Glensharrold

294 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Glensharrold, from 33 m² to 493,860 m² (49.39 ha, 122.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Glensharrold 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.

• 22 Jul 2026Conditional

  demolition of existing side extension and replace with new side extension and all associated site works with existing connections to all public services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660834

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  the relocation of vehicular entrance and revision to site boundaries from previously approved planning permission Ref No 02/224 and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561388

• 13 Jun 2024Conditional

  a revision to site boundary from previously approved Planning Permission Ref. 21/1448 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24243

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22556

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house with attached garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter, entrance, driveway and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211788

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a two storey replacement dwelling house, entrance, driveway, garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211448

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of a dormer style dwelling house, entrance, driveway, garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211447

• 7 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage with associated wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, boundary fences and related site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19202

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  the demolition of existing single storey extensions and the construction of single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling, entrance, driveway, installation of wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18801

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
• Natural Heritage Area: Carrigkerry Bogs NHA 002399

Recorded monuments

• LI027-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level mountain pasture, adjacent to a coniferous plantation. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m) has break (Wth 4.4m) at SE which. Outer bank is heavily eroded (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m) and survives only in two sections either side of SE break. Interior marshy and thickly covered by rushes especially on E side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Glensharrold, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Glensharrold · Gleann Searúill

Area

8,967,061 m² (896.71 ha, 2,215.81 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glensharrold, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Glensharrold electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bauraneag, Boughilbo, Cahernagh, Carrigkerry, Glenastar, Glendiheen, Kerrikyle, Knockaunnagun, Knockfinnisk, Park

Placenames

Glensharrold 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.