# Mountkennet, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of St. Michael's, barony of North Liberties, Co. Limerick; in Irish Moin Cinit.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 83,709 m² (8.37 ha, 20.68 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 92 m²
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 City Centre, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 27 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: St. Michael's, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/st-michaels.md
- Barony: North Liberties
- Electoral division: Dock A, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,080 people lived in 1,207 households in the Dock A electoral division. 10% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30517
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 122023
- Centre: latitude 52.659425, longitude -8.635625 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountkennet, from 12 m² to 9,543 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres); 5 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5402970: 9,543 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5402970.md
- Parcel 5017106: 4,835 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5017106.md
- Parcel 1635541: 1,944 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635541.md
- Parcel 4982349: 936 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4982349.md
- Parcel 1633419: 756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633419.md
- Parcel 5154583: 655 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5154583.md
- Parcel 5549417: 574 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5549417.md
- Parcel 4982354: 551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4982354.md
- Parcel 4833306: 549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833306.md
- Parcel 1635731: 515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635731.md
- Parcel 3787907: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3787907.md
- Parcel 5425429: 391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5425429.md
- Parcel 5494739: 391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5494739.md
- Parcel 1636020: 294 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636020.md
- Parcel 5621609: 271 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621609.md
- Parcel 3885858: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3885858.md
- Parcel 5528925: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5528925.md
- Parcel 1632619: 207 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632619.md
- Parcel 5127338: 194 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5127338.md
- Parcel 1633938: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633938.md
- Parcel 1635782: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635782.md
- Parcel 5352343: 136 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352343.md
- Parcel 1633550: 117 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633550.md
- Parcel 5075334: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5075334.md
- Parcel 5388794: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5388794.md
- Parcel 5075335: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5075335.md
- Parcel 1633209: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633209.md
- Parcel 5287930: 91 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5287930.md
- Parcel 5112667: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5112667.md
- Parcel 1635788: 83 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635788.md
- Parcel 1632923: 79 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632923.md
- Parcel 1635964: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635964.md
- Parcel 1635836: 71 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635836.md
- Parcel 1633120: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633120.md
- Parcel 4429912: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4429912.md
- Parcel 1635723: 67 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635723.md
- Parcel 1635625: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635625.md
- Parcel 5135684: 62 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5135684.md
- Parcel 5718608: 61 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5718608.md
- Parcel 1633851: 58 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633851.md
- Parcel 1633176: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633176.md
- Parcel 5562307: 54 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5562307.md
- Parcel 5401406: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5401406.md
- Parcel 1635755: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635755.md
- Parcel 1635706: 41 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1635706.md
- Parcel 5449916: 38 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449916.md
- Parcel 5646951: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5646951.md
- Parcel 5449903: 33 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449903.md
- Parcel 1632943: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632943.md
- Parcel 1634180: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1634180.md
- Parcel 5449908: 14 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449908.md
- Parcel 1633298: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1633298.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- M2 City Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 49 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/Limerick-Development-Plan-Volume-1-Written-Statement-including-Variation-No-1.pdf#page=387
- C2.1 Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/Limerick-Development-Plan-Volume-1-Written-Statement-including-Variation-No-1.pdf#page=387

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

27 applications, newest first.

