# Highmount, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Mullach Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,577,738 m² (257.77 ha, 636.97 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,413 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmeedy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilmeedy.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Feenagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 340 people lived in 130 households in the Feenagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 14% 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/31775 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121217 - Centre: latitude 52.370158, longitude -8.860148 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highmount, from 199 m² to 299,843 m² (29.98 ha, 74.09 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1669537: 299,843 m² (29.98 ha, 74.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669537.md - Parcel 5430918: 218,076 m² (21.81 ha, 53.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5430918.md - Parcel 1591218: 207,680 m² (20.77 ha, 51.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591218.md - Parcel 1660244: 164,196 m² (16.42 ha, 40.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660244.md - Parcel 1601875: 156,385 m² (15.64 ha, 38.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601875.md - Parcel 1641464: 140,967 m² (14.1 ha, 34.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641464.md - Parcel 1641467: 122,623 m² (12.26 ha, 30.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641467.md - Parcel 1641465: 121,590 m² (12.16 ha, 30.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641465.md - Parcel 1595112: 114,839 m² (11.48 ha, 28.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595112.md - Parcel 1607281: 112,808 m² (11.28 ha, 27.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607281.md - Parcel 1664529: 92,284 m² (9.23 ha, 22.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664529.md - Parcel 1641463: 88,326 m² (8.83 ha, 21.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641463.md - Parcel 1672912: 83,393 m² (8.34 ha, 20.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672912.md - Parcel 1672911: 83,279 m² (8.33 ha, 20.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672911.md - Parcel 1641466: 81,254 m² (8.13 ha, 20.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641466.md - Parcel 1591222: 67,599 m² (6.76 ha, 16.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591222.md - Parcel 1591221: 60,123 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591221.md - Parcel 1591219: 58,436 m² (5.84 ha, 14.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591219.md - Parcel 1626607: 58,123 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626607.md - Parcel 5083052: 57,297 m² (5.73 ha, 14.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083052.md - Parcel 1626609: 41,670 m² (4.17 ha, 10.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626609.md - Parcel 1606854: 27,067 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606854.md - Parcel 1673049: 25,488 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673049.md - Parcel 1591220: 22,297 m² (2.23 ha, 5.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591220.md - Parcel 1673050: 8,328 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673050.md - Parcel 1659843: 4,498 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659843.md - Parcel 1611706: 4,453 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611706.md - Parcel 3744887: 4,369 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3744887.md - Parcel 6071003: 4,060 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6071003.md - Parcel 1600106: 3,713 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600106.md - Parcel 1590344: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590344.md - Parcel 1595554: 3,442 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595554.md - Parcel 2647876: 3,141 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2647876.md - Parcel 1604959: 3,011 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604959.md - Parcel 1647519: 2,747 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647519.md - Parcel 1598591: 2,723 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598591.md - Parcel 1674076: 2,475 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674076.md - Parcel 1666956: 2,453 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666956.md - Parcel 1669536: 2,416 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669536.md - Parcel 1629940: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629940.md - Parcel 1670379: 2,271 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670379.md - Parcel 1657674: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657674.md - Parcel 3432211: 1,654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3432211.md - Parcel 4924173: 1,654 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4924173.md - Parcel 1616545: 1,572 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616545.md - Parcel 1661678: 1,250 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661678.md - Parcel 1602710: 774 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602710.md - Parcel 1659405: 415 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659405.md - Parcel 1604404: 410 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604404.md - Parcel 1629154: 199 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629154.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Highmount 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 22 Sept 2025, Limerick County Council 25316: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25316/0 - 29 May 2025, Limerick County Council 2560498: Conditional. Retention. attached car-port, garage, shed for storage of classic truck, and the raising in height of the front and side boundary wall and piers to include splayed wing walls. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560498/0 - 6 Nov 2024, Limerick County Council 24428: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a bored well, a new site entrance and gate and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/24428/0 - 25 Apr 2022, Limerick County Council 22463: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22463/0 - 20 Oct 2021, Limerick County Council 211466: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two storey detached dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, new on-site waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211466/0 - 26 Jun 2017, Limerick County Council 17593: Conditional. Permission. an extension to existing dwelling house and all associated sitework. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17593/0 - 3 Jul 2006, Cork County Council 06/8549: Conditional. Permission. Retention of garage/store. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8549 - 26 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7860: Conditional. Permission. Cattle shed with slatted tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7860 - 14 Mar 2005, Cork County Council 05/1539: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and cattle shed with slatted unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/1539 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 Highmount. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Highmount. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Highmount House, farm house, house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21904515, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904515. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, incorporating remains of earlier single-storey dwelling. Porch surmounted by gable-fronted conservatory and canted bay windows to front (south), three-bay two-storey return to rear (north). Lean-to additions to side (west) and rear of return. Hipped slate roofs to house and canted-bays with looped terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, rendered eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return with rendered chimneystack, render gable coping and uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front and side (west) elevations, having rusticated render quoins and panels to front elevation. Render quoins to porch. Rendered walls elsewhere having rendered rubble stone buttresses to rear elevation. Whitewashed rubble stone walls to lean-to to side (west), corrugated-iron walls to rear lean-to. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having raised render surrounds with keystones to first floor of front elevation. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floors of front and rear elevations, rear elevation of return. Timber-framed tripartite windows to canted bays, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows flanked by one-over-one pane timber sliding sash sidelights. One-over-one and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Timber-framed bipartite window to rear elevation of return having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement timber and uPVC casement windows elsewhere. Square-headed door openings having rendered voussoirs and surround to side (east) elevation of porch, having fluted timber doorcase and brackets with timber panelled door. Replacement glazed timber door to side (west) elevation of return. Three-bay outbuilding to north-west having two-bay lean-to addition to front (south) and integral carriage arch. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with integral carriage arches to north of house. Located within own grounds, having splayed entrance comprising rendered enclosing walls with plinth and coping. Lined-and-ruled render walls with rendered capping and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates. - House, 1730–1770, Regional interest, registry number 21904516, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904516. Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750, having recent breakfront porch to front (south). Lean-to corrugated-iron shed to side (west). Attached two-bay single-storey cattle shed to side (east) with single-pitch corrugated-iron roof. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with platbands to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding windows. Square-headed door opening having uPVC door. Recent outbuildings to south and west. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing walls and single-leaf galvanised-steel gate. ## 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 Highmount, 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 Highmount. - 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/highmount-121217.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/highmount-121217.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/highmount-121217.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Highmount 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) - Ballymongaun: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymongaun.md - Cloncrew: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloncrew.md - Cloonlara: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonlara.md - Feenagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/feenagh.md - Highmount: https://everytownland.com/limerick/highmount-121216.md - Kilcolman: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilcolman-121264.md - Kinteera (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/kinteera.md - Lyragh (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/lyragh.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/highmount-121217 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/highmount-121217