Beechmount Demesne

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beechmount Demesne, from 90 m² to 344,870 m² (34.49 ha, 85.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Rathkeale Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Rathkeale Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Aug 2023Conditional

  change of extension design from previously granted under planning reference 22/966

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23419

• 6 Sept 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing rear single storey extension and existing outbuildings, construction of extensions to existing dwelling house along with elevational changes to existing dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank system and install new mechanical aeration unit with soil polishing filter system and allow for all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22966

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 Beechmount Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In parkland of Beechmount House, on SE-facing slope below brow of rise. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.2m) S->WNW, and defined by scarped edge NNW->S. Scarp (H 1.45m; Wth 6m), best preserved NE->SE, fades out at NW where it meets higher ground. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to SE; a mature beech tree grows immediately S-of-centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope below top of ridge. Sub-circular area (19m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1m). Bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.45m), becomes scarp-like (H 0.55; Wth 2.1m) NW->SE; it has been pushed back to form linear edge S->SSW. Fosse best preserved ENE->S. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Beechmount House, country house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey H-plan house, built c. 1800. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, brackets and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with limestone plinth course. Square-headed openings to first floor having bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows having geometric multiple-pane overlights and limestone sills. Square-headed opening with concrete surround and timber battened door. Limestone threshold to entrance. Rubble limestone walls to south with square-plan rubble limestone outbuilding having hipped slate roof and cast-iron finial. Square-profile rubble limestone gate lodge to north having stepped crenellations and hipped slate roof. Pointed arch openings with replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Those to ground floor having brick voussoirs. Remains of gate lodge to north-west. No roof. Rubble limestone walls with remains of window and door openings. Pair of square-profile cut limestone piers to north having carved caps, plinth and double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates. Rubble limestone walls with cast-iron railings terminating in second pair of piers.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_596 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Beechmount Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Beechmount Demesne · Cnoc Feá

Area

1,011,305 m² (101.13 ha, 249.9 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Rathkeale Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathkeale Urban electoral division: 1,408 people in 544 households; 58% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeylands, Ballywilliam Demesne, Ballywilliam North, Ballywilliam South, Blossomhill, Croagh Commons, Parklewis, Rathkeale Commons, Wolfesburgess East

Placenames

Beechmount Demesne 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.