Reens West

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reens West, from 519 m² to 512,881 m² (51.29 ha, 126.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Reens 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Reens West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Reens West.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-115 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope, and immediately NW of public road. Sub-rectangular area (29.2m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.83m; ext. H 2.55m). Gaps in bank NE (Wth 3.2m) and at W (Wth 1.5m). Trace of shallow external fosse (Wth 1.4m; D 0.28m) evident along SW side. Sharp dip at base of bank on SE side adjacent to road may also indicate fosse. Interior used for rough grazing and dips slightly at centre, which is marshy; earth and manure dumped into S half. Trees and bushes on bank and in S third of interior. Modern dwelling built c. 20m to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-155 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, at the base of a NE-facing slope. A circular area (10.4m N-S; 10.8m E-W) enclosed by a fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 2.6m base) with an external earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.15m). Both fosse and bank are truncated WNW->N by a field boundary. The outer edge of the bank clipped by a stream N->ENE. The level interior is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-156 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pasture, at base of NE-facing slope, in field bordered by streams to NE and NW. Oval area (c. 35m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m) with external waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.35m). Gap (Wth 1.6m) in bank at SE. An old field drains open into fosse at ESE and W, and a more recent drain at NE joins fosse with nearby stream. Bank and interior densely overgrown with bushes; only a narrow band around edge of interior is accessible. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-191 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 33m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Reens House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having later projecting end-bay to north-east elevation and recent conservatory to south-east (front) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughly dressed stone walls having pebbledash rendered and render plinth course to north-west and south-west elevations. Smooth render and render plinth course to end bay, north-east and north-west elevations. Square-headed openings to south-east elevation with tooled limestone sills, red brick surrounds and voussoirs, and replacement uPVC windows. Venetian window to first floor, front elevation having tooled limestone sill, red brick surround and voussoirs and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to rear and side elevations with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to front elevation having timber panelled door, red brick surround and sidelights. Square-headed opening to south-west elevation with replacement uPVC door. Rubble stone wall to south of house having segmental-headed arch with double-leaf cast-iron gate. Outbuildings to south-west of house having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls, square-headed openings with timber battened door and half-glazed timber panelled door. Entrance to south-east comprising pair of square-profile rubble stone walls having red brick quoins, flanking double-leaf metal electronic 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 Reens West, about 1 in 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_514 (ZIP).

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

Name

Reens West · Roighne Thiar

Area

686,777 m² (68.68 ha, 169.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilscannell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Kilscannell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

612 people lived in 185 households in the Kilscannell electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolanoran, Kilscannell, Reens East

Placenames

Reens 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.