Ranahan

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranahan, from 203 m² to 666,545 m² (66.65 ha, 164.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ranahan 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.

• 17 Apr 2026Conditional

  a new detached garage at the rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2694

• 10 Jul 2024Conditional

  alterations to the existing dwelling, a new extension to the rear of the existing building and installation of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24275

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21719

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 Ranahan.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-220 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, on a break in a N-facing hill slope. The monument, which is depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as an oval mound (c. 10m N-S; c. 15 E-W), has been levelled. There is now no evident trace of the mound. A field boundary which ran immediately to its S has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-222 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. Field boundaries immediately to S and W have also been removed. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-223 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (31.5m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 4m), which is enhanced by fall away in natural terrain E->SW. Scarp very indistinct at ENE. Band of darker grass (Wth 3.5m) runs around base of scarp, except for gap at SSE, indicating line of infilled fosse. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-226 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on gentle E-facing slope into river valley. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-280 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in tillage field. Cropmark of sub-circular shaped earthwork visible on Apple Maps. See attached Apple Maps orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 6 July 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ranahan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_512 (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 Ranahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ranahan · Raithneachán

Area

1,305,184 m² (130.52 ha, 322.52 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlaman, Cooltomin, Gortroe, Kilquane, Lissatotan, Riddlestown

Placenames

Ranahan 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.