Ahacore
Ahacore is a townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Áth an Chomhair.
Parcel 1650876
- Area
- 86,468 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ahacore
Planning applications on this parcel
26 Feb 2026Conditional
(a) demolition of existing two storey dwelling along with single storey car port, (b) make good to existing garage after the demolition of forementioned car port, (c) construct a single storey replacement dwelling along with new car port and (d) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660207
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 1 recorded monument.
- LI014-127 Fulacht fia
Description
In woodland on the W bank of Rose Brook, Maddyboy House 200m to SW. Site identified by Conor Dinneen but no descriptive information about the fulacht fia in the SMR File. Not depicted on the OS maps. Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 shows the are now covered with modern forestry plantation. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 7 July 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 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
- 67.3 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 3,130 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahacore, from 686 m² to 465,720 m² (46.57 ha, 115.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Ahacore 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
13 Aug 2026Conditional
the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660928
26 Feb 2026Conditional
(a) demolition of existing two storey dwelling along with single storey car port, (b) make good to existing garage after the demolition of forementioned car port, (c) construct a single storey replacement dwelling along with new car port and (d) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660207
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 Ahacore.
Recorded monuments
- LI014-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the E bank of Rose Brook, a tributary of the Mulkear River, on a gentle S-facing slope in poorly-drained pasture. The monument is by scrub vegetation but is evident as a sub-circular area (c. 23m N-S), enclosed by an earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.35m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2m) from NW to SSE, and by a scarped edge along the stream's edge from SSE to NW. The bank is heavily eroded. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 June 2013
- LI014-169 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. ext. diam. 40m; int. diam. 26m) bisected by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of small circular feature 15m to E could be the remains of a possible ditch-barrow (LI014-170----). Cropmark of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. On this orthoimage the cropmark of the possible ditch-barrow is clearly visible to E. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2020
- LI014-170 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of enclosure (LI014-169----) 15m to W. Cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2020
- LI014-173 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. 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 Ahacore.
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 Ahacore, 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 the townland of Ahacore.
- 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 Ahacore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ahacore · Áth an Chomhair
- Area
- 672,903 m² (67.29 ha, 166.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owneybeg
- Electoral division
- Clonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,055 people lived in 358 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abington, Farnane, Maddyboy, Toberagarriff
- Placenames
- Ahacore 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.