Scarteen

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarteen, from 245 m² to 688,167 m² (68.82 ha, 170.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Scarteen 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 Feb 2024Conditional

  a silage base with end wall and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2447

• 20 Jul 2018Conditional

  a slatted unit for cattle and straw store

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18740

• 5 Sept 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17822

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 Scarteen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scarteen.

Architectural heritage

• Scarteen House, country house, 1810–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1830, with Victorian glazed porch. House comprising projecting gable-fronted bays, crenellated bay window and porch to front (south) elevation. Crenellated bay window, recessed crenellated bay and five-bay two-storey extension having gablets to west elevation. Pitched slate roof with timber bargeboards, finials and rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to extension. Single-pitched fishscale slate roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed bipartite openings to first floor with render label mouldings and six-over-one pane timber casement windows. Square-headed opening to first floor, centre-bay having render label moulding and fixed window. Square-headed bipartite openings to ground floor with render label mouldings and bipartite four-over-one pane timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to extension, first floor having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to porch having inset pointed arch fixed windows with recessed spandrels. Square-headed opening to porch with half-glazed timber panelled door. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to north having open work bellcote to north elevation and four-bay single-storey outbuilding to south gable. Pitched slate roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Pitched slate roof to south outbuilding with rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Square-headed door opening. Nine-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with cast-iron patris plates. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to east. Hipped slate roof with timber bargeboards and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having bipartite four-over-one pane timber casement windows. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rusticated limestone piers to east with carved caps, plinth course and rusticated limestone walls.

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 Scarteen, 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

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

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

Name

Scarteen · An Scairtín

Area

987,501 m² (98.75 ha, 244.02 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyscaddan, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Knocklong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

918 people lived in 348 households in the Knocklong electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Ballyholahan West (Co. Tipperary), Ballylooby, Corbally, Grange, Lackelly East, Lackelly West, Raheennamadra, Ryvescastle

Placenames

Scarteen 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.