Inishkeen
Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Inis Caoin
- Area
- 65.6 ha
- 162 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 6,641 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishkeen, from 1,832 m² to 174,996 m² (17.5 ha, 43.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Inishkeen 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
25 Feb 2020Conditional
construction of dwelling house, installation of on site treatment plant and percolation area, construction of new entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20159
28 Nov 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter, new site entrance and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191176
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 Inishkeen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Inishkeen.
Architectural heritage
- Ahacomusk Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Four-span road bridge, built c. 1820, spanning the River Bunoke. Round-headed arches having tooled limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone soffits springing from dressed stone piers with tooled limestone quoins. V-profile tooled limestone cutwaters to south elevation. Rendered basins below arches. Rubble stone spandrels surmounted by rubble stone parapet walls having rubble stone coping. Rubble stone abutments to east and west. Tarmac road surface to carriage way.
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
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Inishkeen.
- 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 Inishkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Inishkeen · Inis Caoin
- Area
- 655,756 m² (65.58 ha, 162.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Broadford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Broadford electoral division: 993 people in 349 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahawilk, Appletown, Coolygorman, Kilcoorha
- Placenames
- Inishkeen 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.