Oldcourt
Oldcourt is a townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An tSeanchúirt.
- Area
- 59.7 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 2,406 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldcourt, from 360 m² to 334,332 m² (33.43 ha, 82.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Oldcourt 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jan 2021N/a
material changes to the dwelling previously granted under planning ref. 00/118 incorporating layout and elevational changes, increased floor area and other design modifications
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2150
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Oldcourt.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-049 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gently undulating terrain. Site, located in NE corner of field, has been fenced off and is now heavily masked by overgrowth. Oval area (c. 35m N-S; c. 25m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.2m) SSE->NW. Bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved at NW, is stone-faced externally SSE->WNW where it is incorporated into field boundary system. Interior is completely covered in dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldcourt.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Oldcourt, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oldcourt.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Oldcourt with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Oldcourt · An tSeanchúirt
- Area
- 596,549 m² (59.65 ha, 147.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dromard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 916 people lived in 300 households in the Dromard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Adamswood, Ardnapreaghaun, Gortreagh, Killea
- Placenames
- Oldcourt 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.