Racebeg
Racebeg is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynaclogh, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Rás Beag.
Parcel 1616881
- Area
- 71,985 m² (7.2 ha, 17.79 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 614 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
- Racebeg
Planning applications on this parcel
3 Aug 2022Conditional
the change of house design under governing permitted planning permission reference number 20/942 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22847
18 Sept 2020Conditional
the construction of a shared vehicle entrance, replacement dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20942
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI024-190001 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In low-lying, rough pasture and to the immediate NE of a townland boundary with Racebeg. Ring-barrow (LI024-190002-) lies 35m to ESE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 39.1: AP 4/3671) in 1986. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Bruff aerial photo taken in 1986 numbered 39.1 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 September 2020
- LI024-190002 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In low-lying, rough pasture 10m NE of a townland boundary with Racebeg. Ring-barrow (LI024-190001-) lies 35m to WNW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small, circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 39.2: AP 4/3671) in 1986. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however it is visible as a small subcircular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Bruff aerial photo taken in 1986 numbered 39.2 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 September 2020
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 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.
- 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
- 7.9 ha
- 20 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 2,288 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racebeg, from 1,961 m² to 71,985 m² (7.2 ha, 17.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Racebeg 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
3 Aug 2022Conditional
the change of house design under governing permitted planning permission reference number 20/942 together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22847
18 Sept 2020Conditional
the construction of a shared vehicle entrance, replacement dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20942
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 Racebeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Racebeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Racebeg.
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 Racebeg, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Racebeg.
- 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 Racebeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Racebeg · Rás Beag
- Area
- 79,318 m² (7.93 ha, 19.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynaclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Grean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaclogh, Cloghaderreen, Race
- Placenames
- Racebeg 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.