Mitchelstown
Mitchelstown is a townland in the civil parish of Iveruss, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Mhistéalaigh.
- Area
- 51 ha
- 126 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,504 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mitchelstown, from 11 m² to 105,238 m² (10.52 ha, 26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mitchelstown 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
21 Jul 2025Conditional
the demolition of a derelict house and attached derelict out-buildings and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560714
7 Mar 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2560183
11 Nov 2024Conditional
the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling. the works include the demolition of previously constructed rear extension, the construction of new rear extension , elevational changes to the original house to include roof light windows and new windows. planning permission is also sought for the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of a new replacement wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461112
30 Dec 2022Conditional
change of house design to house B and alterations to boundaries of sites A & B from that of previously granted under ref. 21/1512 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221401
29 Oct 2021Conditional
construction of 2 detached houses with separate vehicle entrances, waste water treatment systems and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211512
9 Oct 2020Conditional
extension of duration for 15/509
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207029
31 May 2018Conditional
construction of a two storey extension to the rear of dwelling house, fenestration changes to existing dwelling with replacement of existing front door with window, remove existing chimneys, slate finish to roof, stone facing to north east gable, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, demolition of kennels to side of dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18536
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 Mitchelstown.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, at W end of low ridge, in area of outcropping limestone. Oval area (34m N-S; 27.3m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank ENE->SSE and defined by scarped edge SSE->ENE. Bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m) best preserved at E. Scarp (H 1.65m; Wth 4m) best preserved NW->N; some vestiges of stone-facing survive on scarp face. Interior, under pasture, dips gently down towards centre. Field boundaries which abutted enclosure at NW and NNE have been removed. 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 Mitchelstown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Mitchelstown, about 1 in 10 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 Mitchelstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mitchelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Mitchelstown · Baile an Mhistéalaigh
- Area
- 509,794 m² (50.98 ha, 125.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Iveruss, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Iveruss, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 350 people lived in 125 households in the Iveruss electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycanauna, Ballysteen, Ballyvaddock, Courtbrown, Issane, Moig North
- Placenames
- Mitchelstown 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.