# Plaukarauka, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Plácaráca. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 543,658 m² (54.37 ha, 134.34 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,509 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromkeen, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromkeen.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Templebredon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 588 people lived in 197 households in the Templebredon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32467 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121689 - Centre: latitude 52.542524, longitude -8.323648 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plaukarauka, from 791 m² to 515,050 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1674683: 515,050 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674683.md - Parcel 1631099: 3,869 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631099.md - Parcel 1663586: 3,539 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663586.md - Parcel 3267294: 3,160 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267294.md - Parcel 1612564: 2,512 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612564.md - Parcel 1630774: 2,509 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630774.md - Parcel 1616178: 2,495 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616178.md - Parcel 1622135: 2,283 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622135.md - Parcel 1658127: 2,251 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658127.md - Parcel 1619426: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619426.md - Parcel 6079721: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6079721.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Plaukarauka in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 17 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191253: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. the following changes to the drawing submitted under planning ref. 77/12428: adjusted floor layout, elevations and roof shape of house extension; construction of a boiler shed attached to the rear of the house; construction of a detached oil tank shed at the rear of the house; construction of a detached garage and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191253/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Plaukarauka. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-310001: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-310001-. In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 40m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The eastern most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos and is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (13m E-W; 9.5m N-S) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020 - LI024-310002: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-310002-. In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 45m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (12m E-W; 10.6m N-S) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020 - LI024-310003: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-310003-. In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 50m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (11m E-W; 9m N-S) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 October 2020 - LI024-311: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-311----. In low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses and is defined by a townland boundary with Ballynaclogh and Ballyshoneen to NW, Knockballyfookeen to NE and Bohernagraga to SE. A cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/02-/03-) are situated on the SE side. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a patchwork of intersecting linear and slightly curvilinear-shaped cropmarks by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 164: AP 4/3673). Anomalies are visible as a series of linear and slightly curvilinear-shaped cropmarks intersecting to form a field pattern covering an area of at least 26ha on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthophoto taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 164. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 October 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Plaukarauka. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Plaukarauka, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Plaukarauka. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/plaukarauka.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/plaukarauka.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/plaukarauka.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Plaukarauka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynaclogh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynaclogh.md - Ballyshoneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen.md - Bohernagraga: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bohernagraga.md - Gortnacoolagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnacoolagh.md - Knockballyfookeen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockballyfookeen.md - Treanmanagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/treanmanagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/plaukarauka - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/plaukarauka