Crokerspark
Crokerspark is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Shitric.
- Area
- 78 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 8,285 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crokerspark, from 292 m² to 233,808 m² (23.38 ha, 57.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crokerspark 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
19 May 2025Conditional
a) retention and completion of a detached meeting room including concrete base. b) retention of the opening of an access/entrance in existing stone wall. c) retention of external lighting. d) all associated site works. The works are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS Reg. No. 183).
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560464
6 May 2022Conditional
the existing agricultural entrance, livestock loading pen, 115 sq meters of hardcore area, sod bank and hawthorn native hedging and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 22504
4 Mar 2019Conditional
a change of site boundaries from those previously granted under planning ref. 17/1099 and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19181
24 Nov 2017Conditional
the 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, 171099
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 Crokerspark.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle rise in gently undulating terrain. Oval area (33m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.05m; Wth 6.5m). Scarp is clipped by dry-stone field wall, travelling on E-W axis, ESE->SSW. Scarp juts out at NW probably due to outcropping limestone. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crokerspark.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Crokerspark, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crokerspark.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Crokerspark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Crokerspark · Baile Shitric
- Area
- 780,135 m² (78.01 ha, 192.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kilcornan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyshonickbane, Blossomhill, Castlegrey, Derreen, Glennameade
- Placenames
- Crokerspark 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.