Clovers
Townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Na Cleobhair
- Area
- 117.8 ha
- 291 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 22,597 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clovers, from 1,809 m² to 210,397 m² (21.04 ha, 51.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Clovers 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
5 Sept 2025Conditional
a change of use of existing premises/buildings to commercial equestrian riding school, specifically as follows: access entrance, 2 no. stable block, store room, tact room, vehicle parking area, sand & wood chip exercise area . Planning Permission is also sought for construction of a concrete dung stead slab & associated underground pre-cast tank circa 43 metres cubed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25306
27 Sept 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, new waster water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24378
16 Sept 2021Conditional
modification to internal service and building layout arrangements of the existing quarry from that permitted previously under planning reference 07/117 including; repositioning of weighbridge and wheel wash facility; revised internal site-road, car parking and provision of hardstanding service area; provision of rainwater harvesting/ storage tank with associated water network and pump; and all associated development works including modification of site levels in and around the internal service buildings and parking areas. Retention for construction of maintenance shed and septic tank in revised positions to that previously permitted under planning ref. 07/117; provision of container type store, canteen/wc and laboratory structures; construction of portal frame roof-cover to be provided over existing (already permitted) aggregate screening plant
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211297
13 Nov 2020Conditional
the construction of a new two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, new site entrance & associated boundary wall and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201168
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Castleoliver Woods 002090
Recorded monuments
- LI056-035 Earthwork
Description
In upland pasture immediately W of a forestry plantation and 110m W of the townland boundary with Ballinlyna Lower. Enclosure (LI056-015002-) lies 200m to NE and standing stone (LI056-015001-) 190m to NE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a scarp. Faint cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 November 2021
- LI056-036 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed upland pasture 300m E of the townland boundary with Castleoliver. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 37m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from SW-N-SE. Visible as faint oval-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clovers.
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
- About 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clovers.
- 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 Clovers with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Clovers · Na Cleobhair
- Area
- 1,178,221 m² (117.82 ha, 291.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilflyn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilflyn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilflyn electoral division: 231 people in 86 households; 87% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlyna Lower, Ballinlyna Upper, Ballydonohoe, Ballygeagoge, Ballyorgan, Castleoliver, Moneen, Raheenroe
- Placenames
- Clovers 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.