Uregare

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Uregare, from 204 m² to 445,871 m² (44.59 ha, 110.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Uregare 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.

• 27 Mar 2024Conditional

  a change of house design from that previously granted under planning ref. 21/273

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24113

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21273

• 6 Oct 2020N/a

  a dwelling house, on site waste water treatment and disposal system, garage, entrance, front boundary wall and all associated works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 20998

• 30 Nov 2018Conditional

  construction of an extension to the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181166

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18456

• 20 Oct 2017Refused

  construction of a dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17975

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 Uregare.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-049 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 220m N of townland boundary Ballinstona North and 290m S of Greenpark House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 039129) identified as a circular shaped cropmark during examination of aerial photographs (GSIAP, 496) taken 16/04/1974. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of circular enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. Linear cropmarks visible on Google Earth orthoimages may be the remains of drainage channels. See attached aerial photograph (GSIAP, 496) taken 16/04/1974 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 April 2021

• LI040-004 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of townland boundary with Ballygrennan and 850m NE of Greenpark House. Within the field system (LI040-042----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a square-shaped enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2540) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Visible as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 21m N-S; 23m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 where it is defined at S, W, and N by linear depression, intersected at E by field boundary running N-S. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018. Linear features visible on aerial photographs may represent drainage channels belonging to reclamation works associated with the landscaping of the lands of Greenpark House. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 May 2021

• LI040-039 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, immediately SE of enclosure (LI040-040----). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (No. 040263) identified as an enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 2546) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh Wes-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface reamins visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photographs from Bórd Gáis Éireann (040263) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 May 2021

• LI040-040 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, immediately NW of enclosure (LI040-039----). Depicted as a small rectangular field on OSi historic maps. Possible site (No. 040119) identified as a rectangular enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 2546) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh Wes-Limerick gas pipeline (Strip Map 5, Site 5/20). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cropmark represents the remains of a post-1700 field indicated on OSi 6-inch map. See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann (BGE 2546) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 May 2021

• LI040-042 Field system
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of townland boundary with Ballygrennan and 580m NE of Greenpark House. Enclosure (LI040-004----) lies in the W quadrant of the field system. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible field system visible on aerial photograph (BGE 1/5000, 2540) dated 11/09/1982 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Linear cropmarks perpendicular to each other forming a grid-iron pattern are visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken between 2011-13. Linear cropmarks appear as waterlogged channels on various Google Earth orthoimages. Linear features visible on aerial photographs may represent drainage channels belonging to reclamation works associated with the landscaping of the lands of Greenpark House. See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline (BGE 1/5000 2540). Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 11 May 2021

• LI040-043 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 429-30) recorded the following details about Uregare; 'A parish in Coshmagh. There were two churches (LI039-046001-) here, so closely connected that we combine their records. Urthegedy, held by Gerald f. Maurice, 1285 (C.S.P.I., vol. iii., p. 285); Euergarr and the chapel of Uirgedi, 1291; Urigari, 1302; suit of the Bagots as to Muchil-wrygedy and Lytel-wrygedy, 1317 (Mem. R., vol. ii., m. 47); Urigear, or Viridus dedicated to St. Margaret, 20th July, 1410; Iwyrgarr and Capella Wrygydy, the rectory belonged to the prioress of Teachmolynd, 1418; Ourgare, an entire rectory, 1591; "Owergar, in Patria de Pobble unkaght, aliter ffoxes country, and Iwergerry and Uryverygy," 1586 (Peyton, pp. 11, 248; Map, D. S. (A), 48). The ancient cantred of Iolegar, or Ioregar, lay round it, 1290. Sites - The western church (LI039-046001-), Uregare, was standing in 1826 (Fitzgerald, i., p. 323). It was entirely removed to build the graveyard (LI039-046002-) wall before 1840, and after 1826, when the walls of the old church stood (Fitzgerald, i., p. 323); near it is St. Margaret's Well (LI039-048----). The site of Urigedy lies at some distance to the east in a graveyard, beyond Greenpark, south of the fine old mansion of Ballygrennane Castle (LI040-007----)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1905, with the royal insignia of Edward VII. Mounted in rendered wall at entrance to the Summer Ville house.

• Greenpark House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey former country house, built c. 1820, comprising two-bay two-storey east block with three-bay three-storey west block and having two-bay single-storey addition to north-west. Rectangular-plan courtyard and outbuildings to north. Roofless, retaining one wall of chimneystack. Rendered walls with some exposed sandstone and limestone rubble walls having brick detailing. Square-headed window openings with timber window frames and render sills throughout. Square-headed door opening with timber frame remaining. Attached coursed limestone rubble wall to west with elliptical-headed carriage arch having openwork bellcote over. Tooled sandstone plaque over arch. Courtyard defined by wall and eight-bay two-storey north range. Roofless, gable ended. Smooth rendered walls. Semi-circular window openings with some exposed red brick surrounds, having some timber framed windows. Square-headed window openings to ground floor having timber frames. Square-headed door openings having timber frames. Elliptical-headed openings, having some exposed red brick surrounds. Second courtyard defined by coursed limestone rubble walls with outbuilding to north-west. Three-bay two-storey detached building. Half-hipped slate roof. Smooth rendered walls with some exposed coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with timber frames. Elliptical-headed opening with some exposed red brick surround. Lean-to multiple-bay single-storey building to south. Roofless. Rendered walls. Square-headed door openings to visible bays, some timber door frames remaining. Recent concrete built farm buildings to far east of courtyard.

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 Uregare, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Uregare · An Úir Ghearr

Area

1,349,728 m² (134.97 ha, 333.53 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinstona North, Ballygrennan, Goatisland, Knockuregare, Tynacocka

Placenames

Uregare 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.