# Fort Middle, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Colmanswell, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Daingean Láir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,377,592 m² (337.76 ha, 834.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,741 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Colmanswell, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/colmanswell.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Colmanswell, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30882 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120998 - Centre: latitude 52.391576, longitude -8.734819 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fort Middle, from 754 m² to 400,906 m² (40.09 ha, 99.07 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1649905: 400,906 m² (40.09 ha, 99.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649905.md - Parcel 1617127: 340,389 m² (34.04 ha, 84.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617127.md - Parcel 1617128: 253,289 m² (25.33 ha, 62.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617128.md - Parcel 1649906: 245,639 m² (24.56 ha, 60.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649906.md - Parcel 1627964: 236,588 m² (23.66 ha, 58.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627964.md - Parcel 1599273: 229,946 m² (22.99 ha, 56.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599273.md - Parcel 1617126: 221,404 m² (22.14 ha, 54.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617126.md - Parcel 5102992: 218,697 m² (21.87 ha, 54.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102992.md - Parcel 4062359: 201,580 m² (20.16 ha, 49.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4062359.md - Parcel 1647699: 200,429 m² (20.04 ha, 49.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647699.md - Parcel 1588439: 170,860 m² (17.09 ha, 42.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588439.md - Parcel 1669940: 157,372 m² (15.74 ha, 38.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669940.md - Parcel 3358701: 156,809 m² (15.68 ha, 38.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3358701.md - Parcel 1617043: 117,525 m² (11.75 ha, 29.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617043.md - Parcel 1658033: 112,981 m² (11.3 ha, 27.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658033.md - Parcel 1666437: 108,427 m² (10.84 ha, 26.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666437.md - Parcel 1662860: 105,572 m² (10.56 ha, 26.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662860.md - Parcel 1597972: 4,741 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597972.md - Parcel 1661774: 4,660 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661774.md - Parcel 1602299: 4,537 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602299.md - Parcel 5544686: 3,197 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5544686.md - Parcel 1670385: 2,992 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670385.md - Parcel 1620304: 2,823 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620304.md - Parcel 1620303: 2,817 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620303.md - Parcel 1616452: 2,653 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616452.md - Parcel 1674380: 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674380.md - Parcel 1640335: 2,430 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640335.md - Parcel 1589023: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589023.md - Parcel 1613038: 2,114 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613038.md - Parcel 1671980: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671980.md - Parcel 1630472: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630472.md - Parcel 1617041: 1,767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617041.md - Parcel 1668942: 1,467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668942.md - Parcel 1640908: 1,243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640908.md - Parcel 3323786: 754 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3323786.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Sept 2018, Limerick County Council 18877: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. proposed two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18877/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fort Middle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI046-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI046-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI046-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI046-033----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI046-034----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Fort House, house, 1830–1835, Regional interest, registry number 21904610, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904610. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-middle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-middle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-middle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drewscourt East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drewscourt-east.md - Fort East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-east.md - Fort West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-west.md - Foxhall East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/foxhall-east.md - Foxhall West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/foxhall-west.md - Garryfine: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garryfine.md - Gortroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortroe-121167.md - Killacolla: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killacolla-121296.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fort-middle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/fort-middle