Kilgreana

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgreana, from 561 m² to 79,933 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilgreana 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilgreana in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilgreana.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Possible ringfort reused as a children's burial ground (LI049-082001-), in reclaimed pasture, 40m E of townland boundary with Curraghroche. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 26m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scarp, with fosse intersected at NW-N-E-SE by a post-1700 field boundary. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘a fort in which tradition says abortive children were buried' (OSNB Doon to Kilbreedy, 200). Monument visible as a tree lined circular-shaped area, intersected at NE, SW and NW by field boundaries on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021

• LI049-082001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Possible ringfort (LI049-082----) reused as a children's burial ground (LI049-082001-), in reclaimed pasture, 40m E of townland boundary with Curraghroche. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that this was ‘a fort in which tradition says abortive children were buried' (OSNB Doon to Kilbreedy, 200). Monument visible as a tree lined circular-shaped area, intersected at NE, SW and NW by field boundaries on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilgreana.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Kilgreana, 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilgreana.

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.

No address of the register names Kilgreana with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilgreana · Cill Ghréine

Area

335,100 m² (33.51 ha, 82.81 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Galbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

588 people lived in 223 households in the Galbally electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrahin, Castlecreagh, Curraghroche, Deerpark, Garrynalyna, Killinane, Snugborough

Placenames

Kilgreana 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.