Mountfox

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountfox, from 552 m² to 343,678 m² (34.37 ha, 84.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Mountfox 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.

• 1 Jul 2022Refused

  modification of existing combined farm/dwelling site entrance access to now provide for separate site entrance and driveway to existing dwelling including construction of boundary walls and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22747

• 23 Feb 2021Conditional

  existing garage and outbuildings to the side(western) of the existing cottage, existing vehicular entrance, existing septic tank

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21206

• 12 Feb 2020Conditional

  the erection of domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2098

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  the construction of a slatted unit for cattle consisting of a portal frame building with slatted underground slurry storage tank and all associated works to supplement farming activity at her farmyard

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17906

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 Mountfox.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-109 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 140m W the townland boundary with Ballygubba North. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 16m) defined by a scarp with fosse and outer bank truncated at S by drainage ditch running E-W. Levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of levelled ring-barrow (overall diam. c. 32m) visible on Google Earth orthoimages visible to the immediate N of a drainage ditch running E-W. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 May 2021

• LI039-111 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture 60m W of enclosure (LI039-112----). Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a semi-circular-shaped area (dims. 35m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) enclosed by a partial bank and fosse only from SE-W-N and open to E. Intersected at N by drainage ditch running NW-SE. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of levelled monument visible as a semi-circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 308/18 taken on 05/10/2002.

• LI039-112 Quarry
  Description

  In pasture 60m E of enclosure (LI039-111----). Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped area (dims. 58m NW-SE; 47m NE-SW) possibly indicating a small pond. Truncated at S by field wall running NW-SE. Depicted on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as sub-circular-shaped depression or possibly a quarry or pond(diam. c. 48m) with second depression (36m E-W; 12m N-S) to immediate S. Visible as irregular shaped field enclosure delimited by scrub on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of earthwork visible as a circular-shaped area delimited by scrub on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Probably the remains of a post-1700 quarry which has become a pond feature, not the remains of an archaeological monument. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 308/18 taken on 05/10/2002.

• LI047-017 Earthwork
  Description

  In the centre of a small woodland area that has been partially felled, 100m W of the townland boundary with Garrynoe and immediately W of an access road. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a semi-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 40m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by a double field boundary from N-E-S, following the original enclosing fosse. Intersected at W by a field boundary running N-S with evidence for possible quarrying activity in SE quadrant as shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Tree-covered monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken on 01/04/2021 where the woodland area has been partially cleared between 2019-2021. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 12 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1001 (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 Mountfox with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Mountfox · Móin an Bhoscaigh

Area

1,180,660 m² (118.07 ha, 291.75 acres)

Civil parish

St. Peters and St. Pauls, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmallock

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

Ballycullane, Ballygubba North, Ballygubba South, Ballynamuddagh, Cloonygarra, Cullamus, Garrynoe, Steales

Placenames

Mountfox 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.