Maidstown

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maidstown, from 1,673 m² to 317,543 m² (31.75 ha, 78.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Maidstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Maidstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Maidstown.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-074 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Ballyvenoge (Baile Bheanóg) Castle (Westropp 1906-7, 171) in the townland of Maidstown (Baile Bheanóg) described in 1840 as follows; ‘Maidstown Castle situated in the townland of the same name, enters into the building of Mr. Coll’s dwelling house. This castle, which is square, measures thirty five feet one inch [10.7m] by thirty two feet [9.7m] outside, the walls, which are embattled being about fifty feet [15m] high and three and a half feet [1m] in thickness. The main body of the building contained three stories; the portion which contains the staircase consists of five stories. It does not seem to be very old’ (OSL Dromin Parish, O’Flanagan 1929, 28-9). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 John Fox of Ballyvenoge was the owner of 'a good castle, a Bawne, an orchard, & indifferent houses' (Simington 1938, 124). Castle described by Salter (2004, 91) as; 'Only the southern half now remains of a tower which probably measures about 10m by 9m. South of it lies a thinly walled four storey extension of c 1600-40, now propped up by a sloping SW corner buttress. It has a blocked entrance and several hood-moulded windows, also mostly blocked up. Very little now remains of a further extension to the east towards where a modern house now stands. It contained a wide new staircase. Maidstown was held in 1660 by Captain Ormsby and later passed to the Gubbins family'. See attached Down Survey map of Coshma Barony showing Ballyvenoge Castle (Hib. Reg.). and Down Survey map of Dromin parish with building annotated 'a Castle' (NLI, MS. 718) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 346/21 on 05/01/2003.

• LI039-074001 Bawn
  Description

  Ballyvenoge (Baile Bheanóg) Castle (LI039-074----) and bawn in the townland of Maidstown (Baile Bheanóg). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 John Fox of Ballyvenoge was the owner of 'a good castle, a Bawne, an orchard, & indifferent houses' (Simington 1938, 124). The precise location of the bawn has not been identified but may have been located to the N of the tower house (LI039-074----). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 346/21 on 05/01/2003.

• LI039-075 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 110m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballinculloo. The ruins of Maidstown Castle (LI039-074----) lie 420m to S. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised irregular-shaped area (dims. c. 65m N-S; 85m E-W) defined by a scarp from NW-E-S-W and outer fosse only from NW-N-E. A gap (Wth 10m) at WNW may be an entrance feature. Intersected at SW by field drain running NW-SE and at E by field drain running NE-SW. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Levelled monument visible as a cropmark with farm track running E-W immediately to S on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 April 2021

• LI039-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture 110m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Clogher East and 140m N of townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Holy Well (LI039-077----) lies 380m to E small quarry or gravel pit 30m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) defined by a scarp and fosse (Wth 5m) from SW-N-SE . The fosse opens out at SW (Wth 18m) where it may have been levelled. The enclosing fosse is intersected at NE by a field boundary that curves from NW-SE. Visible as a scrub-covered monument on aerial photograph (ASIAP (328) 15) taken 05/10/2002 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 346/22, 23 on 05/01/2003

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maidstown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Maidstown, about 1 in 20 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 Maidstown.

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 Maidstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Maidstown · Baile Bheanóg

Area

1,529,463 m² (152.95 ha, 377.94 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinculloo, Ballynamuddagh, Clogher East, Dromin North, Rathcannon, Raymondstown, Wellfield

Placenames

Maidstown 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.