Mahoonagh Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Maigh Thamhnach Bheag
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mahoonagh Beg, from 791 m² to 268,242 m² (26.82 ha, 66.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
No zone of a development plan covers Mahoonagh Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 May 2026Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works. Outline Permission Ref. No. 24/356
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660558
28 Jan 2026Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660073
16 Sept 2024Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 24356
26 Sept 2022Conditional
the grant of outline permission(reference number 21/1103) for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221047
11 Jul 2022Conditional
(ref no. 19/671) for the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22770
3 Aug 2021Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 211103
8 Feb 2021Conditional
the construction of an agricultural field entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21129
8 Aug 2019Conditional
(A) Construction of a two storey traditional style dwelling house with domestic garage (B) install a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and (C) carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19786
5 Jul 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 19671
6 Apr 2018Conditional
construction of an extension to existing graveyard to contain 145 new plots, new capped blockwork boundary walls, footpaths and all associated site works. The works are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure. Protected Structure Reg. 573 - Ref. No. n36(13)
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18330
2 May 2017Conditional
convert an existing covered silage slab to beef wintering facility incorporating the construction of an underground concrete slatted tank, modification of the existing steel structures, installation of cattle holding pens and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17388
31 Jan 2017Conditional
to construct a new agricultural entrance to serve his existing agricultural lands with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1775
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mahoonagh Beg.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-172001 Church
Description
South-of-centre in graveyard (LI036-17202-). Roofless ruin of rectangular church (9.1m N-S; 23.2m E-W), built of uncoursed limestone rubble. Walls stand mostly to full height, but NE corner isolated by two vertical cracks; walls partially ivy-clad. Very ruined doorway W-of-centre in S wall (ground level outside doorway c. 0.25m higher than inside). Interior lit by four windows: in centre of E gable; high up on W gable; and two in S wall, both E-of-centre. East window has light with simple Y-tracery; embrasure deeply splayed with pointed top reflecting form of window light. A number of inside edge stones are sandstone blocks with edge moulding, reused from earlier window. Light covered by hood moulding with plain stepped terminals. West window now obscured by ivy, but has/had a plain single light (OSL vol. 2, 18). Easternmost window in S wall has single round-arched light with a plain hood moulding following shape of arch; both arch of light and hood (except terminals) carved on single stone (see OSL vol. 2, opp. 17; Westropp 1904-5, plate 10). Embrasure deeply splayed with round arch. Second window short distance to W is an insertion; light largely missing but probably rectangular, embrasure covered by segmental arch. Very close to SE corner is aumbry/piscina in S wall: rectangular recess missing its base; outside edge chamfered; lintel with square cut-out on under-surface. Opposite in N wall is tomb niche, now partially obscured by ivy. Semi-circular arch, with moulded edge, covers recess (D c. 0.2m); outer edge of moulding carried up as ogee-arch topped by finial; similar finial atop thin pilasters rising from either side of arch. Tomb is 15th/16th century in style. Interior covered in burial plots; earliest headstone dated 1860, most recent 1990. Ruin of medieval parish church of Mahoonagh (Westropp ibid., 414). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/9, 11, 12, 13 on 05/10/2002.
- LI036-172002 Graveyard
Description
Atop low rise, c. 150m NW of river Deel; on S side of road. Roughly square graveyard (L c. 70m) with ruin of medieval parish church (LI036-172001-) of Mahoonagh just S-of-centre. Enclosed by stone wall, except to S where there is a steep drop to marshy area. West side lower and divided from rest by sharp break in slope. Still in use and maintained; earliest headstone noted dated 1775. Single mausoleum against N wall of church. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/9, 11, 12, 13 on 05/10/2002.
- LI036-175 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on a slight S-facing slope. Sub-rectangular raised area (26.3m N-S: 28.6m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (ext. H 0.7m) SE->NW with an external fosse (D 0.4m) SE->SW. Field boundary runs along edge of site NW->SE and a road runs along line of fosse SW->NW. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mahoonagh Beg.
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 5 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_518 (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 Mahoonagh Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Mahoonagh Beg · Maigh Thamhnach Bheag
- Area
- 366,810 m² (36.68 ha, 90.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Mahoonagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mahoonagh electoral division: 550 people in 188 households; 87% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill Beg, Ballynakill More, Curragh, Mahoonagh More, Walshestown
- Placenames
- Mahoonagh Beg 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.