# Altavilla, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lismakeery, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Tulaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,336,116 m² (133.61 ha, 330.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Lismakeery, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/lismakeery.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Riddlestown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32288 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120019 - Centre: latitude 52.562167, longitude -8.982881 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altavilla, from 66 m² to 601,498 m² (60.15 ha, 148.63 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1653742: 601,498 m² (60.15 ha, 148.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653742.md - Parcel 1602430: 152,262 m² (15.23 ha, 37.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602430.md - Parcel 1674191: 151,757 m² (15.18 ha, 37.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674191.md - Parcel 5537271: 104,704 m² (10.47 ha, 25.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537271.md - Parcel 1597681: 103,187 m² (10.32 ha, 25.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597681.md - Parcel 1592236: 34,515 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592236.md - Parcel 1641009: 32,154 m² (3.22 ha, 7.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641009.md - Parcel 1624959: 20,647 m² (2.06 ha, 5.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624959.md - Parcel 1667936: 19,627 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667936.md - Parcel 1622095: 19,513 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622095.md - Parcel 1665668: 18,755 m² (1.88 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665668.md - Parcel 3264752: 15,825 m² (1.58 ha, 3.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3264752.md - Parcel 5086868: 7,113 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5086868.md - Parcel 5537689: 5,678 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537689.md - Parcel 1663627: 4,005 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663627.md - Parcel 1619399: 3,929 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619399.md - Parcel 1607822: 2,910 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607822.md - Parcel 5362681: 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5362681.md - Parcel 1669065: 2,714 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669065.md - Parcel 1656008: 2,559 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656008.md - Parcel 1670500: 2,519 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670500.md - Parcel 1658630: 2,198 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658630.md - Parcel 1609003: 2,188 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609003.md - Parcel 3264751: 2,135 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3264751.md - Parcel 1613518: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613518.md - Parcel 1661727: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661727.md - Parcel 1596607: 1,940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596607.md - Parcel 4360149: 1,936 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4360149.md - Parcel 1604913: 1,918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604913.md - Parcel 1650635: 1,880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650635.md - Parcel 1597503: 1,773 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597503.md - Parcel 1610971: 1,731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610971.md - Parcel 3968015: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968015.md - Parcel 1653345: 1,668 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653345.md - Parcel 4360206: 1,436 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4360206.md - Parcel 1652605: 1,417 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1652605.md - Parcel 1607466: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607466.md - Parcel 1659344: 787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659344.md - Parcel 1659783: 712 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659783.md - Parcel 5537685: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537685.md - Parcel 4360072: 454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4360072.md - Parcel 4360126: 399 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4360126.md - Parcel 3968009: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968009.md - Parcel 5537687: 286 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5537687.md - Parcel 1608499: 66 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608499.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Altavilla 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. - 13 Mar 2023, Limerick County Council 23151: N/a. Permission. the demolition of existing rear single storey extension and to construct a new single storey rear extension. Retention permission is also being sought for existing single storey side extension and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23151/0 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 Altavilla. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI019-169: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-169----. In pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 20.5m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved along S and W arcs where stone-faced externally, but much degraded NE->ESE where it has becoming scarp-like in profile. Enclosing element and level interior are masked by dense overgrowth though there are some clearings along E and W verges of interior. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006. 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) - Altavilla House, country house, 1740–1750, Regional interest, registry number 21902001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902001. Detached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, built between 1745-46, having shallow breakfront to front (south) elevation. Centre block joined by screen walls to two-storey flanking wings enclosing courts. Roughly dressed parapet to roofline with limestone copings, carved limestone eaves course, carved fox to breakfront and rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls with galleting and having carved plinth course, quoins. Rendered walls to east and west elevations. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and voussoirs with galleting. Square-headed openings to basement having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills, voussoirs with galleting and cast-iron sill guards. Round-headed opening to first floor, east elevation having spoked fanlight over six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and limestone sill. Oculus to west elevation with limestone surround and spoked fixed window. Round-headed niche to rear (north) elevation having carved limestone impost course, voussoirs with galleting and limestone sill. Square-headed opening to rear, basement with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sill. Four-bay two-storey L-plan wing to west having hipped slate roof with yellow brick eaves course and rendered chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls to front (south) elevation and rendered walls to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with remains of three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, tooled limestone voussoirs and sills. Round-headed niches to first floor having carved keystones, voussoirs, shared sill and flanking square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Camber-headed door opening to rear having yellow brick voussoirs. Square-headed carriage opening to rear with timber battened doors. Six-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack. Render over roughly dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile channel rendered piers to west having dressed limestone walls with round-headed niches having limestone sills and copings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to north-west with double-leaf cast-iron gates. Dressed limestone walls with limestone coping adjoining east elevation having square-headed pedestrian entrance with carved limestone block-and-start surround and drop keystone with flanking round-headed niches having limestone sills, voussoirs and keystones. Pair of square-profile monolith chamfered limestone piers with carved caps and plinths to south. Single-bay single-storey gate lodge to south. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron brackets. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Pair of square-profile rusticated piers to south with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron spear-headed gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site. - Altavilla Mill, mill (water), 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21902003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902003. Detached multiple-bay splayed U-plan former corn and tuck mill, built c. 1790, comprising eight-bay two-storey centre block, six-bay three-storey block to west and six-bay two-storey block to east. Pitched slate roofs to east and centre blocks, hipped slate roof to west block. Rubble limestone walls to east and centre blocks. Rendered walls to end bays, centre block and west block. Square-headed window openings, some having timber lintels. Square-headed door openings, some with timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east block, north-west (front) elevation having dressed limestone voussoirs and inset square-headed timber battened doors. Round-headed carriage arch to centre bay, north (front) elevation. Round-headed opening to east elevation having roughly dressed voussoirs. Pair of square-profile roughly dressed limestone pier to north having double-leaf cast-iron gates. ## 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 Altavilla, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_511, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_511.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/altavilla.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/altavilla.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/altavilla.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Altavilla 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) - Ardgoul North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardgoul-north.md - Ballinloughane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinloughane-120112.md - Ballyan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyan.md - Bullaun: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bullaun.md - Conigar: https://everytownland.com/limerick/conigar-120715.md - Milltown South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/milltown-south.md - Scart: https://everytownland.com/limerick/scart-121799.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. --- 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/altavilla - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/altavilla