Teernahilla
Teernahilla is a townland in the civil parish of Cloncagh, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Tír na hAille.
- Area
- 176.4 ha
- 436 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 7,423 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Teernahilla, from 128 m² to 354,427 m² (35.44 ha, 87.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Teernahilla 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
2 Feb 2026Conditional
(i) slatted shed with slatted tanks and cubicles (ii) loose shed extension (iii) storage shed (iv) Roof over existing slatted tank and all associated site works. Demolition of calving shed and livestock shed is also required. Permission for retention of cubicle shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660095
24 Nov 2017Conditional
the construction of extensions to side & rear of an existing house with alterations to existing elevations and introduction of new waste water treatment system, percolation area, adjusted existing entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171096
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 Teernahilla.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Teernahilla.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1840. Hipped thatched roof to side (west) elevation with rendered roof and rendered gable copings to side (east) elevation. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having rendered sills and uPVC casement windows. Single-storey outbuilding to west of house. Splayed entrance having rendered enclosing walls with rendered square-profile piers with recent decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
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 Teernahilla, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Teernahilla.
- 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 Teernahilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Teernahilla · Tír na hAille
- Area
- 1,763,515 m² (176.35 ha, 435.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Cloncagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 353 people lived in 109 households in the Cloncagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybeggane, Ballyhahil, Ballykevan West, Cloncagh, Frankfort, Gortnacreha Lower, Kilgolban
- Placenames
- Teernahilla 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.