- 17 Aug 2026, Limerick County Council 2660950: N/a. Permission. amendments to previously approved Planning ref no. 22/1003. The amendments consist of the following: Increase in no. of apartments from 29no. to 33no., amendment to unit mix (previously approved; 1 no. 1 bed, 24no. 2 bed & 4no. 3 bed) (proposed; 22 no. 1 bed, 11no. 2 bed), amendments to site layout, building design and height, omission of car parking. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660950/0
- 30 Mar 2026, Limerick County Council 2660361: Conditional. Permission. The proposed development at Clayton Hotel Limerick, Steamboat Quay, Mountkennet, Limerick, V94 H6HN, will consist of the replacement and relocation of the existing high-level illuminated sign on the western elevation of the hotel with a new internally illuminated sign, oriented horizontally at a higher level, and all ancillary site works.. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660361/0
- 18 Feb 2026, Limerick County Council 2660169: N/a. Permission. the replacement and relocation of the existing high-level illuminated sign on the western elevation of the hotel with a new internally illuminated sign, oriented horizontally at a higher level, and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660169/0
- 19 Dec 2025, Limerick County Council 2561365: Conditional. Permission. amending previously approved Planning Ref: 25/60540 to increase the overall no. of apartments from 48 No. to 55 No. The proposed works will be primarily internal along with a minor extension to the rear (28m2) and will not involve any revisions to the permitted heights or front elevation. The revision will result in an increase in the building footprint from 731 sq.m to 759 sq.m and an increase in gross floor area (across all floors) from 4,010 sq.m to 4,216 sq.m. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561365/0
- 7 Aug 2025, Limerick County Council 2560780: Conditional. Permission. a Large-Scale Residential Development on a site of approx. 1.26 ha at the ‘Former Limerick Gasworks Site’, Dock Road, Limerick, Co. Limerick (V94 AE00). The subject site contains a Freestanding Wall (A Protected Structure RPS No. 3326) and is generally bounded by Dock Road to the north; the Power Station Building (A Protected Structure RPS No. 3261) and residential development at Saint James Mews to the south and south west; O’Curry Street to the east; and No. 2 and No. 3 Dock Road, the rear of No. 4 and No. 5 Dock Road and other commercial premises at Saint Alphonsus Street to the west. The proposed development will consist of a mixed-use Large-Scale Residential Development comprising 285 no. residential apartment units, 2 no. retail units and a childcare facility, all in 3 No. Blocks (Blocks A – C) ranging in height from 1-8 storeys with associated car parking, bicycle parking, public plaza and communal open spaces and all ancillary works. The development will consist of: a) The demolition of the vacant former Gas Networks Ireland offices (total GFA approx. 612 sqm). b) Partial removal of an existing boundary wall at Dock Road and O’Curry Street; the removal of railings from the top of the existing boundary wall at O’Curry Street; the removal of entrance gates at O’Curry Street; and the removal of entrance piers and gates at Dock Road. c) The demolition of an existing ESB Sub Station at O’Curry Street. d) The removal of an existing buttress section (approx. 8 sqm) and rear elevation of flanking gable (approx. 12 sqm) of the freestanding limestone site boundary wall at Dock Road (a Protected Structure RPS No. 3326) and the reinstatement of all associated openings and arches. The proposed development will dismantle and relocate 3 no. existing vermiculated arches from the flanking gable wall within the subject site as part of the overall landscape design. e) The construction of 285 no. residential apartment units in 3 no. blocks (A-C) ranging in height from 1-8 storeys in the form of 142 no. 1 bed apartments, 22 no. 2 bed (3-person) apartments, 105 no. 2 bed (4-person) apartments and 16 no. 3 bed apartments, each with associated private open space in the form of balconies / terraces as follows: (i) Block A ranging in height from 1 to 7 storeys will contain 114 no. apartments in the form of 70 no. 1 bed apartments, 22 no. 2 bed (3-person) apartments and 22 no.. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560780/0
- 7 Jun 2025, Limerick County Council 2560540: Conditional. Permission. (a) Demolish an existing warehouse building and (b) to construct a residential apartment scheme ranging from five to six storeys and incorporating 25 No. one bedroom apartments and 23 No. two bedroom apartments, with a total of 48 No. apartments. The proposed block to incorporate secure internal bicycle parking, bulk storage rooms, plant room, internal refuse storage, roof-top solar panels, boundary treatment, landscaped communal private open space, connections to adjacent utilities and all associated engineering and site works necessary to facilitate the proposed development. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560540/0
- 26 Mar 2025, Limerick County Council 2591: Conditional. Permission. change of use of part of ground floor, from offices to creche, which will be ancillary to the existing crèche. There will be minor internal alterations, consisting of the provision of two additional WC's, a pair of double doors between rooms and all associated site works. The building is on the record of protected structures RPS no. 3353, and is on the national inventory of architectural heritage (NIAH) reference no. 21517016. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2591/0
