Nantinan

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Nantinan, from 3,455 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres) to 3,455 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Nantinan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Nantinan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Nantinan.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wooded area, on E-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 29m) enclosed by two concentric earth-and-stone banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved along S arc, lowers and becomes scarp-like NW->NNE (H 0.9m); dip in bank at ESE (Wth 3.2m). Much-denuded outer bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.55m), c. 1.5m distant from inner bank, is overlain by field wall WSW->NW. Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, has lower N third separated from remainder by scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 6.1m); loose stones scattered long top of scarp are probably remains of a collapsed dry-stone wall. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-056001 Church
  Description

  At N end of graveyard (LI020-056002-). Disused C. of I. parish church of Nantinan, reputedly built on site of earlier church which was 'levelled to the ground about 30 years ago [1810]' when present church was built in 1821 (OSL vol. 2, Westropp 1904/05). St. James's Church is rectangular in plan with three-storey tower at W end; entrance door (S wall of tower) and windows (four in S wall of church) have limestone lights with pointed arches; embattled tower has pinnacle on corners and spire. Plaque in church commemorates its completion in 1821 (de Breffny and Mott 1976, 148; Spellissy 1989, 132). St. James's Church described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [NIAH] as following; 'Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1821, on the site of an earlier church. Comprising four-bay nave, chancel to east, vestry to north and three-stage tower to west having lean-to to north elevation'(www.buildingsofireland.ie; Reg. No. 21902013). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 December 2018

• LI020-056002 Graveyard
  Description

  In demesne of Nantinan House, approached from public road to S via narrow passage (Wth 6m; L 30m); road gateway flanked by cut-stone piers. Graveyard proper consists of a roughly-square area (54m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by a mortared coursed stone wall (H 1.8m). Disused C of I parish church of Nantinan at N end (LI020-056001-), probably built on site of earlier parish church. Noticeable dip in SW quadrant of graveyard. A number of box tombs immediately to S and W of church; earliest legible date is on Fitzgerald vault (1809) near S end of E wall. Nineteenth century headstones concentrate to S of church. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Nantinan House, country house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built in 1858, having slightly recessed entrance bay to centre with portico to front (south) elevation. Five-bay two-storey block to east. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves with render brackets and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to east block having rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rusticated render quoins and limestone plinth course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to east block. Square-headed openings to end bays, first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, those to ground floor with tripartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with render surrounds and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening to centre bay, first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking square-headed openings with six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, all with limestone sills. Square-headed openings to rear, first floor having six-over-six timber sliding sash windows, those to ground floor with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash widows. Square-headed openings to west elevation, ground floor having tripartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with render surrounds and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to east block, first floor having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Portico comprising Ionic-style columns and Doric style pilasters supporting render architrave and entablature. Square-headed opening having render surround and half-glazed double-leaf timber panelled doors with flanking square-headed openings having render surrounds and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Limestone steps and geometric tiles to portico. Square-headed opening to east block, rear elevation with render surround and timber battened door. Limestone steps with carved walls to south garden. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers having carved caps with ball finials and double-leaf wrought-iron gates having floral motifs, dating to the eighteenth century. Sweeping lined-and-ruled rendered walls having limestone copings, pointed arch pedestrian openings with wrought-iron single-leaf cast-iron gates, round-headed niches having render roll mouldings and limestone sills terminating in second pair of square-profile limestone piers.

• Saint James's Church (Nantinan), church/chapel, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1821, on the site of an earlier church. Comprising four-bay nave, chancel to east, vestry to north and three-stage tower to west having lean-to to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings. Limestone crenellations, pinnacles and octagonal rubble limestone spire to tower having cast-iron finial. Pitched slate roof to vestry with limestone copings and plinth to apex. Rubble limestone walls having carved stringcourses to tower, buttresses to nave and tower. Roughcast rendered walls to vestry. Pointed arch openings to nave, south elevation with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and tripartite Y-tracery quarry glazed windows having limestone sills. Pointed arch openings to nave, north elevation with carved limestone surrounds, Y-tracery mullions and quarry glazed windows. Pointed arch opening to chancel with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and quadripartite Y-tracery quarry glazed windows having limestone sill. Lancet openings to nave, west elevation and tower, second stage with carved limestone surrounds and quarry glazed windows. Pointed arch openings to tower, third stage having limestone surround, roughly dressed voussoirs and louvered vents. Those to north, west and east elevations having carved limestone hoodmouldings. Pointed arch opening to vestry, north elevation with carved limestone block-and-start surround and sill, now blocked up. Pointed arch opening to tower, south elevation having carved limestone surround and timber panelled door with carved hoodmoulding over. Camber-headed opening to vestry, west elevation having carved limestone block-and-start surround and timber panelled door. Pair of ashlar limestone piers to south having double-leaf cast-iron gates and stile to west. Carved headstones and barrel-vaulted tombs to site. Rubble limestone boundary walls to south. Single-bay single-storey former sextons house to south. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Pair of square-proflie limestone piers to east with double-leaf cast-iron spear-headed gates.

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 Nantinan, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_550 (ZIP).

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

Name

Nantinan · Neantanán

Area

615,347 m² (61.53 ha, 152.06 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgoul South, Ardtomin, Ballingarrane, Boolaglass, Bullaun, Derry, Feeagh

Placenames

Nantinan 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.