Mohernagh

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mohernagh, from 449 m² to 475,767 m² (47.58 ha, 117.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Mohernagh 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.

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24393

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a new two storey replacement dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20570

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
• Natural Heritage Area: Moyreen Bog NHA 002361

Recorded monuments

• LI018-056 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a sheer-sided cliff which rises from the E bank of the Abhainn River. A roughly circular area (33.2m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed NW->S by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m), and defined S->NW by the cliff edge (H c. 8m). There is a gap (Wth 2m) in the bank to SE. The bank is partially overgrown with bushes, and the level interior is under high grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly oval area (19m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.2m; Wth 5m) NE->NW, but scarp truncated by linear E-W field boundary NW->NE. Interior, covered by rough grazing, slopes down gently to S. Immediately beyond field boundary to N is large abandoned quarry. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-058 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is shown only arc of enclosure in S corner of triangular field on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Roughly right-angled section of earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.35m; total L 17m) SSE->SSW survives in corner of field, bounded immediately to SW by public road and to SE by field boundary. Bank appears to be angle of square/rectangular enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-061 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop low rise. Sub-circular area (diam. c. 25m) covered by dense thicket of gorse and thorn is defined along edge NNE-WSW by scarp (Wth 1.4m; H 0.2m) with shallow external fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.15). Enclosure truncated WSW-NNE by linear field boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure truncated on W side by field boundary, has been levelled and field boundary removed. However, site now evident as sub-circular area (22.8m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.2m; Wth 2m). Faint trace of external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 2.5m) NW->SW and counterscarp bank (H 0.1m; Wth 1.5m) SE->S. Entire site under posture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mohernagh, 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 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 Mohernagh.

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

Name

Mohernagh · Motharnach

Area

3,321,572 m² (332.16 ha, 820.78 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Mohernagh, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhahill, Cloonlahard East, Finnoo, Moneymohill, Moyreen, Tinnakilla

Placenames

Mohernagh 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.