Moroewood
Moroewood is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Coill Mhaigh Rua.
- Area
- 97.7 ha
- 241 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 3,023 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moroewood, from 278 m² to 240,859 m² (24.09 ha, 59.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moroewood 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a new single storey house complete with an effluent treatment system and a site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2666
17 Dec 2025N/a
construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, new vehicular splayed entrance, new wastewater treatment & percolation system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561341
21 Jan 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, private garage, site entrance, private domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560033
7 Dec 2023Conditional
the alteration of the location of dwelling house, minor alterations to house design, adjustment to site boundaries and site entrance and all ancillary site works previously granted under planning ref 20/1007
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360908
7 Dec 2023Conditional
the construction of single storey extensions and alterations to existing single storey cottage, with elevational alterations to the existing cottage, new site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360909
7 Jan 2022Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls, an on site waste water treatment and disposal system, and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2213
10 Dec 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211720
13 Jul 2021Conditional
the decommissioning of existing septic tank and soakpit and the installation of a packaged wastewater treatment system with eco-flo filter and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21991
26 Jan 2021Conditional
the construction of a new domestic garage on our site
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2167
27 Nov 2020N/a
the construction of a new domestic garage on our site
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201248
8 Oct 2020Conditional
the demolition of existing house and construction of a replacement dwelling house, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201007
3 Dec 2019N/a
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191195
21 Jun 2019Conditional
a single storey extension to the side of existing house together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 19606
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 Moroewood.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moroewood.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moroewood.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Moroewood, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moroewood.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moroewood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Moroewood · Coill Mhaigh Rua
- Area
- 977,155 m² (97.72 ha, 241.46 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
- Cappanahanagh, Farnane, Knocknagorteeny, Moroe
- Placenames
- Moroewood 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.