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

Townland in the civil parish of St. Peters and St. Pauls, barony of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; in Irish Feirm na Mainistreach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 224,912 m² (22.49 ha, 55.58 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,410 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Peters and St. Pauls, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/st-peters-and-st-pauls.md
- Barony: Kilmallock
- Electoral division: Kilmallock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,389 people lived in 962 households in the Kilmallock electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31006
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120002
- Centre: latitude 52.404201, longitude -8.574962 (WGS 84)

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

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeyfarm, from 33 m² to 107,365 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1652227: 107,365 m² (10.74 ha, 26.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652227.md
- Parcel 1619795: 43,756 m² (4.38 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619795.md
- Parcel 1596110: 13,793 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596110.md
- Parcel 1656220: 13,191 m² (1.32 ha, 3.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656220.md
- Parcel 1656219: 12,077 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656219.md
- Parcel 1641135: 6,625 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641135.md
- Parcel 5541014: 3,797 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5541014.md
- Parcel 1656218: 2,470 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656218.md
- Parcel 1643066: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643066.md
- Parcel 1645313: 2,410 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645313.md
- Parcel 1648061: 2,006 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648061.md
- Parcel 1595764: 1,282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595764.md
- Parcel 5540970: 1,093 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540970.md
- Parcel 5540979: 1,033 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5540979.md
- Parcel 1590591: 849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590591.md
- Parcel 1656217: 525 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656217.md
- Parcel 1590084: 423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590084.md
- Parcel 1671982: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671982.md
- Parcel 5541063: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5541063.md

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

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick; 9 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-02/Kilmallock-Local-Area-Plan-2019-2025.pdf#page=98
- S5 Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick; 7 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-02/Kilmallock-Local-Area-Plan-2019-2025.pdf#page=98
- G3 Special Control Area (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick; 6 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-02/Kilmallock-Local-Area-Plan-2019-2025.pdf#page=98
- G5 Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick; 4 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-02/Kilmallock-Local-Area-Plan-2019-2025.pdf#page=98
- P1 Agriculture: Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-02/Kilmallock-Local-Area-Plan-2019-2025.pdf#page=98

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

2 applications, newest first.

- 13 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18230: Conditional. Permission. an extension to existing facility, including associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18230/0
- 20 Apr 2017, Limerick County Council 17345: N/a. Permission. for an extension to existing facility including associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17345/0

Applicants are not shown.

