Houndscourt

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houndscourt, from 833 m² to 481,325 m² (48.13 ha, 118.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Houndscourt 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.

• 27 Oct 2023N/a

  installation of 6 no. prefabricated glamping pod units, 1 no. prefabricated communal seating unit, car & bicycle parking, bin storage, installation of proprietary waste water treatment system incorporating secondary treatment & soil polishing filter discharging to groundwater, construction of new on-site access roadway, to be served by existing vehicular entrance, associated landscaping and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360784

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to southeast gable of existing dwelling house

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22494

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036

Recorded monuments

• LI059-005 Millstone quarry
  Description

  Site of millstone quarry recorded in 1975 by J. Borler and A. Lynch and described as located on W slope of Coolfree Mountain where millstones were produced (NMI Top. Files; Unpub. UCC Arch. Dept. Files). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Houndscourt, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Houndscourt · Cúirt na gCon

Area

1,010,137 m² (101.01 ha, 249.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilflyn, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilflyn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

231 people lived in 86 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonohoe, Ballyorgan, Coolavehy, Coolfree, Quitrentmountain (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Houndscourt 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.