Hammondstown

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Hammondstown, from 278,514 m² (27.85 ha, 68.82 acres) to 278,514 m² (27.85 ha, 68.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Hammondstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Hammondstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Hammondstown.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-123 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, a rectangular enclosure (LI040-125----) lies 100m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2569) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of monument visible as an L-shaped cropmark from NE-E-S on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached BGE aerial photograph (Marked 271) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 June 2021

• LI040-125 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, a possible enclosure (LI040-123----) lies 100m to the W. Not marked on the OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular feature on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2571, Strip map 4, 4/41) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Trace of monument visible as rectangular cropmark (dims. c. 33m N-S x 30m E-W) intersected at S by relic watercourse running roughly E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/09/2019. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-128 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed wet pasture, 30m W of a watercourse that forms townland boundary with Island Dromagh, possible barrows (LI040-127001-/002-) lie 110m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential site visible as a small circle abutting a small rectangular feature on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, Strip map 4, site 4/36) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages. Doubtful antiquity. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-130 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about Toberedmond; ‘ "Toberedmond" on 1840 map. This well is marked in Gothic letters on the map, but there seems to be no evidence that it was ever regarded as a holy well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 June 2019

• LI040-289 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet pasture immediately N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Island Dromagh. Field system (LI040-136----) lies to immediate E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Visible as linear cropmarks on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5,000 2571, Strip map 4, site 4/19) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a pattern of linear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each, located over a large area (dims. c. 500m NW-SE x 220m NE-SW) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Earthworks visible on aerial photographs appear to form part of possible field system (LI040-136----). Possible duplicate site with adjoining field system (LI040-136----) See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 12 July 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 343/17 on 05/01/2003.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hammondstown.

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 Hammondstown, 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 Hammondstown.

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

Name

Hammondstown · Baile Ámainn

Area

278,791 m² (27.88 ha, 68.89 acres)

Civil parish

Knocklong, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Knocklong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

918 people lived in 348 households in the Knocklong electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynahinch, Island Dromagh, Knocklong East, Mitchelstowndown North

Placenames

Hammondstown 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.