Mortgage

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mortgage, from 360 m² to 572,532 m² (57.25 ha, 141.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Mortgage 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.

• 4 Jan 2025Conditional

  construction of a 1.5 storey extension to the side of dwelling, extension to the rear with new roof over existing dwelling, remove rear w/c and outbuildings, external insulation to existing dwelling with fenestration changes, construction of a domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560002

• 31 Oct 2024N/a

  construction of an extension to the side and rear of dwelling, remove rear w/c and outbuildings, external insulation to existing dwelling with fenestration changes, construction of a domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461080

• 26 Oct 2024Conditional

  a slatted shed comprising of an underground slurry storage tank, shed and easi feed passage

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461065

• 17 Nov 2017Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171070

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 Mortgage.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level area at rear of dwelling with views moderate in all directions, 32m E of townland boundary with Cloghnamana. A barrow (LI022-133----) lies 294m to NE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000, and described as a raised circular-shaped area (16m N-S; 17m E-W ) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.75m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m) with two modern ramps giving access to interior at N (Wth 1.7m) and at ESE (Wth 5.5m). Possible disturbance along edge of site from E to W with earth dumped obscuring view. The monument is visible overgrown with trees on the OSi orthophotos 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimages 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken in 2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 August 2020

• LI022-133 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Located in low-lying pasture. Comprises a circular, saucer-shaped area (diam. 30m) which is enclosed by an external bank (Wth 7m, H 2m) and internal ditch (Wth 10m, D. 0.5m) giving the monument an overall diameter of c. 70m. There is a waterlogged area in the SE which coincides with a break in the enclosing bank. There is another break in the bank in the N which coincides with a causeway in the ditch (O'Kelly, 1942, 90). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 3 February 2012

• LI022-168 Enclosure
  Description

  In lowlying gently undulating pasture. Barrow (LI022-133----) lies 220m to NW. Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified as a circular cropmark from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 44). No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. Partial cropmark of enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Faint outline of a circular cropmark shown onDigital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 11 August 2020

• LI022-245 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from SE-SSE-S, 220m SW of the townland boundary with Ballyea. Barrow (LI022-133----) 175m to SW. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 105: AP4/3647). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 August 2020

• LI031-037 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, 40m NE of a public road, which also marks a townland boundary with Cloghnamanagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps, although the larger rectangular-shaped field is annotated ‘Glebe’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. This church owned glebe land was tentatively identified by the SMR as a possible monastic grange (SMR File; GSIAP 449/450). Monument is visible as a vague trace of two linear cropmarks which may define the NE and SE sides of a rectangular-shaped earthwork with the road marking a third side to SW and open to NW as best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. Two other linear cropmarks running NE-SW are parallel to SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mortgage · Morgáiste

Area

1,446,116 m² (144.61 ha, 357.34 acres)

Civil parish

Fedamore, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Rathmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmore electoral division: 307 people in 101 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Boolavoord, Cloghnamanagh, Glenogra, Rathmore North

Placenames

Mortgage 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.