, mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2118
7 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of a slatted shed, slatted tank, creep area, roofed cattle crush and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20594
1 Nov 2019Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, sand polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191081
22 Oct 2019N/a
a forestry entrance along with ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191041
21 Mar 2019Conditional
construction of an entrance and access road to existing forestry block and ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19255
19 Dec 2017N/a
construction of entrance and access road to existing forestry block and ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171203
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- LI026-003 Fulacht fia
Description
The site is located at the southern edge of a wet rushy field, that slopes gradually downwards to the west and is immediately adjacent to a deep field ditch. It consists of a level dry oval area and measures 9.4m N-S by 8.6m E-W. One of the forest field drains has clipped the burnt spread on its western side and in the section it can be seen to be at least 0.43m in thickness. There is no surface indication of a trough. (This description is by Emmet Byrne, archaeologist with Department of Agriculture, 10th May 2005) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 August 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Glenagragara.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Glenagragara, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Glenagragara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Glenagragara · Gleann an Ghrágaire
- Area
- 4,484,078 m² (448.41 ha, 1,108.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfergus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Kilfergus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 442 people lived in 178 households in the Kilfergus electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygiltenan Upper, Dromreask, Glannalappa East (Co. Kerry), Glashapullagh, Tooraree Upper, Tullyleague
- Placenames
- Glenagragara 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.