Kilglass
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbeheny, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Choill Ghlas
- Area
- 271.9 ha
- 672 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 3,485 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilglass, from 174 m² to 269,647 m² (26.96 ha, 66.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Kilglass 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
8 Jul 2026Conditional
a gym, office, swimming pool and detached garage with revised site boundaries and planning permission for the change of use of the existing garage to home office with a new link to the existing dwelling, extensions to the existing dwelling, a new detached garage/store and the installation of a wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 26163
29 May 2026N/a
the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling, the construction of a new storey-and-a-half dwelling, site entrance, wastewater treatment system & percolation area as per site assessment report and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660610
11 Jul 2025Conditional
the construction of a rear single storey extension to existing dwelling
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25233
12 Nov 2024Conditional
the conservatory constructed to the side of dwelling house and also revised constructed site boundaries (granted under planning ref. 00/2187)
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24430
24 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a single-storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, site entrance, connection to Kilglass Group Water Scheme, wastewater treatment system and percolation area as per site assessment report and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24218
9 May 2024Conditional
the renovation and extension of the existing dwelling. The works include demolition of previously constructed front and side extensions and dormer windows at first floor level on the front elevation and construction of new extensions to the side and rear and a new front porch. Permission is also being sought for the demolition of existing attached outbuildings and garage and construction of a detached garage (for domestic use), a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works all
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460433
28 May 2021Conditional
a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21745
18 Apr 2008Conditional
Site development works for 8 no. dwellinghouses, wastewater treatment units, access roads, green areas, entrance and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6181
27 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Site development works for 8 no. dwellinghouses, access roads, green areas, entrance and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5699
11 May 2005Conditional
Slatted storage tank, walking passage & straw beds
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3171
13 Apr 2005Incompleted application
Slatted unit straw beds
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2343
13 Oct 2004Conditional
Widening existing entrance and access bridge and construction of new pillars and installation of new entrance gates
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7699
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenacurrane River Valley 002035
Recorded monuments
- CO010-062 Bridge
Description
Road bridge (Wth 5.2m; long axis E-W) over River Funshion, on county boundary with Limerick. Limestone construction, stone footing set in river. Five semicircular arches (span c. 4m); rough voussoirs. Bridge widened by c. 2.11m on upstream side (N); similar size arches with dressed voussoirs; piers of ashlar project out into low bluntly pointed cutwaters. Modern iron railed parapet; structure recently repaired. Bridge of 18th-century appearance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- LI057-063 Ringfort - rath
Description
In reclaimed pasture 50m E of a stream and 100m S of the townland boundary with Coolnamohoge. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. 31m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from SW-N-SE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. A disused lime-kiln is shown 50m to SW on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Outline of monument overgrown with trees is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 3 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilglass.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Kilglass.
- 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 Kilglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilglass · An Choill Ghlas
- Area
- 2,718,828 m² (271.88 ha, 671.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbeheny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilglass electoral division: 315 people in 119 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyarthur (Co. Cork), Coolnamohoge, Garrane (Co. Cork), Geeragh, Glenacurrane, Mitchelstown (Co. Cork), Mitchelstown (Co. Cork)
- Placenames
- Kilglass 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.