- 8 Feb 2025, Limerick County Council 2560101: N/a. Permission, 2 homes. 1. Demolition of existing unoccupied derelict industrial storage unit and associated site works, along with site clearance. 2. Permission for the construction of 2 no. four bedroomed dwellings in a part two storey/part three storey building. 3. The development also includes infrastructural works to accommodate development to include: footpaths , solar panels to roof landscaping , internal fencing , connection to public foul sewer & drainage refuse storage and bike storage. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560101/0
- 24 Jan 2025, Limerick County Council 2560043: Conditional. Retention. 1. Subdivision of a singular commercial unit into 2no. commercial units; 2. Alterations to the internal layout; 3. Alterations to the front elevation of the building, including the relocation of the main entrance door and 1no. window; 4. All associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560043/0
- 20 Apr 2023, Limerick County Council 2360243: Conditional. Permission. the change of use from restaurant to offices and all ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360243/0
- 28 Sept 2022, Limerick County Council 228018: Conditional. Permission. development works that will consist of: (a) Segregated cycle lanes, shared carriageway and footpath upgrades/reconstruction commencing on the R526 (north-east of Ballykeefe Roundabout), along South Circular Rd, Henry St and terminating at Mill Lane in Limerick City Centre, with dedicated pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities throughout. (b) Traffic calming measures including raised table junctions, upgrade of junctions, reduced carriageways, changes to speed limits, and insertion of traffic signals at the Ashbourne Ave/New Street and Henry St/Mallow St junctions. (c) Removal of and redistribution of on-street parking bays to facilitate cycle lanes along the length of scheme. (d) Traffic restrictions to include vehicular access from the SCRd to City Centre diverted to Ballinacurra Road, removal of right turn from Ballinacurra Road to SCRd, Lifford Ave to SCRd, removal of left turn from Boreen a Tobair to SCRd, extension of existing one way system on SCRd to junction with Clontarf Place, and creation of one way streets to include Quin Street, St Gerard Street, and Mill Lane. (e) Infill car parking area to include 10 spaces on corner of South Circular Road and Laurel Hill Avenue. (f) Road resurfacing, road markings, colored surfacing, surface water and foul drainage works, public lighting, services, and landscaping works including removal of one tree at junction of South Circular Road/Lifford Avenue. (g) The proposed works are located within Architectural Conservation Areas 1 and 2 and adjacent to, but not within, the curtilages of a number of protected structures. (h) All associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/228018/0
- 15 Sept 2022, Limerick County Council 221003: Conditional. Permission, 29 homes. the construction of a 5-storey over semi-basement apartment building, providing 29 apartments, 10 car-parking spaces with level access from Cogan Street, bicycle store, equipment store, bin storage and ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221003/0
- 15 Oct 2021, Limerick County Council 211454: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a 3 to 5 storey 14 unit apartment development consisting of 4 one-bedroom apartments, 7 two-bedroom apartments and 3 three-bedroom apartments, new courtyard area, bin store, bike store and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211454/0
- 13 Mar 2020, Limerick County Council 207009: Conditional. Extension of duration. Extension of permission for planning ref. 15/92. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/207009/0
- 19 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191271: Conditional. Permission. the conversion of the existing third floor attic to 2 no. 1 bed apartments (units 1& 2) and 2 no. 1 bed studios (unit 3 & 4) including new balconies and extending stairs 1 up to third floor level. The conversion of the existing third floor 3 bed apartment/group home and adjacent communal room to a one bedroom apartment (unit 5) and a 1 bed studio (unit 6) including existing balconies/terraces & the conversion of the existing third floor offices to 2 no. 1 bed apartments (units 7 & 8) including balconies and all attendant modifications to elevations and ancillary site development works. (Total 8 new units) within a 4 storey development. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191271/0
- 9 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191219: Conditional. Permission. the change of use of existing office area to day centre to include day centre containing meeting rooms, therapy rooms, activity rooms, kitchen/dining rooms, WC cubicles, accessible WC and ancillary spaces and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191219/0
- 30 Sept 2019, Limerick County Council 19965: Conditional. Permission. a change of use of part of first floor offices to 1 no. first floor apartment and a change of use of second floor offices to 1 no. second floor apartment providing 2 no. apartments in total, and all associated site works. This application relates to a Protected Structure (RPS 199). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19965/0
- 19 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19716: Refused. Retention. an external sign. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19716/0
