Kinard
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfergus, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cian Ard
- Area
- 174.1 ha
- 430 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 14,478 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kinard, from 115 m² to 203,585 m² (20.36 ha, 50.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Kinard 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
4 Sept 2025Conditional
demolition of the rear extension and front porch, for a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and add 2 new windows to the south elevation and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25305
18 Jul 2025Conditional
a new agricultural farm entrance, access passage and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25239
23 Jul 2024Conditional
demolition of the rear extension to an existing dwelling. Permission to extend and renovate the existing dwelling, construct a domestic garage, decommission the existing septic tank, install a mechanical treatment system with a raised, sand polishing filter; along with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460735
19 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic shed, site entrance and wastewater treatment system consisting of a mechanical aeration unit, intermittent filter and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211175
18 Dec 2020Conditional
a bungalow with attic development with wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter also to create an access drive to same and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201378
27 Oct 2020Conditional
construction of two storey extension to side(north-east), alterations to existing fenestration at ground and first floor level to side(south-west) elevation, alterations to existing fenestration at first floor level to side(north-east) elevation, demolition of existing south chimney stack, demolition of existing boiler house/oil tank to rear and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201090
29 Nov 2018Conditional
modifications to existing dwelling including an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, installation of a new treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181155
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 Kinard.
Recorded monuments
- LI017-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
On slight prominence, in undulation pasture. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 2m) NE->NW, and defined by earthen field boundary NW->NE. Causeway entrance at SW (Wth 1.4m). Interior and most of enclosing element is covered by dense impenetrable overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI017-050 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. The immediate area of the site is waterlogged. A roughly oval mound (12m N-S; 9m E-W; H 0.5m) of burnt material. The mound comes to a slight point at its S end. There is a shallow roughly circular depression at the S end of the mound (D c. 0.2m; diam. c. 2m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI017-051 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope. A crescent-shaped mound of burnt material, truncated on its N side by an E-W field boundary; the mound (H 1.5m) extends out 14.5m from the field boundary and its max. width is 23m The opening faces E, where the mound partially surrounds a water-filled oval depression (4m N-S; 8.8m E-W). 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 Kinard.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kinard.
- 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 Kinard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kinard · Cian Ard
- Area
- 1,741,331 m² (174.13 ha, 430.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfergus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Glin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glin electoral division: 1,207 people in 491 households; 74% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygiltenan Lower, Ballygiltenan Upper, Ballynagaul, Ballynamuddagh, Tullyglass, Tullyleague
- Placenames
- Kinard 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.