# Hammondstown, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knocklong, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Ámainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 278,791 m² (27.88 ha, 68.89 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 278,514 m² (27.85 ha, 68.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knocklong, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/knocklong.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Knocklong, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31058 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121209 - Centre: latitude 52.419986, longitude -8.422071 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1591526: 278,514 m² (27.85 ha, 68.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591526.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Hammondstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Hammondstown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI040-123: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-123----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-125----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-128----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-130----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-289----. 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. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Hammondstown. ## 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 Hammondstown, 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 Hammondstown. - 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/hammondstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/hammondstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/hammondstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Hammondstown 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) - Ballynahinch: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynahinch.md - Island Dromagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/island-dromagh.md - Knocklong East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knocklong-east.md - Mitchelstowndown North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mitchelstowndown-north.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/hammondstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/hammondstown