Castleoliver

114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleoliver, from 12 m² to 472,058 m² (47.21 ha, 116.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castleoliver 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.

• 25 Sept 2024N/a

  the redevelopment and restoration of the protected structure at Castle Oliver, West Gate Lodge, the reroofing and to make habitable as private dwelling and also the installation of a wate water treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24371

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  extensions and alterations to existing derelict dwelling to include part demolition of existing porches and construction of new single storey and 2 storey extensions and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24106

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods 002090

Recorded monuments

• LI056-034001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on the summit of Castle Hill (858 ft., 261m), 460m NE of the 19th century Castle Oliver House. Folly (LI056-034002-) is located in interior. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 50m) on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (319) 17) taken 05-10-2002 and on Google Earth orthoimages where it is partly delimited by bushes. Earthwork clearly visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP ATD059) taken 21/07/1967 See oblique aerial photographs (ASIAP (319) 17/ CUCAP ATD059) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 18 November 2021

• LI056-034002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  In pasture on the summit of Castle Hill (858 ft., 261m), 470m NE of the 19th century Castle Oliver House. Within enclosure (LI056-034001-). Annotated ‘Oliver’s Folly’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Late 18th century folly associated with Castle Oliver which was the residence of Richard Oliver-Gascoigne (Fitzgerald 1826, 388). Recorded in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (Reg. No. 21905615) as Oliver’s Folly and described as a; ‘Freestanding folly, built c. 1790, comprising three-stage pair of sham ruinous circular towers with connecting curtain wall. Rubble limestone walls. Loop windows to towers with pointed arch opening to curtain wall. Lancet openings to towers (www.buildingsofireland.ie)’. Folly is clearly visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (319) 17) taken 05-10-2002 and on Google Earth orthoimages Google Earth orthoimages. Folly standing in centre of enclosure is clearly visible on oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP ATD059) taken 21/07/1967 See attached oblique aerial photographs (ASIAP (319) 17/ CUCAP ATD059). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 18 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• Castle Oliver, gate lodge, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gateway and gate lodge, built 1846, comprising pointed segmental-arched carriageway and two-bay two-storey adjoining lodge with square-plan turret. Dressed sandstone walls to carriage-arch with battlemented parapet, stringcourse and central carved plaque. Flanking buttresses rising into battlements with carved stepped pointed coping stones. Attached dressed limestone side wall to north with carved and pointed coping stones having stringcourse beneath. Attached two-bay two-storey gate lodge to south comprising tower with base batter and stepped crenellations with carved sandstone chimneystack to battlements. Adjoining squared turret tower and lean-to outbuilding. Pointed slate roof, remains of cast-iron rainwater goods and wind vane to turret. Square-headed loop openings to turret with ogee-headed window opening to tower. Camber-headed door opening with timber battened door having carved lettering and false machicolation above. Attached dressed sandstone sidewall terminating in piers with carved pointed coping stones. Located west of Castle Oliver.

• Castle Oliver, country house, 1840–1850 · National interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan multiple-bay multiple-storey over basement country house, built 1845-8; dated 1848, in a Scottish Baronial style. Side entrance with double-storey porte-cochère carried on battered piers, projecting from a battlemented keep located at the south-west corner adjoining southern facing five-bay garden front with two-bay gable-fronted projection to south-east corner. Adjoining multiple-bay two-storey over basement with attic service block to north, having circular turret tower and squared keep, adjoining two-storey stable block terminating in octagonal tower. Pitched slate roofs having crenellations and corner towers, ashlar sandstone chimneystacks with cut stringcourses, cast-iron rainwater goods, wind vane to turret tower and dormer windows. Tooled ashlar sandstone walls with cut stringcourses. Mixed headed openings comprising openings with single, bipartite and tripartite openings with stone mullions and transoms, single-height canted-bay windows, oriel windows and timber sliding sash windows, pointed arch opening with stained glass window to north elevation. Pointed arch door openings with timber battened doors to east and south elevations. Stable blocks to rear (north) of house arranged around a courtyard with segmental-arched carriage arches and square-headed window and door openings. Raised terrace to front and side of house with balustrade punctuated by gryphons. Replacement gate piers to front of house supporting gryphons with replacement gates. Icehouse, underground tunnel and bridge contained within original grounds (now located in adjoining farm).

• Castle Oliver, farmyard complex, stables, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex, formally part of the Castle Oliver demesne, built c. 1780, comprising U-plan arrangement of ranges to east and west with two-storey barn to south elevation. U-plan arrangement consisting of multiple-bay single- and two-storey blocks with central block knocked to east range and rebuilt to west range. Pitched mixed and artificial slate roof with rendered and red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Wind vane to barn, tooled limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods to two-storey buildings of east and west ranges. Dressed sandstone walls to two-storey east and west ranges with cut limestone quoins, painted and rendered walls to north-east range, rubble sandstone to barn with dressed quoins. Mixed headed openings comprising square- and camber-headed openings, all with uPVC windows, some having tooled limestone sills, replacement sills to single-storey west range. Segmental-arched openings, some blocked, having cut sandstones voussoirs to east and west range. Segmental-headed integral carriage arches to barn with cut sandstone surrounds and wrought-iron gates. Camber-headed opening with cut sandstone voussoirs, circular opening with red brick surround to second floor. Dispersed loop openings throughout.

• Castle Oliver, gate lodge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1830, with abutting outbuilding to south-east elevation. Hipped replacement slate roof with cut limestone eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Cut limestone walls to front (southwest) elevation, having cut limestone plinth. Rubble sandstone walls to all other elevations. Round-headed openings having replacement timber sliding sash windows with cut limestone surrounds and prominent keystone and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed openings with replacement timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Round-headed opening with carved limestone surround and replacement timber battened door and fanlight.

• Castle Oliver, folly, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding folly, built c. 1790, comprising three-stage pair of sham ruinous circular towers with connecting curtain wall. Rubble limestone walls. Loop windows to towers with pointed arch opening to curtain wall. Lancet openings to towers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Castleoliver, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castleoliver.

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.

No address of the register names Castleoliver with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Castleoliver · Cloch an Otfaígh

Area

3,280,136 m² (328.01 ha, 810.54 acres)

Civil parish

Particles, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Particles, the unit of the census

Census 2022

222 people lived in 86 households in the Particles electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyorgan, Clovers, Coolfree, Fanningstown, Glenosheen, Moneen, Mortlestown, Raheenroe, Raheenroe, Sunville Upper

Placenames

Castleoliver 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.