Kilmeedy
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cill Míde
- Area
- 77.5 ha
- 191 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 1,271 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmeedy, from 22 m² to 121,984 m² (12.2 ha, 30.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Kilmeedy 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
18 Jun 2026N/a
a childrens play area, car & caravan parking area, toilet block, connection to public services and associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 26149
27 May 2025N/a
outline planning permission for 4 no. serviced sites for 4 no. detached dwelling units and planning permission for the construction of the site layout and all ancillary infrastructural works including entrance, roads, footpaths, landscaping, connection to public services, and all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560496
6 Mar 2025N/a
filling quarry with inert material in accordance with waste facility application ref: WFP/L/2024/232 previously applied for to Limerick City and County Council
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560177
8 May 2024Conditional
alterations, renovations and an extension to an existing dwelling house, garage, stables and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460431
15 Mar 2024Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, vehicular entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2495
17 May 2022Conditional
conversion of existing domestic house to office use to include modification, extensions and alterations to same which will also include a 3 phase electrical switch room and generator room with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22548
16 Dec 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to provide new site entrance, septic tank & percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201357
21 Aug 2020N/a
construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, upgrade existing agricultural entrance to provide new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20824
20 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of a new tractor and tractor lawnmower showroom along with offices, maintenance warehouse, outdoor covered and open sales display area, signage along with new concrete yard and all ancillary site works connected to existing utilities to the rear yard
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19589
17 Dec 2018N/a
a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181242
8 Aug 2018Conditional
the construction of a one and a half storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage/plant room, on site treatment system and percolation area, boundary walls, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18795
19 Jul 2018Conditional
the construction of a split level dwelling house and detached domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance & associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18736
12 Jun 2018N/a
the construction of a split level dwelling house and detached domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance & associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18586
28 Sept 2017Conditional
the change of use from garage to a bedroom and toilet and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17897
12 Jun 2017Conditional
for change of use of part of existing ground floor and existing first floor to café/restaurant, construction new annex to rear of existing building comprising store rooms at ground and first floor and link lobby to facilitate access to adjacent building, carry out minor alterations to existing building front elevation and carry out all associated ancillary site works. The proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17537
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 Kilmeedy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilmeedy.
Architectural heritage
- Áras Íde, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Corner-sited four-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1840, having recent two-storey extensions to rear (west). Now in use as community centre. Pitched slate roof with hipped gable to side (south), having rendered chimneystack, eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Render walls with roughcast rendered wall to side (north) elevation. Cut polished granite plaques to front and side (north) elevations. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings throughout, having decorative render surround with keystone to front elevation with timber panelled door surmounted by single-pane overlight. Timber panelled door to side (north) elevation opening. Rendered parapet wall with wrought-iron railing and double-leaf timber battened gates to east.
- Saint Ita's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
Description
Detached nine-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1942, on a rectangular plan comprising eight-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height apse (north) on a half-octagonal plan; single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (south) front. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof; half-octagonal slate roof (north), ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables including iron-covered concrete coping to gable to entrance (south) front with Cross finial-topped rendered gabled buttress to apex, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Gritdashed roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with gritdashed roughcast stepped buttresses. Round-headed window openings with concrete sills, timber mullions, and concealed dressings framing casement fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed window openings centred on round-headed "Trinity Window" (north). Round-headed door opening (south) with concealed dressings framing sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Round-headed "Trinity Window" (gable) with concrete sill, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (south) on chamfered pillars, central aisle between timber pews, exposed strutted collared roof construction with wind braced ceiling, and round-headed chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (north) reordered, ----, with altar below "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping.
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 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilmeedy.
- 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 Kilmeedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilmeedy · Cill Míde
- Area
- 774,575 m² (77.46 ha, 191.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilmeedy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeedy electoral division: 368 people in 133 households; 80% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruane, Carrowmore, Drominacreen, Garbally, Gortnacreha Upper, Pallas
- Placenames
- Kilmeedy 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.