# Houndscourt, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cúirt na gCon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,010,137 m² (101.01 ha, 249.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 46,538 m² (4.65 ha, 11.5 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilflyn, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilflyn.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Kilflyn, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30996 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121220 - Centre: latitude 52.297468, longitude -8.47101 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Houndscourt, from 833 m² to 481,325 m² (48.13 ha, 118.94 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1624310: 481,325 m² (48.13 ha, 118.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624310.md - Parcel 1590143: 476,400 m² (47.64 ha, 117.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590143.md - Parcel 1602266: 46,538 m² (4.65 ha, 11.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602266.md - Parcel 4316560: 7,494 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4316560.md - Parcel 1630087: 833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630087.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 27 Oct 2023, Limerick County Council 2360784: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360784/0 - 4 May 2022, Limerick County Council 22494: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of an extension to southeast gable of existing dwelling house. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22494/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC, site code 002036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002036 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains, site code 002036 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI059-005: Millstone quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI059-005----. 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 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 Houndscourt. ## 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 Houndscourt, 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 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 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/houndscourt.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/houndscourt.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/houndscourt.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Houndscourt 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) - Ballydonohoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonohoe-120212.md - Ballyorgan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyorgan.md - Coolavehy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolavehy.md - Coolfree: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolfree.md - Quitrentmountain (Co. Cork): https://everytownland.com/cork/quitrentmountain.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/houndscourt - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/houndscourt