Oldtown (Ryan)

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown (Ryan), from 133 m² to 293,629 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Oldtown (Ryan) 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.

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  the construction of 2 no. single storey side extensions to existing dwelling, modifications to the front elevation of the existing dwelling, the new detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221305

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22353

• 4 Sept 2020Conditional

  as built dwelling extensions and alterations with attached garage

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20874

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 Oldtown (Ryan).

Recorded monuments

• LI033-157 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture 40m N of a local road that marks the townland boundary with Barrysfarm. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from an estate map of Oldtown, by Brian Hodkinson in 2008, as a possible standing stone. Annotated 'Rubbing Stone' on 1843 map of 'Oldtown Ryan on the estate of The Right Hon[oura]ble the Earl of Kenmare' (PRONI D4151/S/3; https://www.iar.ie/Archive.shtml?GB 0255 PRONI/D4151). Outline of stone is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage with details provided by Brian Hodkinson Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 22 April 2021

• LI033-158 Standing stone
  Description

  In improved pasture 450m NE of possible standing stone (LI033-157----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from an estate map of Oldtown, by Brian Hodkinson in 2008, as a possible standing stone. Annotated 'Rubbing Stone' on 1843 map of 'Oldtown Ryan on the estate of The Right Hon[oura]ble the Earl of Kenmare' (PRONI D4151/S/3; https://www.iar.ie/Archive.shtml?GB 0255 PRONI/D4151). Outline of monument is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick with details provided by Brian Hodkinson Date of upload: 22 April 2021

• LI033-159 Enclosure
  Description

  The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) is evident on Google Earth and Bing aerial photographs at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 30 August 2013

• LI033-160 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The cropmark of a ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photograph at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 30 August 2013

• LI033-161 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  The cropmark of a ringbarrow is evident on Google Earth aerial photograph at this location. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 30 August 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldtown (Ryan).

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 Oldtown (Ryan), 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 Oldtown (Ryan).

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 Oldtown (Ryan) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Oldtown (Ryan) · An Seanbhaile (Ryan)

Area

865,183 m² (86.52 ha, 213.79 acres)

Civil parish

Hospital, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Hospital, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,296 people lived in 494 households in the Hospital electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlefarm, Garryncahera, Lodge, Oldtown (Bennett)

Placenames

Oldtown (Ryan) 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.