Mayne

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mayne, from 1,836 m² to 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres). 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Mayne 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.

• 23 Apr 2024N/a

  the erection of Bungalow Dwelling, Domestic Garage, Entrance Gates & Piers, Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and connections to all existing services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460374

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mayne.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 235-6) recorded the following details about Mayne Castle; 'It was remembered recently, the modern house being on its site, and was a reputed templary. An appanage of Keynsham Abbey, surrendered 1227 (B.B.L., p. 75). 1255 Walter Wansell, the sheriff, accounts for ward of the C[astle]. of Mayn (Carew MSS. ; Book of Howth, p. 428). Thomas an Appagh granted Meine [Mayne] to Gibbon, son of J., of Callan, whence the MacGibbons, White Knights. 1307 Suit of the Prior of Bathkeale and Hugh Purcell as to dues off the manor of Mayen (Plea R., Cal., p. 205). 1309 Sybil, widow of H. de la Chapelle, claims one-third of Mayne (Repert. Plea R. p. 32). 1551 J., the White Knight, was compelled to transfer Meine [Mayne] to the Earl of Desmond. 1583 The Manor of Bean [Mayne], late perquisite of the White Knight from the Earl of Desmond, "one C[astle], which was an excellent and ample residence before the rebellion, in which it was totally wasted, so that at present (1583) nothing but the stone walls remain" (Des. R., 15b; Peyton, 50; Inq. Exch., 54). 1592 Grant to H. Oughtred of the C[astle]. of Meine [Mayne] alias Mahownagh and Treanmeane, and the house of Mahownagh (Fi. 6533). 1598 The C[astle], of Meane, Pallice, and Ballinwylly belonged to Sir H. Oughtred; he fled with his wife to Limerick, leaving sixteen men in the house, who fled after two days, and the Irish took it (C.S.P.L). 1600 Garrett Fitz Nicholas, the nearest rebel to Askeaton, was "haunted and hunted" by Sir F. Berkeley, who took the C[astle]. of Mayne and all the rebels' corn (Pacata Hib. i., chap, xii.), 1611 The Manor of Meane and 400 acres held by Paul Arrondell from Sir W. Courtenay for thirty-one years, whereupon was a fair house, erected by Sir H. Oughtred, but defaced in the late rebellion. There is now a sufficient dwelling on it (Inq. Chan., 6b). 1624 Pardon to T. Fitzgerald for alienation of Gortnetubbrid, Mayne, &c. (Pat.R.). 1655 Meane C[astle], out of reparacion, held by Col. E. Courtenay (C.S, p. 12). Fabric - The remains of the old C[astle]. fortifications at the Manor of Mayne were turned into a barrack before 1827 (Fitzgerald i., p. 377)'. The 1655 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1640 Colonel Francis Courtnay was the owner of Mayne which contained, 'a Castle and a Mill seate [LI045-110----] out of reparation' (Simington 1938, 260). In 1837 the following details were recorded about Mayne; 'At Mayne are traces of ancient buildings, supposed to have been ecclesiastical, though their present appearance indicates that it was a military position' (Lewis 1837, 336). No surface remains of Mayne House which was described in 1840 as a 'neat house, 2 stories high, with offices, a plantation and a garden. The residence of Bryan Sheehy' (OSNB Mahoonagh Parish). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mayne.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mayne.

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.

No address of the register names Mayne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Mayne · Méin

Area

432,547 m² (43.25 ha, 106.88 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Danganbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Danganbeg electoral division: 433 people in 155 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygulleen, Cooliska, Coolyroe, Garbally, Garrane

Placenames

Mayne 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.