- 23 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181135: Conditional. Permission. 1. port enhancement works involving the removal and reorganisation of buildings and features adjacent to the 'Clock Tower' and; 2. the mooring of a floating vessel for the use of commercial data storage; construction of; a new industrial building comprising workshop with ancillary storage and office space; and associated compound comprising associated power generators and infrastructure. The proposed works include: (a) demolition of the existing ESB substation, store building and walled enclosure adjacent to the clock tower; and, (b) provision of; (I) new ESB substation building and perimeter boundary around the generator sets, (ii) associated service and car parking area, (iii) connection to existing port infrastructure and utilities, (iv) cable gantry and access platform between the vessel and the quayside, and (v) all associated site development works. The proposed works are located adjacent to a Protected Structure RPS Ref.: 324 (The Clock Tower) but do not include the Protected Structure within the site or works to the protected structure. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181135/0
- 26 Jul 2018, Limerick County Council 18756: Conditional. Permission. a change of use from coffee shop and delicatessen to a grocery store, front signage and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18756/0
- 21 Jun 2018, Limerick County Council 18623: Conditional. Permission. the change of use from a public house to a preschool facility, external painting, updated signage and a new access gate to the side of the existing building and all ancillary works. This planning permission involves works to a protected structure (RPS 401). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18623/0
- 25 May 2018, Limerick County Council 18519: Conditional. Permission. inserting a mezzanine floor level into the ground floor retail unit of previously granted planning permission no. P03/770230, for retail and storage use, with associated changes to the dock road elevation and signage and to carry out all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18519/0
- 8 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18219: Conditional. Permission. (I) change of use from office to residential on first and second floor levels; (ii) provision of 14 no. studio apartments, with existing access from Dock Road; (iii) extension to existing to floor plate at first and second floor levels(17.2sq m); (iv) extension of existing access deck at second floor (41.7 sq m); (v) upgrade to existing courtyard landscape amenity space; (vi) ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18219/0
- 20 Feb 2018, Limerick County Council 18146: Conditional. Permission. change of use from fast food takeaway to coffee shop and delicatessen, front signage and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18146/0
- 19 Jan 2018, Limerick County Council 1844: Conditional. Permission. modifying front elevation including provision of new glazed units and relocation of main entrance door. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/1844/0
- 8 Nov 2017, Limerick County Council 171043: Conditional. Permission. replacing existing mono-pitch roof with a flat roof and a first floor roof terrace to the rear of an existing three storey dwelling and modification of existing opes in rear of existing dwelling and all associated ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171043/0
- 7 Mar 2017, Limerick County Council 177006: Conditional. Extension of duration. Extension of Permission (the construction of a District Regulator Installation (DRI) unit & relocation of the existing ESB sub-station, the demolition of the remaining masonry wall & rebuilding of same in rendered blockwork. The demolition of the free-standing internal walls (with the exception of the short return walls that form part of NIAH Ref 21517005, which will be retained), boundary improvement works & provision of a hard-standing surface over the entire site. The development will also include the remediation clean-up of the contaminated soil that lies within the footprint of the site. A Waste licence application under the Waste Licence Mgt Act 2011-2011. The site contains 2 no. Protected structures. An Environmental Impact Statement & Natura Impact Statement accompanied the planning application). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/177006/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA, site code 004077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004077

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountkennet.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Office, 1830–1850, Regional interest, registry number 21517002, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517002. Detached three-bay two-storey painted rendered former harbour office, built between 1840-50, set back from the road and emphasised by limestone ashlar walls which return with curved corners to frame the façade. Expressing a symmetrical elevation around a centrally-placed door opening, and having a single-story return and a modern two-storey rear extension. Hipped artificial slate roof behind a parapet wall. Painted rendered walls over smooth limestone ashlar plinth course; rusticated limestone ashlar quoins to corners; with a prominent limestone ashlar parapet entablature to façade and sides with painted dentil enriched cornice. Camber-arched window openings to façade and side elevations with cut limestone sills over carved limestone corbels and six-over-six timber sash windows with convex horns and cylinder glass. Moulded lugged stucco architraves to ground floor window openings with scrolled detail to base. Segmental-arched central front door opening with rusticated limestone block surround, and replacement hardwood double-leaf doors. Opening onto three limestone steps and concrete front site area. Two cast-iron cannons (removed from the Fitzgibbon Memorial on Wellesley Bridge in 1930), flanked by random limestone ashlar high walls. Hard surface rear site are, with no formal delineated boundary surviving. Good intact staircase and joinery to interior.
