Longstone

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longstone, from 56 m² to 64,493 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Longstone 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.

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, new site entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system, percolation area, a bored well and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18304

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Longstone.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-030001 Burial mound
  Description

  On a slight NE-facing slope, in improved pasture, with excellent views in all directions and 180m E of a townland boundary with Ardroe. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The location of the 'Long Stone' (LI024-030002-) which stood inside a hilltop enclosure and burial mound (LI024-030001-) is shown at three different locations on the various editions of the OSi maps. On the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map the standing stone annotated 'Long Stone' is shown standing near NE corner of large rectangular field immediately S of an old gravel pit and field boundary with farm building in adjoining field to E. The revised OSi 6-inch map depicts the standing stone 35m to WSW of earlier map while the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map shows the stone 55m to S of the 1840 map location. Monument described by the Ordnance Survey as 'a stone (LI024-030002-) which stands nearly erect (leaning a little to the east) in the centre of a large earthen fort in this Townland and which is called by the people "the Long Stone'. This stone is nine and a half feet [2.9m] in height but as some of the earth seems to have been removed at its bottom, originally it may not have been so high above ground. Its breadth below is three feet [0.9m] at the middle and at top two and a half feet [0.76m] and its average thickness is about one foot ten inches [0.55m]. The fort consists of an external rampart about sixty paces in breadth all round, slightly elevated above the bottom of the ditch, though in some places it is nearly level with the top of the external rampart. A shallow ditch then seperated the last described ring from the central mound, which about 18 paces in diameter at the top and of the same height with the external rampart. The centre of this moat around the stone is hollow, or sunk a few feet. The Name Book erroneously calls this long stone a "Cromlech" (OSL Vol. 2, 114). Westropp (1916-17, 23) recorded that ‘Longstone (LI024-030002-), in Grian, has a pillar 9 feet 6 inches (2.9m) high in a fort’. Levelled monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible, although there is a slight rise across this area. There is evidence of small-scale quarrying activities in the same field. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 27 September 2020

• LI024-030002 Standing stone
  Description

  On a slight NE-facing slope, in an elevated area of improved pasture, with excellent views in all directions and 180m to E of a townland boundary with Ardroe. On a slight NE-facing slope, in improved pasture, with excellent views in all directions and 180m E of a townland boundary with Ardroe. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The location of the 'Long Stone' (LI024-030002-) which stood inside a hilltop enclosure and burial mound (LI024-030001-) is shown at three different locations on the various editions of the OSi maps. On the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map the standing stone annotated 'Long Stone' is shown standing near NE corner of large rectangular field immediately S of an old gravel pit and field boundary with farm building in adjoining field to E. The revised OSi 6-inch map depicts the standing stone 35m to WSW of earlier map while the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map shows the stone 55m to S of the 1840 map location. Monument described by the Ordnance Survey as 'a stone (LI024-030002-) which stands nearly erect (leaning a little to the east) in the centre of a large earthen fort in this Townland and which is called by the people "the Long Stone'. This stone is nine and a half feet [2.9m] in height but as some of the earth seems to have been removed at its bottom, originally it may not have been so high above ground. Its breadth below is three feet [0.9m] at the middle and at top two and a half feet [0.76m] and its average thickness is about one foot ten inches [0.55m]. The fort consists of an external rampart about sixty paces in breadth all round, slightly elevated above the bottom of the ditch, though in some places it is nearly level with the top of the external rampart. A shallow ditch then seperated the last described ring from the central mound, which about 18 paces in diameter at the top and of the same height with the external rampart. The centre of this moat around the stone is hollow, or sunk a few feet. The Name Book erroneously calls this long stone a "Cromlech" (OSL Vol. 2, 114). Westropp (1916-17, 23) recorded that ‘Longstone, in Grian, has a pillar 9 feet 6 inches (2.9m) high in a fort (LI024-030001-)’. Described in 1957 as a standing stone which had recently fallen consisting of a a large block of limestone (former H 10ft/3m; Wth 7ft, 6”/2.3m; T 2ft/0.6m) which was set on end and recently fallen. When it was upright, there was less than 1ft, 6”/0.5m of the base which was set below the ground as evidenced by a ‘tidemark’ which is still discernible (SMR File OPW Report by H.A. Wheeler 06/04/1957). Site of standing stone surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible. A natural rock is situated 100m to SW. There is evidence of small-scale quarrying activities in the same field. Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 27 September 2020

• LI024-031 Barrow - pond barrow
  Description

  In gently undulating, improved pasture, 30m W of a stream which also marks the townland boundary with Boherroe. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork. Described by O’Dwyer (1959, 78) as a small circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 30ft/9m) enclosed by a broad bank (basal Wth 24ft/7.3m) with a gently sloping outer face and an almost vertical inner face (H 10ft/3m). A gap (Wth 6ft/1.8m) in the bank at E may have been the original entrance. The interior is below external ground level and is waterlogged. Possible pond barrow surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) enclosed by a bank (Wth at top 5.25-6.0m; ext. H 1.6m). The bank (ext. H 0.85m) is lower from SSE-S-SSW where it is eroded and modified by a cattle path. Pond-like interior is sunken and waterlogged and the edges are covered in dense overgrowth, restricting access. A report from Sarah McCutcheon, Limerick County Archaeologist in 2001 describes recent damage to the monument whereby the height of bank has been reduced at SE, the outer slope of the bank has been straightened from N-E-S and material removed at the base exposing the underlying material from N-E-S. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped tree-planted earthwork on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached a profile of monument drawn by O’Dwyer in 1959, a sketch plan and partial cross-section which was measured and drawn by the ASI in 2008 and a Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 27 September 2020

• LI024-150 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture 50m W of the townland boundary with Boherroe and 100m S of a quarry. Not depicted on OS maps. No surface remains visible of a cropmark identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 53; AP 4/3684). The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/05/2017. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 21 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Longstone House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, with extension to rear (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack and overhanging eaves. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having painted sills. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door flanked by sidelights with overlight above. Outbuilding to rear with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings with 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Longstone.

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.

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

Name

Longstone · An Chloch Fhada

Area

366,841 m² (36.68 ha, 90.65 acres)

Civil parish

Grean, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardroe, Ballybeg, Boherroe, Caherconreafy, Dromkeen South, Garrynagoord, Killeenavera

Placenames

Longstone 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.