Gooig
Gooig is a townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Guaig.
- Area
- 231.8 ha
- 573 acres
- Land parcels
- 426
- registered freehold, median 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
426 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gooig, from 4 m² to 158,121 m² (15.81 ha, 39.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Gooig 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 May 2026Refused
the re-establishment and operation of a currently disused southern entrance, which would facilitate all traffic associated with the ongoing operations at Gooig Quarry (Planning Reference: 19/1011), directly replacing the existing entrance adjoining the L5121 Local Road. The proposed works will include the installation of a wheel wash, water tank and associated drainage infrastructure and paved finish at the entrance and along the ramp. The proposed development will also include the installation of traffic management signage and the provision of a coloured surface cycle lane at the R445 junction, in the interests of road safety for cyclists and motorists
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660537
8 May 2026N/a
alterations to an existing entrance & the construction of a roadway
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660523
12 Feb 2026Refused
a Change of Use of a building from a storage warehouse to a heavy goods vehicle retail store and maintenance facility; including the construction of a first floor for office accommodation and parts storage; alterations to the existing building façade; the demolition of a single storey office annex; the construction of a new site entrance; the provision of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area; and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660142
15 Nov 2025Conditional
changes to existing dwelling to comprise of (a) Additional Bay window to South elevation (b) 2 Additional first floor windows in East Elevation (c) Omission of Window in East Elevation (d) Construction of Bathroom & Utility to West Elevation (e) Elevational Changes to Store (f) Internal modifications to Dwelling and all ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561189
24 Sept 2024Refused
the construction of a shared entrance, dwelling house, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. This is a concurrent application with neighboring site
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460952
21 Sept 2024Refused
amendments to previously permitted governing planning permission ref 23/60600, for relocation of permitted entrance and convert to a shared entrance, subdivision of site by altering the permitted site boundaries resulting in reduction in permitted site area together with all associated site works. This is a concurrent application with neighboring site
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460936
18 Aug 2023Conditional
new domestic dwelling, new garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360600
7 Jul 2023Conditional
a single storey residential dwelling and separate shed. Provision of a domestic wastewater treatment system and associated site services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23366
29 Oct 2021Conditional
construction of detached machinery storage building, together with all associated incidental ancillary works. This application is also being submitted simultaneously to Tipperary County Council as the application site is bisected by the Limerick/Tipperary county boundary
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211506
26 Feb 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21230
22 Dec 2020N/a
filling old gravel pit with topsoil, subsoil, stone and inorganic construction material to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201407
11 Oct 2019Conditional
removal of the intervening aggregate reserve (c. 1.47ha. and 80,000m cubed aggregate in volume) currently dividing the registered quarries at Gooig (Ref. No. 05/7026 and 05/7037). The restoration of the combined quarries through importation if uncontaminated soils and stones (c. 12.2ha. and 1,250,000m cubed). The provision and operation of a wheel wash facility and use of the site access and infrastructure of existing permitted Roadstone manufacturing operations to fully restore the land to agricultural use. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompany this planning application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191011
12 Apr 2019Conditional
extensions to the side and rear of house including a detached domestic store
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19362
28 Mar 2018Conditional
a new office unit, septic tank, percolation area and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18292
28 Mar 2018Conditional
the construction of the following; demolition of existing substandard derelict cottage, shared entrance, single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18291
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 Gooig.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gooig.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gooig.
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 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1086 (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 Gooig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Gooig · Guaig
- Area
- 2,317,940 m² (231.79 ha, 572.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Stradbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Castleconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaholty (Co. Tipperary), Ballymackeogh (Co. Tipperary), Cloon and Commons, Coolready, Derreen, Derrylusk, Gardenhill
- Placenames
- Gooig 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.