# Magherareagh, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Athneasy, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Machaire Riabhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 234,567 m² (23.46 ha, 57.96 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,301 m² (0.93 ha, 2.3 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Athneasy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/athneasy.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Uregare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31116 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121530 - Centre: latitude 52.435114, longitude -8.516438 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherareagh, from 689 m² to 116,653 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1621919: 116,653 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1621919.md - Parcel 1612719: 97,399 m² (9.74 ha, 24.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612719.md - Parcel 1622807: 15,806 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622807.md - Parcel 1608259: 2,797 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608259.md - Parcel 3842544: 1,688 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3842544.md - Parcel 3842552: 689 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3842552.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Magherareagh 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) 1 application, newest first. - 16 Jan 2026, Limerick County Council 268: N/a. Retention. attic conversion for 2 bedrooms. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/268/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Magherareagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI040-225: Linear earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-225----. In rough wet pasture, immediately E of townland boundary with Ballynamona. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a linear cropmark running NE-SW by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106; AP 5/2117). Monument visible as linear cropmarks covering a large area (dims. c. 177m NW-SE x 114m NE-SW), on Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/04/2021. Could be the remains of a drainage ditch associated with post-1700 land reclamation. Doubtful antiquity. See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 106 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 3 July 2021 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 Magherareagh. ## 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 Magherareagh, about 1 in 10 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magherareagh. - 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/magherareagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/magherareagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/magherareagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Magherareagh 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) - Balline: https://everytownland.com/limerick/balline-120095.md - Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamona-120356.md - Bulgaden: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgaden.md - Bulgadenhall: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgadenhall.md - Gormanstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gormanstown.md - Gormanstown (Phillips): https://everytownland.com/limerick/gormanstown-phillips.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/magherareagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/magherareagh