Meadagh

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meadagh, from 1,854 m² to 375,123 m² (37.51 ha, 92.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Meadagh 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.

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling including storage room in attic also and associated site works. Permission is also being sought for construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, minor elevational changes to the existing dwelling and construction of front boundary walls and entrance and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660205

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 Meadagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-152 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In reclaimed wet pasture, 110m SW of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Milltown. Enclosures (LI040-247/248----) and possible barrows (LI040-253/254----) lie to the E . Not marked on OSi historic maps. Linear features identified as a possible trackway during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 60) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as a linear cropmark (L c. 400m) running NW-SE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. It is not clear if this linear feature is the route of the gas pipeline as the original photograph showing the linear feature is not present in the paper file for this potential monument. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021

• LI040-184 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, immediately W of a watercourse that forms the townland boundary with Milltown. Milltown House lies 240m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 46; AP 5/2069) as a possible enclosure. Possible earthwork visible as a scrub covered circular shaped area transected at N by a track running roughly NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. On Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 the ground has been excavated where the possible earthwork was located. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 46 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 May 2021

• LI040-247 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 100m SW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Milltown. Possible barrows (LI040-253/254----) lies 15m to SW and 25m to SE respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a ditch on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (348) 22). Faint traces of a cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (348) 22) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 June 2021

• LI040-248 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 45m W of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Milltown. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a ditch on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (348) 22). Monument is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (348) 22) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 June 2021

• LI040-253 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 110m SW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Milltown. Ditch barrow (LI040-254----) lies 22m to SE and barrow (LI040-247----) lies 15m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 127.01; AP 5/2069) as a possible barrow. Visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a ditch on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (348) 22). Faint traces of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 127.01, oblique aerial image (ASIAP (348) 22) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 June 2021

• LI040-254 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 115m SW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Milltown. Ditch barrow (LI040-253----) lies 22m to NW and barrow (LI040-247----) lies 25m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 127.02; AP 5/2069). Visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a ditch on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (348) 22). Faint traces of a cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 127.02, oblique aerial image (ASIAP (348) 22) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 June 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Meadagh.

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 Meadagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Meadagh · Méadach

Area

568,309 m² (56.83 ha, 140.43 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Uregare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Uregare electoral division: 654 people in 223 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardykeohane, Ballygrennan, Ballyvulhane, Milltown, Milltown

Placenames

Meadagh 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.