Mountcatherine

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcatherine, from 32,035 m² (3.2 ha, 7.92 acres) to 74,233 m² (7.42 ha, 18.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Mountcatherine 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.

• 26 Nov 2019Conditional

  the change of use of part of an existing outbuilding for use as a small scale rural physiotherapy practice and permission for equine physio accommodation in 3 no. existing stables for the treatment of horses as well as all associated site works on and under land

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191158

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system, site entrance, driveway and all associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181095

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 Mountcatherine.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountcatherine.

Architectural heritage

• Mount Catherine, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790. Comprising bay windows and veranda to front (east) elevation, two-bay single-storey extension to north elevation and single-bay two-storey over basement return and single-storey lean-tos to rear (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Single-pitched slate roof to bay windows and veranda having timber columns. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed tripartite openings to first floor having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, flanking one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with shared concrete sills. Square-headed tripartite opening to first floor, centre-bay having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and painted stone sill. Square-headed openings to bay windows with twelve-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and flanking six-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed opening with render hoodmoulding, scrolled consoles and glazed overlight over timber panelled doors having flanking sidelights with timber risers. Cobblestones to west yard. Rubble limestone and sandstone walled garden to west having elliptical-headed carriage arch with dressed limestone voussoirs and double-leaf metal gates to west elevation. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to north elevation having brick voussoirs and double-leaf metal gates. Single-bay single-storey rubble limestone lean-to to west wall having single-pitched slate roof. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to adjoining west wall having rubble limestone walls. Corrugated-iron barrel roof. Segmental-headed carriage arch with dressed voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to north-east yard having dressed limestone voussoirs. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east yard having half-hipped slate roof. Rubble limestone walls with buttress to front (south) elevation. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening having roughly dressed voussoirs and replacement timber panelled door. Segmental-headed carriage arch with dressed voussoirs and replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. Two-bay single-storey gate lodge to east having hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows. Square-headed opening having timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers to north with carved caps, double-leaf cast-iron gates and roughcast rendered walls having render copings.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Mountcatherine.

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

Name

Mountcatherine · Moin Chaitríona

Area

179,843 m² (17.98 ha, 44.44 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynaclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grean electoral division: 1,548 people in 533 households; 82% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilduff

Placenames

Mountcatherine 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.