Kilderry
Townland in the civil parish of Ballycahane, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill Doire
- Area
- 202.5 ha
- 501 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 2,939 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilderry, from 107 m² to 314,957 m² (31.5 ha, 77.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilderry 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Aug 2026N/a
two farm sheds and an above-ground storage tank for organic fertiliser together with all associated site works. Planning Permission is also being sought to relocate the existing vehicular farm entrance
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660927
19 Feb 2026Conditional
the addition of a single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, modifications to the existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660175
13 Oct 2023Conditional
(1) front porch extension, (2) garage conversion, (3) link corridor, (4) rear sun room extension, (5) storage shed attached to house & (6) shed in rear garden
Retention · Limerick County Council, 23494
30 Oct 2020Conditional
decommissioning of existing septic tank system and install a replacement packaged wastewater treatment system and packaged tertiary polishing filter to service existing private dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201116
30 Oct 2020Conditional
utility & bathroom extension as constructed, sunroom as constructed, stables as constructed
Retention · Limerick County Council, 201109
3 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of a slatted cubicle house, straw bedded loose house, a walled silage base and manure slab and all associated site works on his land
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20583
16 Nov 2018Conditional
attic conversion into living accommodation with 2 no. dormer windows to front, one gable window to front, 4 no. velux roof lights to rear, 1 no. velux rooflight to side, outdoor shed to rear and entrance
Retention · Limerick County Council, 181117
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilderry.
Recorded monuments
- LI022-085 Moated site
Description
Monument described in 1943 as following; 'This is a rectangular structure enclosed by a stone bank now very collapsed. The overall dimensions are 84' [26m] north-south and 60' [18m] east-west. The bank seems to have been from 7' [2m] to 10' [3m] thick. Most of the east side is completely gone, and the entrance is not recognisable. There is no fosse. The monument is densely overgrown' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 177). The outline of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 February 2020
- LI022-088 Ringfort - rath
Description
Monument described in 1943 as following; 'This is an earthen fort with what seems to have been a stone facing to the bank on the outside. It is surrounded by a slight fosse. The bank is so collapsed that it is not possible to determine the position of the entrance. Its overall diameter is 120' [36m]' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 177). The outline of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 February 2020
- LI022-089 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Monument described in 1943 as following; 'This is a large ring-fort [approx. int. diam. 70m]enclosed by a fosse and bank the outside of the latter being faced with stone. The interior is approximately level with the field outside. The entrance is on the south side and is now fitted with an iron gate as the fort is used as a bull enclosure. The bank remains to a height of 8' [2.4m] over the bottom of the fosse. The overall diameter is 330' [100m]. The structure is situated in poor lowland, which is marshy in winter' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 177). The outline of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 February 2020
- LI022-208 Road - road/trackway
Description
This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI022: Bruff 84: AP 4/3071.
- LI022-243 Enclosure
Description
Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 22, Bruff 78.01 & 78.02: AP 4/3071) and described by Doody (2008, 131) as an 'elongated E-W ditched oval enclosure, c. 95m x 25m'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilderry.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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 Kilderry.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilderry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilderry · Cill Doire
- Area
- 2,025,484 m² (202.55 ha, 500.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballycahane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Electoral division
- Fedamore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fedamore electoral division: 1,340 people in 449 households; 84% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyregan, Boolavoord, Garryellen, Kilcaskin, Kilderry, Powerfield, Rockfield
- Placenames
- Kilderry 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.