# Meentolla, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick; in Irish Míntulach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,995,329 m² (199.53 ha, 493.06 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,306 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Abington, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/abington.md - Barony: Owneybeg - Electoral division: Glenstal, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31453 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121541 - Centre: latitude 52.674619, longitude -8.348007 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meentolla, from 163 m² to 416,745 m² (41.67 ha, 102.98 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1661688: 416,745 m² (41.67 ha, 102.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661688.md - Parcel 1589688: 365,141 m² (36.51 ha, 90.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589688.md - Parcel 1601909: 290,205 m² (29.02 ha, 71.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601909.md - Parcel 1665732: 195,043 m² (19.5 ha, 48.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665732.md - Parcel 1650686: 106,388 m² (10.64 ha, 26.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650686.md - Parcel 1588234: 88,048 m² (8.8 ha, 21.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588234.md - Parcel 1656728: 86,026 m² (8.6 ha, 21.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656728.md - Parcel 1670555: 81,275 m² (8.13 ha, 20.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670555.md - Parcel 1669027: 80,401 m² (8.04 ha, 19.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669027.md - Parcel 1667998: 55,155 m² (5.52 ha, 13.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667998.md - Parcel 1607521: 49,495 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607521.md - Parcel 3267698: 48,040 m² (4.8 ha, 11.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267698.md - Parcel 1656412: 42,786 m² (4.28 ha, 10.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656412.md - Parcel 1656093: 28,965 m² (2.9 ha, 7.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656093.md - Parcel 1655452: 13,148 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655452.md - Parcel 1657970: 7,649 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657970.md - Parcel 1654781: 7,306 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654781.md - Parcel 1589099: 4,789 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589099.md - Parcel 1642998: 4,109 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642998.md - Parcel 1622419: 3,734 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622419.md - Parcel 3440498: 3,600 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440498.md - Parcel 1636518: 3,046 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636518.md - Parcel 1610534: 2,573 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610534.md - Parcel 1602530: 2,038 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602530.md - Parcel 1590452: 1,953 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590452.md - Parcel 1632110: 1,916 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632110.md - Parcel 1653775: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653775.md - Parcel 1662258: 1,600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662258.md - Parcel 3879852: 1,547 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3879852.md - Parcel 1647636: 683 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647636.md - Parcel 1654499: 650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654499.md - Parcel 1665147: 210 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665147.md - Parcel 1611300: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611300.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Jul 2022, Limerick County Council 22832: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22832/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA, site code 004165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI007-012: Cairn - boundary cairn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI007-012----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meentolla. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/meentolla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/meentolla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/meentolla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Meentolla 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) - Garranbane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garranbane.md - Glenstal: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenstal.md - Inchadrinagh (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/inchadrinagh-211800.md - Knockancullenagh (Co. Tipperary): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockancullenagh.md - Toorlougher: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toorlougher.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/meentolla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/meentolla