Grange
Townland in the civil parish of Knocklong, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Ghráinseach
- Area
- 134.2 ha
- 332 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,134 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange, from 98 m² to 218,309 m² (21.83 ha, 53.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Grange 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
28 Jul 2025Conditional
(1) retention of the as constructed dwelling house, (2) retention of as constructed garage, (3) retention of site boundaries and associated site works. Permission is also being sought for a revision to the site boundaries and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560740
5 Apr 2024Conditional
the renovation & extension of an existing dwelling house, construction of a new entrance, installation of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24138
8 Sept 2023Conditional
extensions to existing cottage dwelling and for planning permission for upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system and vehicular access and all associated site development works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 23444
1 Mar 2019Refused
extensions to existing cottage dwelling and Planning Permission for upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system and vehicular access and all associated site development works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 19177
5 Dec 2018Conditional
construction of an extension and carry out renovations to existing dwelling and permission to demolish existing domestic garage on site, permission to construct three stables, permission to install waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181184
19 Apr 2018Conditional
renovating and extending an existing cottage with new domestic garage, upgrading existing septic tank, construct new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18380
23 May 2017N/a
to renovate & extend an existing cottage with new domestic garage, construct a new entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17467
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 Grange.
Recorded monuments
- LI041-012 Earthwork
Description
In pasture immediately E of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI041-014----) lies 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp with fosse from SW-W-N-E. Truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW, intersected at S by watercourse running NW-SE. Monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork standing in W corner of field on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/19. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 July 2021
- LI041-014 Enclosure
Description
Described by Doody (2008, 138) as a subrectangular ditched enclosure, c. 35m x 35m, possibly platformed'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 11 November 2013 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 368/1 and 2 on 10/05/2003.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grange.
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 Grange.
- 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 Grange with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Grange · An Ghráinseach
- Area
- 1,341,715 m² (134.17 ha, 331.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knocklong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Knocklong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knocklong electoral division: 918 people in 348 households; 81% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincarroona, Ballyholahan West (Co. Tipperary), Drumcomoge (Co. Tipperary), Knocklong East, Raheennamadra, Scarteen
- Placenames
- Grange 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.