# Kilcosgrave, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Shanagolden, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill Choscráin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 718,346 m² (71.83 ha, 177.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,616 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Shanagolden, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/shanagolden.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32088 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121269 - Centre: latitude 52.558362, longitude -9.065558 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcosgrave, from 1,853 m² to 291,894 m² (29.19 ha, 72.13 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1597896: 291,894 m² (29.19 ha, 72.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597896.md - Parcel 1674194: 205,360 m² (20.54 ha, 50.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674194.md - Parcel 1668574: 176,928 m² (17.69 ha, 43.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668574.md - Parcel 5986936: 8,090 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5986936.md - Parcel 1619395: 5,854 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619395.md - Parcel 4025726: 5,827 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4025726.md - Parcel 1598645: 4,969 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598645.md - Parcel 1663622: 4,263 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663622.md - Parcel 1641007: 4,064 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641007.md - Parcel 1657819: 2,395 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657819.md - Parcel 1648886: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648886.md - Parcel 3384534: 1,909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384534.md - Parcel 1624955: 1,856 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624955.md - Parcel 1612833: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612833.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 29 Nov 2022, Limerick County Council 221258: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221258/0 - 22 Oct 2021, Limerick County Council 211487: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211487/0 - 3 Dec 2020, Limerick County Council 201276: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201276/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Kilcosgrave. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI019-109: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-109----. 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 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) - Kilcosgrave House, house, 1710–1720, Regional interest, registry number 21901907, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901907. 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. ## 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 Kilcosgrave, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcosgrave. - 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/kilcosgrave.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilcosgrave.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilcosgrave.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilcosgrave 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) - Craggard: https://everytownland.com/limerick/craggard.md - Lisbane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lisbane.md - Mullagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mullagh.md - Oldabbey: https://everytownland.com/limerick/oldabbey.md - Rathfarra: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathfarra.md - Tiermore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tiermore.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/kilcosgrave - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/kilcosgrave