Kilscanlan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilscanlan, from 1,649 m² to 193,382 m² (19.34 ha, 47.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Kilscanlan 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.

• 9 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, site entrance, private well, wastewater treatment system & percolation area as per site assessment report and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660116

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211575

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  demolition to existing derelict dwellinghouse, construction of a new two storey old style farmhouse in its place, carry out alterations and re-alignment of existing entrance, install a new waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211541

• 3 Sept 2021N/a

  construction of a dwelling house with attached domestic garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211236

• 25 Apr 2019Conditional

  refurbishment of existing cottage, install wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19402

• 22 Aug 2017Conditional

  a single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, site entrance, well, wastewater treatment system & percolation area as per site assessment report and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17785

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 Kilscanlan.

Recorded monuments

• LI050-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture 160m NW of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Baunteen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 34m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank transected at NW by a post-1700 field boundary. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 2m) mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m), truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW, intersected at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Interior level and densely overgrown. Outline of overgrown monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilscanlan, 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

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

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 Kilscanlan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilscanlan · Cill Scanláin

Area

1,417,070 m² (141.71 ha, 350.17 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Riversdale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 98 households in the Riversdale electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnamoher, Ballygeana, Barna, Baunteen, Knockanebrack, Park

Placenames

Kilscanlan 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.