# Meanus, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Glenogra, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Méanas. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,207,625 m² (120.76 ha, 298.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,991 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Glenogra, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/glenogra.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Rathmore, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathmore electoral division: 307 people in 101 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% 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/30729 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121540 - Centre: latitude 52.515153, longitude -8.608293 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meanus, from 998 m² to 331,715 m² (33.17 ha, 81.97 acres); 33 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1606033: 331,715 m² (33.17 ha, 81.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606033.md - Parcel 5381058: 213,639 m² (21.36 ha, 52.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5381058.md - Parcel 1667262: 137,380 m² (13.74 ha, 33.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667262.md - Parcel 1657795: 83,005 m² (8.3 ha, 20.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657795.md - Parcel 1619722: 81,412 m² (8.14 ha, 20.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619722.md - Parcel 1588312: 79,906 m² (7.99 ha, 19.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588312.md - Parcel 1590378: 78,951 m² (7.9 ha, 19.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590378.md - Parcel 1624741: 74,340 m² (7.43 ha, 18.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624741.md - Parcel 1602672: 16,952 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602672.md - Parcel 2462489: 12,370 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462489.md - Parcel 1660212: 7,008 m² (0.7 ha, 1.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660212.md - Parcel 2474231: 5,845 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2474231.md - Parcel 1670534: 5,382 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670534.md - Parcel 1672024: 5,098 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672024.md - Parcel 1600075: 4,766 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600075.md - Parcel 1626913: 4,600 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626913.md - Parcel 1598533: 4,592 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598533.md - Parcel 1599234: 4,592 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599234.md - Parcel 4963182: 4,006 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963182.md - Parcel 5455719: 3,977 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5455719.md - Parcel 1607174: 3,933 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607174.md - Parcel 1597168: 3,676 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597168.md - Parcel 1606830: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606830.md - Parcel 2462487: 3,149 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462487.md - Parcel 2462486: 2,920 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462486.md - Parcel 1602132: 2,815 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602132.md - Parcel 1629377: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629377.md - Parcel 1595716: 2,391 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595716.md - Parcel 2462490: 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462490.md - Parcel 3384904: 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384904.md - Parcel 1622234: 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622234.md - Parcel 1629550: 2,123 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629550.md - Parcel 1604006: 1,999 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604006.md - Parcel 4927924: 1,995 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927924.md - Parcel 1589916: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589916.md - Parcel 1638521: 1,948 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638521.md - Parcel 1660685: 1,810 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660685.md - Parcel 2462488: 998 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462488.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Meanus 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) 10 applications, newest first. - 14 May 2025, Limerick County Council 2560447: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a vehicular entrance off existing private driveway, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560447/0 - 9 Oct 2024, Limerick County Council 2461004: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. for the construction of a vehicular entrance off existing private driveway, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461004/0 - 16 Jan 2024, Limerick County Council 2460026: Conditional. Retention. vehicular site entrance as constructed to existing dwelling house and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460026/0 - 1 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 2360554: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360554/0 - 20 Oct 2022, Limerick County Council 221127: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a two storey dwelling house, car port, detached domestic garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter & associated site works. The development is within a site of a recorded monument, ringfort-rath (LI031-122). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221127/0 - 31 Mar 2022, Limerick County Council 22360: Conditional. Permission. the construction of an extension and new front porch to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22360/0 - 27 Nov 2020, Limerick County Council 201245: Conditional. Permission. the removal of existing non original single storey extensions to side and rear, construction of a two storey extension to the side and rear, internal alterations, on site waste treatment system and ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201245/0 - 30 Sept 2019, Limerick County Council 19964: Conditional. Retention. 1) first floor development with raised/revised roof structures to include additional fenestration, 2) two no. stone clad gables, chimney and red brick porch area to front elevation, 3) retention of increase in ground floor area by 22.14sq.m with fenestration changes to east and rear elevation and external rear chimney, 4) retention of pitched roof and extension to garage to provide 2 no. stables and tackle room, additional fenestration and lean-to to the rear elevation, 5) entrance as constructed and 6) Permission for revised site boundaries. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19964/0 - 9 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181090: Conditional. Permission. an extension and renovations to the house. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181090/0 - 11 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 171156: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171156/0 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 Meanus. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI031-122: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI031-122----. Monument described by O'Kelly (1942-3, 235) as following; 'This consists of a circular earthen platform surrounded by a water-logged fosse. The height of the platform over the fosse bottom is 7' [2.1m] and the overall diameter is 160' [48.7m]. The entrance is not recognisable. The south side of the fosse is heavily overgrown. It is situated in good low-land'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 01 August 2019 - LI031-193: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI031-193----. The 1:5,000 OS 6-inch map and the 25" OS 6-inch map show this feature as a small circular pond, and therefore I have made this record a redundant record (Denis Power 18th Jan. 2011). 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) - House, 1910–1930, Regional interest, registry number 21903118, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903118. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920, having central gabled bay with lean-to entrance canopy to front (east) elevation, single-storey extensions to north and south elevations and extensions to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Single-pitched slate roof to canopy. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having cut limestone sills. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door having stained glass overlight beneath timber canopy. - Green Lawn, house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21903119, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903119. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830. Two-bay two-storey return. Hipped slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Shutters to internal windows. Round-headed door openings. Outbuildings to rear. - Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1850, Regional interest, registry number 21903120, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21903120. Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built between 1845-46, having three-bay nave elevations, three-stage square-plan entrance tower to west elevation and sacristy to south. Pitched artificial slate roof having cut limestone eaves course and limestone copings, cross finial and pinnacles to corners. Corner pinnacles and crenellations to tower. Snecked limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins, cut limestone stringcourse to first stage of tower. Pointed arch openings to nave with carved limestone hoodmouldings, Y-tracery and stained glass. Pointed arch opening to east elevation with intersecting limestone tracery, carved limestone hoodmoulding with carved limestone stops depicting faces. Lancet openings to first floor of tower and pointed arch louvered openings to second stage. Pointed arch opening with timber panelled door having panelled overlight and carved limestone hoodmoulding. Scissor-brace timber roof to interior, marble reredos to altar, timber gallery to rear. Square-profile limestone gate piers with pointed caps to front of site flanking wrought-iron gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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 Meanus. - 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/meanus.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/meanus.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/meanus.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Meanus 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) - Boherygeela: https://everytownland.com/limerick/boherygeela.md - Cloghnamanagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloghnamanagh.md - Coolfune: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolfune.md - Glenogra: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenogra.md - Killorath: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killorath.md - Rathmore North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathmore-north.md - Rathmore South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathmore-south.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/meanus - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/meanus