Corcamore
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Corcach Mhór
Parcel 1619341
- Area
- 37,369 m² (3.74 ha, 9.23 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Corcamore
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI004-015 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Description
Westropp recorded the following details about Carrigogunnel (Carraig Ó gCoinneall/rock of Uí Choinneall) Castle ; 'Granted by Charter to Donchad Cairbreach O'Brien, Prince of Thomond (Ann. Inisf.). The C[astle]. is said to have been occupied by the O'Briens in 1336 (Inq. Exchequer, 1, 1536). It has been supposed to be the C[astle]. of Esclon, but is nowhere identified as such. 1426 Teige O'Brien, "na glenore," ancestor of the O'Briens of Carrigogunnell, died (A.F.M.). 1502 Donough O'Brien, Lord of Pubblebrian and Aherloe, died (A.F.M.). This "strong Rock and House of Defence" of the O'Briens only appears in history in 1536. "When the Parliament adjourned that year to Limerick, Edward Lord Grey, the Deputy marched to a very strong C[astle]. called "Carekogunyel," "in English, Candell Rock," which was surrendered next day by Mat. (Mahon) O'Bryne, on condition that the Government should hold it themselves. "It stands on a high rock, and ... is the key of all the County," with the manor, " which belongs to the King as part of Lord Clerres lands." Grey, despite his pledge, was about to entrust it to Donoth O'Brien, but "by crafty policy and a former letter of my Lord" it was given back to Matthew. On August 22 the Lord Deputy besieged it. The ordnance was "bent" on the gate of the base court, which was soon taken. The guns were then "bent on the dungeon of the great Castle." That night a tower in the upper ward was taken, and at dawn the keep surrendered. As the Deputy had first summoned it on pain of death, he hanged Edm. Cahill and all its defenders after trial in Limerick (Carew MS., i,, pp. 104-5 ; C.S.P.I., 56, 65 ; Inq. Exch., 1). 1539 It was taken from Donough O'Brien for extortion (C.S.P.L). 1541 Mahon O'Brien used to claim a penny for each barrel of wine, and two pence on other barrels imported to Limerick (Inq. Exch.). 1580 Called " Carrig Gunning " C[astle]. (Hardiman Map, 63). 1584 It was held by Donough's son, Brian Duff, who was confirmed in nearly all Pubblebrian (Fi. 4486, 4615). 1615 He died, leaving a son Donat (Inq. Chan., 15b). 1638 Daniel O'Brien held the manor and C[astle]. with other lands. This Donough, or Daniel, was "of Downe," and third cousin of Brien, whose son Donough he succeeded, 1632. (Inq. Chan., 215). He married Margaret, daughter of Ric. Stephenson and his wife, Margaret, daughter of said Brien Duff. The C[astle]. does not seem to have played any part in the wars. In 1651 Capt. Wilson paid Morris King £7 for building a stable there (Hartwell's Accounts, P.R.O.I.). 1655 It had been sold by Donough to Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Dublin (B.D., p. 63), and had a C[astle], bawn, a few thatched huts, and a salmon fishery (C.S., xxxii., p. 29). 1666 Confirmed to Boyle (Act. Sett.). 1691 Held by garrison of 150 men, who surrendered to Sgravenmore. It was blown up in September. 1698 Held by Boyle, then Archbishop of Armagh (Terrier, P.R.O.I.). Fabric - It stands on a lofty plateau of igneous rock; but the buildings are of limestone, and well dressed. The keep is to the north-west, with five stories, and over 50 feet [15.25m] high; its north side was circular, but is now levelled. The south wing has a perfect staircase of sixty-five steps. To the west is a fragment of a later house three stories high, with cross-barred window, fireplace, and high end gable. A range of buildings over 100 feet [30m] long ran from the keep along the cliff to the south-west. It has four rooms with a garderobe and cell called the "Dane's prison." East of this wing is a paved upper court, with turrets; one to the south, with a stair, has been blown nearly off its base. The lower court is rough and craggy, the cliff being walled all around. There is a gateway to the south-east, a comer turret to the south, and an oblong house, two stories high, to the north-east. The walls enclose a little more than an acre. No reliable views have, to our knowledge, been hitherto published. The main buildings seem earlier than 1400. There are poor views in Grose, Bartlett, and Hall'. Castle described by Salter (1993, 104) as following; 'The castle lies on a volcanic crag overlooking the Shannon estuary. A very ruined round tower 10m in diameter in the north corner is 13th century and represents either a keep or a corner tower of a square courtyard castle. The hexagonal room west of it is perhaps 14th century and beyond is a later hall block with two cellars and a passage on the ground floor. East of the round tower is a four storey apartment block of the 16th century when a small inner court was created in front of the ranges. A large heart-shaped outer enclosure about 75m in each direction with a 15th century wall extends to the south and east away from the estuary. There are no flanking towers but the gateway lies in a projection near the rounded south corner and there are the remains of another range of apartments among bushes at the east corner. In 1536 Mahon O’Brien surrendered the castle to Lord Deputy Grey. It later passed to Donough O’Brien, and was eventually sold to Michael Boyle, subsequently Archbishop of Dublin. In 1691 a Jacobite garrison of 150 men surrendered the castle to William III’s forces and shortly afterwards General Ginckell had it blown up'. The castle was described by Salter (2004, 72) as following; 