# Ruan, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Ruán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 272,497 m² (27.25 ha, 67.34 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,694 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Stradbally, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/stradbally.md
- Barony: Clanwilliam
- Electoral division: Castleconnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31396
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121789
- Centre: latitude 52.699494, longitude -8.505429 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ruan, from 189 m² to 31,440 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1671647: 31,440 m² (3.14 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671647.md
- Parcel 1592820: 29,882 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592820.md
- Parcel 1592814: 28,532 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592814.md
- Parcel 1642995: 27,619 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642995.md
- Parcel 1592821: 27,371 m² (2.74 ha, 6.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592821.md
- Parcel 1671648: 21,379 m² (2.14 ha, 5.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671648.md
- Parcel 1627077: 19,540 m² (1.95 ha, 4.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627077.md
- Parcel 1668719: 16,335 m² (1.63 ha, 4.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668719.md
- Parcel 5947602: 15,187 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5947602.md
- Parcel 1596013: 6,273 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596013.md
- Parcel 5947603: 4,136 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5947603.md
- Parcel 2752729: 4,105 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2752729.md
- Parcel 1590441: 3,284 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590441.md
- Parcel 1599373: 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599373.md
- Parcel 3953367: 3,159 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3953367.md
- Parcel 3569114: 2,487 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3569114.md
- Parcel 1595582: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595582.md
- Parcel 5664220: 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664220.md
- Parcel 4227088: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4227088.md
- Parcel 1667376: 2,154 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667376.md
- Parcel 1630450: 1,943 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630450.md
- Parcel 1600103: 1,834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600103.md
- Parcel 5038844: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5038844.md
- Parcel 5947606: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5947606.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Castleconnell Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/Castleconnell-Local-Area-Plan-2023-2029_0.pdf#page=78

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

7 applications, newest first.

- 10 Jun 2022, Limerick County Council 22661: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a new replacement site entrance to my site. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22661/0
- 22 Feb 2022, Limerick County Council 22199: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dormer type house complete with a domestic garage and a new effluent treatment system. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22199/0
- 29 Jan 2021, Limerick County Council 2182: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system, a new site entrance, also the demolition of a corrugated iron shed. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2182/0
- 6 Aug 2019, Limerick County Council 19772: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dormer style house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19772/0
- 22 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19723: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a single storey extension to front of house, new velux's to roof, internal modifications and external alterations together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19723/0
- 21 Jun 2018, Limerick County Council 18622: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. a single storey dwelling house, adjoined domestic garage, septic tank and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18622/0
- 28 Apr 2017, Limerick County Council 17376: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the completion of a new single storey dwelling house with domestic garage, septic tank effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter and new site entrance granted under planning reference number 07/3603 with minor alterations and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17376/0

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## 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 Ruan.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI006-008: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI006-008----. On flat undulating pasture within an open field. Possible standing stone annotated ‘Cloghroenapeastia’ on 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. The area is now overgrown and a tree marks the location marked on the OS maps. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded the following details about this monument; 'Clogh rhoo na Pistia, or The Red Worm's Stone, or The Serpent's Stone. A serpent is said to have had its abode under a stone here, but St. Patrick is said to have cut it in two, whereupon the two parts sprang off to a bog near the Shannon, into which they sank. The hole they made in sinking existed till a few years ago and was called Pul na Pest Rooa (Poll na Péiste Ruaidhe, the hole of the red serpent' (OSNB Stradbally Parish, 1629; O'Flanagan 1929, 22). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 10 July 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)

- Ingoldsby House, house, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 21900108, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21900108. Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, comprising three-bay two-storey extension and three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to extension having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over half-glazed timber panelled door. Single-leaf cast-iron gate and railings set in limestone plinths. Pair of square-profile limestone piers to north-west with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

## 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 Ruan, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1053, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1053.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/ruan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ruan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ruan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ruan 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)

- Ballynacourty: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynacourty-120325.md
- Hermitage: https://everytownland.com/limerick/hermitage.md
- Park: https://everytownland.com/limerick/park-121661.md
- Stradbally North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/stradbally-north.md
- Stradbally South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/stradbally-south.md
- Woodpark: https://everytownland.com/limerick/woodpark.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.

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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.

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