# Kells, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Dromcolliher, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Na Cealla.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,506,932 m² (150.69 ha, 372.37 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,441 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Dromcolliher, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/dromcolliher.md
- Barony: Connello Upper
- Electoral division: Dromcolliher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Dromcolliher electoral division: 928 people in 374 households; 71% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31757
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121247
- Centre: latitude 52.348319, longitude -8.902004 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kells, from 323 m² to 448,059 m² (44.81 ha, 110.72 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5367575: 448,059 m² (44.81 ha, 110.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367575.md
- Parcel 1602337: 328,850 m² (32.88 ha, 81.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602337.md
- Parcel 1608758: 164,725 m² (16.47 ha, 40.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608758.md
- Parcel 1607458: 155,650 m² (15.56 ha, 38.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607458.md
- Parcel 1658492: 143,826 m² (14.38 ha, 35.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658492.md
- Parcel 1657298: 129,169 m² (12.92 ha, 31.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657298.md
- Parcel 5367526: 24,348 m² (2.43 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367526.md
- Parcel 1638383: 21,722 m² (2.17 ha, 5.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1638383.md
- Parcel 1607459: 20,678 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607459.md
- Parcel 1674302: 12,139 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674302.md
- Parcel 1654586: 5,788 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654586.md
- Parcel 1658493: 5,030 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658493.md
- Parcel 1611859: 4,590 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611859.md
- Parcel 1658583: 4,526 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658583.md
- Parcel 1660160: 4,441 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660160.md
- Parcel 1612657: 4,435 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612657.md
- Parcel 1670417: 4,283 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670417.md
- Parcel 2502851: 3,396 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2502851.md
- Parcel 1626980: 2,674 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626980.md
- Parcel 3267201: 2,526 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267201.md
- Parcel 1643081: 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643081.md
- Parcel 1622592: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622592.md
- Parcel 1616580: 2,332 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616580.md
- Parcel 1659309: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659309.md
- Parcel 1673462: 2,093 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673462.md
- Parcel 1647456: 1,864 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647456.md
- Parcel 1657615: 1,838 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657615.md
- Parcel 1630099: 1,376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630099.md
- Parcel 1643334: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643334.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Kells 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)

8 applications, newest first.

- 24 Jul 2024, Limerick County Council 24304: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, drive-way, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter & all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/24304/0
- 2 Feb 2023, Limerick County Council 2364: Refused. Retention. for (a) permission to retain change of use to existing agricultural buildings to steel fabrication unit including change of use from agricultural storage outbuildings to storage in association with steel fabrication premises, (b) permission to retain construction of 3 No. Extensions to existing buildings incorporating (i) machine shop incorporating specialist steel saw, (i) external canopy and (iii) extension to existing workshop incorporating set out area and storage, (c) permission to retain existing 2 No. portacabins on site for purposes of office, staff canteen and staff toilet, together with permission to retain all ancillary site works associated with the change of use including concreting of yard areas, external rollers for movement of steel, construction of walls, and connection to existing septic tank and percolation area. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2364/0
- 24 Sept 2020, Limerick County Council 20960: Refused. Retention. 2 no. as constructed dry stores and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20960/0
- 20 May 2019, Limerick County Council 19496: Conditional. Permission. erection of a slatted beef unit. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19496/0
- 13 Feb 2019, Limerick County Council 19121: Conditional. Permission. construction of a 18m x 5m hurling wall and carry out all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19121/0
- 14 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181103: Conditional. Retention. 2 no. as constructed silage pits and walls and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181103/0
- 19 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 171205: Conditional. Retention. a constructed cubicle house and slurry storage tank and as constructed dairy building, and planning permission for a new calf shed and a new agricultural building comprising dry feed store, machinery store and feed passage and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171205/0
- 27 Jun 2017, Limerick County Council 17606: Conditional. Permission. the demolition of existing rear extension to existing cottage, alterations to existing cottage, demolish existing chimney and replace with new chimney, permission to construct a new storey and a half type extension including single storey link corridor to rear of existing cottage, waste water treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17606/0

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## 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 Kells.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI054-024: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI054-024----. In low-lying pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Denuded earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) survives S->W, and earthen field boundary (H 1.2m) NNW->SE may incorporate enclosing bank. Marshy interior under rough pasture; NW quadrant is slightly higher than remainder of interior. Farm passage cuts through W side of interior on NNW-SSE axis. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI054-025: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI054-025----. In low-lying marshy pasture immediately to E of public road. Partially incorporated into S field boundary ESE->SW. Sub-rectangular area enclosed by inner and outer earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 4.2m). Well preserved inner bank (ext. H 1.6m) heavily masked by dense vegetation cover with cattle break (Wth 1.2m) at WSW. Outer bank (int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.55m), best preserved SW->WSW, becomes low and spread out NNE->ESE. Waterlogged fosse (D 0.3m), fed by stream at W, contains dump of domestic rubbish at NW. Slight dip (D 0.2m; Wth 1.2m) runs along outer edge of outer bank NNE->ESE. Level interior under rough pasture, inaccessible along inner bank due to dense briar growth . Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 Kells.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_649, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_649.zip (ZIP).
- 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/kells.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kells.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kells.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Kells 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)

- Carroward East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carroward-east.md
- Coolaboy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolaboy.md
- Gardenfield South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gardenfield-south.md
- Gorteens: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gorteens.md
- Mundellihy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mundellihy.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.

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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.

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