Race

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Race, from 1,725 m² to 119,609 m² (11.96 ha, 29.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Race 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.

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing extensions to dwelling together with garage and garage sheds and to construct an extension to rear and side of existing dwelling, increase ridge height of existing dwelling to convert first floor habitable living area, widen existing vehicular site access, replace septic tank and percolation area all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21295

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling house, garage, entrance, proprietary waste water treatment system & percolation area & all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17306

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 Race.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Race.

Architectural heritage

• Race Creamery, creamery, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted five-bay double-height former creamery, built c. 1920, with corrugated-iron canopy to loading bays to north-west and south-west elevations. No longer in use. Pitched chamfered slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods and timber bargeboards to gables. Corrugated-iron walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with concrete sills, boarded up with corrugated-plastic and corrugated-iron. Square-headed opening to south-west elevation having double-leaf timber battened door.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Race · Rás

Area

198,540 m² (19.85 ha, 49.06 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh, Cloghaderreen, Garrison, Pallas, Racebeg

Placenames

Race 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.