Mountcoote

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcoote, from 2,317 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 66,860 m² (6.69 ha, 16.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Mountcoote 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 Mountcoote 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 Mountcoote.

Recorded monuments

• LI048-069 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of the entrance avenue to Mount Coote House, located 160m to W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp to the W of the ornamental garden of Mount Coote House. Not shown on subsequent OSi historic maps. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Name Books for the parish of Ardpatrick recorded that this earthwork was known as 'Mount Coote Moat' which was described as 'situated to the E. of Mount Coote House. Mount Coote takes its name from this little mount' (OSNB Ardpatrick Parish). Visible as a tree-covered area on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 2 September 2021

Architectural heritage

• Mount Coote, gate lodge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey double-pile former gate lodge, built c. 1820. Timber box bay windows to front (east) elevation and timber porch to north elevation. Extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with overhanging eaves, terracotta ridge tiles, rendered open work chimneystack and scrolled timber brackets. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings to box bays having timber casement windows. Square-headed openings to porch with quarry glazed windows. Square-headed opening to porch having half-glazed timber battened door. Square-headed opening to east elevation with double-leaf half-glazed timber battened doors. Pair of rusticated limestone piers to north having double-leaf cast-iron gates, single-leaf cast-iron pedestrian gates terminating in second pair of piers.

• Riversfield Bridge, bridge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch limestone road bridge over River Loobagh, built c. 1810. Coursed rubble walls with dressed V-cutwaters. Round-headed arches having cut voussoirs to south-east elevation, roughly dressed voussoirs to north-west elevation. Stile to north-west elevation.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1027 (ZIP).

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

Name

Mountcoote · Ard Ó bhFaoláin

Area

1,341,590 m² (134.16 ha, 331.51 acres)

Civil parish

Ardpatrick, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingaddy North, Bawntard South, Fairyfield Glebe, Fantstown, Millmount, Milltown, Riversfield

Placenames

Mountcoote 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.