- Harbour House, house, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 21517003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517003. Detached three-bay two-storey red brick former house built between 1890-1910 with a pair of gabled two-storey returns. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge comb tiles and a brick chimneystack with terracotta post to either end and an additional stack to gable of return. Decorative timber bargeboards with timber finials to side and front gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with lime mortar pointing and black vitrified course at sill level at ground and first floor levels. Gabled two-storey three-sided bay windows, joined by porch canopy, have paired window openings with gauged vitrified brick flat arches, square profile brick reveals, shared limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Single windows similarly treated to sides of bays and over front door. Lean-to natural slate roof with carved timber supports spans between the bays, providing shelter to gauged vitrified brick flat-arched door opening with timber-panelled partially glazed door leaf, opening onto encaustic tiled open porch floor. Front site enclosed by low limestone ashlar walls with cast-iron railings and matching gate. A square-plan limestone ashlar pedestal with projecting coping, inscribed commemorative recessed panels and two-stage plinth is located in the rear site.
- Building misc, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 21517004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517004. Gateway to dock yard, erected in 1853, and repositioned at its current location, angled to O'Curry Street, during the twentieth century. Three square-plan ashlar limestone piers with chamfered plinth base and stringcourse beneath shallow pyramidal capping stone forming two gate openings with mild steel gates. Curving rubble limestone plinth walls supporting mild steel railings to east and west are of recent origins. A commemorative plaque to one pier, announces the date of renaming the piers after Ted Russell.
- Gasworks, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517005, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517005. Freestanding section of limestone wall to Dock Road, erected c. 1880, with several blind arched openings. Squared and coursed limestone ashlar wall, limestone coping with later mortar flaunching above. To the northeast is a segmental-arched opening, expressed with a Baroque vigour, and now blocked up, with rusticated piers and imposts supporting a rusticated arch voussoirs radiating before squaring off with a plain stringcourse. Large keystone to centre of arch. Later squared, coursed and snecked limestone infill. This is repeated on the inner face of the wall. Further south is a three-bay, two-storey composition with limestone ashlar platband delineating the first level and parapet wall. Elevation is comprised of blind round-arched openings, each with an inner and outer arch on different planes, with rusticated voussoirs and a sill to the inner arch, set lower than flanking sills, and which spans the entire opening of the centrally-placed opening. Segmental-arched blind opening at ground floor level with smooth limestone ashlar piers, imposts, voussoirs, and keystone. Further south is a double-height blind arch and a further single-height segmental arch with smooth limestone ashlar surround. At the entrance to the site the wall continues at a ninety-degree angle and meets a triple-height limestone ashlar wall with a platband to each level continuing around two triple-height pilasters. To the upper stage is a set of three semicircular openings with vermiculated rusticated voussoirs with red brick soffits.
