Foxhall West

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxhall West, from 210 m² to 343,167 m² (34.32 ha, 84.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Foxhall West 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.

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  construction of a 2 storey dwelling, garage for domestic use, entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221282

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  change of entrance location and change of site boundaries from that as shown in planning ref. no. 18/695 and including garage (domestic use)

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191019

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing two-storey dwelling & construction of new two-storey dwelling in its stead, construct new entrance & waste water treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18695

• 19 Oct 2017N/a

  the demolition of existing two storey dwelling & construction of new two storey dwelling in its stead, construct new entrance & waste water treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17964

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 Foxhall West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Foxhall West.

Architectural heritage

• Colmanswell Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding T-plan gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1837, now ruinous. Comprising two-bay nave with two-bay transepts to sides (north, south) and single-bay single-storey sacristy to rear (east). Pitched roofs now absent with rendered rubble stone eaves course. Rendered rubble stone walls with tooled limestone date plaque to front (west) elevation. Pointed arch window openings with stone sills, having occasional remains of timber Y-tracery with four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows surmounted by multiple-pane overlights throughout. Elliptical-headed door opening to front elevation of nave, having double-leaf timber battened doors surmounted by timber battened tympanum. Later bell tower to north-west having lined-and-ruled rendered walls with camber-headed arch. Rendered enclosing walls with square-profile piers comprising of rendered plinth and pitched render capping with decorative ridge finial supporting double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• Colmanswell Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey presbytery, built c. 1870, having central breakfront bay to front (south), single-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) and later single-bay single-storey garage to side (east). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, timber clad eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to rear extension. Rendered rubble stone walls with plinth, having channelled render quoins to front elevation. Pointed arch window openings with tooled stone sills and internal timber panelled shutters to ground floor of front elevation and central bay to first floor of front elevation. Having bipartite timber-framed lancet windows with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows surmounted by timber spandrels with central trefoil-headed motif. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills elsewhere, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to east end of rear elevation, windows absent elsewhere. Pointed arch door opening to front elevation, having render hoodmoulding with corbelled label stops and timber panelled door surmounted by single-pane overlight. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation having render and dressed stone stepped approach and double-leaf timber battened Dutch doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Single-storey outbuildings and water tank to north-west and north-east. Rendered enclosing walls with render coping and square-profile piers having render capping and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Located to the north-west of the ruin of Colmanswell Roman Catholic Church.

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 20 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

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

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

Name

Foxhall West · Currach an Mhadra Thiar

Area

1,284,361 m² (128.44 ha, 317.37 acres)

Civil parish

Colmanswell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Colmanswell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Broghill North (Co. Cork), Creggane, Fort East, Fort Middle, Fort West, Foxhall East, Gortroe, Gortskagh (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Foxhall West 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.