Moroe
Townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick; in Irish Maigh Rua
- Area
- 54.6 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 222
- registered freehold, median 273 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 29
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
222 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moroe, from 5 m² to 102,616 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 148 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 May 2026Conditional
the conversion of the attic area to habitable accommodation, the installation of a new dormer window to the rear, the installation of skylights to the front of the dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660532
18 Feb 2026Conditional
a change of house design from that granted under Planning Ref. 22-1039 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660167
10 Dec 2025Conditional
for the construction of a vehicular entrance, single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter together with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561303
13 Nov 2025N/a
the construction of a vehicular entrance, single storey dwelling house, connection to mains sewer together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561168
15 Mar 2025Conditional
the change of use of the entire ground floor level of existing vacant building, which consisted of a permitted pharmacy unit and a cafe / restaurant with smoking area unit , to Four (4) number two bedroom apartments each with own door access. Alterations to elevations consisting of two new windows to north elevation, one new door to west elevation and relocation of an existing door & window to south elevation together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560211
7 Feb 2025Conditional
a tarmac pedestrian walkway, approximately 516m, in length, with associated lighting standards, gates, and fencing around the playing pitch, and ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560100
1 Aug 2024N/a
the provision of a new coffee/tea take-away container with drive-through capability, new entrance, outdoor paved area, signage and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460772
29 Nov 2023Conditional
a new single storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23575
4 May 2023Conditional
one standalone Laundrette Kiosk and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360280
12 Jan 2023Conditional
the construction of a first floor extension to the front and rear of dwelling along with a rear ground floor extension, alterations to front and rear elevations and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2312
26 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221039
26 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, the demolition of existing haybarn and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 221040
22 Sept 2022Conditional
revised site boundaries as constructed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 221022
7 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of an entrance, single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, connection to main services together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22967
23 Jun 2022N/a
the construction of a first floor extension to the front and rear of dwelling along with a rear ground floor extension, alterations to front and rear elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22698
15 Oct 2021Conditional
erection of a 24m high monopole telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes, associated telecommunications equipment and mounted floodlights all enclosed in security fencing, remove existing floodlight and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211450
16 Sept 2021N/a
construction of an entrance, single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, connection to main services together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211296
24 Jun 2021Conditional
change of house design under permitted governing permission 18/558 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21889
24 Jun 2021Conditional
change of house design under permitted governing permission 18/84 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21890
9 Jun 2021Conditional
extension of duration for 16/675 for (a) construction of a multi-purpose community building with associated car-parking (b) construction of an amenity walking path, (c) construction of a skate-park, (d) re-location of existing playground, (e) construction of an all-weather playing pitch and (f) all ancillary site works and services
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217027
7 Apr 2021Conditional
existing 18m high combined floodlight/antenna support structure and antennas, dishes and telecommunications equipment
Retention · Limerick County Council, 21442
29 Jan 2021N/a
the construction of 38 houses, connections to main services and all site development works
Permission, 38 homes · Limerick County Council, 2178
11 Nov 2020Conditional
subdivision of part of the ground floor restaurant to form new unit and change of use of this new unit to Pharmacy, alterations to elevations consisting of new access door to serve the pharmacy, signage for pharmacy, change of use of first floor to two apartments utilising existing own door access to each & associated elevational changes together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201151
6 Nov 2020Refused
a mobile food vehicle with all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201139
28 Aug 2020Conditional
a single storey extension to the side of existing house and bay window to the front of house together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20843
The 25 most recent of 29 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moroe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moroe.
Architectural heritage
- Forge/smithy, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached gable-fronted single-bay single-storey L-plan forge, built c. 1850. Pitched roof with limestone copings, brick chimneystack and terracotta ridge crestings. Snecked sandstone walls. Arrow slit window opening to front (east) elevation, gable apex. Horseshoe profiled door opening having cut sandstone voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Square-headed opening to front elevation with dressed sandstone surround and timber battened door. Square-headed opening to east elevation having timber battened door.
- House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860. Comprising recessed two-bay two-storey block with porch to front (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and rendered eaves course. Rendered walls. Render Doric style pilasters to porch. Render cornice and parapet to porch. Square-headed openings with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Paired round-headed openings to porch having render surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed opening to porch with spoked fanlight over timber panelled door.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1171 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Moroe · Maigh Rua
- Area
- 545,999 m² (54.6 ha, 134.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Glenstal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenstal electoral division: 1,240 people in 383 households; 80% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanahanagh, Cappercullen, Farnane, Knockanerry, Liscreagh, Moroewood
- Placenames
- Moroe 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.