# Maelra, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Oola, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Maolráth. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 529,161 m² (52.92 ha, 130.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Oola, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/oola.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Templebredon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 588 people lived in 197 households in the Templebredon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32478 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121528 - Centre: latitude 52.538225, longitude -8.303736 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maelra, from 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 524,867 m² (52.49 ha, 129.7 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1663587: 524,867 m² (52.49 ha, 129.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663587.md - Parcel 1589880: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589880.md - Parcel 1608194: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608194.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Maelra in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Maelra in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Maelra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-078: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-078----. On an area of high ground, in pasture, with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) with quarry hole (30m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) and a disused limekiln to the immediate S. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as the levelled remains of a circular-shaped area (26m NNE-SSW x 25m ESE-WNW) defined by a poorly preserved scarp (H 0.4m) with the remains of an external fosse (Wth 6.55m; D 0.2m) visible from NE-E-S-W-N and at SE. Rock outcrop visible at NE. According to local information, the ringfort was levelled during land consolidation works a number of decades ago and the area to S is a backfilled quarry. Levelled monument not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 July 2020 - LI024-315: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-315----. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is evident on Google Earth aerial photographs, at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 5 September 2013 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maelra. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Maelra, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Maelra. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maelra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maelra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maelra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Maelra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Boarheeny: https://everytownland.com/limerick/boarheeny.md - Castlecluggin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/castlecluggin.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-121644.md - Newtown North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-north.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maelra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/maelra