Castlegrey
Castlegrey is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Caisleán Riabhach.
- Area
- 57.1 ha
- 141 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,584 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlegrey, from 414 m² to 311,335 m² (31.13 ha, 76.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlegrey 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
17 Sept 2020Conditional
dwelling house, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20935
18 Jun 2020N/a
extension and renovation of the existing dwelling with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20522
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 Castlegrey.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-078 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In rough pasture, on limestone crag, on break in W-facing slope.. Sub-circular area (39m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 1.02m), best preserved S->NW. Dry-stone wall ((H 1.05m; Wth 0.8m) forming townland boundary runs along top of bank N->E. Gap (Wth 2.2m) in bank at ESE. Bank lowers (H 0.35m) SE->S. Uneven interior, covered with trees and bushes, slopes gently down to the E; near S verge 2 roughly parallel (c. 2.15m apart) lines of stones are singly set edge to edge on rough N-S axis for c. 4m. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-079 House - 18th/19th century
Description
In a wooded hollow. Country House of late-18th/early-19th century appearance now a ruined shell with blocked-up windows. Contemporary stable block converted to dwelling. Walled garden to rear of house. No evident trace of medieval castle and it is doubtful, despite the name, if there ever was a castle here (Westropp 1906-7, 158). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 3 August 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlegrey.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Castlegrey, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_737 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castlegrey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Castlegrey · An Caisleán Riabhach
- Area
- 570,530 m² (57.05 ha, 140.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kilcornan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blossomhill, Cloonnagalleen, Crokerspark, Derreen, Kilbreedy, Stonehall
- Placenames
- Castlegrey 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.