Meanus

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meanus, from 998 m² to 331,715 m² (33.17 ha, 81.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Meanus 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.

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560447

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  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

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2461004

• 16 Jan 2024Conditional

  vehicular site entrance as constructed to existing dwelling house and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460026

• 1 Aug 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360554

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  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)

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221127

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension and new front porch to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22360

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201245

• 30 Sept 2019Conditional

  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

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19964

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  an extension and renovations to the house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181090

• 11 Dec 2017Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171156

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 Meanus.

Recorded monuments

• LI031-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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
  Description

  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).

Architectural heritage

• House, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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.

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

Name

Meanus · Méanas

Area

1,207,625 m² (120.76 ha, 298.41 acres)

Civil parish

Glenogra, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherygeela, Cloghnamanagh, Coolfune, Glenogra, Killorath, Rathmore North, Rathmore South

Placenames

Meanus 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.