Carrigkerry
Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Carraig Chiarraí
- Area
- 291.4 ha
- 720 acres
- Land parcels
- 126
- registered freehold, median 3,870 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigkerry, from 46 m² to 229,579 m² (22.96 ha, 56.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Carrigkerry 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
3 Jul 2023Conditional
Extension of Permission from Planning File Ref. No. 13/273 : construction of a public playground, replica campaign house and all associated works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 237016
17 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211300
19 Jul 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211027
9 Jun 2021Conditional
construction of a storey and a half and single storey extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21804
8 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of an agricultural shed, agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21452
14 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20796
11 Feb 2019Conditional
the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19113
11 Apr 2018Conditional
Extension of Permission from Planning File Ref. No. 13/273 : construction of a public playground, replica campaign house and all associated works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187011
28 Jun 2017Conditional
the installation of a mobile home, storage shed and waste water holding tank for the duration of the construction of the dwelling house granted under planning permission 16-692 and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17604
6 Mar 2017Refused
extension of permission (construction of a single storey dwelling house with mechanical aeration unit, soil polishing filter, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works, along with full permission for revisions to site boundary (reference no. of outline permission 08/1227)
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177008
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
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carrigkerry.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Roman Catholic church, dated 1878, comprising four-bay nave elevation with lower gabled chancel to south elevation and gabled single-storey sacristy to west elevation. Lean-to to south elevation of sacristy. Pitched slate roof having cut limestone copings and finials. Dressed snecked limestone walls with cut limestone buttresses having cut limestone copings. Cut limestone plinth course to front (north) elevation, cut limestone quoins to chancel and sacristy. Carved limestone trefoil recessed panel with chamfered surround to west elevation of sacristy. Triple lancet openings to north and south elevations, having cut limestone surrounds and sills, shared limestone hoodmoulding terminating in carved stops, dressed limestone voussoirs. Quarry glazed windows to north elevation, stained glass windows to south elevation. Lancet openings to east and west elevations of nave with cut limestone surrounds and sills and quarry glazed windows. Lancet openings to north elevation having cut limestone surrounds, sills and quarry glazed windows. Pointed arch opening to north elevation with chamfered cut limestone surround, cut limestone hoodmoulding terminating in carved stops, and dressed limestone voussoirs. Double-leaf timber battened door having glazed overlight. Date inscribed to top of arch. Pointed arch opening to west elevation of sacristy with chamfered cut limestone surround, dressed limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Rendered step to entrance. Rendered walls to interior, with chamfered edges to entrance to chancel. Timber interior porch and confessionals to north. Timber trusses to nave. Decorative plasterwork to chancel ceiling. Pair of square-profile dressed limestone piers to north of church with limestone caps, flanking double-leaf metal gate. Pedestrian entrance to east of gate.
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 5 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 Carrigkerry.
- 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 Carrigkerry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigkerry · Carraig Chiarraí
- Area
- 2,914,361 m² (291.44 ha, 720.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Glensharrold, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glensharrold electoral division: 446 people in 171 households; 79% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinloughane, Glenagower, Glensharrold, Knockaunnagun, Knockfinnisk
- Placenames
- Carrigkerry 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.