Kimeheer
Kimeheer is a townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Caimthír.
- Area
- 29.9 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 2,157 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kimeheer, from 722 m² to 179,872 m² (17.99 ha, 44.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kimeheer 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
3 Sept 2025Conditional
change of use of existing derelict presbytery (which is a Protected Structure) and out buildings to one new detached dwelling house and permission for elevational alterations and installation of a new domestic wastewater treatment system, new boundaries and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25300
28 Apr 2023Conditional
the (a) Demolition of front and rear extensions to existing cottage, decommission existing septic tank and close up existing vehicular entrance, (b) construction of a single storey extension to existing cottage with alterations and elevation changes to existing cottage, construction of a new detached domestic garage, new entrance with entrance walls, install new mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23230
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 Kimeheer.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
In marshy pasture, on flat low-lying ground immediately to S of stream. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. 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 Kimeheer.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kimeheer, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kimeheer.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Kimeheer with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kimeheer · Caimthír
- Area
- 298,975 m² (29.9 ha, 73.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Robertstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Shanagolden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 922 people lived in 370 households in the Shanagolden electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Knockardnacorlan, Monavaha, Parkmore, Shanagolden
- Placenames
- Kimeheer 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.