Cottage

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cottage, from 120 m² to 232,785 m² (23.28 ha, 57.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cottage 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.

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  an extension to the side of the dwelling and build a 1.4 metre high front boundary wall and all associated site works, and B) retention permission for the rear extension and also for the detached shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17424

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 the townland of Cottage.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-141 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 39, Bruff 30: AP 5/2113). Described by Doody (2008, 136) as a 'subcircular ditched enclosure, c. 50m x 47m, with possible central feature c. 15m in diameter'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 11 November 2013

• LI040-041 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, 120m W of townland boundary with Baunnageeragh, 250m N of townland boundary with Ballygrennan and 300m N of townland boundary with Ballycullane. Depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a bank with wide berm forming a concentric type enclosure (overall diam. c 95m). Partially levelled monument shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform defined by a scarp from N-E and SW-W-N, delimited by field boundaries from E-S-SW, and enclosed by an outer fosse from SE-S-SW. The outer enclosing berm is not depicted on this map indicating that this feature was levelled between these map dates. Described by O’Kelly ( 52) as a ‘Type B Earthwork’ consisting of; ‘A circular platform surrounded by a wide fosse and outer bank. The platform has a slight slope in all directions from the centre. Its max. height over the fosse bottom is 8’ and the overall diameter is 460’ [140.2m]. The structure has been damaged by the cutting of a drainage trench through it and by the building of fences around it.’ Monument described by Westropp (1916-18, 21) as a ‘Fort 350 feet [106.6m] to 300 feet [91.4m] in diameter’ with ‘two rings’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Trace of levelled monument visible as circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 35m) defined by an outer fosse from S-W-N, truncated at S by a linear cropmark of a relic field boundary running E-W on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018 See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1025 (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.

No address of the register names Cottage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cottage · Garraí an Scoilbín

Area

557,731 m² (55.77 ha, 137.82 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Uregare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Uregare electoral division: 654 people in 223 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinstona South, Ballyania, Ballycullane, Ballygrennan, Baunnageeragh

Placenames

Cottage 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.