Grange Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Grange, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Ghráinseach Uachtarach
- Area
- 105.6 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,694 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grange Upper, from 365 m² to 257,383 m² (25.74 ha, 63.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Upper 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 Aug 2026N/a
construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/1231
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267047
29 Aug 2022Conditional
the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22938
2 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211231
12 Feb 2021Conditional
construction of a two storey style dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21145
5 Feb 2021Conditional
construction of a two-storey style dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system with eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21108
27 Sept 2018Conditional
(I) demolish existing cubicle house & open slurry pit, (ii) construct a new easy feed slatted livestock unit incorporating underground slurry storage tanks with 4 external agitation points & ancillary concrete, (iii) construct a new cattle crush & ancillary concrete. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18944
27 Mar 2018Conditional
(a) demolition of detached two storey dwelling house, (b) construction of replacement detached single storey dwelling house, (c) new on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, (d) new vehicular entrance off private access road ad (e) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18283
19 Apr 2017Conditional
construct a new agricultural entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17342
21 Mar 2017N/a
construct a new agricultural entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17245
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (31.4m N-S; 26.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.65m) SSE->NNW, and by field boundary NNW->NE which probably overlies bank. From NE->SSE there is no trace of enclosing element but edge of enclosure is marked by gradual slope down from interior into marshy area. Field boundary runs along base of bank WNW->NNW. Interior under pasture and slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-044 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
In pasture on slight NW-facing slope. Circular grove (diam. 12.3m) of mature deciduous trees. No enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grange Upper.
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_490 (ZIP).
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Grange Upper · An Ghráinseach Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,055,612 m² (105.56 ha, 260.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Grange, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Knockaderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockaderry electoral division: 541 people in 176 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arddrine, Grange Lower, Knockaderry, Lissaniska West, Moveedy
- Placenames
- Grange Upper 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.