# Sunglen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Spidéal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 579,259 m² (57.93 ha, 143.14 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,615 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dromkeen, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromkeen.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% 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/32410 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121854 - Centre: latitude 52.547203, longitude -8.364429 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sunglen, from 50 m² to 177,283 m² (17.73 ha, 43.81 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1618705: 177,283 m² (17.73 ha, 43.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618705.md - Parcel 1607876: 168,509 m² (16.85 ha, 41.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607876.md - Parcel 1648544: 86,163 m² (8.62 ha, 21.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648544.md - Parcel 1639537: 53,304 m² (5.33 ha, 13.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639537.md - Parcel 1672380: 41,701 m² (4.17 ha, 10.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672380.md - Parcel 3497309: 10,229 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3497309.md - Parcel 1648545: 7,772 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648545.md - Parcel 5475528: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5475528.md - Parcel 5590903: 3,063 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5590903.md - Parcel 1621249: 2,586 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1621249.md - Parcel 1674232: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674232.md - Parcel 1602581: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602581.md - Parcel 1645443: 2,336 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645443.md - Parcel 5885865: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5885865.md - Parcel 5533375: 1,784 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533375.md - Parcel 1643104: 1,654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643104.md - Parcel 1600580: 1,647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600580.md - Parcel 1598434: 1,620 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598434.md - Parcel 1599217: 1,610 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599217.md - Parcel 5533377: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5533377.md - Parcel 1619425: 833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619425.md - Parcel 1662289: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662289.md - Parcel 1590354: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590354.md - Parcel 1663584: 543 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663584.md - Parcel 1612947: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612947.md - Parcel 1603714: 348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603714.md - Parcel 5507076: 338 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5507076.md - Parcel 5041977: 319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5041977.md - Parcel 1669077: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669077.md - Parcel 1668009: 203 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668009.md - Parcel 1624460: 191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624460.md - Parcel 1670661: 173 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670661.md - Parcel 1604288: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604288.md - Parcel 1616176: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616176.md - Parcel 5590866: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5590866.md - Parcel 1639456: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639456.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 31 Jul 2026, Limerick County Council 26178: N/a. Permission. renovating and extending an existing derelict dwelling house, construct boundary walls, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/26178/0 - 1 May 2026, Limerick County Council 26112: N/a. Permission. renovating and extending an existing derelict dwelling house, construct boundary walls, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/26112/0 - 30 Jun 2025, Limerick County Council 25216: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25216/0 - 25 Jun 2025, Limerick County Council 2560610: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction Of Single Storey Dwelling House, Entrance, Driveway. Wastewater Treatment Unit, And All Ancillary Site Works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560610/0 - 15 Nov 2024, Limerick County Council 24432: Conditional. Permission. renovation and extension of existing derelict dwelling house, construct a garage, boundary walls, proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/24432/0 - 22 Oct 2021, Limerick County Council 211477: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling, garage, septic tank & percolation area, entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211477/0 - 29 Nov 2019, Limerick County Council 191179: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a new dwelling, garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and associated works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191179/0 - 6 Aug 2019, Limerick County Council 19770: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19770/0 - 9 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18223: Conditional. Permission. construction of a childcare facility, entrance, boundary walls, car parking, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18223/0 - 29 Jun 2017, Limerick County Council 17613: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. to construct a two storey dwelling, shed, entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17613/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Sunglen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-182: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-182----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Sunglen. ## 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 Sunglen, about 1 in 10 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: 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, 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/sunglen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sunglen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sunglen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Sunglen 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) - Ballynagally: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagally.md - Cloghaderreen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloghaderreen.md - Coologe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coologe-120754.md - Knockgrean: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockgrean.md - Knocknacrohy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocknacrohy.md - Pallas: https://everytownland.com/limerick/pallas-121656.md - Pallashill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/pallashill.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sunglen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/sunglen