Reerasta South

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Reerasta South, from 432 m² to 95,680 m² (9.57 ha, 23.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Reerasta South 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Reerasta South 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 the townland of Reerasta South.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  National monument No. 459. Atop rise, in gently undulating pasture. Partially levelled monument the levelling of which was described in 1869 when Dunraven (1866-9, 433) recorded that the monument had 'been partly levelled for the purpose of tillage'. Present remains consist of a circular-shaped area (52m N-S; 53m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 3.57m), with external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.95m) ESE-NNE and SSE-SW; latter section covered by dense overgrowth. Bank best preserved NNE-NNW and SSE-SW; elsewhere it has been degraded to a scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 3.4m). Interior is under pasture and dips gently down towards centre. There is a shallow depression (10m E-W; 4m N-S; D c. 0.2m) to E of centre. Fosse is skirted by field /Ardvone townland boundary from SE-S-SW, this turns N and skirts fosse at W; this forms part of small field surrounding the site. This field is bounded by a public road marking the townland boundary with Ardagh immediately N of site and by a compound for two water towers immediately to NE. The monument appears to have been a bivallate ringfort as depicted on the first ed. OS map. The curving townland boundary to S and a low curving degraded bank visible at W may be the remains of a second enclosing bank. According to Dunraven there was a possible standing stone (LI028-102001-), known locally as; Reerasta Cloch' which had been built into the external face of the enclosing bank of the ringfort. This stone was described by Dunraven (1866-9, 434) as following; 'Formerly, a large stone, called Reerasta Cloch, stood on, or formed part of, the external face of the bank; this stone was broken up within the present century'. Durnaven recorded the following about the discovery of an Early Christian hoard including the 8th century Ardagh Chalice at the ringfort in 1868. Dunraven (1866-9, 433) wrote that; 'Towards the end of September, 1868, her son [widow Quin, the owner] was digging potatos in the fort at the south-western side. On reaching the base of the bank, and close to a thorn bush, he found the surface soft: he drove the spade down between the roots of the thorn, and felt it strike against something hard, like metal. While clearing the earth and roots to see what this could be, he thrust down his hand, and laid hold of the long pin of a fibula. He then excavated to the depth of about three feet, and found a most beautiful cup laid in the earth, with a rough flag stone on one side of it, and inside the cup was a smaller cup and four fibulae. The small cup was the only article broken by the stroke of the spade. Excavations have been since made in the immediate vicinity of the spot where these articles were found, but nothing has turned up'. The landowner at the time was a widow named Quin who informed the Earl of Dunraven (1866-9, 433) that 'about twenty years ago, while tilling the ground, a beautiful chalice of gold was turned up about fifty yards west of the fort', however, 'one day her children took it out of the house to play with, and that she never saw it again.' The hoard from the SW quadrant of the ringfort contained a silver chalice, a bronze chalice, and four brooches (de Paor 1977, 138). The silver chalice, known as the Ardagh Chalice, is 'the finest piece of eight-century metalwork' from Ireland (ibid.). This hoard is now kept in the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1874:99). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 11 June 2018

• LI028-102001 Standing stone
  Description

  National monument in state ownership No. 459. Situated on elevated grassland with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Partially levelled ringfort the levelling of which was described in 1869 when Dunraven (1866-9, 433) recorded that the monument had 'been partly levelled for the purpose of tillage'. Present remains consist of a large ringfort (LI028-102----) known locally as the 'Ardagh Fort' with the possible site of a standing stone built into the external face of the enclosing bank which was destroyed in the early 1800s. According to Dunraven this possible standing stone, was known locally as; 'Reerasta Cloch'. This stone was described by Dunraven (1866-9, 434) as following; 'Formerly, a large stone, called Reerasta Cloch, stood on, or formed part of, the external face of the bank; this stone was broken up within the present century'. No surface remains visible of any levelled standing stone. Durnaven recorded the following about the discovery of an Early Christian hoard including the 8th century Ardagh Chalice at the ringfort (LI028-102----) in 1868. Dunraven (1866-9, 433) wrote that; 'Towards the end of September, 1868, her son [widow Quin, the owner] was digging potatos in the fort at the south-western side. On reaching the base of the bank, and close to a thorn bush, he found the surface soft: he drove the spade down between the roots of the thorn, and felt it strike against something hard, like metal. While clearing the earth and roots to see what this could be, he thrust down his hand, and laid hold of the long pin of a fibula. He then excavated to the depth of about three feet, and found a most beautiful cup laid in the earth, with a rough flag stone on one side of it, and inside the cup was a smaller cup and four fibulae. The small cup was the only article broken by the stroke of the spade. Excavations have been since made in the immediate vicinity of the spot where these articles were found, but nothing has turned up'. The landowner at the time was a widow named Quin who informed the Earl of Dunraven (1866-9, 433) that 'about twenty years ago, while tilling the ground, a beautiful chalice of gold was turned up about fifty yards west of the fort', however, 'one day her children took it out of the house to play with, and that she never saw it again.' The hoard from the SW quadrant of the ringfort contained a silver chalice, a bronze chalice, and four brooches (de Paor 1977, 138). The silver chalice, known as the Ardagh Chalice, is 'the finest piece of eight-century metalwork' from Ireland (ibid.). This hoard is now kept in the National Museum of Ireland (NMI 1874:99). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 June 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Reerasta South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Reerasta South · An Riaráiste Theas

Area

331,603 m² (33.16 ha, 81.94 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 1,037 people in 384 households; 83% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Ardvone, Commons, Coolcronoge, Kilrodane

Placenames

Reerasta South 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.