'a major seat of the O'Briens although probably founded by the de Burghs and then held by the earls of Desmond. In 1536 it was surrendered to Lord Deputy Grey after being battered by cannon, and Edmund Cahill and his garrison were all hanged, but the castle was later recovered by the O'Briens. In 1650 it was taken over by Cromwellians under Captain Wilson, who built a stable in the bawn, but in 1655 the castle was sold to Michael Boyle, later Archbishop of Dublin. In 1691 a Jacobite garrison of 150 men surrendered the castle to William Ill's forces and shortly afterwards General Ginckel had it blown up. The heart-shaped outer enclosure extending down the slope and containing a barn on the east side is 15th century, although the triangular projection flanking the entrance with gunloops is a 16th century improvement. The northern wall of the oval inner court 30m by 20m on the highest part of the site is 13th century. Here lay a hall over two cellars. In the 15th century a four storey tower with the lower rooms hexagonal in shape was added east of the hall, and beyond is a block of two storeys containing a suite of private chambers with large windows and fireplaces. Between these two parts are remains of a spiral staircase'. See attached plans of castle taken from Westropp 1908 and Salter 2004 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 October 2020
- LI004-038 Metalworking site
Description
In well-drained, gently undulating pasture. Carrigogunnel Castle (LI004-015----) is perched on a volcanic rock outcrop c. 30m to SW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as a dense area of archaeological features discovered during archaeological testing (Licence No. 04E1476) (Collins 2004, 15-25). Six trenches (L 10-20m; Wth 1.5m) were excavated across the site which exposed a series of archaeological cuts and deposits including linear features, post-holes, areas of burning, as well as three possible ironworking kilns (ibid). Finds included iron slag, charcoal and animal bone (ibid). The concentrations of burning, along with slag, and the furnace bottom suggests that metalworking was taking place on the site. Some of the larger linear features may represent ditches of subsurface enclosures on the level land at the base of the Castle rock. Given the density of features identified, it is likely that at least some of them are contemporary with the period of occupation of the castle (i.e. medieval) (ibid). See attached Google Earth orthoimage 19/11/2019. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 545.1 ha
- 1,347 acres
- Land parcels
- 224
- registered freehold, median 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
224 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corcamore, from 2 m² to 891,192 m² (89.12 ha, 220.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Corcamore 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
12 May 2026Conditional
(a) demolition of existing house due to defective concrete blocks, (b) construct a new dwelling house, (c) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and (d) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660536
16 Mar 2026Conditional
a Dwelling House, Garage, Entrance, onsite waste-water treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660300
12 Mar 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660287
12 Jan 2026Conditional
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. No. 25/112: a change of house type and to include a granny flat and a change in garage design and all associated works from that approved under planning ref. 21/187
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267003
11 Apr 2025Conditional
a change of house type and to include a granny flat and a change in garage design and all associated works from that approved under planning ref. 21/187
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25112
4 Apr 2025Conditional
a new extension to the side and a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25102
4 Apr 2025Conditional
a single storey extension to the rear and side of existing dwelling, associated renovation works, relocate and replace existing septic tank with a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560295
1 Aug 2024Conditional
the construction of an extension to the rear and side of an existing dwelling, associated renovation works, relocation and replacement of the existing septic tank with a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460769
17 Jul 2024Conditional
the formation of a new agricultural entrance to replace the former blocked up entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460710
7 Jun 2024Conditional
a change of house type from that previously granted under planning ref. 20/1391 and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24237
2 Apr 2024Conditional
the demolition of existing structurally unsound garage/shed & the construction of a new domestic garage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24125
20 Sept 2023Conditional
a new detached garage and all associated site works and permission for retention for alterations to the drawings submitted under planning permission 19/31 including 2 no. dormer windows, the position of the approved 3 no. roof lights and the the patio door, all at the rear of the existing dwelling under construction and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360691
3 Aug 2022Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22850
23 May 2022Conditional
an extension to existing dwelling house. And (2), planning permission to demolish existing garage and for the construction of a new extension to existing dwelling house, new garage, new wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22568
