Loughmore Common
Townland in the civil parish of Mungret, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Loch Mór
- Area
- 13.3 ha
- 33 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- R1
- New Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughmore Common. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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
- R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3pNHA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Nov 2025Conditional
a Large-scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising of the construction of 169 no. residential units (comprising of 145 no. houses and 24 no. apartments), 1 no. creche, 1 no. pumping station, 3 no. ESB substations and all associated development works including footpaths, cycle paths, car and bicycle parking, drainage, fencing, bicycle and bin stores, lighting and landscaping/amenity areas at Dromdarrig, Mungret, Co. Limerick. Access to the site will be via 2 no. new vehicle access points from the existing Mungret Park Road. A Natura Impact Statement is submitted to the Planning Authority with this application. The Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.mungretlrd.ie
Permission, 142 homes · Limerick County Council, 2561231
5 Jan 2024Conditional
development including a two storey nursing home, single storey service building and a biodiversity area on a site at Baunacloka, Mungret, Co. Limerick (which has an existing planning permission for a 82 bed nursing home, reference P17/677 & P20/93). The proposed nursing home comprises provision of 130 no. bedspaces in 128 no. bedrooms with dining areas, communal areas, production kitchen, staff facilities and first floor terrace, internal secure landscaped courtyard, external roof plant and PV Panels. The proposed Service Building comprises staff facilities, ESB substation & switchroom, laundry facilities, goods store and waste management areas. The development will also consist of a new site entrance, on-site car and bicycle parking, foul pumping station, totem sign, boundary fencing and all associated site works A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompanies the planning application.?
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460010
6 Sept 2023N/a
development including a two storey nursing home, single storey service building and a biodiversity area on a site at Baunacloka, Mungret, Co. Limerick (which has an existing planning permission for a 82 bed nursing home, reference 17/677 & 20/93). The proposed nursing home comprises provision of 130 no. bedspaces in 128 no. bedrooms with dining areas, communal areas, production kitchen, staff facilities and first floor terrace; internal secure landscaped courtyard; external roof plant and PV Panels. The proposed Service Building comprises staff facilities; ESB substation & switchroom; laundry facilities; goods store; and waste management areas. The development will also consist of a new site entrance; on-site car and bicycle parking; foul pumping station; totem sign; boundary fencing and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360652
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Loughmore Common Turlough 000438
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Loughmore Common.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughmore Common.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_930 (ZIP).
- 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 Loughmore Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Loughmore Common · An Loch Mór
- Area
- 133,201 m² (13.32 ha, 32.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mungret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Ballycummin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballycummin electoral division: 19,394 people in 6,719 households; 66% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycummin, Baunacloka, Dromdarrig, Lurraga
- Placenames
- Loughmore Common 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.