# Longstone, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Grean, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Chloch Fhada.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 366,841 m² (36.68 ha, 90.65 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,106 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Grean, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/grean.md
- Barony: Clanwilliam
- Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31493
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121512
- Centre: latitude 52.561336, longitude -8.406891 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Longstone, from 56 m² to 64,493 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1662377: 64,493 m² (6.45 ha, 15.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662377.md
- Parcel 1599300: 47,715 m² (4.77 ha, 11.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599300.md
- Parcel 1596703: 43,737 m² (4.37 ha, 10.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596703.md
- Parcel 3969784: 42,513 m² (4.25 ha, 10.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3969784.md
- Parcel 1597695: 28,774 m² (2.88 ha, 7.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597695.md
- Parcel 1604366: 25,711 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604366.md
- Parcel 1661736: 20,759 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661736.md
- Parcel 1664586: 20,256 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664586.md
- Parcel 1650561: 18,848 m² (1.88 ha, 4.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650561.md
- Parcel 1669498: 17,115 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669498.md
- Parcel 1598412: 10,554 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598412.md
- Parcel 1617348: 4,136 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617348.md
- Parcel 5803321: 4,106 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5803321.md
- Parcel 1593987: 3,706 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593987.md
- Parcel 3388867: 3,394 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3388867.md
- Parcel 1612946: 2,350 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612946.md
- Parcel 1602015: 2,217 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602015.md
- Parcel 1607755: 1,467 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607755.md
- Parcel 1674237: 1,442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674237.md
- Parcel 1602579: 1,058 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602579.md
- Parcel 3969795: 625 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3969795.md
- Parcel 1605391: 435 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605391.md
- Parcel 1622197: 378 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622197.md
- Parcel 1665096: 336 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665096.md
- Parcel 1659885: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659885.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 29 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18304: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18304/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI024-030001: Burial mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-030001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-030002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-031----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-150----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Longstone House, house, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 21902409, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902409. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Longstone, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: the Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/longstone.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/longstone.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/longstone.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Longstone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ardroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardroe.md
- Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballybeg-120162.md
- Boherroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/boherroe.md
- Caherconreafy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/caherconreafy.md
- Dromkeen South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromkeen-south.md
- Garrynagoord: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garrynagoord.md
- Killeenavera: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killeenavera.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/longstone
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