24 Feb 2022Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 22208
19 Feb 2021Conditional
construction of 1no. dwelling house, 1no. single storey domestic garage, new site entrance, driveway, front boundary treatment, effluent treatment system, percolation area, 1no. stables building, internal access road, associated yard area, effluent storage tank and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21187
18 Dec 2020Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, entrance, onsite wastewater treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201391
15 Dec 2020Conditional
revision of site boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. 10/613
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201349
30 Nov 2020Refused
construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201257
31 Jul 2020Conditional
the construction of an extension to gable of existing dwelling house comprising a granny flat and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20746
17 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20676
27 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a slatted shed with straw area and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20266
16 Oct 2019Conditional
a storey and a half dormer dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191025
2 Oct 2019Conditional
Extension of Permission for Ref. 14/1008: the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 197023
18 Jan 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1931
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
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
- 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
- LI012-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture. Depicted on the revised OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 32m N-S x 27m E-W). Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- LI012-013 Megalithic structure
Description
In a private garden to the rear of a dwelling. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a very small square-shaped feature incorporated into field boundary and annotated 'Cloughregaun'. Area of monument appears to be occupied by an outbuilding on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- LI012-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on slight SSE-facing slope of rising ground, 200m W of the townland boundary with Carrigogunnel. Present remains consist of a raised roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m; base Wth 4m). The enclosing element has been disturbed by the dumping of field clearance stones. The undulating rocky interior has also been partially infilled with field clearance material. A field boundary running N-S intersects the base of the bank at W. Poorly preserved monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a low bank reduced to a scarp from SE through S to W, overgrown with trees elsewhere. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 18 June 2020
- LI012-094 House - fortified house
Description
In farmyard of Meelick House, with excellent views from NE-E-S-W-NW and restricted elsewhere. Not depicted or named on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1906-7, 147) recorded the following details about Meelick Castle; '1583 Myellig C[astle]. 1655 Meelick and Balytragh (D.S.B., 26), Millicke and Bally Ightragh, held by W. Roche and Marg. Bryne, with one Chimnie House and orchard. It paid chiefry, four shillings and four white groats, to the Earl of Kildare (C.S., pp. 27, 28). The C[astle]. was probably at Meelick House, the old "Meelick Upper". Westropp appears to have identified the wrong owner in 1665 as the 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that William Roche of Limerick was in possession of lands in Meelick which were mortgaged from Connor Mc Dermodie Mc Mahonye containing, 'one head fishinge Weare, one Chymnie house with some few tatched Cabbins and an Orchard' (Simington 1938, 389). Described by the ASI in 2001 as no surface remains visible of castle. The description of the building as a 'Chymnie house' may suggest that this was a 17th century fortified house rather than a tower house. Area now occupied by a farmyard and a modern shed visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 8 July 2020
- LI012-164 Enclosure
Description
On poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. int. diam. 46m) clearly visible on Google earth orthoimage taken 05/02/2009. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 8 September 2020
- LI012-169 Earthwork
Description
Situated on poorly drained grassland. Outline of roughly oval-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 72m) defined by waterfilled fosse and bisected by a watercourse running on a N-S axis visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork however oval-shaped morphology would suggest the remains of an archaeological feature. See attached Google Earth orthophotos Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 7 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corcamore.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Corcamore, Clarina10 sales
The townland
- Name
- Corcamore · Corcach Mhór
- Area
- 5,450,636 m² (545.06 ha, 1,346.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Clarina, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrig West, Carrigogunnel, Cloghatacka, Cragbeg, Doon, Elmpark Demesne, Glebe
- Placenames
- Corcamore on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.