Geeragh
Geeragh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbeheny, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Gaorthadh.
Parcel 1602757
- Area
- 2,631 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 391 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Geeragh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 171.7 ha
- 424 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 8,256 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Geeragh, from 179 m² to 353,239 m² (35.32 ha, 87.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Geeragh 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
27 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) attic conversion to existing dwelling, (2) elevational changes including increased roof pitch and (3) associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660349
30 Jul 2025Conditional
a). a single storey extension to side of existing house, b). a timber and zinc canopy to northern and western elevations, an outdoor BBQ area, a 3.5m high stone wall to front elevation, external paving and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560750
3 Feb 2022Conditional
erection of a dormer type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22115
22 Dec 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, provision of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211804
5 Feb 2021Conditional
erection of a dormer type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21110
7 Oct 2020Conditional
erection of a two storey type dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201003
1 Oct 2018Conditional
the construction of 2 no. cattle underpasses and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18956
13 Jan 2017Conditional
permission for dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance, boundary fences, drainage and all associated work
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 1719
11 May 2005Conditional
Slatted storage tank, walking passage & straw beds
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3171
13 Apr 2005Incompleted application
Slatted unit straw beds
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2343
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 Geeragh.
Recorded monuments
- LI060-001 Moated site
Description
In pasture on upper slope of a low hill. Remains consist of a raised rectangular shaped area (dims. 44m NNW-SSE x 37m ENE-WSW) enclosed by an earthen bank (base Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.4m) with external fosse (base Wth 2.6m; ext. D 0.4m) filled in from W-N-E-SE. Entrance gap (Wth 2.4m) at S appears to be modern. Interior slopes slightly to SSE. NW, NE and SE corners of platform are raised slightly See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021
Architectural heritage
- Geeragh Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch road bridge over the River Geeragh, erected c. 1810, with render over rubble sandstone walls having square-profile piers. Inscribed datestone of 1927 to south parapet wall. Cut alternating sandstone and limestone voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. Carved U-cutwaters.
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 Geeragh, 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 Geeragh.
- 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 Geeragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Geeragh · An Gaorthadh
- Area
- 1,717,449 m² (171.74 ha, 424.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeheny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 315 people lived in 119 households in the Kilglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Anglesborough, Carrow, Garrane (Co. Cork), Glenacurrane, Kilglass, Lackendarragh
- Placenames
- Geeragh 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.