Breesheen North
Townland in the civil parish of St. Peters and St. Pauls, barony of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; in Irish Buirísín Thuaidh
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,291 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Breesheen North, from 785 m² to 88,520 m² (8.85 ha, 21.87 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Breesheen North 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
18 Sept 2025Conditional
entrance porch as constructed to the front and side of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25313
27 Oct 2021Conditional
alterations of the elevations of the existing dwelling house, the construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of dwelling house and permission for retention of planning for two no. sheds located at the rear of the dwelling house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211492
5 Feb 2021Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, entrance & domestic wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter together with all associated site works. Planning permission is also being sought for new site boundaries & alterations to elevations of existing house consisting of changing the external finishes to plastered walls and slate roof
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21115
14 Dec 2020N/a
the construction of a dwelling house, entrance & domestic wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter together with all associated site works. Planning permission is also being sought for new site boundaries & alterations to elevations of existing house consisting of changing the external finishes to plastered walls and slate roof
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201342
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 Breesheen North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Breesheen North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Breesheen North.
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 20 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_980 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Breesheen North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Breesheen North · Buirísín Thuaidh
- Area
- 474,064 m² (47.41 ha, 117.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmallock
- Electoral division
- Kilmallock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ash Hill, Breesheen South, Glenfield, Kilbreedy, Portauns, Treanlewis
- Placenames
- Breesheen North 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.