Issane
Issane is a townland in the civil parish of Iveruss, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Easán.
- Area
- 50.5 ha
- 125 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 4,141 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Issane, from 180 m² to 172,425 m² (17.24 ha, 42.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Issane 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
15 Jul 2026Conditional
the construction of a farm storage shed including all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660803
3 Jul 2017Conditional
the construction and erection of an agricultural building which incorporates a slotted tank and animal house and a general agricultural storage shed and associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17629
10 Mar 2017Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new entrance & associated boundary walls, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17220
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 Issane.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope below brow of hill. Circular area (27m N-S; 26.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m) SE->ENE, and defined by scarped edge (H 2.3m; Wth 1.9m) ENE->SE. Bank, best preserved N->ENE, has remains of inner stone-facing SE->SW. Gaps in bank at WSW (Wth 2.35m) and NNW (Wth 3.3m). Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to E. 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 Issane.
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 Issane, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Issane.
- 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 Issane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Issane · Easán
- Area
- 504,792 m² (50.48 ha, 124.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Iveruss, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Iveruss, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 350 people lived in 125 households in the Iveruss electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvoher, Ballyaglish, Ballycanauna, Ballyvaddock, Ballyvaddock, Galway, Mitchelstown
- Placenames
- Issane 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.