Mauricetown
Mauricetown is a townland in the civil parish of Killeedy, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhuirisín.
Parcel 3879846
- Area
- 2,381 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 202 m².
- 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
- Mauricetown
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 moderately low, 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.
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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
- 367.5 ha
- 908 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 3,882 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mauricetown, from 72 m² to 772,107 m² (77.21 ha, 190.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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 Mauricetown 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
1 Jul 2026N/a
•Construction of new 1.5m to 1.8m wide footpaths through village. •Repair/Upgrade of existing footpaths through village. •Relocation of existing Pedestrian crossing to new location outside the Church to Ash Hall •Removal of 14m approx. of existing boundary wall at Ashford Pre-school, setting back and rebuilding of wall to facilitate construction of footpath. •Removal of 35m approx. of existing boundary wall at property beside The Village Inn, setting back and rebuilding of wall to facilitate construction of footpath. •Removal of 50m approx. of hedgerows north of village, construction of 1.2m high wall with 1.8m high piers with steel fence panels between piers for a 25m section. •1.2m high TII specification fencing for 25m section. •Installation of new drainage works. •Installation of speed ramps through village. •Installation of new tactile paving and drop kerbs. •Installation of new road markings. •Installation of appropriate Traffic signs. •Upgrade of existing public lighting
Permission · Limerick County Council, 268417
20 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a new slatted shed, cattle crush, concrete apron and extension of existing silage slab
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20814
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- LI053-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In marshy pasture, on break in NE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected (but see notes field- DP July 2010) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI053-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (31.1m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) E->NNW but truncated by public road NNW->E; distance from enclosing element at SW to road at NE is 28m. Bank has mature thorn trees growing along it and has been denuded in places by cattle accessing interior. Gap (Wth c. 1.8m) at SE probably cattle break. Interior, under marshy pasture, slopes down gently to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mauricetown.
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 Mauricetown, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mauricetown.
- 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 Mauricetown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Mauricetown · Baile Mhuirisín
- Area
- 3,674,909 m² (367.49 ha, 908.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Cleanglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 264 people lived in 101 households in the Cleanglass electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleanglass North, Clooncon, Darrery, Glenduff, Gortnaclohy, Tooreennagreana
- Placenames
- Mauricetown 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.