Flemingstown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingaddy, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile na bPléimeannach
- Area
- 114.7 ha
- 283 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 3,087 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Flemingstown, from 234 m² to 261,759 m² (26.18 ha, 64.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Flemingstown 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
16 Jul 2024Conditional
alterations to fenestration on front elevation and to construct a new single-storey extension to the rear elevation; all to existing dwelling house. Permission is also sought to enlarge the existing vehicular entrance, to decommission an existing wastewater treatment system and install a new wastewater treatment system, with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24292
30 Jul 2021Conditional
extensions, conservatory and shed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 211096
22 Jan 2021Conditional
decommissioning of existing septic tank and soak pit, installation of a packaged waste water treatment system and soil filter, construction of single storey detached garage
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2157
24 Jul 2017Conditional
the construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, installation of a new domestic waste waster treatment system with polishing filter all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17706
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 Flemingstown.
Recorded monuments
- LI048-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, 150m E of townland boundary with Ballygillane. An enclosure (LI048-029----) lies 310m to the SW. Annotated 'Gotoon Fort' on OSi historic maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at N, E and SW by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown as a polygonal shaped field on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, with curving scarp outside field boundaries at NW. Monument visible as a sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 60m N-S; 62m E-W) enclosed by field boundaries on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/10/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1790, with windbreak to front (west) and recent extension to rear (east) elevation. Later reconstruction, c. 1914. Pitched thatched roof having rendered chimneystacks and copings. Rendered walls and render cornice to windbreak. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to north and rear elevations having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to windbreak with half-glazed timber panelled door. Single-bay two-storey gable-fronted outbuilding to east having single-bay single-storey extension to north. Pitched slate roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed opening to first floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and concrete sill. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Cast-iron water pump to east comprising banded shaft, fluted neck and cap.
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_1028 (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 Flemingstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Flemingstown · Baile na bPléimeannach
- Area
- 1,146,830 m² (114.68 ha, 283.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingaddy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Ardpatrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardpatrick electoral division: 370 people in 144 households; 93% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincrana, Ballingaddy North, Ballygillane, Ballynamoloogh, Riversfield
- Placenames
- Flemingstown 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.