Fort Middle

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fort Middle, from 754 m² to 400,906 m² (40.09 ha, 99.07 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Fort Middle 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.

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  proposed two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18877

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 Fort Middle.

Recorded monuments

• LI046-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat marshy pasture. Circular area (20m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) SSW->NE, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 2m) NE->SSW. There is an external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 2.6m) E->NE, but which is truncated by field boundary skirting enclosure NE->E. Break in bank (Wth 2.7m) at W. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI046-017 Moated site
  Description

  In level marshy pasture. Sub-rectangular area (36m NNW-SSE; 42m WSW-ENE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 4m); corners noticeable rounded in plan. Bank is tree lined. Fosse covered by overgrowth to E and SSW and generally waterlogged except along SSE side where it is shallow and dry; immediately outside latter is farm passage whose construction may have effected fosse on this side. Causewayed entrance (Wth 2.6m) near E end of SSE side. Interior level and under pasture; just inside enclosing bank on SSE side two shallow ovoid marshy depressions: 6m x 4m, D 0.4m; 8m x 6m, D 0.2m. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI046-033 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland, transected at E by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a scarp with ditch visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 May 2020

• LI046-034 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland. Faint cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a scarp visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Visible as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Suggestion of a large irregular shaped enclosure to W but not convincing as an archaeological feature See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 May 2020

Architectural heritage

• Fort House, house, 1830–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1832, having four-bay two-storey return to side (west). Two-storey stairwell block and additional single-bay single-storey extension to rear (north). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return. Roughcast rendered walls throughout. Diminishing square-headed window openings with render sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Replacement timber casement window to first floor of side (east) elevation and replacement uPVC casement window to side (east) elevation of return. Round-headed stairwell window opening with render sill to rear elevation, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with spoked fanlight to upper sash. Square-headed door openings throughout, replacement timber panelled door to front elevation surmounted by single-pane overlight. Timber battened door surmounted by single-pane overlight to side (east) elevation of return. Timber battened door to rear elevation of extension. Attached seven-bay two-storey stable block to rear elevation of return having integral porte-cochere. Pitched slate roof with rubble stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed dressed rubble stone walls with integral elliptical-headed porte-cochere, having tooled limestone voussoirs with dated keystone. Integral elliptical-headed carriage arch having tooled limestone voussoirs, piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone voussoirs, tooled limestone voussoirs and single-pane timber casement windows with wrought-iron window guards to ground floor openings. Double-leaf timber battened shutters to first floor. Cobbled courtyard with recent stable blocks to north and east. Roughcast rendered piers with render capping and recent wrought-iron gates to front elevation of courtyard. Rendered boundary walls with rendered coping and square-profile piers and wrought-iron gates to south-west of house.

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

At the centre of the townland of Fort Middle, 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 Fort Middle.

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.

No address of the register names Fort Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Fort Middle · An Daingean Láir

Area

3,377,592 m² (337.76 ha, 834.62 acres)

Civil parish

Colmanswell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Colmanswell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 202 households in the Colmanswell electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drewscourt East, Fort East, Fort West, Foxhall East, Foxhall West, Garryfine, Gortroe, Killacolla

Placenames

Fort Middle 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.