# Beechmount Demesne, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Feá. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,011,305 m² (101.13 ha, 249.9 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G5 Open Space and Recreation, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathkeale, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/rathkeale.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Rathkeale Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,408 people lived in 544 households in the Rathkeale Urban electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 27% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32259 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120475 - Centre: latitude 52.521628, longitude -8.916127 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beechmount Demesne, from 90 m² to 344,870 m² (34.49 ha, 85.22 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1601666: 344,870 m² (34.49 ha, 85.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601666.md - Parcel 1618579: 146,708 m² (14.67 ha, 36.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618579.md - Parcel 4924185: 141,136 m² (14.11 ha, 34.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924185.md - Parcel 1647845: 122,677 m² (12.27 ha, 30.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647845.md - Parcel 1673785: 105,964 m² (10.6 ha, 26.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673785.md - Parcel 1592876: 73,773 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592876.md - Parcel 1645651: 35,998 m² (3.6 ha, 8.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645651.md - Parcel 1616193: 4,367 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616193.md - Parcel 5056259: 2,786 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5056259.md - Parcel 4924184: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924184.md - Parcel 1639104: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639104.md - Parcel 1596716: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596716.md - Parcel 1629320: 1,837 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629320.md - Parcel 1593854: 1,771 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593854.md - Parcel 1672179: 1,555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672179.md - Parcel 1673059: 1,448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673059.md - Parcel 1595514: 1,259 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595514.md - Parcel 5117966: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5117966.md - Parcel 1622229: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622229.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G5 Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Rathkeale Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-03/Rathkeale-Local-Area-Plan-2023-2029.pdf#page=65 - C2.1 Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Rathkeale Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-03/Rathkeale-Local-Area-Plan-2023-2029.pdf#page=65 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 23 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 23419: Conditional. Permission. change of extension design from previously granted under planning reference 22/966. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23419/0 - 6 Sept 2022, Limerick County Council 22966: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22966/0 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 Beechmount Demesne. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI029-036: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-036----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-038----. 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 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) - Beechmount House, country house, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21902908, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902908. 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. ## 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 Beechmount Demesne, 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_596, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_596.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/beechmount-demesne.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/beechmount-demesne.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/beechmount-demesne.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbeylands: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbeylands.md - Ballywilliam Demesne: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballywilliam-demesne.md - Ballywilliam North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballywilliam-north.md - Ballywilliam South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballywilliam-south.md - Blossomhill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/blossomhill-120482.md - Croagh Commons: https://everytownland.com/limerick/croagh-commons.md - Parklewis: https://everytownland.com/limerick/parklewis.md - Rathkeale Commons: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathkeale-commons.md - Wolfesburgess East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/wolfesburgess-east.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/beechmount-demesne - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/beechmount-demesne