Kilcosgrave

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcosgrave, from 1,853 m² to 291,894 m² (29.19 ha, 72.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Kilcosgrave 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.

• 29 Nov 2022Conditional

  The development will consist of permission for a solar farm comprising the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, installation of 9 transformer containers, a temporary construction compound and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works on lands 24.7 hectares located at Ellaha and Mullagh, Co. Limerick. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the application for planning permission

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221258

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  1) front porch to existing dwelling house, 2) side extension to existing dwelling house, 3) detached two-storey out-building containing office/gym/toilet/domestic garage/storage and 4) detached single storey garage

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211487

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a storey and half side extension with new link from original cottage, upgraded waste water treatment system and all other ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201276

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 Kilcosgrave.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-109 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Site of castle described in 1840 as 'The ruins of Kilcosgrave House stand here. It was a rectangular building, erected on the site of Kilcosgrave Castle, and was formerly the residence of the Langford family. Only part of it is now standing, and has been converted into a farm house. The original castle is demolished, and a house was built on the site of it' (OSNB Shanagolden Parish, 1603, 1608). Westropp (1906-7, 245) recorded the following details about Kilcosgrove (Cill Choscráin) Castle; '1299 The heirs of W. Roth dean under T. f. Gerald held Kilcosgrau; the rabbits in its warren were destroyed by foxes (C.S.P.L). 1452 Kilcosgrau held by the Earls of Desmond (Rental). 1583 Kilcosgrave vill. and C[astle]. Ed. og London (Des. B., 19b; Peyton, 192b; Inq. Exch., 54). 1587 Grant to W. Trenchard (Fi. 5078), and 1611 to his son F. Trenchard, who had leased it to Ric. Gyll. The C[astle]. was a sufficient dwelling (Inq. Chan., 6b). Francis held it. 1657, his daughter married Cap. J. Coplen, and their son J. married, 1677, Susanna Langford, and left the place by will, 1719, to her nephew, whose descendants hold it. Fabric - In 1840 the O.S. writers say that the house was on the site of the C[astle]. which no one remembered as standing. In fact, the foundations remain near the house'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• Kilcosgrave House, house, 1710–1720 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built in 1719, with crenellated box bay windows to front (south) elevation and three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Single-pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack to lean-to. Roughcast rendered walls having inscribed limestone plaque to front elevation. Square-headed openings to first floor with bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to box bay windows having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over timber panelled door having flanking sidelights and timber panelled risers. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window opening. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west having pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings. Square-headed door openings. Elliptical-headed opening with tooled limestone voussoirs. Pair of square-proflie limestone piers to south having rubble limestone sweeping walls terminating in second pair of piers.

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 Kilcosgrave, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kilcosgrave · Cill Choscráin

Area

718,346 m² (71.83 ha, 177.51 acres)

Civil parish

Shanagolden, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Craggard, Lisbane, Mullagh, Oldabbey, Rathfarra, Tiermore

Placenames

Kilcosgrave 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.