Sunglen

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sunglen, from 50 m² to 177,283 m² (17.73 ha, 43.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Sunglen 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 Jul 2026N/a

  renovating and extending an existing derelict dwelling house, construct boundary walls, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26178

• 1 May 2026N/a

  renovating and extending an existing derelict dwelling house, construct boundary walls, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26112

• 30 Jun 2025Conditional

  an existing roofed structure in the play area and Planning Permission to operate an outdoor preschool service in the existing roof structure and all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 25216

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction Of Single Storey Dwelling House, Entrance, Driveway. Wastewater Treatment Unit, And All Ancillary Site Works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560610

• 15 Nov 2024Conditional

  renovation and extension of existing derelict dwelling house, construct a garage, boundary walls, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24432

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank & percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211477

• 29 Nov 2019Conditional

  a new dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191179

• 6 Aug 2019Conditional

  an extension to the rear of an existing detached house, to include a new kitchen at ground floor level and 1 new bedroom overhead as well as all associated site works on and under land

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19770

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  construction of a childcare facility, entrance, boundary walls, car parking, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18223

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling, shed, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and ancillary works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17613

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 Sunglen.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-182 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, immediately E of access road to dwelling, 44m S of a road that marks the townland boundary with Knockgrean. Not depicted on OS historical mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 34; AP 4/3669) as a small semi-circular enclosure with outer enclosing element visible at SE. Cropmark is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff survey image marked Bruff 34 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 27 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 the townland of Sunglen.

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.

No address of the register names Sunglen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Sunglen · An Spidéal

Area

579,259 m² (57.93 ha, 143.14 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grean electoral division: 1,548 people in 533 households; 82% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagally, Cloghaderreen, Coologe, Knockgrean, Knocknacrohy, Pallas, Pallashill

Placenames

Sunglen 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.