Kilgrogan
Kilgrogan is a townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cill Ghruagáin.
- Area
- 96.1 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 2,841 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgrogan, from 139 m² to 278,673 m² (27.87 ha, 68.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Kilgrogan 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
11 Sept 2020Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, well, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20901
8 Nov 2017Conditional
the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171041
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 Kilgrogan.
Recorded monuments
- LI020-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
Contained within lumber yard, on break in S-facing slope. Sub-circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank NE->SSW and by linear field boundary NW->NNE. Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.55m) is poorly preserved and heavily masked by logs and wood shavings heaped against inner face and piled over top. Two trackways converge and directly open into interior at W, leading to hay-barn and woodworking area at centre of enclosure. 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 Kilgrogan.
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 Kilgrogan, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_739 (ZIP).
- 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 Kilgrogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilgrogan · Cill Ghruagáin
- Area
- 961,045 m² (96.1 ha, 237.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Adare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Adare North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 617 people lived in 210 households in the Adare North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvira, Ballynagool, Gortnagrour, Kyleavarraga South, Rintulla, Tuogh
- Placenames
- Kilgrogan 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.