Edwardstown

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Edwardstown, from 434 m² to 179,984 m² (18 ha, 44.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Edwardstown 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.

• 6 Mar 2020Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20200

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 Edwardstown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Edwardstown.

Architectural heritage

• Edwardstown House, country house, 1765–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built in 1769, and now roofless. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with sandstone veneer quoins. Square-headed window openings with sandstone sills. Square-headed door openings with moulded sandstone surrounds and flanked by moulded curved sandstone corbels. Forms south range of rectangular-plan farmyard. East range formed by seven-bay two-storey building. Coursed rubble limestone walls with some remaining render, some cement block walling added. Segmental-headed window openings with red brick voussoirs. Lunette window openings with red brick voussoirs. Segmental-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs, some with timber battened doors. Segmental-headed carriage door opening with red brick voussoirs. West and southern ranges remaining as external boundary walls. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Pointed arch door opening with red brick lintel and cast-iron gate. Rectangular-profile piers to traffic gate opening to north-east corner of yard.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Edwardstown.

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 Edwardstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Edwardstown · Lios Mothláin Beag

Area

408,953 m² (40.9 ha, 101.05 acres)

Civil parish

Cahernarry, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysimon electoral division: 16,540 people in 5,566 households; 59% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyogartha, Glen, Knockbrien, Knockea, Lickadoon

Placenames

Edwardstown 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.