Foilycleara
Foilycleara is a townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Faill Uí Chléirigh.
- Area
- 164.9 ha
- 407 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 17,702 m² (1.77 ha, 4.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foilycleara, from 76 m² to 371,366 m² (37.14 ha, 91.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Foilycleara 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
8 Jun 2022Refused
the continued operation of the existing Knockastanna Wind Farm; as permitted under Limerick County Council Planning Register References 01/1385 (An Bord Pleanala Reference PL13.130938), 07/758 (An Bord Pleanala Reference PL13.224401), and 08/7007; for a further period of 15 years following the expiry of its current planning permission. The existing windfarm comprises (i) 4 No. wind turbines and associated turbine foundations and crane hardstandings; (ii) 1 No. site entrance and 2 kilometres of site access tracks; (iii) 1 No. electrical control building with a gross floor area of 66 square metres, electrical equipment enclosure and wastewater treatment system; (iv) underground electrical and communications cabling; and (v) all drainage, signage, and all ancillary site infrastructure. The proposed development does not comprise any modifications to the existing windfarm and there will be no increase in the number or dimensions of the permitted wind turbines. This planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) which includes an assessment of the likely impacts of the proposed development, as a whole and in combination with the relevant off-site or secondary developments which will occur as a direct result of the proposed development. This planning application is also accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22646
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foilycleara.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foilycleara.
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 Foilycleara, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foilycleara.
- 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 Foilycleara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Foilycleara · Faill Uí Chléirigh
- Area
- 1,649,063 m² (164.91 ha, 407.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Bilboa, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 417 people lived in 148 households in the Bilboa electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Curraghafoil, Curraghakimikeen, Curraghmarky (Co. Tipperary), Foilmahonmore (Co. Tipperary), Foilycleary (Co. Tipperary), Reenavanna East, Reenavanna West
- Placenames
- Foilycleara 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.