# Abbey, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Mhainistir.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 898,381 m² (89.84 ha, 221.99 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 65,088 m² (6.51 ha, 16.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilflyn, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilflyn.md
- Barony: Coshlea
- Electoral division: Kilflyn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 231 people lived in 86 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30989
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120001
- Centre: latitude 52.319193, longitude -8.457117 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbey, from 444 m² to 389,317 m² (38.93 ha, 96.2 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1674310: 389,317 m² (38.93 ha, 96.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674310.md
- Parcel 5037810: 258,742 m² (25.87 ha, 63.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5037810.md
- Parcel 1605316: 175,873 m² (17.59 ha, 43.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605316.md
- Parcel 1605317: 65,088 m² (6.51 ha, 16.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605317.md
- Parcel 1663508: 5,210 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663508.md
- Parcel 1673654: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673654.md
- Parcel 1631485: 444 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631485.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Abbey in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 22 Sept 2017, Limerick County Council 17882: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the demolition of an existing dwelling house and out buildings and to construct a new storey and a half type dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, bored well and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17882/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Abbey.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI056-041: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-041----. In upland pasture 120m E of the townland boundary with Ballydonohoe and 120m S of a large forestry plantation. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 34m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 November 2021
- LI056-042001: Religious house - Dominican friars, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-042001-. Dominican friary described by Westropp (1904-5, 428) as following; 'Founded by Roche in the fourteenth century for Dominicans. Donough O'Dorgan was its last prior, 1558. "Spitle in Kilfinan, on it are the walls of a church or chapel; Abby Ballynegaule hath the walls of an old abby," 1657 (D.S. (A), 59). Fabric - It was 71 feet 8 inches [21.8m] by 21 feet 8 inches [6.6m]; the wall, 3 feet thick [0.9m], and in fair preservation. The west door and two south ones had flat arches; the east window, a round-headed splay arch; the lights gone before 1840. The south and two north windows, round-arched lights and splays (O.S.L., 9, p. 199)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 01 November 2019
- LI056-042002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-042002-. Medieval Dominican abbey ruins (LI056-042001-) forms NW corner of graveyard which consists of a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 39m N-S x 48m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall. E boundary of graveyard forms townland boundary with Keale. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Abbey, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Abbey.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbey.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbey.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbey.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Abbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballinlyna Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-upper.md
- Ballydonohoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonohoe-120212.md
- Keale: https://everytownland.com/limerick/keale-121243.md
- Kilcruaig: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilcruaig.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbey
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/abbey