Oolahills East

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oolahills East, from 239 m² to 407,012 m² (40.7 ha, 100.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Oolahills East 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.

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660992

• 20 Dec 2025Conditional

  removal of previous lobby and construction of replacement lobby at front door; Construction of pitched roof over flat roof of previously permitted extension; Change of roof coverings from slate to profiled steel; Removal of chimney and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561370

• 27 Jan 2025Refused

  entrance, dwelling house, sewage treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560047

• 30 Mar 2024N/a

  the construction of entrance, dwelling house, sewage treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460275

• 26 Jan 2023Refused

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2345

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  an agricultural shed incorporating a slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221085

• 12 Nov 2021Refused

  a 10-year permission and 35 year operation for a solar farm on four land parcels as described herein; North Parcel(Gortnakistin townland) approximately 23.78 hectares, Central Parcel(Ballyvalode & Keeloges townlands) approximately 43.49 hectares, South Central Parcel(Gortyvahane and Moanroe townlands) approximately 34.7 hectares, South Parcel(Garryduff, Moanroe, Moanoola and Kilmacogue townland) approximately 39.27 hectares. The Central Parcel, South Central Parcel and South Parcel are collectively referred to as the Main Solar Farm; a route corridor of 0.58 hectares for an underground internal network cable along the R507 and L5040 public roads for approximately 600 metres and within the solar farm lands for approximately 1,260 metres. The total site area for the proposed development is approximately 141.8 hectares. The proposed development on these parcels comprises of 755,000sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; new internal access tracks; associated drainage infrastructure; site entrances to the R507 public road(site entrance to main solar farm) and the L5040 public local road(North Parcel); CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. Works for the internal network cable comprise trenching for an underground medium voltage electrical cable and associated joint bays and infrastructure, for a distance of approximately 560 metres on the R507 Regional Road, approximately 100 metres on the L5040 Local Road and approximately 1,260m within the solar farm lands. As part of a separate Strategic Infrastructure Development(SID) planning application provision of a 110kV electrical substation with electrical control building, associated compound with palisade fence and 2no. overhead line masts, which is to be located within the main solar farm, will be lodged with An Bord Pleanála in due course. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211565

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211361

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  an existing 12 metre high telecommunications support structure carrying telecommunications equipment, together with existing equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound as previously granted under local authority reference 11/1046. The development will continue to form part of meteor Mobile Communications Ltd existing and future telecommunications and broadband network

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18550

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  retention permission for the existing dwelling house & detached garage & full planning permission for a waste water treatment unit & polishing filter including all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17475

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 Oolahills East.

Recorded monuments

• LI025-018 Earthwork
  Description

  On a slight N-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from NW-N-NE and 155m SE of a townland boundary with Moanroe. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised subcircular-shaped area (16m E-W; approx. 10m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.3m) from SW-W-N-E which is levelled from E-S-SW. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth and has been raised on the N side to compensate for hillslope. A field boundary runs NW-SE approx. 2m to SW of monument and a farm track flanks the monument to E and S. Monument is visible as a faint subcircular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-020 Earthwork
  Description

  In undulating poor pasture, good views to NW to NE and reasonable in other directions. Enclosure sites (LI025-019/021/024----) are located 400-500m to N just beyond the N tip of the townland boundary. A number of potential ring-barrow sites are located between 50-200m to the N and W. The site is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork or platform on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is later depicted as a sub-rectangular shaped earthwork (ext. dims. 22m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) orientated NE-SW on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 1999 when the site could not be identified on the ground due to heavy rush growth which hampered surface inspection. The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages within hummocky rushy grassland taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 21 September 2020

• LI025-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 205) recorded the following details about Tobar na Róimhe [Well of Rome]; 'Tobernarova on 1840 map. The well described in OSNB as "about eighteen inches (0.45m) deep, twelve inches [0.3m] wide at its mouth and twenty-four [0.61m] at the bottom, curiously formed by nature in a solid rock having always the depth of six inches of water in it" seems to have disappeared. The well seen now is a small clear spring with some collapsed dry-stone lining. No traditions of devotion and only a vague tradition that it was a holy well. Legends: The inhabitants of the castle had no water. A bottle of water was blessed by the Pope and sent from Rome; when this was poured on the ground the well sprang up OSNB'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described the well as following; 'This little well, which is regarded as sacred by the peasantry, is about 18 inches deep, 12 inches wide at its mouth, and 24 inches wide at the bottom. It is curiously formed by nature in a solid rock, having always a depth of 6 inches of water in it, and it is said that neither the greatest drought nor the heaviest rainfall decreases or fills it. Its formation, as told by the natives is as follows: The family of Oola Castle lacked water and appealed to the Pope, who consecrated a bottle of water for them. The property of this water was that, when poured on the spot where is now the well, a well of excellent water appeared, rendering enough at all times, though not supplied from any other source. The people also affirm that the water of this well cannot be made to boil by any heat' (OSNB Oola Parish, 1422). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00284 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17027 and F025.21.00285 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24546. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 25 September 2020

• LI025-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture on a low rise, with good views to the N to SE and reasonable views in other directions. Holy well called ‘Tobernarova’ (LI025-023----) lies 140m to SW. The site is depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as a circular platform (ext. dims. 43m N-S; 40m E-W) enclosed by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The enclosure is visible as roughly circular-shaped are with trees growing around the bank and fosse on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (int. diam. c. 22m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m) mainly reduced to a scarp and an external fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 0.45m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at E . The interior was level, dry and clear of vegetation. The fosse is visible around the ringfort with the exception of the E side where it has been filled in. Visible as a circular-shaped enclosure on an ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP (119) 5). The ringfort is visible on latest Google Earth orthoimages taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI, ASI aerial photo showing the enclosure looking SW and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 22 September 2020

