# Mountcatherine, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballynaclogh, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Moin Chaitríona. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 179,843 m² (17.98 ha, 44.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 73,378 m² (7.34 ha, 18.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballynaclogh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballynaclogh.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32380 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121607 - Centre: latitude 52.56071, longitude -8.337166 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1601745: 74,233 m² (7.42 ha, 18.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601745.md - Parcel 1589422: 73,378 m² (7.34 ha, 18.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589422.md - Parcel 1658196: 32,035 m² (3.2 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658196.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 26 Nov 2019, Limerick County Council 191158: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191158/0 - 9 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181095: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment & disposal system, site entrance, driveway and all associated ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181095/0 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 Mountcatherine. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountcatherine. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Mount Catherine, house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21816009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21816009. 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. ## 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 Mountcatherine, about 1 in 10 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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/mountcatherine.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountcatherine.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountcatherine.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Mountcatherine 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) - Kilduff: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilduff.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. --- 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/mountcatherine - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/mountcatherine