Maghera

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 176 m² to 159,106 m² (15.91 ha, 39.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Maghera 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.

• 19 Apr 2026Conditional

  construction of an extension to the side of dwelling, relocation of entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660444

• 23 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22705

• 14 Dec 2020N/a

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 201339

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 Maghera.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-104 Moated site
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate views in all directions. A townland boundary with Rathbranagh lies 110m to W. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised rectangular-shaped area (approx. 40m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) with rounded corners (H 0.8m) reduced to a scarp midway along the W side, with external fosse (base Wth 2m; overall Wth 4.9m; D 0.6m), a break (Wth 4m) in the bank midway along the N side may be an original entrance. A hedgerow field boundary is incorporated into the outer edge of the fosse along the S side. The interior is level and densely overgrown. Stone wall field boundaries radiate fout rom the external face of the earthen bank at NE, SE and SW corners. Monument is visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 29 July 2020

• LI021-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, with good views from N-E-SE which are restricted elsewhere. Townland boundaries with Honeypound and Toryhill lie 90m to E and S, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.7m) with an entrance gap (Wth 5m) at SW. The entrance appears to be original, although it has been widened in modern times. Some field clearance material has been deposited against the exterior of the bank from NW-NNW-N. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped, tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 July 2020

• LI021-191 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maghera, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_912 (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 Maghera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Maghera · An Machaire Riabhach

Area

345,734 m² (34.57 ha, 85.43 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Garrane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

317 people lived in 108 households in the Garrane electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylusky, Honeypound, Rathbranagh, Toryhill

Placenames

Maghera 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.