Puckane

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Puckane, from 846 m² to 233,365 m² (23.34 ha, 57.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Puckane 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  a dormer dwelling house as constructed and a domestic garage as constructed and a Waste Water Treatment System, a domestic water well, a vehicular entrance and a stables building all as constructed. The Retention Permission is sought for an indefinite period

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561337

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment system, bored well, upgrading existing agricultural entrance to the site, together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25296

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Clare Glen SAC 000930
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clare Glen 000930

Recorded monuments

• LI007-005 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  On the level summit of Knockaunnamoughilly, in level pasture, c. 125m to S of the Clare River, with excellent views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure standing in the centre of a large circular-shaped field (approx. diam. 115m). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a circular-shaped flat-topped mound (diam. 9m; H 0.4m) defined by a fosse (base Wth 2.4m; overall Wth 7m; D 0.15m) from E-SE-S. Visible as a tree-covered monument within the centre of a circular-shaped large enclosure (100m E-W; 90m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Possible barrow standing in centre of large ritual hilltop enclosure (LI007-005001-) known as 'Knockaunnamoughilly'. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 July 2020

• LI007-005001 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  On the level summit of Knockaunnamoughilly, in level pasture, c. 125m to S of the Clare River, with excellent views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (LI007-005----) standing in the centre of a large circular-shaped field (approx. diam. 115m). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a circular-shaped flat-topped mound the base of which is enclosed by a fosse from E-SE-S. Visible as a tree-covered monument within the centre of a circular-shaped large enclosure (100m E-W; 90m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Possible barrow standing in centre of large ritual hilltop enclosure (LI007-005001-) known locally as 'Knockaunnamoughilly'. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 July 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Puckane.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Puckane.

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.

No address of the register names Puckane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Puckane · Pocán

Area

906,946 m² (90.69 ha, 224.11 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

Ashroe, Boarmanshill, Garranbane, Inchadrinagh (Co. Tipperary), Scraggeen (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Puckane 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.