Cloghatrida
Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cloch an Choitréadaigh
- Area
- 133.8 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghatrida, from 197 m² to 327,192 m² (32.72 ha, 80.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Cloghatrida 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
10 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey rear extension and permission to complete works. Planning Permission for a first floor rear extension and first floor dormer windows on front elevation of existing cottage, installation of waste water treatment system and polishing filter, site boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24195
10 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a single storey rear extension and permission to complete works. Planning Permission for the construction of a first floor rear extension and first floor dormer windows on front elevation of existing cottage, installation of a waste water treatment system and polishing filter, site boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24196
10 Jan 2022Conditional
demolition of a section of existing open slurry pit and construction of a new slatted shed, unroofed feed area, feed passages, slurry channels and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2215
10 Jan 2022Conditional
construction of an extension to existing slatted shed
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2214
18 Apr 2018Refused
relocation of existing entrance and amendment of existing roadside boundary wall with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18371
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 Cloghatrida.
Recorded monuments
- LI020-102 Ringfort - rath
Description
On flat low-lying pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still evident as roughly circular area (32m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.15m; Wth 1.4m), with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.1m) SE->W. Interior is covered by marshy pasture, and has an uneven surface. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-104 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope, just above flood plain of River Deel. Circular area (32m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 5.9m) WSW->NNE, and enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.4m) overlain by field boundary (collapsed dry-stone wall) NNE->WSW so that enclosure form SW corner of field. Interior, under pasture, has an uneven surface. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope, overlooking marshy area. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Uneven surface of field in this area probably due to abandoned silver and lead mines. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-109 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. A smaller circular enclosure (LI020-111---) is depicted on OS 6-inch map conjoined to its S side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-111 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on gentle SSE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. A larger circular enclosure (LI020-109---) is depicted on OS 6-inch map conjoined to N side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-138 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope into river valley. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Recently constructed farm passage, roughly on line of removed field boundary, clips S edge of site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-154 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on top of a hill overlooking the valley of the River Deel to the SW. According to the landowner 'a limestone pillar' (H c. 1.2m) stood here until removed and buried nearby in 1980. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI020-157 Enclosure
Description
In gently undulating pasture, as foot of S-facing slope. Monument depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) has been levelled; area of monument now defined by a slight rise occupying a roughly oval area (c. 26m N-S; c. 20m E-W; H c. 0.6m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Rockfield Tower, country house, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1780. Comprising windbreak and recessed end-bay to front (east) elevation and two-stage irregular-plan tower to south elevation, with single-storey lean-to and squinch to front elevation and two-storey lean-to to north elevation. Pitched slate roof having brick eaves course and red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with buttresses to tower, front elevation. Roughcast rendered walls to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak with replacement uPVC door. Square-headed opening to south elevation having replacement timber panelled door with glazed panel. Flight of limestone steps to entrance with rubble stone walls. Elliptical-headed carriage arch perpendicular to front elevation adjoining four-bay two-storey outbuilding to east. Pitched slate roof with limestone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch having double-leaf timber battened doors. Attached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east. Pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Pair of round-profile rubble limestone piers to east having rubble stone cappings, double-leaf cast-iron gates and rubble limestone walls with limestone cappings and pointed arch pedestrian entrances having timber battened doors.
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
- The EPA radon map did not answer.
- 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_552 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghatrida with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghatrida · Cloch an Choitréadaigh
- Area
- 1,338,433 m² (133.84 ha, 330.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Rathkeale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathkeale Rural electoral division: 315 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardgoulbeg, Ballingarrane, Cloghanarold, Curraghnadeely, Kilcool, Knockaunavad, Kyletaun, Stoneville
- Placenames
- Cloghatrida 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.