Templeglentan West
Townland in the civil parish of Monagay, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Teampall an Ghleanntáin Thiar
- Area
- 556.5 ha
- 1,375 acres
- Land parcels
- 186
- registered freehold, median 2,852 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
186 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templeglentan West, from 26 m² to 527,154 m² (52.72 ha, 130.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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
No zone of a development plan covers Templeglentan West 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
15 Apr 2026N/a
a single storey three bedroom dwelling with a garage, access / egress drive and a sewage treatment plant with drainage area. All complete with associated siteworks and services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660421
26 Jan 2026Conditional
an extension to gable end and front of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660064
2 Apr 2025N/a
the construction of an agricultural shed with a slatted unit, adjoining fodder/plant store & associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560282
21 Nov 2023Conditional
the (a) demolition of existing shed and decommission existing septic tank, (b) construction of extensions, alterations and elevational changes to their existing dwelling house, (c) installation of new treatment unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360853
8 Mar 2023Conditional
the construction of an extension to gable end of existing dwelling house, and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23141
28 Feb 2023Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, utilise existing entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23121
1 Mar 2022Conditional
(A) demolition of existing dwelling house and decommission existing septic tank (B) construct a replacement single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, upgrade existing entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22234
19 Nov 2020Conditional
demolition of existing cubicle house and construction of a new slatted tank, cubicle house, feed passage and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201198
9 Jul 2020Conditional
erection of a 30m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated equipment all enclosed in security fencing and remove the existing two 12m lattice telecommunications support structures(overall height 14.5m)
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20618
21 Dec 2018Conditional
the construction of a slatted milking parlour, dairy, drafting area, meal bin and concrete apron
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181287
11 Jul 2018Conditional
construction of a 269 sq. m. steel structure calf shed to include calving pens, holding pens and isolation pens and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18707
19 Jun 2018Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance, agricultural shed with slatted unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18612
23 Feb 2018Conditional
the construction of a calf house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18164
8 Feb 2018Conditional
the construction of an extension to gable end and front of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1898
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI043-005001 Church
Description
On W side of graveyard (LI043-005002-). Length of low wall (L 8.45m; H 0.8m; Wth 0.84m), which has recently been severely repaired, may be remains of W wall of church which was described in 1840 as seventy foot [21m] by thirty foot [9m] with 'the gables nearly destroyed' but side walls standing 'six or seven feet in height' (OSL vol. 2, 10-1); at that stage it was completely masked by an overgrowth of bushes and brambles. Remains of parish church of Temple Glantan (Westropp 1904-5, 403). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI043-005002 Graveyard
Description
On N side of road. Neat sub-rectangular graveyard (c. 80m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by low stone wall. Irregularly spaced rows of 19th and 20th century headstones throughout. Low wall near W end may be remains of parish church of Temple Glantan (LI043-005001-). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI043-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. 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. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Goulburn Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span road bridge, built c. 1831, spanning the River Allaghaun. Camber-headed arch with bevelled tooled limestone voussoirs and dressed stone block soffit. Springing from dressed stone piers with tooled limestone quoins and recent render skirting to base. Dressed limestone spandrels with tooled limestone stringcourse to side (north, south) elevations surmounted by dressed limestone parapet walls with tooled limestone coping. Dressed rubble stone abutments with parapet walls and battered dressed stone piers with tooled stone stringcourse and replacement render capping. Ruinous tarmac road over bridge.
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 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 Templeglentan West.
- 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 Templeglentan West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Templeglentan West · Teampall an Ghleanntáin Thiar
- Area
- 5,564,757 m² (556.48 ha, 1,375.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monagay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Templeglentan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templeglentan electoral division: 1,038 people in 351 households; 87% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromtrasna (Hartnett), Dromtrasna North, Glengort North, Killaculleen, Meenyline South, Templeglentan East, Tulligoline South
- Placenames
- Templeglentan West 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.