# Maghera, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Machaire Riabhach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 345,734 m² (34.57 ha, 85.43 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,647 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Croom, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/croom.md
- Barony: Pubblebrien
- Electoral division: Garrane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 317 people lived in 108 households in the Garrane electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30670
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121529
- Centre: latitude 52.538781, longitude -8.705934 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 176 m² to 159,106 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1674673: 159,106 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674673.md
- Parcel 1656491: 88,522 m² (8.85 ha, 21.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656491.md
- Parcel 1607869: 79,044 m² (7.9 ha, 19.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607869.md
- Parcel 1594075: 3,783 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594075.md
- Parcel 1590503: 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590503.md
- Parcel 1596835: 2,795 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596835.md
- Parcel 1619420: 2,498 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619420.md
- Parcel 1612750: 2,415 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612750.md
- Parcel 1588480: 2,170 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588480.md
- Parcel 1622385: 1,969 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622385.md
- Parcel 1616253: 192 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616253.md
- Parcel 1642955: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642955.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Maghera 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)

3 applications, newest first.

- 19 Apr 2026, Limerick County Council 2660444: Conditional. Permission. construction of an extension to the side of dwelling, relocation of entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660444/0
- 23 Jun 2022, Limerick County Council 22705: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22705/0
- 14 Dec 2020, Limerick County Council 201339: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201339/0

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## 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 Maghera.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI021-104: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-104----. On a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate views in all directions. A townland boundary with Rathbranagh lies 110m to W. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised rectangular-shaped area (approx. 40m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) with rounded corners (H 0.8m) reduced to a scarp midway along the W side, with external fosse (base Wth 2m; overall Wth 4.9m; D 0.6m), a break (Wth 4m) in the bank midway along the N side may be an original entrance. A hedgerow field boundary is incorporated into the outer edge of the fosse along the S side. The interior is level and densely overgrown. Stone wall field boundaries radiate fout rom the external face of the earthen bank at NE, SE and SW corners. Monument is visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 29 July 2020
- LI021-107: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-107----. In gently undulating pasture, with good views from N-E-SE which are restricted elsewhere. Townland boundaries with Honeypound and Toryhill lie 90m to E and S, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) with an entrance gap (Wth 5m) at SW. The entrance appears to be original, although it has been widened in modern times. Some field clearance material has been deposited against the exterior of the bank from NW-NNW-N. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped, tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 July 2020
- LI021-191: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-191----. In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

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 Maghera.

## 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 Maghera, 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.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_912, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_912.zip (ZIP).
- 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/maghera.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maghera.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maghera.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Maghera 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)

- Ballylusky: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballylusky.md
- Honeypound: https://everytownland.com/limerick/honeypound.md
- Rathbranagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathbranagh.md
- Toryhill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toryhill.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.

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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/maghera
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/maghera