Kilfergus

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfergus, from 24 m² to 93,487 m² (9.35 ha, 23.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  (a) erection of flood lighting on playing field in the form of 6 no. 15m high lighting poles and (b) erection of a ball stop net in training area and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25349

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  a 60m x 50m Floodlight Astroturf pitch, warm up area and associated site works including 2.5m high netting on top of 2.4m high perimeter fence and a new 4m wide gateway from existing playing pitch

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18448

• 29 Nov 2017Conditional

  existing recessed entrance with gates

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 171109

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 Kilfergus.

Recorded monuments

• LI018-001001 Church
  Description

  North-of-centre in Kilfergus graveyard (LI018-001002-). Only E gable (ext. L 8.65m) and section of S (L 10.5m) and N (L 4m) walls now stand; these recently re-pointed with concrete. Central window in E wall has single lintelled light and splayed embrasure covered by segmental arch. Similar window near E end of S wall. In 1840 described as 'forty two feet [12.8m] in length' when 'west gable and north wall ... down to the foundations' (OSLB vol. 1, 43-4); at this time part of the doorway in the south wall was discernable 'nine feet [2.7m] from the west gable, but its top is totally destroyed ... but three feet [0.9m] of the height of its sides remain from which it appears that it was rudely constructed of un-hammered stones' (ibid). Westropp (1904-5, 397) gives the following details on Kilfergus; 'A parish in Shanid; the church is detached in Loghill: Killergussa, 1201; O'Fergus church, in O'Conyll, granted to the See by Adam Keyting, 1223 (B.B.L., xxxii.). Bishop Robert grants Kilmurry and Kilfergus to John le Persoun, 1254 (Ib., xix.), John Brathnach grants them to the See, 1296 (lb., Ivi). Kilfeargussa, 1418 ; Kilfarasye, 1586 (Peyton, p. 227) ; Kilfergussagh, 1615a. Fabric - It stands near Glin, and is 42 feet [12.8m] by 22 feet [6.7m]; west and north walls are down; east window has a flat arch of flags inside, and has a rectangular light with inclined jambs. The south wall has a rectangular window and a defaced door of rude, hammered stones. Walls, 12 feet [3.65m] high by 3 feet [0.9m], of small stones (O.S.L. 9, 147)'. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI018-001002 Graveyard
  Description

  Graveyard is irregular in plan (c. 95m N-S; c. 80m E-W) bounded by recently-built wall and gateway along roadside to SW, and elsewhere by repaired stone wall. To N-of-centre is ruin of late-medieval parish church of Kilfergus (LI018-001002-). Graveyard, including interior of church, densely packed with burials. Just inside E wall of church is burial vault of Knights of Glin "1400-1866"; large uninscribed gabled tomb just SW of church; another smaller gabled tomb just outside E wall of church dated 1799. Inscribed headstones date from late 19th century. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilfergus, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Kilfergus, Glin13 sales

Name

Kilfergus · Cill Fhearghasa

Area

448,105 m² (44.81 ha, 110.73 acres)

Civil parish

Loghill, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,207 people lived in 491 households in the Glin electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygiltenan Lower, Ballygiltenan North, Caheragh, Cloonoughter, Killacolla (Barker), Killeany More

Placenames

Kilfergus 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.