Kilbreedy

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbreedy, from 239 m² to 369,279 m² (36.93 ha, 91.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilbreedy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Kilbreedy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilbreedy.

Recorded monuments

• LI038-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in NE corner of a field, ringfort (LI038-097----) and enclosure (LI038-091----) lie 180m and 305m to the NE respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 20m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. The enclosing bank from NW-N-NE is irregular in shape and suggests that the N quadrant of the monument was possible quarried out between the map dates. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by a scrub-covered bank with scrub covered area at N and modern gap at NW on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Trace of outer fosse visible from SE-S-W on Google Earth orthoimage dated 29/03/2012. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

• LI038-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in SW corner of field, enclosures (LI038-097/098----) lie 100m to the E and 180m to the SW respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank with wide gap (Wth c. 17m) at E and smaller gap (Wth c. 5m) at W on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of cropmark of fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

• LI038-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in SW corner of a field, 100m E of ringfort (LI038-100----) and 200m NW of a children's burial ground (LI038-098----). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as circular-shaped area (dims. c. 18m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘four ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW of the townalnd’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 270). Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a tree-covered bank on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage. Cropmark of fosse visible from S-W-NW on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 19 April 2021

• LI038-098 Children's burial ground
  Description

  No surface remains visible of children's burial ground depicted as a small circular-shaped enclosure in NW corner of field on the first ed. OS 6-inch map. Annotated 'Kilbreedy Burial Gd. (for Children) on this map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI038-099 Earthwork
  Description

  In tillage. D-shaped area (7.5m N-S; 4.5m E-W) defined S->N by steeply-scarped edge (H 1.45m) but truncated on W side by N-S field fence. Known locally as "The Fort". Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Circular area (29.8m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.2m) with external fosse (D 0.6m). Gap across scarp to SSE. E-W field fence skirts S side of enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI039-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, 32m NW of townland boundary with Cappanafaraha and enclosure (LI039-053----) lies 150m to SE. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 26m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a bank with external fosse incorporated into post-1700 field boundary from SSE-S-W. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of '4 ancient forts, one in the N and the other three in the SW' of the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 271). Monument overgrown with trees visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilbreedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilbreedy · Cill Bhríde

Area

1,742,704 m² (174.27 ha, 430.63 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rockhill electoral division: 337 people in 124 households; 87% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfookeen, Ballyteige Lower, Cappanafaraha, Coolrus, Harding Grove, Howardstown North, Howardstown South, Knockannacreeva

Placenames

Kilbreedy 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.