# Corrabulbeg, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Charbaid Beag. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 244,750 m² (24.48 ha, 60.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 51,405 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Croom, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/croom.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Garrane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 317 people lived in 108 households in the Garrane electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30668 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120781 - Centre: latitude 52.530387, longitude -8.696473 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corrabulbeg, from 14,903 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres) to 179,090 m² (17.91 ha, 44.25 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1663324: 179,090 m² (17.91 ha, 44.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663324.md - Parcel 1601155: 51,405 m² (5.14 ha, 12.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601155.md - Parcel 1674218: 14,903 m² (1.49 ha, 3.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674218.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Corrabulbeg in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 7 Apr 2026, Limerick County Council 2688: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a straw bedded house, feed passage and soiled water tank with the curtilage of a Protected Structure. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2688/0 - 13 Sept 2023, Limerick County Council 2360670: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (1) Planning permission for the erection of a new 2 storey detached house. (2) amendments to the existing field entrance gate and adjoining stone wall. (3) And all associated site works on and under land, including a new wastewater treatment system and associated filtration area. Tory Hill House, on adjoining land in the same ownership is a recorded Protected Structure. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360670/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Tory Hill SAC, site code 000439, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000439 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tory Hill, site code 000439 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI021-126: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-126----. Church building known as Drumassell Chapel depicted in 'Knockdrumashell' (Cnoc Droma Asail) on the 1657 Down Survey map of Pubblebrian barony, where it is shown standing beside a tower house type castle (LI021-139----) in the vicinity of Tory Hill House (NLI, MS 718). Westropp (1904-5, 383-4) recorded the following details on Drumassell or Tory Hill; 'Dromassell, or Tory Hill. There were two forts here in 902, Maghnasail, and Asail (Book of Rights). Juliana Fitzgerald and Henry Berkeley claimed land at Drumassell, 1289 and 1311 (Plea R. 14 of xviii Ed. I., and v Ed. IL); Capella de Drumassyll, spect ad Cromothe, 1418, being given separate from Kileenoghty, with which Reeves, however, identifies it. Cnockgromassill, 1584 (O'Brien's Inq.). The castle and chapel stood in repair to the south-west of Cnockgromassell, 1657 (D.S. (A) 21, (B) 24). Fabric - I found what seemed a rude and featureless oblong ivied church there in 1876 and 1881, but made no notes or sketches; it is not marked on the O. S. maps of 1840 and 1900'. Outline of rectangular church standing adjacent to driveway of Tory Hill House located 175m to W visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. No evidence of any burial ground or churchyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 January 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Tory Hill House, country house, 1730–1750, Regional interest, registry number 21902209, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902209. Detached five-bay three-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1740, with single-storey return to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane replacement timber sliding sash windows, red brick voussoirs to first floor windows, all having limestone sills and render surrounds. Square-headed opening with replacement timber battened door having overlight, approached by concrete steps with splayed rubble limestone side walls. Two-bay two-storey coach house to rear with pitched slate roof and whitewashed rubble walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened fittings. Ranges of single-storey outbuildings to rear with pitched slate roofs and whitewashed walls having square-headed openings with timber battened half-doors. Cast-iron pump to yard with banded shaft and fluted neck and cap having a cow-tail pumping handle. Rubble limestone boundary wall to yard with segmental arch pedestrian entrance having wrought-iron gate. Rubble limestone entrance piers and side walls to front of house with wrought–iron gates. Ruins of early medieval church along avenue. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Corrabulbeg, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_912, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_912.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabulbeg.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabulbeg.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabulbeg.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Corrabulbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Corrabul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabul.md - Garrane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garrane-121027.md - Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tooreen-121901.md - Toryhill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toryhill.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabulbeg - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/corrabulbeg