Doonvullen Lower

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonvullen Lower, from 184 m² to 187,969 m² (18.8 ha, 46.45 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 Doonvullen Lower 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.

• 27 Sept 2026N/a

  a change of house design from that previously granted under planning reference 25/60445

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2661130

• 5 Jan 2026Conditional

  (1) the as constructed dwelling house, (2) the as constructed garage & (3) site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660003

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560946

• 14 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560445

• 29 Mar 2024Conditional

  the extension and conversion of existing outbuilding into a two bedroom granny flat with septic tank and percolation area. Permission for extension and alterations to the existing farmhouse to provide a dwelling with shared connection to granny flat, replace existing 2 no. septic tanks serving the converted outbuilding and farmhouse with a single SBR treatment plant and polishing filter to serve the farmhouse and attached granny flat, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460283

• 1 Sept 2023Refused

  extension and conversion of existing outbuilding into a two bedroom dwelling including septic tank and percolation area. Permission for development will consist of extension and renovation of the existing farmhouse to provide a dwelling with granny flat, replace 2 no. existing septic tanks with SBR treatment plants and provide 1 no. polishing filter to serve both the farmhouse and converted outbuilding, alterations to existing entrance and all ancillary works

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360634

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  the construction of 2 no. agricultural entrances including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20801

• 20 Nov 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191140

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  the construction of dwelling, entrance, install wastewater treatment plant, convert existing barn to stables including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171233

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 Doonvullen Lower.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-046 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, on an E-facing slope; moderate views N-S. Oval area (dims. 15.5m NNW-SSE; 13m ENE-WSW) defined by scarped edge (Wth 2.75m; H 1.6m) with cattle breach (Wth 2m) at ESE, and external fosse (Wth 5.15m; D 0.6m) NW-S. Outer edge truncated by drainage ditch (long-axis c. NW-SE) at W. Interior level and grass covered with briars around perimeter WSW-N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 November 2013

• LI023-047 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) OS 6-inch map has been levelled and evident trace of it was apparent when site inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 November 2013

• LI023-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In damp, level pasture with restricted view. Oval area (19m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 3.5m; H 1.15m) with external fosse (Wth 8.75m; D 0.45m). Fosse is waterlogged SE-N and base of scarp base eroded by cattle S-W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 November 2013

• LI023-254 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat gently waterlogged pasture, with good views in all directions with the exception to the E where the site is overlooked by a hill. It has been partially incorporated into the townland boundary with Doonvullen Upper that runs along the S edge of the site. Enclosure (LI023-177----) lies 20m to SW and enclosure (LI023-252--) abuts its S margin. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 270 on AP 4/3689) and by the Discovery Programme in 1996 (McCloud Photo AB 9, Limerick OS23) as an enclosure (ext. diam. c. 77m N-S; 74m E-W). The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached McCloud Survey image showing the labelled enclosures and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 2 September 2020

• LI023-290 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying and gently undulating pasture, 80m W of the Groody River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 275: AP 4/3712). Monument is visible as a large sub-oval-shaped cropmark (55m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a thin band of dark green rushes from ENE-S-WSW on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Area to N and E of monument has been planted with forestry as seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 275. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 14 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, with flat-roofed windbreak to front (south) elevation, single-bay single-storey extension to west, built c. 2000, with pitched slate roof, two-bay single-storey extension to east with pitched slate roof. Pitched reed thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls to front elevation, buttressed random rubble stone wall to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Random rubble entrance piers with recent gate.

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 Doonvullen Lower, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonvullen Lower.

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

Name

Doonvullen Lower · Dún Mholainn Íochtarach

Area

1,050,336 m² (105.03 ha, 259.54 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrood, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoodane, Caherline, Doonvullen Upper, Knockroe (Wilson), Newtown

Placenames

Doonvullen Lower 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.