Kilcolman East

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcolman East, from 448 m² to 438,546 m² (43.85 ha, 108.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Kilcolman East 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.

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  change of site boundaries and site layout plan to include revised position of dwelling, garage, waste water treatment unit and percolation area on site from that previously granted under planning reference 20/1186

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21234

• 18 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of two storey detached dwelling house and detached domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201186

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 Kilcolman East.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope, near base of hill. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now truncated by horse-training platform ESE->WSW. It now survives as D-shaped area (33m N-S; 37.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.65m), with external fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.5m) WSW->ESE. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Circular area (62m N-S; 61m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 1.6m). Bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m), heavily masked by overgrowth SW->NNE, has been worn down by cattle at SSW. Entrance at E (Wth 4m). Field boundary, forming corner of field, runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NNE. Level interior under pasture but with cluster of nettles around verge. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI029-092001 Church
  Description

  In centre of graveyard (LI029-092002-). Only possible remains of church is low stone wall (L c. 4.85m; Wth 1.05m) extending W from recently built-up grave vault; this probably represents the remains of the wall described in 1840 as 'twelve feet [3.65m] long and nine feet [2.7m] high' and identified as part of 'an old church' (OSL vol. 2, 62). Parish of Kilcolman Superior listed in 14th and 15th century (Westropp 1904-5, 392); according to Lewis (1837, ) church here 'destroyed in the war of 1641, and has not been rebuilt'. Church ruins described in 1840 as 'There was an old Church in the Townland of Kilcolman of which only a side wall twelve feet long [3.65m] and nine feet [2.7m] high now remains. This wall is made of large field stones cemented with lime and sand mortar. There is a large burial ground here (LI029-092002-), at present much' (OSL, 62). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 22 January 2019

• LI029-092002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, on break in N-facing hill slope. Accessed via pathway across field from road to E. Rectangular graveyard (55m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by stone wall, with gateway and stile mid-way along E side; enclosing wall not shown on 1841 OS 6-inch map. At centre fragmentary remains of parish church of Kilcolman (LI029-092001-). Ground rises towards centre, except at N end where it dips sharply inside enclosing wall. Marked graves confined to S half of graveyard; earliest noted headstone dated 1817; in 1840 described as 'a large burial ground ... at present much in use' (OSL vol. 2, 62). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on very gentle N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. It is now evident as roughly circular area (29m N-S; 27m E-W) of differential grass growth. Darker band of grass (Wth 3m) W->E probably indicates arc of infilled fosse. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-152 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 32m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

• LI029-153 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 19m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthophotos. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron letter box, erected c. 1880, bearing crown and royal insignia of Queen Victoria.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Kilcolman East.

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

Name

Kilcolman East · Cill Cholmáin Thoir

Area

1,810,476 m² (181.05 ha, 447.38 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Ballyallinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyallinan electoral division: 421 people in 151 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughalin, Ballyallinan South, Ballywinterrourkewood, Duckstown, Gorteen West, Kilcolman West

Placenames

Kilcolman East 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.