Churchfield

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchfield, from 7,221 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres) to 217,112 m² (21.71 ha, 53.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.

• P3Marine Related Industry (Aquaculture and fishing)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  the demolition of the existing three span bridge and construction of a new single span bridge consisting of piled abutments and a stell truss superstructure to facilitate the potential future re-introduction of freight traffic on the Limerick to Foynes railway line at Churchfield/Island MacTeige. The existing intermediate piers will remain in place in a non load bearing capacity. The works also includes the temporary relocation of a salt marsh during the construction of the bridge structure. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for the development

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181236

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

• LI010-013 Castle - tower house
  Description

  At tip of narrow low spit projecting into tidal estuary of Robertstown river. Only two fragments of castle now stand: NE and NW corners (see plan Donnelly 1994, 171-2). The NW corner is featureless stump but NE corner rises to first-floor level and contains wall press. Joining these is recent dry-stone wall. Robertstown was a possession of the Earls of Desmond until surrendered in late 16th century (Westropp 1906-7, 242). Westropp (1906-7, 242) gives the following details about Robertstown; '1222-30 The C[astle] of Robert Guher or Gore (C.S.P.L). It is often named in church lists and rentals, 1302, 1410, 1452. In 1289 Jo. Guer held Kyldrumyn (Plea R., 13). In 1298 Margery Gore held a half townland of Robertstown (C.S.P.L). In 1452 Castro Robti. Gore held by Earls of Desmond. 1569 Surrendered. 1571 J. Mac Clanchy held it (Fi. 3842 ; Inq. Exch.); 1587 W. Trenchard (Fi. 5078; Inq. Exch., 41). 1608 Ballyrobert C[astle]. conveyed by Jas. Wakeman to Sir Ric. Wingfield, of Smithstown, with a water mill, Carricke O'Ruderi, Ardenere, and part of estate of Teige mac Clansie, slain in rebellion (Rev. Exch., 1613-18, p. 1; 1623, p. 17; Inq. Chan., 6b), who held it with Cragg, 1638 (Inq. Chan., C.S., p. 94, &c). 1655 C[astle]. of Robertstown, Carrigenrudderi, mill, &c. Fabric - The north-east fragments of a peel tower, featureless, save for ambreys, on a projection in a tidal creek. Fragments of a strong wall across the neck of the peninsula. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Sir Edward Wingfield was the owner of the lands of Robertstown and Garrintober which contained 'a ruined castle with two Mill seates [LI010-106----]' (Simington 1938, 327). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 13 May 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Churchfield.

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 Churchfield, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_435 (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.

• Churchfield, St Patricks Rd9 sales

Name

Churchfield · Páirc an Teampaill

Area

414,947 m² (41.49 ha, 102.54 acres)

Civil parish

Shanagolden, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Craggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaneer, Robertstown, Sroolane North

Placenames

Churchfield 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.