Carrigparson

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigparson, from 657 m² to 681,116 m² (68.11 ha, 168.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carrigparson 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Carrigparson in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Carrigparson.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-023001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 441) gives the following details on Carrigparson Church; ‘Carrigparson, or Willestown (14). - A parish. It is a reputed Dominican or Franciscan House; "William's Chapel," with Karkynglisse, in Wethney, 1302; Willestowne, in Emly, 1591 (Valor); Carrigparson, or Willestown, Dec. de Carkinlis, 1615. Its grants are almost inseparable from Ballynambraher, q. v. (infra, 329). Towrani, or Tooreen, in this parish, with a fishery on the Cammoge, belonged to the Franciscans of Ballynabrahur, 1586 (Peyton, p. 255). Fabric - Only 6 feet [1.8m] of the north wall stood in 1840; the foundations were 35 feet [10.6m] by 21 feet [6.4m]. In 1655 it had a detached tower and spire'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2018

• LI014-023002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope overlooking a valley in rolling pasture with good views in all directions. Indicated on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular area (c. 40m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) accessed by a track. Enclosed by a mortared stone wall (H 1.5m), ivy-covered on the inside. A concrete path runs just inside the enclosing wall. The graveyard is still in use. The ruins of a church (LI014-023001-) stand in the NE corner. The interior of the site is strewn with rubble and stones. There are several collapsed graves with upright and recumbent 19th century slabs. A gentle scarp defines the NE half of the site, where there is a concentration of burials.

• LI014-134 Boundary stone
  Description

  On the road verge S of the R503 at the intersection of the R503 and a local public road. Annotated 'Liberty Stone' on the 1840 OS 6-inch map where it is depicted standing on the line of the ‘Parliamentary Boundary’ of Limerick City. This stone marked the boundary between the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Limerick City and the rest of the county which was outside his governance. The stone is not indicated at this location on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. The stone is visible on Google Earth imagery taken 28/06/2018. The stone was described in 1913 as following; ‘The Carrigparson stone measures 2 feet 2 inches [0.66m] by three feet three inches [1m], and the inscription is in contracted Roman capitals: as The Liberties of the City of Limerick ascertained 1786, Sir Christopher Knight, Mayor’ (Barry 1913, 238). See attached Google Earth street view photo showing stone incorporated into the roadside boundary Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Carrigparson House, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870. Comprising single-bay single-storey porch to front (south) elevation and two-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack to extension. Flat roof to porch. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render plinth course and dentillated cornice to porch. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed openings to porch with render hoodmouldings, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening to porch having render hoodmoulding and glazed overlight over timber panelled door.

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1057 (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 Carrigparson with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Carrigparson · Carraig an Phearsúin

Area

1,146,237 m² (114.62 ha, 283.24 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigparson, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysimon electoral division: 16,540 people in 5,566 households; 59% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahabeg, Ahabeg (Rose), Cunnihee, Rossard, Scart, Srahane, Tooreen

Placenames

Carrigparson 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.