## 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 Abbeyfarm.

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

- LI047-022018: Religious house - Dominican friars, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022018-. National monument No. 212. Kilmallock Friary described in the Urban Survey (Bradley et. al. 1989, 162-4) as following: 'This friary was established in 1291 on land purchased from John Bluet, a burgess of Kilmallock. It was founded, however, with the consent of the bishop of Limerick who had the friars ejected and their house levelled (Sweetman 1875-86, iii, no. 967). After an inquiry was held into the affair the Dominicans were permitted to re-establish themselves on land across the river from the town. The friary was suppressed in 1541 when the jurors found that the 2-acre site contained a church cemetery, cloister, dormitory and other buildings (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 226). The remains consist of a thirteenth century nave and chancel church with an inserted fourteenth/fifteenth century crossing tower. The nave has a south aisle and there is a south transept with a western aisle which was added in the fourteenth century. To the north there is a sacristy and a north and east range around a cloister arcade. The masonry consists of coursed limestone. The chancel is lit from the east by a large graduated five-light pointed window with banded shafts and from the south by a row of six twin-light windows with switch-line tracery. There is a six-bay sedilia on the south wall and a cusped ogee-headed tomb niche with nail-head and carved heads on the north wall. The north wall of the nave had three windows (probably twin-light) and the west wall has a three-light window with switch-line tracery over a pointed door with segmental rear arch. The south wall is represented by footings. The transept has a large south window with curvilinear tracery (possibly inserted in the fifteenth century) and two twin-light windows in the east wall. Two large pointed arches open to the west aisle but the west wall is largely missing. The three floored tower is very narrow and much of the south and west walls are missing above the high pointed crossing. It would appear that the upper floors had single or twin-light pointed windows with rectangular hood moulds and the parapet was stepped. The sacristy was of two floors and was lit from the east at ground floor level by two rectangular windows and on the first floor by a narrow single-light pointed window. The north and east ranges were of two floors but are very ruined. Decorative details in the church include a wall niche in the transept with ball-flower designs and the soffit ribs of the crossing arches between the south transept and its western aisle rest on corbels with carved faces'. The Dominican friary is shown standing within a rectangular shaped precinct defined by a water filled ditch fed by the River Loobagh on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). Within this precinct there are a cluster of houses shown to the N of the friary with two watermills (LI047-022061/062-) standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh which probably belonged to the Dominicans (ibid.). The friary was connected to the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----) via the Friar's Gate with a small bridge (LI047-022060-) traversing the River Loobagh. See attached plan of friary taken from the Urban Survey of Kilmallock Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 01 October 2019
- LI047-022060: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022060-. No surface remains visible of bridge depicted on the a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map the bridge is shown spanning the River Loobagh to the SW of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-) and is connected to the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----) via a road running through a gatehouse labelled on the town plan as 'The frier's gate'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019
- LI047-022061: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022061-. No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022062-) in close proximity to each other are shown standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh to the W of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019
- LI047-022062: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022062-. No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022061-) in close proximity to each other are shown standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh to the W of the Dominican Friary (LI047-022018-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019
- LI047-022067: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022067-. Watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map a watermill is shown standing on the W bank of the River Loobagh to the NE of the NE corner of the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----). Kilmallock Mill depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map is shown standing on the site of or in cose proximity to the watermill shown on the town map of Kilmallock dating from c. 1600. A second watermill (LI047-022069-) is shown on this map standing opposite on the E bank of the River Loobagh. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019
- LI047-022068: Water mill - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-022068-. No surface remains visible of watermill depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map two watermills (LI047-022067-) opposite one another, are shown standing on the River Loobagh to the NE of the walled town of Kilmallock (LI047-022----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 September 2019
- LI047-080: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI047-080----. The precise location of the Castle of Courteroddery in the townland of Abbeyfarm has not been identified. Westropp (1906-7, 190-1) recorded the following details about Courtneruddery; '1579 The White Knight's C[astle], manor and C[astle]. of Courteroddery, near Kilmallock, granted to T. Burgeate, with a mill, property of John oge FitzGibbon, the White Knight. 1586 C[astle]. named by Peyton (p. 23). 1587 Granted to G. Beston and Lau. Bostock (Carew, i., p. 450). 1590 Grant to Edm. FitzGibbon, the White Knight, of the site of the C[astle]. of Court Rudderye, near Kilmallock, "surrounded with a stone wall, the Court being ruinous," and the water-mill (Fi. 5517). 1617 Maur. Hurley, of Knocklong, settled the ruined C[astle]. of Court Inruddery, water-mill, little garden called Garrenruddery, &c. (Inq. Chan., Car. I., 189). 1655 Courtneruddery, an old ruinous C[astle], and waste mill [LI047-022068-] on the river Gleane outside the town walls [LI047-022006-], having the river to the west and the (Dominican) Abbey land [LI047-022018-] to south (C.S., p. 52)'. The 1659 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that 'Sir Morrish Hurly of Knockelong' was the owner of 'An old ruinous Castle called CourtenRuddery a waste Mill seate called Mullena Courtye and severall gardens mearing with ye river Gleene West; the Abby land South, the garden of John Fox east and ye meddow plott of Richard Creagh North' (Simington 1938, 194). Castellated building depicted on a map of Kilmallock town dating from c. 1600 (TCD, MS 1209/62). On this map a castle is depicted standing on the E bank of the River Loobagh opposite Kilmallock Mill (LI047-022067-) and a short distance S of a second watermill (LI047-022068-) also standing on the E bank of the river. This castle may have been known as 'Courtneruddery' described in the Urban Survey (Bradley 1989, 166) as following; 'The White Knights" Castle and manor with a stone wall. Situated on the river Gleane outside the walls with the river on the west and Abbey land (Dom.) south (Westropp 1906-7, 190-1). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 August 2021

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)

- Coláiste Iósaef, convent/nunnery, 1930–1940, Regional interest, registry number 21813017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21813017. Freestanding seven-bay two-storey former convent, begun in 1931, with canted projecting end bays and gable-fronted portico to front (south) elevation. Two-storey extension to rear (north) and full-height portico to west elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with wrought-iron cross finials to projecting bays and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having render plinth course and inscribed limestone plaques to front and west elevation. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Those to ground floor having round-headed render surrounds. Round-headed openings to projecting bays, first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to projecting bay, west elevation, ground floor having stained glass widow. Square-headed opening with quarry glazed overlight over timber panelled double-leaf doors with flanking quarry glazed sidelights. Flight of curved limestone steps to entrance. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered boundary walls to south-west.
- Bridge, 1290–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21813031, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21813031. Four-arch humpback road bridge over the River Loobagh with overflow arch, built c. 1800,with fabric dating from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Rubble limestone walls dressed to east and west elevations, dressed parapet walls. Cut limestone voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. V-cutwaters to east elevation. Cut limestone copings to parapet walls.

## 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 Abbeyfarm, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1002, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1002.zip (ZIP).
- 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/abbeyfarm.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbeyfarm.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbeyfarm.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Abbeyfarm 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)

- Ardkilmartin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardkilmartin.md
- Ardyoul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardyoul.md
- Ballycullane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycullane-120202.md
- Deebert: https://everytownland.com/limerick/deebert.md
- Glenfield: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenfield.md
- Kilmallock: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilmallock.md
- Kilmallock Hill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilmallock-hill.md
- Proonts: https://everytownland.com/limerick/proonts.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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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.

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