# Kilgobbin, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Adare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill Mhac Gobáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,733,696 m² (173.37 ha, 428.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,783 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Adare, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/adare.md - Barony: Coshma - Electoral division: Adare South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,225 people lived in 730 households in the Adare South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30483 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121288 - Centre: latitude 52.583765, longitude -8.768525 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilgobbin, from 5 m² to 704,985 m² (70.5 ha, 174.21 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1617771: 704,985 m² (70.5 ha, 174.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617771.md - Parcel 1674567: 256,025 m² (25.6 ha, 63.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674567.md - Parcel 1609301: 207,018 m² (20.7 ha, 51.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609301.md - Parcel 5598066: 77,663 m² (7.77 ha, 19.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5598066.md - Parcel 1647416: 48,376 m² (4.84 ha, 11.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647416.md - Parcel 1617759: 20,582 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617759.md - Parcel 4976086: 6,741 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4976086.md - Parcel 5968188: 3,751 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5968188.md - Parcel 1647186: 3,703 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647186.md - Parcel 1653144: 3,249 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653144.md - Parcel 1614571: 3,241 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614571.md - Parcel 1620370: 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620370.md - Parcel 1610134: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610134.md - Parcel 1657044: 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657044.md - Parcel 1659542: 2,411 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659542.md - Parcel 1665264: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665264.md - Parcel 1607146: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607146.md - Parcel 1611244: 1,958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611244.md - Parcel 1608673: 1,870 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608673.md - Parcel 1649097: 1,860 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649097.md - Parcel 1603789: 1,858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603789.md - Parcel 1601721: 1,849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601721.md - Parcel 1613135: 1,849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613135.md - Parcel 1615110: 1,835 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615110.md - Parcel 1658177: 1,732 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658177.md - Parcel 1626869: 1,731 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626869.md - Parcel 1624701: 1,549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624701.md - Parcel 1666552: 1,500 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666552.md - Parcel 1616045: 1,403 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616045.md - Parcel 1599414: 1,276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599414.md - Parcel 1648502: 955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648502.md - Parcel 1639061: 889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639061.md - Parcel 1613773: 688 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613773.md - Parcel 1649862: 682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649862.md - Parcel 1611486: 648 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611486.md - Parcel 1612519: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612519.md - Parcel 3898926: 496 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3898926.md - Parcel 1618347: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618347.md - Parcel 1614307: 454 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614307.md - Parcel 1656458: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656458.md - Parcel 1647903: 310 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647903.md - Parcel 1614129: 205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1614129.md - Parcel 1602435: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602435.md - Parcel 1670736: 116 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670736.md - Parcel 1654277: 88 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654277.md - Parcel 2459418: 87 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2459418.md - Parcel 1590235: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590235.md - Parcel 1612302: 5 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612302.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Kilgobbin 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 18 May 2026, Limerick County Council 26129: Conditional. Permission. construction of a slatted unit for dairy cows and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/26129/0 - 29 Mar 2022, Limerick County Council 22348: Refused. Permission. the construction of a new roadside boundary, and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22348/0 - 16 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21492: Conditional. Permission. construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21492/0 - 14 Apr 2020, Limerick County Council 20314: Conditional. Permission, 6 homes. the demolition and replacement of 6 no. semi-detached cottages, the demolition of existing sheds, the installation of 6 no. wastewater treatment units, polishing filters and ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20314/0 - 19 May 2017, Limerick County Council 17460: N/a. Permission, 1 home. consist of the construction of a domestic garage. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17460/0 - 4 Apr 2017, Limerick County Council 17285: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a domestic garage. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17285/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI012-071: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI012-071----. In grassland 150m N of 18th century Kilgobbin House and 70m W of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Cloonanna. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a bank. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts an irregular shaped area (int. dims. 31m NE-SW x 16m NW-SE; ext. dims. 44m NE-SW x 32m NW-SE) defined by a bank from NNE through S to NW and a scarp from NW to NNE. Google Earth orthoimage taken 2004 shows the enclosing bank from E through S to W with the remainder of the area covered with vegetation. Monument covered with trees on 2020 Google Earth imagery. See attached Google earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020 and 26/05/2004 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 19 June 2020 - LI012-074: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI012-074----. Westropp records the following about Kilgobbin Church; 'An ancient parish, now merged. Killmacgoban, 1201. Killagoban, 1296 (Plea R. 22 of xxv Ed. I, m.48); Kilgubban, 1298; Kilghobain, 1410 and 1418; Kilgaban, 1615b. Fabric - A rude, late little oratory, 27½ [8.35m] feet long and 19 feet [5.8m] wide, outside; only the west gable, with defaced door and belfry, and parts of the sides, exist' (Westropp 1904-5, 379). Begley (1906, 119) recorded that 'The north, south, and west walls of this old church are still remaining. Its external length was 27 feet [8.3m] and its breadth 9 feet [2.75m]. The stones that have formed the west doorway have been removed. This church is often mentioned in the Black Book'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 October 2018 - LI021-014: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-014----. In lowlying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. Surveyed by ASI in 2000 and described as consisting of a raised circular-shaped area (dims. 16m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 6.60m; H 1.4m). Interior gently undulating and clear of undergrowth. Levelled monument (overall diam. 54m) visible today as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 16 July 2020 - LI021-146: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-146----. On a relatively level area of undulating pasture, with moderate views in all directions, c. 85m to E of a townland boundary with Mondellihy. