Rylanes
Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Na Réileáin
Parcel 1663261
- Area
- 380,973 m² (38.1 ha, 94.14 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it, 866 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Rylanes
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Mar 2026Conditional
a change of house & garage design & change of site layout from that previously approved under planning application reference 22/130 and all ancillary site works. The height of the main house is 8.39 meters
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660297
8 Feb 2022Conditional
the construction of a new part two storey, part single storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area, the upgrading of the existing agricultural site entrance and new driveway and all ancillary site works for the site
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22130
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI029-102 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NNW-facing slope, with quarry adjacent immediately to WNW. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Enclosing bank is depicted only NE->SW on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI029-103 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop low hill. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now largely covered by dense overgrowth. Enclosing element partially accessible E->S showing it to consist of earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.85m), with external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.3m) SE->S. Bank has remains of stone revetment on both faces at ESE. At NNE short arc of earth-and-stone bank (H 0.65m), c. 2m outside bank, probably remains of counterscarp/outer bank. Field boundary skirts enclosure SW->NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 82.6 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,179 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rylanes, from 103 m² to 156,041 m² (15.6 ha, 38.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R3Residential Serviced Sites (Residential, mixed residential and other uses)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space & Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jul 2026N/a
construction of; 1) Poultry House and Egg Store, 2), Soiled Water Tank, 3) Vertical Feed Bins and Store, 4) Manure Shed, to be carried out in conjunction with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660842
28 Aug 2025Conditional
renovation of existing dwelling, construction of a rear extension, extension to the front porch, elevational changes and installation of a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560860
2 May 2024Conditional
24no. Serviced sites for 10 single storey and 14 two storey detached dwelling houses and planning permission for the construction of the site layout and all ancillary infrastructural works, including entrance, roads, footpaths, landscaping, connection topublic services and all ancillary works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24184
30 Nov 2020Conditional
demolition of the existing cottage and shed and construction of a replacement dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201258
22 Jul 2020Conditional
demolition of existing dwelling house, subdivision of existing site into 2 no. separate sites, construction of new vehicular entrances, 2 no. new dwelling houses, connections to existing public waste water infrastructure & water supply and all associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20697
17 Jan 2020Conditional
a single storey extension to the front of his existing house, the remodelling of the existing front porch and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2027
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 Rylanes.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-110 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (48m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.6m). Bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.2m), best preserved SW->N, has break (Wth 2.2m) at SW. Fosse, best preserved SW->NW, has been re-cut NNW->SSW with field drain feeding into it at either end. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Grove House, stables, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay two-storey U-plan former stables, built c. 1840, with L-plan section to north-east. Hipped and pitched slate roof with remains of brick chimneystack. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings having alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs, some with remains of bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed carriage arch to north elevation having sandstone and limestone voussoirs. Square-headed door openings with sandstone and limestone voussoirs. Elliptical-headed carriage arches to west block, east elevation having sandstone and limestone voussoirs, now blocked up.
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
- 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 Rylanes.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Rylanes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Rylanes · Na Réileáin
- Area
- 825,945 m² (82.59 ha, 204.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamucky, Bealduvroga, Dromard Demesne, Knightstreet, Rylanes, Woodstock
- Placenames
- Rylanes 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.