# Ranahan, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Raithneachán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,305,184 m² (130.52 ha, 322.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathkeale, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/rathkeale.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Riddlestown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32294 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121722 - Centre: latitude 52.539674, longitude -8.999726 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranahan, from 203 m² to 666,545 m² (66.65 ha, 164.71 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1597900: 666,545 m² (66.65 ha, 164.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597900.md - Parcel 1667938: 246,414 m² (24.64 ha, 60.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667938.md - Parcel 1667609: 121,179 m² (12.12 ha, 29.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667609.md - Parcel 1601655: 118,106 m² (11.81 ha, 29.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601655.md - Parcel 1674660: 86,165 m² (8.62 ha, 21.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674660.md - Parcel 1647603: 13,583 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647603.md - Parcel 1667612: 10,514 m² (1.05 ha, 2.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667612.md - Parcel 1616074: 8,088 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616074.md - Parcel 1604914: 7,684 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604914.md - Parcel 2541561: 4,984 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2541561.md - Parcel 1631184: 3,106 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631184.md - Parcel 1662486: 2,435 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662486.md - Parcel 1598649: 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598649.md - Parcel 1618302: 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618302.md - Parcel 1660193: 2,103 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660193.md - Parcel 1618289: 1,886 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618289.md - Parcel 1612406: 1,249 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612406.md - Parcel 1608252: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608252.md - Parcel 1645580: 1,062 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645580.md - Parcel 1645649: 841 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645649.md - Parcel 1601252: 759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601252.md - Parcel 1665850: 322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665850.md - Parcel 1601480: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601480.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ranahan 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 17 Apr 2026, Limerick County Council 2694: Conditional. Permission. a new detached garage at the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2694/0 - 10 Jul 2024, Limerick County Council 24275: Conditional. Permission. alterations to the existing dwelling, a new extension to the rear of the existing building and installation of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/24275/0 - 26 May 2021, Limerick County Council 21719: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21719/0 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 Ranahan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI019-220: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-220----. In pasture, on a break in a N-facing hill slope. The monument, which is depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as an oval mound (c. 10m N-S; c. 15 E-W), has been levelled. There is now no evident trace of the mound. A field boundary which ran immediately to its S has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI019-222: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-222----. In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. Field boundaries immediately to S and W have also been removed. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI019-223: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-223----. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (31.5m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 4m), which is enhanced by fall away in natural terrain E->SW. Scarp very indistinct at ENE. Band of darker grass (Wth 3.5m) runs around base of scarp, except for gap at SSE, indicating line of infilled fosse. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI019-226: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-226----. In tillage, on gentle E-facing slope into river valley. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI019-280: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-280----. Situated in tillage field. Cropmark of sub-circular shaped earthwork visible on Apple Maps. See attached Apple Maps orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 July 2021 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 Ranahan. ## 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 Ranahan, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_512, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_512.zip (ZIP). - 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/ranahan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ranahan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ranahan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ranahan 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) - Ardlaman: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardlaman.md - Cooltomin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cooltomin.md - Gortroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortroe-121169.md - Kilquane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilquane.md - Lissatotan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lissatotan-121501.md - Riddlestown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/riddlestown.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/ranahan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ranahan