Snugborough

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Snugborough, from 534 m² to 287,218 m² (28.72 ha, 70.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Snugborough 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.

• 31 Jan 2026Conditional

  construction of porch at the north elevation of the house and kitchen extension to the west and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660093

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 Snugborough.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-079 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 130m S of townland boundary with Castlecreagh, an enclosure (LI049-080----) lies 160m to the E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. c. 21m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp intersected from W-N-NE by a post-1700 field boundary. Overgrown monument intersected by field boundary at W, NW and NE visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021

• LI049-080 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 65m W of townland boundary with Castlecreagh and Glenefy House, an enclosure (LI049-079----) lies 160m to the W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped area defined by a berm reused as a field boundry at S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. 25m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a scarp, truncated from SE-S by a post-1700 field boundary and drainage channel running NE-SW. Monument visible as a tree lined circular-shaped area, intersected at the S by field boundary running NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Snugborough.

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

At the centre of the townland of Snugborough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Snugborough · Snugborough

Area

689,693 m² (68.97 ha, 170.43 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Duntryleague, the unit of the census

Census 2022

326 people lived in 132 households in the Duntryleague electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Castlecreagh, Deerpark, Kilgreana, Lissard

Placenames

Snugborough 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.