Killinure
Townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill an Iúir
- Area
- 139.2 ha
- 344 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,770 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killinure, from 370 m² to 321,373 m² (32.14 ha, 79.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Killinure 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
5 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of a detached domestic garage to the side of existing dwelling house together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660106
18 Jul 2024Conditional
the construction of a new extension to the rear of the dwelling house; make elevational changes to the dwelling house; relocate the existing entrance gate; and to construct a private shed/garage to the side of the dwelling house along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460718
31 May 2024N/a
the construction of a new extension to the rear of the dwelling house and to make elevational changes to the dwelling house and permission to relocate the existing entrance gate and construct a private shed/garage to the side of the dwelling house along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460538
23 Nov 2023Conditional
the development will consist of the removal of 3 no. prefabricated buildings, demolition of single storey front classroom block, construction of a new two storey extension to the front and side of the existing school buildings and a new parking and set down arrangement at the main entrance and at the opposite side of the public road. The development will include special needs accommodation comprising 2 no. base classrooms, ancillary activity spaces, staff offices and toilets at ground floor level and 3 no. mainstream classrooms with associated toilets, staff offices and ancillary training rooms at first floor level. New staff and visitor car park providing 22 standard car parking spaces and 1 universal car park space, providing a total 23 car parking spaces. A set-down parking bay is to be provided for student drop off. New footways to the school frontage and the far side car park and drop off bay will be provided for pedestrians, including a new uncontrolled crossing point on the local roadway
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360865
4 Nov 2022N/a
the removal of 3 no. prefabricated buildings and demolition of single storey front classroom block. The development will include the construction of a new two storey extension to the front and side of the existing school buildings. It will comprise of a new school entrance, 2 no. additional needs classrooms with ancillary spaces at ground floor level and 3 no. mainstream classrooms at first floor level. Also a new parking and set down arrangement at the main entrance and at the opposite side of the public road with 24 no. car parking spaces, bus and car set down area, pedestrian crossing and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221187
28 Apr 2022Conditional
the demolition of existing dwelling house and for the construction of a replacement dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22477
11 Aug 2020Conditional
the construction of a prefabricated unit for 2 no. classrooms to the side of the existing school and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20783
4 Jun 2020Conditional
the construction of an extension to the side of existing dwelling house, new replacement waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20459
29 Sept 2017Conditional
a new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17907
2 Jun 2017N/a
new two storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, entrance & associated works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17506
16 Feb 2017Conditional
permission is sought to conserve, refurbish and extend the existing two storey detached property, including the demolition of the existing later edition extension to the rear of original house and its replacement with a 2 storey extension, the provision of a mechanical aeration system and associated percolation area and all associated site works on and under land, including minor boundary treatment
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17135
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 Killinure.
Recorded monuments
- LI014-052 Burial ground
Description
Situated on a S-facing slope in gently rolling pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is marked on the 1840 OS map as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) named 'Site of Burial Ground'. A find of human bones at this location is referred to in The Ordnance Survey Letters. There is was no evident trace of the monument at the site when inspected. The immediate area has been quarried in the past and some small scale quarrying appears to have taken place recently. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 20 June 2013
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1790, having windbreak to front (south) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Render over rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings having timber casement windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak with replacement timber battened door.
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 Killinure.
- 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 Killinure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Killinure · Cill an Iúir
- Area
- 1,391,819 m² (139.18 ha, 343.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherconlish East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caherconlish East electoral division: 576 people in 187 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohergar, Dromeliagh, Gorteennaskagh, Grange West, Sandylane
- Placenames
- Killinure 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.