Plaukarauka

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Plaukarauka, from 791 m² to 515,050 m² (51.5 ha, 127.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Plaukarauka 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 Dec 2019Conditional

  the following changes to the drawing submitted under planning ref. 77/12428: adjusted floor layout, elevations and roof shape of house extension; construction of a boiler shed attached to the rear of the house; construction of a detached oil tank shed at the rear of the house; construction of a detached garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191253

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 Plaukarauka.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-310001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 40m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The eastern most of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos and is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (13m E-W; 9.5m N-S) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• LI024-310002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 45m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (12m E-W; 10.6m N-S) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• LI024-310003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 50m NW of a townland boundary with Bohernagraga. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The central of a cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/002-/003-) which are aligned in a row running NW-SE. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3673) and identified as a ring-barrow by the ASI during further analysis of the survey in 2010. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (11m E-W; 9m N-S) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff Survey image showing monument highlighted. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 October 2020

• LI024-311 Field system
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses and is defined by a townland boundary with Ballynaclogh and Ballyshoneen to NW, Knockballyfookeen to NE and Bohernagraga to SE. A cluster of three ring-barrows (LI024-310001-/02-/03-) are situated on the SE side. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a patchwork of intersecting linear and slightly curvilinear-shaped cropmarks by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 164: AP 4/3673). Anomalies are visible as a series of linear and slightly curvilinear-shaped cropmarks intersecting to form a field pattern covering an area of at least 26ha on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthophoto taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 164. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Plaukarauka, 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 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 Plaukarauka.

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

Name

Plaukarauka · Plácaráca

Area

543,658 m² (54.37 ha, 134.34 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Templebredon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

588 people lived in 197 households in the Templebredon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh, Ballyshoneen, Bohernagraga, Gortnacoolagh, Knockballyfookeen, Treanmanagh

Placenames

Plaukarauka 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.