Kilfrush

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfrush, from 10 m² to 886,634 m² (88.66 ha, 219.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Kilfrush 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.

• 16 Sept 2026N/a

  the construction of an agricultural building for the housing of cattle and associated underground slatted slurry storage tank including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661086

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  a 10-year planning permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 210 hectares consisting of the following: 843,000 sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 29 no. hardstanding locations used for electrical skids; 3 no. electrical plant rooms; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the R513 and L1509 public roads; new access points from the R513, R516, L1509 and L51309 public roads, and upgrades to existing access points from the L1507, L1509 and L51309 public roads; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660918

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  the refurbishment and extension of existing dwelling house to include installation of wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660606

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561347

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  attic conversion to existing dwelling. Permission is also being sought for (a) demolition of a single storey annex to the rear of the existing dwelling (b) construction of single storey extensions to sides and rear of existing dwelling house to facilitate the provision of a granny flat, (c) construction of single storey porch extension to front of house (d) elevational changes and (e) all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461122

• 2 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) Front canopy to dwelling house, (2) Revised entrance and site boundaries, (3) Revised location of garage and extension to garage, (4) Revised location of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221178

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  a dormer style dwelling which will be accessed via existing vehicular site entrance to adjoining dwelling house, installation of wastewater treatment system and associated development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22978

• 2 Sept 2022N/a

  front canopy to dwelling house, revised entrance & site boundaries, revised location of garage & extension to garage, revised location of septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22958

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  a 2-storey dwelling house, garage, advanced treatment system, tertiary filter, a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22318

• 18 May 2021N/a

  a 2-storey dwelling house, garage, advanced treatment system, tertiary filter, a new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21667

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  the removal of the existing milking parlour and dairy and the construction of a new milking parlour and dairy with the roof to extend over the existing cow collecting yard and all ancillary site works. The application also seeks retention permission for an agricultural shed with a slatted tank and hay store, retention permission for an agricultural machinery storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2186

• 7 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house, installation of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2110

• 25 Mar 2019Refused

  an entrance off private roadway, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19273

• 10 Jan 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning File Ref. No. 13/25 : the construction of a new dwelling, with a foul drainage small treatment plant and percolation area, single access road and new entrance off the public road (reference no. of outline permission 09/896)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187002

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  1. Construction of new roadside entrance and exit including new car parking layout to replace existing deficient roadside entrance and parking area. (New parking area to include one way entry and exit). 2. New tennis court fencing, soft netting and practice walls. 3. General signage and associated works. 4. all other works and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17721

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 Kilfrush.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-032 Castle - motte
  Description

  Mound described in 1942-3 as following; 'This structure consists of a circular flat-topped mound around which there is a fosse. The sides of the mound are steeply sloped. Its maximum height over the fosse-bottom is 13' [4m] and the overall diameter is 270' [82m]. Running into the fosse on the east side is the remains of a straight fosse or trench. This comes from the bank of the river Camoge, which is only a very short distance from the monument. This is nearly silted up. There is a similar trench running out of the fosse on the west side, and this is also silted up. It is probable that the fosse on the east side brought water from the river to the fosse of the mound. The water was returned to the river by the other trench which connects with a stream, which in turn connects with the river a little further down stream' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 243). Outline of monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2020 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/6, 9 on 05/01/2003.

• LI040-034 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 216) recorded the following details about the holy well; "St Bridget's Well" on 1840 map. Tradition in the district is unanimous in calling this "St Colman's Well" and not "St Bridget's Well". OSL gives "Tobar Colmain, S. Colman's Well", but OSNB gives "St Bridget's Holy Well". No second well is known in tradition. The well has a good spring of clear water. Formerly a large tree stood over the well, but this has been felled in recent years, and the water piped away to provide drinking water for cattle. All devotion has ceased, although the well was formerly very popular. The water cured eye ailments, and rags were left on the tree as offerings. The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that this well was 'called Tobar Cholmáin, Saint Colman's Well, which is frequented on Saturday evening, particularly by persons labouring under diseases that effect the eye. Two ash trees stand over it' (OSL Kilfrush Parish, 93). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• LI040-035001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 450) recorded the following details about Kilfrush; 'Kilfroys, 1287 (Inq. of T. de Clare); Kilfrussce in Grene Deanery, 1302; Jacob. Stak robbed Kilfrosse Church, 1318 (Plea R. 123 of xi Ed. II, m. 34); Kylfrushe, 1586 (Peyton, p. 14); Killfruishe, down, 1615. Site - It was known in 1840; and some remembered fragments of wall there. Its graveyard (LI040-035002-), in Mr. Gubbins' demesne, had then been levelled by him. The well (LI040-034----) was Tobercolman'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that 'an old graveyard where there were, some time ago, some remains of an old church observable is situated in the Demesne of Mr. Gubbins. The grave yard is not much in use' (OSL Kilfrush Parish). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• LI040-035002 Graveyard
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 450) recorded the following details about Kilfrush; 'Its graveyard, in Mr. Gubbins' demesne, had then been levelled by him. The well (LI040-034----) was Tobercolman'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that 'an old graveyard where there were, some time ago, some remains of an old church (LI040-035001-) observable is situated in the Demesne of Mr. Gubbins. The grave yard is not much in use' (OSL Kilfrush Parish). Site of Kilfrush Church stood in centre of square shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 30m) located 60m N of Kilfrush House. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

• LI040-201001 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In wet rough pasture. A possible enclosure (LI040-201002-) lies 45m to the SE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 97.1; AP 5/2101) as a small circular cropmark of a possible barrow. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint trace of cropmark (diam. c. 12m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 97.1 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 June 2021

• LI040-201002 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet rough pasture. A possible barrow (LI040-201001-) lies 45m to the NW. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 97.02; AP 5/2101) as a small circular cropmark. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 97.02 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 June 2021

• LI040-278 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 50m E of townland boundary with Ballycahill and 90m N of townland boundary with Knocklong. A ringfort (LI040-079----) lies 175m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as the cropmark of a possible ditch-barrow on oblique aerial photograph taken in 2003 (ASIAP (344) 9). Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (344) 9) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 July 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/6 and 9 on 05/01/2003.

• LI041-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 100m SW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Coolalough. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible enclosure identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 12; AP 5/2079) as an irregular shaped area enclosed by field boundary from NE-E and a bank from SW-N. Visible as curving field boundary from NE-E on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Kilfrush, country house, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1835, with five-bay side elevation. Hipped roof with rendered chimneystacks. Square-headed window openings. Projecting porch with four Ionic columns and steps up to entrance. Doric style pillared gate lodge within demesne.

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 Kilfrush, 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 Kilfrush.

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

Name

Kilfrush · Cill Frois

Area

3,225,535 m² (322.55 ha, 797.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfrush, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Knocklong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

918 people lived in 348 households in the Knocklong electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincarroona, Ballinvreena (Co. Tipperary), Ballycahill, Coolalough, Gotoon, Knocklong

Placenames

Kilfrush 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.