- Gasworks, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517006. Freestanding limestone ridge gabled power station, built c. 1880, with an attached lower gabled section, now roofless, and comprising a two-bay triple-height gable to south and north with a gabled higher central section. Situated on a former quarry site. The flanking building is one-and-half-storeys high with a stone chimneystack to the apex. Rock-faced coursed and snecked limestone ashlar walls with limestone coping to all gables. Cast-iron roof structure with timber purlins with roof covering removed. Three square-headed window openings with smooth limestone surrounds and timber louvres to the first floor openings. An oculus located under the ridge gable has a smooth limestone surround and iron window frame without glass. A double-height camber-arched door opening with smooth limestone surround is located at the centre of the main gable. Square headed door opening with iron or steel lintel, now failing, to smaller building. The derelict building is located in a disused industrial site. The internal walls have engaged pier buttresses and no obvious lateral support.
- Inver House, office, 1890–1910, Regional interest, registry number 21517009, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517009. Attached gable-fronted single-bay two-storey commercial building, built c. 1900, on the site of a former smithy. The structure is distinguished by classically treated front elevation with corner pilasters supporting a broken base pediment, with modillion cornice; a two-storey three-sided canted bay window abutting projecting entrance porch to one side; and vehicular gateway to the east is distinguished by limestone piers. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to ridge. Cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods. Smooth rendered front elevation with limestone ashlar to architectural detailing. Roughcast rendered side elevations. Large square-headed window openings with concrete sills, rendered reveals, and replacement uPVC windows. Limestone ashlar three-sided canted bay window with plinth base, continuous sill course, and modillion cornice to parapet, and having round-arch window openings to canted sides, and wide segmental-arched window openings to main face. The first floor window opening has a keystone. Fixed timber glazing to all bay window openings. Limestone ashlar porch with curvilinear parapet following profile of segmental-arched canopy supported by scrolled limestone brackets. Limestone door step gives access to a double lead raised and fielded panelled timber door with segmental-arched overlight. Limestone ashlar gate piers to east terminating a rubble limestone wall further west with heaving limestone ashlar coping aligned with capping of piers. Limestone ashlar screen wall to west, adjoining entrance porch, with additional pedestrian site access. Site not accessed.
- The Sailors' Home, hostel, 1855–1860, Regional interest, registry number 21517010, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517010. Detached five-bay two-storey stucco enriched sailor's house, built 1858, and later in use as a military barracks and a constabulary barracks (later Garda station). Similar stucco finish to sides. Plain cement render to rear elevation. M-profile hipped slate roof, artificial slate to front, natural slate to rear with black clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimneystacks with terracotta posts and cast-iron rainwater goods. Heavy moulded Roman cement parapet entablature surmounted by decorative cast-iron railing to front and side elevations. Blank central rectangular blocking course panel flanked by pair of s-scrolls. Rosettes to entablature frieze. Painted rendered walls over moulded rendered plinth wall. Vermiculated rusticated stucco quoins to all corners returning to rear elevation along with cornice and railing above. Multiple moulded circular vents to each floor with cast-iron grilles. Segmental-arched widow openings to first floor with heavy moulded architraves, stone sill and four-over-four timber sash windows. Segmental arched window openings to ground floor with flat moulded architraves, vermiculated keystones, limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows. Triple-arched lancet window opening to central bay over front door, with heavy moulded architrave, shared limestone sill and three slender timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with heavy stucco doorcase comprising: flat-panelled pilasters with s-scroll consoles joined by heavy entablature finished by ribbed ogee capping; simple doorframe and double-leaf flat-panelled timber door, with rectangular overlight. The central ground floor window on the north side has been modified to form a door opening. The building is set back from the street from which it is enclosed by a rendered wall and piers and steel gates. Limestone rubble wall to side and large site to rear.
- House, 1840–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517011, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517011. Attached end-of terrace two-bay three-storey stucco-fronted house, built c. 1860, built within a terrace of four houses unified by render elevations and stucco detailing. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack rising from north gable. Replacement brick stack to south party wall, c. 1950. Cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with paired timber brackets and roll moulding below. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls on moulded plinth course and channel jointed vermiculated quoins to north end only. Square-headed window openings with a decorative moulded surround and vermiculated keystone, painted stone sills and uPVC windows. Similar surround to front door opening over plinth blocks with replacement timber-panelled door and glazing. Opening onto limestone step to the street.
