Killacolla
Townland in the civil parish of Corcomohide, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Coill an Chollaigh
- Area
- 150.6 ha
- 372 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 3,579 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killacolla, from 834 m² to 509,718 m² (50.97 ha, 125.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Killacolla 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
12 May 2021Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, enlarge existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21632
26 Mar 2019Conditional
construction of (a) a new vehicular entrance, (b) dwelling house, to be serviced by mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter, (c) domestic garage and storage building, and (d) all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19277
9 Apr 2018Conditional
a new underground slurry tank and a new cattle shed to house livestock
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18333
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killacolla.
Recorded monuments
- LI046-014 Children's burial ground
Description
In wooded area behind farmyard; in generally level pasture. Circular area (9.5m N-S; 9.5m E-W) defined NW->NE and E->SW by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 6m), creating level platform but without a defining edge NE->E and SW->NW. Entire area densely overgrown by trees and bushes. Interior surface strewn with loose stones but no identifiable graves or gravemarkers evident. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having later porch to front (south-east), single-bay addition to side (north-east) and single-bay gable-fronted addition to rear (north-west). Hipped thatched roof to house with rendered brick chimneystack. Render cornice to porch. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and render gable copings and eaves course to additions. Rendered rubble stone and mud walls. Square-headed window openings with dressed stone sills, internal timber panelled shutters throughout with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to side (south-west) elevation of rear addition. Square-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door. Rendered enclosing walls having render plinth, coping and square-profile piers with render capping and wrought-iron gate. Located adjacent to roadside.
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 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 Killacolla.
- 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 Killacolla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Killacolla · Coill an Chollaigh
- Area
- 1,506,398 m² (150.64 ha, 372.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Corcomohide, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Colmanswell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Colmanswell electoral division: 535 people in 202 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysalla, Clashgortmore, Drewscourt East, Fort Middle, Garryfine, Rossbane
- Placenames
- Killacolla 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.