Kishyquirk

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kishyquirk, from 43 m² to 225,754 m² (22.58 ha, 55.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kishyquirk 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.

• 18 Jul 2024N/a

  the construction of a new front entrance doorway, a single-storey extension at the rear, fitting pitched roof lights; demolition of existing part of structure of the main house, installing new front and side site entrance gates, boundary railings and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24298

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  the carry out of alterations and demolitions and the construction of an extension to existing dwelling including all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360416

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  The construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2260011

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221136

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  existing machine shed and Planning Permission for proposed slatted shed with underground tank including all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19513

• 7 May 2019N/a

  an extension to an existing garage and a change of use from a domestic garage to an independent living unit

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19447

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  retention permission for the attic conversion, the conservatory to the rear of the house and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17175

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kishyquirk.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860. Single-bay single-storey extension to west elevation and single-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to extension. Rendered walls. Camber-headed openings to first floor having inset square-headed opening with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having timber casement windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rendered walls with single-leaf cast-iron gate and rendered boundary walls having render copings.

• The Old School House, school, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former school, built c. 1830. Comprising gable-fronted porch to front (north) elevation, return with lean-to to rear (south) elevation and external rendered staircase to east elevation. Pitched slate roof having limestone eaves course, limestone chimneystacks and open work limestone chimneystack to east elevation. Roughcast rendered walls with render plaques having fluted roundel and swag motifs. Square-headed openings with limestone hoodmoulding, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch opening to east elevation having limestone sill and replacement uPVC window. Pointed arch opening to west elevation with limestone hoodmoulding, sill and replacement uPVC window. Pointed arch opening to porch having replacement glazed overlight over half-glazed timber panelled doors. Pair of square-profile roughcast rendered piers to north having render caps, single-leaf timber gate and rendered boundary walls. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north-east with render caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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).

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1092 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Kishyquirk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kishyquirk · Ceis Uí Choirc

Area

1,158,639 m² (115.86 ha, 286.31 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyvarra electoral division: 4,513 people in 1,473 households; 77% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghnadromin, Clooncunna North, Clooncunna South, Garrymore, Scart

Placenames

Kishyquirk 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.