- House, 1840–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517012, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517012. Terraced two-bay three-storey stucco-fronted house, built c. 1860, within a terrace unified by stucco enriched facades. Pitched artificial slate roof with rebuilt red brick shared chimneystacks to both party walls. uPVC rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with paired timber brackets and roll moulding below. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls on moulded plinth course and channelled vermiculated quoins to south end only. Square-headed window openings with a decorative moulded surround and vermiculated keystone, painted stone sills and two-over-two timber sash windows with ogee horns. Wrought-iron sill guard to ground floor window. Similar surround to front door opening on plinth blocks with replacement timber-panelled door and painted limestone threshold opening onto street.
- House, 1840–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517013, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517013. Terraced two-bay three-storey stucco-fronted house, built c. 1860, within a terrace of four houses unified by stucco enrichments, and compositionally united with neighbouring house by a superimposed rendered Doric pilaster rising through each floor level. Pitched artificial slate roof with a rendered chimneystack with clay pots to east party wall, rebuilt brick chimneystack to west party wall. Cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with paired timber brackets and roll moulding below. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls on moulded plinth course and channelled vermiculated quoins to south end only. Square-headed window openings with decorative moulded surrounds and painted sills, which continue as a platband across the façade to second and first floors. uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with surround as per windows and replacement timber glazed door opening onto limestone step to street.
- House, 1840–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21517014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517014. Terraced two-bay three-storey stucco-fronted house, built c. 1860, within a terrace of four houses, unified by stucco enrichment, and emphasised by superimposed rendered Doric pilasters rising through each floor level to party walls. Pitched artificial slate roof with a shared rendered chimneystack to west party wall and cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging eaves with paired timber brackets and roll moulding below. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls on moulded plinth course. Pilaster located on party wall between pair of houses. Square-headed window openings with decorative moulded surrounds and painted sills which continue as platbands across the façade to second and first floors. Replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with surround as per windows and replacement timber door opening onto limestone step to street.
- House, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21517015, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517015. Corner-sited end-of-terrace four-bay two-storey over basement stucco-fronted public house, built c. 1830, possibly incorporating two former dwellings, and given stucco enrichments, c. 1890. Having a two-bay three-storey side elevation, with a traditional style pub shopfront to ground floor level of front elevation. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and finial to south end. Gabled to north with cement coping. Cement-rendered chimneystacks with clay pots to gable and ridge. Highly decorative cast-iron gutter with Gothicised enrichments, on corbelled eaves. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls with vermiculated channel rusticated rendered quoins. Squared-headed window openings with painted stone sills, architrave surrounds and uPVC windows. First floor windows have a heavy cornice supported by fluted corbels and a frieze with discs. A square-headed door opening to north has a similar surround and contains a replacement timber-panelled door with overlight. The timber shopfront contains a further square-headed door opening with an original overlight. To O'Curry Street is a round-arched door opening with a pair of rendered pilasters and cornice with moulded arch surround. Replacement timber-panelled double-leaf doors and overlight.
- School, 1890–1900, Regional interest, registry number 21517016, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517016. Detached multiple-bay single-storey red brick former national school, built c. 1895, and comprising three gabled breakfronts of varying scale, linked by a lower wing running perpendicular to the former. Multiple accretions to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded brick eaves. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with carved limestone plinth course. Triple ventilation openings to the apex of each gable with timber louvres. The north gable is the largest, projecting by three bays and having a gauged brick round-arched recessed panel containing a blind oculus over two round-arched window openings with a single carved limestone sill on moulded brick corbels and uPVC windows. Recessed panel is flanked by a pair of gauged brick segmental-arched window openings with sill and windows as above. A moulded brick hood mould spans all three openings. The central gable only just breaks the front and has a tripartite arrangement of a gauged and rubbered round-arched window opening with square profiled brick reveals, flanked on each side by segmental-arched openings of similar detail as above with sill and windows as per north gable and with brick hood mould as above. South gable projects by one bay and has similar fenestration and details. The entrance is located between central and north gables, with a small pediment with cement coping and two slender brick pilasters resting on the impost of two larger pilasters, which form the jambs of a gauged brick round-arched door opening. Replacement hardwood glazed door, side- and overlights, c. 1995. Hard surface front site with soft landscaped verges, and no boundary definition to the road.
