Meentolla

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentolla, from 163 m² to 416,745 m² (41.67 ha, 102.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Meentolla 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.

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new single-storey extension to the rear of the existing house, a new roof to the existing house to include and increase of the existing ridge height, a new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22832

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

• LI007-012 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  A possible boundary cairn or megalithic tomb known locally as 'Tuaim an Fhir Mhóir', which marks the townland boundary with Glenstal on the western foothills of the Slievefelim Mountains, in the townland of Meentolla. Annotated 'Tuamanirvore' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described in the Ordnance Survey Letters as following; 'In the south west corner of the Townland of Meentulla and at the boundary of it with Glanstale, is situated a monument called Tuaim an Fhir Mhóir, locally translated the Big Man's Grave. It is a small heap of stones thrown together by passerby, it is said, over the remains of a highway man who was killed there. The same name notifies a grave [wedge tomb LI006-031----) situated in the Townland of Cappanahannagh, within half a mile to the north to Liss Guaire [LI007-002----]' (O'Flanagan 1929, 127). Two megalithic tombs are in the vicinity, a wedge tomb (LI007-006----) in the nearby townland of Garranbane and a court tomb (TN038-013----) in the neighbouring townland of Shanballyedmond, Co. Tipperary. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Meentolla, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Meentolla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Meentolla · Míntulach

Area

1,995,329 m² (199.53 ha, 493.06 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Glenstal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,240 people lived in 383 households in the Glenstal electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Garranbane, Glenstal, Inchadrinagh (Co. Tipperary), Knockancullenagh (Co. Tipperary), Toorlougher

Placenames

Meentolla 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.