Appletown

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Appletown, from 317 m² to 556,570 m² (55.66 ha, 137.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Appletown 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.

• 10 Mar 2026N/a

  the construction of a new entrance, entrance walls to serve their existing dwelling house and property along with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660273

• 20 Aug 2025Refused

  Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 21/467 : the construction of two poultry houses, office/control room and all associated site works. The application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Pollution & Control Licence, now replaced by an Industrial Emissions Licence. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report(EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257020

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  alterations to existing office/garage, shed as constructed, new gym and relocated vehicular entrance

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2599

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  (a) Construct extensions to front, rear and side of existing dwelling house along with elevation changes to existing dwelling house (b) Decommission existing septic tank system and install a new mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461164

• 22 Nov 2024Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed and a General Purpose Shed and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461146

• 10 Oct 2024N/a

  the construction of a slatted shed and a General Purpose Shed and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461008

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of two poultry houses, office/control room and all associated site works. The application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Pollution & Control Licence, now replaced by an Industrial Emissions Licence. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report(EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21467

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  a part single storey and part storey and a half dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter, revised entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21394

• 12 Jan 2021Conditional

  an agricultural shed comprising of calf house and straw store

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2117

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a cubicle house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20926

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  the construction of a milking parlour, collecting yard, slatted tank, cattle crush and meal bin

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19281

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  construction of 2 no. poultry houses and all associate site works. The development requires an EPA Industrial Emissions License (formerly Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control License). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1926

• 28 Dec 2017Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, site entrance and access road and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171235

• 12 Dec 2017N/a

  the construction of 2 no. poultry houses and all associated site works. The development requires an EPA Industrial Emissions License (formerly Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control License). An Environment Impact Statement (EIS) has been submitted as part of the planning application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171160

• 31 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installations of a mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 1776

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 Appletown.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2m). Gap (Wth 1.2m) in bank at SE. Enclosing element is covered by overgrowth but level interior is under rough grazing. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-127 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-128 Mound
  Description

  In undulating pasture. The monument, which is depicted as an oval mound (diam. c. 10m) on the 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of the mound was evident when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-130 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) with external fosse N->S on 1924 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. As far as can be ascertained the enclosing element consists of a low earthen bank with a shallow external fosse. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-030001 Church
  Description

  On W side of road. Aglish graveyard ( LI045-030002-), with recent extension to S enclosed by a concrete-block wall. Interior laid out with level plots and concrete paths. Earliest headstones noted date to 1590s but vast majority are 20th century. It is unclear whether this ever contained a church (Westropp 1904-5, 415). Graveyard marked in the wrong location on the revised ed. OS 6-inch map. Westropp recorded the following details about Aglish; 'Possibly Aglissimona, 1410 and 1615; Aglassnagroman, in Tawnagh, 1586 (Peyton, p. 52); Aglishemonagh, 1633. It was in Rathkeale Deanery in 1615' (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 June 2019

• LI045-030002 Graveyard
  Description

  On W side of road. Rectangular graveyard ( 28m N-S; 52m E-W), with recent extension (30m N-S; 51m E-W) to S; all bounded by concrete-block wall. Interior laid out with level plots and concrete paths. Earliest headstones noted date to 1590s but vast majority are 20th century. It is unclear whether this ever contained a church (Westropp 1904-5, 415). Graveyard marked in the wrong location on the revised edition of the OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 June 2019

• LI045-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is no longer evident and its location is now occupied by farm buildings. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-112 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland, ringfort (LI045-031----) 200m to S. Partially indicated on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a curvilinear field boundary. Cropmark of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 60m) visible on Google Earth photograph taken 29/03/2012 and OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1833. Comprising nave with single-bay elevation to front (south-west), two-bay transepts to sides (north-west, south-east) having corner bays to intersections of nave and transepts. Later canted front side entry porches to front (west) elevations of nave and transepts. Five-bay single-storey lean-to sacristy to rear (north-east). Pitched slate roofs with rendered eaves courses, having tooled limestone pinnacles to gables of transepts and tooled limestone bellcote surmounted by wrought-iron cross finial to front elevation of nave. uPVC rainwater goods with cast-iron downpipes throughout. Lean-to slate roofs to corner bays with rendered eaves courses and uPVC rainwater goods. Flat bitumen clad roofs to porches having rendered parapet walls with render coping. Artificial slate lean-to roof to sacristy with uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls having rendered plinth band throughout. Tooled limestone plaque to front elevation of nave. Square-profile pilasters flanking window openings to front elevations of porches. Pointed arch window openings with tooled stone sills throughout, having bipartite timber Y-tracery with six-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows surmounted by multiple-pane overlights. Two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to canted bays surmounted by multiple-pane overlights. Ocular window opening to front elevation of nave, having quatrefoil timber-framed rose window with lead-lined stained glass. Quatrefoil window openings to front elevations of transepts having fixed timber-framed windows. Square-headed window openings with single-pane timber casement windows to front elevations of porches. Square-headed window openings with render sills to sacristy, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with wrought-iron window guards. Square-headed door openings throughout, having multiple-pane double-leaf glazed timber doors surmounted by multiple-pane overlights to side (south) elevations of porches. Timber panelled door to side (south) elevation of sacristy. Glazed timber door and timber louvered door surmounted by single-pane overlight to side (east) elevation of sacristy. Render ceiling to interior with ocular vents having moulded architraves. Ceramic Ornate plaster reredos to chancel with trefoil-headed arcades beneath projecting canopy with vignette motifs. Timber pointed arch arcaded altar rail defining chancel area. Timber confessional booths to side (north-east) of transepts. Polychrome octagonal marble font to southern corner-bay. Shrine with statue of Blessed Virgin Mary to northern corner bay. Situated within owns grounds, having rendered enclosing walls with render coping and square-profile piers supporting double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Appletown.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Appletown, Feohanagh5 sales

Name

Appletown · Drom Cromáin

Area

2,888,091 m² (288.81 ha, 713.66 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Broadford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broadford electoral division: 993 people in 349 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahawilk, Balliniska, Ballydonnell, Coolygorman, Feohanagh, Inishkeen

Placenames

Appletown 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.