- House, 1800–1820, Regional interest, registry number 21517017, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517017. Terraced two-bay three-storey rendered house, built c. 1810, with a stucco dressing to façade, c. 1900. Return to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack to north party wall. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered façade with rusticated rendered quoins. Square-headed window openings, moulded stucco architraves, painted stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows, with ogee horns, and cylinder glass. Wrought-iron sill guards at ground floor level. Segmental-arched door opening, moulded stucco architrave on block ends, limestone threshold step, and insert doorcase comprising panelled pilasters with scrolled brackets supporting profiled lintel cornice above which is a cylinder glass fanlight. Replacement raised and fielded panelled timber door.
- House, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 21517018, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517018. Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1800, with a timber shopfront occupying two bays at ground floor level, introduced, c. 1900. Steeply pitched artificial slate roof. Red brick chimneystack to south abutting that of neighbouring building and to north re-faced in machine made red brick, c. 1880, with an irregularly shaped stack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls with rendered quoins and eaves course. Random rubble limestone rear elevation with red brick eaves course. Square-headed window openings, rendered reveals, limestone sills and two-over-two timber sash windows with ogee horns to second floor level, two-over-two timber sash windows to ground and first floor level with exposed sash boxes, each with ogee horns and cylinder glass. Wrought-iron sill guard to ground floor window opening, c. 1900. Timber shopfront comprising four narrow panelled pilasters with plain brackets supporting plain fascia with cornice above, and flanking a two-pane display window over rendered stall riser. Shopfront incorporates two door openings, one to shop wider than one to upper floors (northernmost), with an early flat-panelled timber door leaf having horizontal upper panel to shop and late twentieth century raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf to door to upper floors. Overlight to both.
- School, 1830–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21517019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI&regno=21517019. Detached classically composed and symmetrical former school and orphanage building, built between 1837-39. It forms a five-bay two-storey over-basement central block with a centrally-placed pedimented entrance breakfront, flanked by straight single-storey over basement three-bay wings distinguished by blank recessed horizontal panels above apertures, and terminated by slightly breakfronted single-bay single-storey over concealed basement pedimented pavilions. Large historically irrelevant apartment structure, which is linked to the rear elevation of the former, rises five storeys over a basement level to the rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with intersecting gabled roof structures. Limestone ashlar chimneystacks with octagonal clay pots. Single-pot stacks surmount pediment over pavilions. Cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Roof lights introduced to various spans. Limestone ashlar faced front elevation with plain architrave delineating frieze beneath eaves, and architrave and coping to pediment. Painted rendered basement elevation and side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings, limestone ashlar lintel, reveals, sills ad replacement six-over-six timber sash windows with heavy ogee horns. Window openings to pavilions set in square-headed recess. Oculus to pediment with limestone ashlar surround and fixed timber window. Semi-circular plan entrance portico comprising square-plan limestone Doric columns with chamfered corners and standing on plinth bases on a limestone podium step and supporting a limestone ashlar entablature. Limestone portico platform gives access to a wide square-headed front door opening with a limestone lintel, and with a replacement panelled timber door and sidelights, c. 2000. Concrete steps give access to basement level to north of front door. Hard surface asphalt front site car park enclosed from road by low limestone ashlar plinth wall with piers forming vehicular access points.

## 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 Mountkennet, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_950, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_950.zip (ZIP).
- 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/mountkennet.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountkennet.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountkennet.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Mountkennet 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)

- Ballinacurra (Bowman): https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinacurra-bowman.md
- Courtbrack: https://everytownland.com/limerick/courtbrack.md
- Prior's-Land: https://everytownland.com/limerick/priors-land.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.

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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.

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