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. A field boundary runs E-W across this area. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 53/A/3, p. 62). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020 - LI021-147001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-147001-. On a low rise, in undulating pasture, with moderate views in all directions. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. A field boundary runs E-W across this area. Possible enclosure (LI021-147002-) 50m to N. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 53/A/4, p. 65). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020 - LI021-147002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-147002-. On a low rise, in undulating pasture, with moderate views in all directions. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Possible enclosure (LI021-147001-) 50m to S. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 53/A/4, P. 65). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020 - LI021-148: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-148----. On a slight W-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate to poor views in all directions. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Ringfort (LI021-015----) 230m to E. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 53/A/5, p. 65). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020 - LI021-179: Pit, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-179----. In gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions, 140m N of a townland boundary with Rineroe. An enclosure (LI021-148----) lies 250m to E. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a series of pits during monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the proposed route of the N20/N21 Limerick bypass. Monument excavated (Licence No. 99E0423) in 1999 by Ciara McManus and described as a roughly circular-shaped ring (diam. 5m) of black, charcoal-rich soil, with a small, circular-shaped pit to S. Another large circular-shaped pit was excavated, c. 50m to E (McManus 1999, 1). Excavation of a spread revealed the existence of three badly truncated pits, set out in a triangular arrangement, all filled by a charcoal-rich, silty clay, and a number of small random post-holes (McManus 1999, 1-3). It proved difficult to determine the extent and function of these pits due to their disturbance. The presence of the small post-holes on site suggests that this may be the remains of a structure, where perhaps the spreads represent the remains of slots as opposed to pits. No immediately datable material was recovered from the site and so no date range can be offered for this activity at present. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached excavation plan and location map taken from McManus 1999 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 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) - Kilgobbin House, country house, 1740–1760, Regional interest, registry number 21901220, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901220. Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1777, having porch to front (south) elevation, canted full-height bay to west elevation, recent single-storey extension to east elevation and three-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron brackets, rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Hipped and pitched slate roofs to extensions with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having bipartite four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening to rear with spoked fanlight over multipane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed openings to rear having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to porch, east and west elevations, with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to porch having timber panelled door. Round-headed opening beyond porch with spoked fanlight over half-glazed timber panelled door. Carved Ionic limestone columns to porch supporting entablature having triglyph style motifs and roundels with floral motifs supporting carved cornice. Carved Ionic limestone pilasters to porch, east and west elevations. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west. Hipped thatched roof. Rubble limestone walls with partial brick walls to south elevation. Square-headed opening to east elevation having timber battened door and flanking fixed windows. Rubble limestone walled garden to south. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings, some with bipartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, some with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, and some having fixed windows. Square-headed openings, some with brick voussoirs having timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed arch to east elevation with double-leaf timber battened doors. Timber battened stalls to interior. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-east, having extensions to south and west elevations. Pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls with cast-iron patris plates. Rendered walls to south and west elevations. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, those to first floor having brick voussoirs. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile rubble limestone piers to east leading to east courtyard. Pair of roughcast rendered piers to south having double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered sweeping walls terminating in rubble limestone boundary walls. ## 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 Kilgobbin, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_817, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_817.zip (ZIP). - 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/kilgobbin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilgobbin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilgobbin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Kilgobbin 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) - Adare: https://everytownland.com/limerick/adare.md - Ballyloughnaan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyloughnaan.md - Cloonanna: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonanna.md - Gortaganniff: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortaganniff.md - Lissaleen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lissaleen.md - Mondellihy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mondellihy.md - Rineroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rineroe.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/kilgobbin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/kilgobbin