Baskethill
Townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Cise
- Area
- 98.5 ha
- 243 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baskethill, from 40 m² to 209,998 m² (21 ha, 51.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Baskethill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Mar 2026Conditional
the construction of an agricultural cubicle shed with feed passage and underground slatted slurry storage tank and for the construction of a milking parlour and associated underground slatted slurry storage tank including all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660365
25 Aug 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360613
12 Feb 2021Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21153
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Baskethill.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-163 Enclosure
Description
This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 235: AP 4/3685.
- LI023-170 Mound
Description
This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 217: AP 4/3715.
- LI023-171 Enclosure
Description
Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 239: AP 4/3685) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as a 'large subrectangular enclosure, c. 110m x 60m'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baskethill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Baskethill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Baskethill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Baskethill · Cnoc Cise
- Area
- 985,004 m² (98.5 ha, 243.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmurry electoral division: 911 people in 304 households; 96% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardroe, Ballybrood, Caherconreafy, Clashbane, Cloverfield, Curraghaveara, Killeagh, Mountminnett
- Placenames
- Baskethill 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.