Courtmatrix
Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cúirt Bhun Tráisce
- Area
- 158.7 ha
- 392 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 7,870 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Courtmatrix, from 214 m² to 185,540 m² (18.55 ha, 45.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Courtmatrix 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
3 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of dwelling house, garage, wasterwater treatment plant private well, vehicular entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211108
9 Jun 2021N/a
construction of a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21803
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 Courtmatrix.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Courtmatrix.
Architectural heritage
- Milestone/milepost, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding triangular-plan limestone milestone, c. 1870, with chamfered triangular top, inscribed lettering and numbering which reads: 'New Castle West 7 / Limerick 19 / Kilarney 48'.
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 5 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_554 (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 Courtmatrix with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Courtmatrix · Cúirt Bhun Tráisce
- Area
- 1,586,543 m² (158.65 ha, 392.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyallinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyallinan electoral division: 421 people in 151 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardbohil, Ardnanean, Ballyallinan North, Castlematrix, Enniscoush
- Placenames
- Courtmatrix 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.