Ruppulagh
Ruppulagh is a townland in the civil parish of Darragh, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Roplach.
- Area
- 441.5 ha
- 1,091 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 2,822 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ruppulagh, from 7 m² to 954,987 m² (95.5 ha, 235.98 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ruppulagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Jun 2021Conditional
the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house and construction of a two storey dwelling house including a new waste water treatment system and percolation area, relocation of existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21905
7 May 2020Conditional
a domestic single storey double detached garage to the side of existing house together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20365
23 Mar 2020N/a
a domestic single storey double detached garage to the side of existing house together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20244
20 Feb 2018Conditional
a bathroom extension
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18147
5 Jan 2018Conditional
the construction of dwelling, garage, stables, site entrance, install effluent treatment system including all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 187
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ruppulagh.
Recorded monuments
- LI057-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
In upland pasture, with outcropping rock, to immediately E of a natural linear crevice running NW-SE and overlooking lower ground to E. Annotated ‘Liscoolan’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Trivallate ringfort depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 25m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by three banks with intervening fosses. The outer bank is incorporated into a field boundary from NE-SE. Visible as an oval-shaped area covered with bushes on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 11 November 2021
- LI057-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture75m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballyshane. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 60m NE-SW; 55M NW-SE) defined by a scarp from NE-S-NW incorporated into a field boundary elsewhere with an external fosse from SW-NW. Intersected at NE and NW by field boundary running NE-SW. Visible as an oval-shaped area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021
- LI057-022 Earthwork
Description
In pasture 190m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballintober. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped hollow (diam. c. 10m) enclosed by field boundary walls from SE-W-NE. Visible as a circular-shaped area overgrown with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. May be the remains of a post-1700 quarry. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ruppulagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ruppulagh, about 1 in 20 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ruppulagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ruppulagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ruppulagh · Roplach
- Area
- 4,414,527 m² (441.45 ha, 1,090.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Darragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Darragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 375 people lived in 130 households in the Darragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober, Ballyfeerode, Ballynacourty, Ballyshane, Thomastown, Tulla
- Placenames
- Ruppulagh 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.