Kilkinlea Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyfeale, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill Chonléith Íochtarach
- Area
- 343 ha
- 848 acres
- Land parcels
- 163
- registered freehold, median 3,312 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Open Space and Recreation
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
163 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilkinlea Lower, from 18 m² to 205,848 m² (20.58 ha, 50.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Abbeyfeale Local Area PLan 2023-2029, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Feb 2026Conditional
construction of a fuel, machinery and storage shed to include extension to existing driveway and hardstanding to front of new building using existing entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660166
15 Apr 2025Refused
construction of an agricultural shed for fuel and machinery storage, extension to existing driveway with hard standing to front of shed
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560328
20 Sept 2024Refused
the construction of a fuel , machinery and storage shed to inlcude extension to existing driveway and hardstanding to front of new building
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460930
25 Nov 2021Conditional
(A) the demolition of existing outbuildings, (B) decommission of existing septic tank system, (C) the construction of an extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, (D) modify and upgrade existing vehicular entrance, (D) the installation of new proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter system with associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211632
29 Apr 2021Conditional
a house, domestic garage and shed, septic tank and percolation area, vehicular access as built
Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21562
14 Dec 2020Conditional
an extension to existing commercial unit and all site ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201343
16 Jul 2020Conditional
the demolition of existing dwelling and the construction of a replacement dwelling house, detached domestic garage, mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, upgrade and utilise existing entrance with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20660
11 Dec 2017Conditional
existing extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house with associated site works and installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter
Retention · Limerick County Council, 171153
3 Apr 2017Conditional
retention of (a) domestic garage, (b) fuel store utility and general storage shed with all ancillary works
Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17282
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI042-007 Children's burial ground
Description
In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (50.2m N-S; 50.3m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 0.7m) NNW->SW and defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.5m) SW->NNW. Stone wall, on N-S axis, skirts base of scarp WSW->WNW. Level interior under pasture, no visible surface trace of grave markers or burial plots. Nothing appears to be known of the site's history (Westropp 1904-5, 404); according to local information site of famine burial ground. 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 Kilkinlea Lower.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3437 (ZIP).
- 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 Kilkinlea Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilkinlea Lower · Cill Chonléith Íochtarach
- Area
- 3,430,377 m² (343.04 ha, 847.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyfeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Abbeyfeale, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abbeyfeale electoral division: 2,629 people in 1,077 households; 60% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbeyfeale West, Dromlegagh (Co. Kerry), Dromlegagh Demesne (Co. Kerry), Foil (Co. Kerry), Kilkinlea Upper, Kilmaniheen East (Co. Kerry), Kilmaniheen West (Co. Kerry), Knockaneroe (Co. Kerry), Meenscovane (Co. Kerry)
- Placenames
- Kilkinlea Lower 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.