• LI025-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In sloping pasture on the NW side of a ridge 450m NE of Oola Hill. The townland boundary with Oolahills West is 250m to W and Oola or Cullen’s Castle (LI033A008002-) lies 520m to SE. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The enclosure is visible as a circular enclosure on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Denis Power on Bing aerial photos in 2014 as a circular enclosure surrounded by a fosse (ext. diam. c. 28m). The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 24 September 2020

• LI025-039 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On reclaimed grassland, immediately E of a field boundary which marks the townland boundary with Moanoola. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a ditch visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Edmond O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 September 2020

• LI025-043 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. diam. 9m) visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Faint outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-044 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. diam. 7m) visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Faint outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-045 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of possible barrow (approx. diam. 6m) visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. Not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-046 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. diam. 6m) visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-047 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Situated on flat poorly drained reclaimed grassland. Outline of ring-barrow (approx. diam. 6m) visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 October 2020

• LI025-050 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of curvilinear (diam. c. 33m) transected at W by field boundary marking townland boundary with Moanroe visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 2 November 2021

• LI033A007 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In pasture on the lower E facing slope of Oola Hill, 430m ESE of the summit and 80m NW and N of Oola Castle (LI033A008002-) standing 1km W of the county border with Tipperary. The site has excellent views to the N, E and S. A land grant of 1282 records that Ullish (Oola) was granted by the Citizens of Limerick to J. Fitz Thomas (Westropp 1906, 103). Oola Castle, a tower house, is reputed to have been built by a branch of the O’Brien’s of Thomond, Tirrelagh mac Brien held a castle at Knockowlow (Oola Hills) in 1572 (ibid., 103). The earthworks were first identified on oblique aerial photographs taken 20/07/1968 and 10/07/1969 (CUCAP AVT043/044; AYO037) appear to be the remains of medieval settlement contemporary or earlier associated with Oola Castle. The field systems and earthworks are not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The field systems, sunken way and house platforms are visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. A clear rectangular platform (ext. dims. 23m NNE-SSW; 19m ENE-WSW) defined by a fosse located at the E side of the field system. A covered way or sunken road (L. 125m) orientated NW-SE is located 14m SW of the rectangular platform. A series of irregular relic fields are located to the SW of the sunken road where cultivation ridges survives on the ground surface. The aerial Google Earth orthoimages taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018 best illustrate the cultivation ridges and hummocky topography suggestive of wider settlement (ext. dims. 130m N-S; 160m E-W). See attached CUCAP aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 2 October 2020

• LI033A008001 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, 95m W of townland boundary with Ballybeg. Oola Castle (LI033A008002-) centrally located within the interior and deserted medieval settlement (LI033A007----) to the NW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectangular shaped platform (dims. c. 19m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by a scarp, with causeway entrance at SE. the hachures on this map refer to the natural rock outcrop platform on top of which Oola Castle stands. The scarping of the rock outcrop is clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs taken in 1968 and 1969 (CUCAP AVT043; AYO037). The platform is also visible on aerial photographs taken 10/05/2003 and 13/04/2002 (ASIAP (369) 33, 36; (373) 36 (310) 21). This earthwork may have defined a small bawn area immediately around the base of Oola Castle. See attached CUCAP aerial photographs, ASI aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 22 April 2021

• LI033A008002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Oola Castle possibly stands on top of Oola Hill with extensive earthworks of possible deserted settlement (LI033A002007-) to N and W. This area is annotated 'Pollardstown' on Petty's map of 1685. Oola Church site (LI033A002001-) and graveyard (LI033A002002-) located 1.26km to W. Castle stands 980m NW of county boundary with Tipperary. O’Donovan recorded the following details about Oola Castle; ‘The other remains of antiquity in this Parish are those of two Castles, which would appear to have been erected in the reign of Queen Elizabeth or James 1. One of these is in the townland of Oola; it is a square structure in tolerable preservation measuring about twenty feet [6.1m] square and sixty feet [18.3m] high’ (OSL Oola Parish, 129). The 1654-7 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the townland of 'Pollordstown' [Pollardstown also known as Ulla or Oola) which in 1640 was in the possession of James Butler recently deceased and his 'relictt' Mary Butler who was the owner of 'a Mill and a broken Castle' (Simington 1938, 19). A castle is depicted standing in the townland of Pollardstown on the 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony (Hib. Reg.). Oola Castle described by Westropp (1906-07, 103) as following; '1282 Welese (Ullish) granted by citizens of Limerick to J. fitzThomas (C.S.P.I., p. 429). 1285-7 Uladh or Uibhla named in some copies of "Wars of Torlough," as on line of Torlough O'Brien's raid. 1306 Wlys (Oolys). 1542 Owleys. 1544 See under Tough (87, supra) for the "Oolde children" robbers. The name is Ullay, Ullish, Oolde, and Oola, from its orchards. 1551, &c. In 1572 Tirrelagh mac Brien held one castle at Knockowlow (Inq. Exch. 7, 10), of which the C[astle]. townland, "Oola Hills," is a translation. 1586 Knockowleye, held by Knonogher ohowan mac Brian Ogonanoght (Peyton, p. 247). 1655 See Parish maps (C.S., xxiii., pp. 3-11, and Petty, 67). Fabric - A shapely tower, with four gables and lofty chimneys, battlements, and projecting bartizans. The larger windows have mullions, and it is probably little, if at all older than 1500. It is about 60 feet [18.3m] high and 20 feet [6.1m] square in under room (O.S.L., p. 428)'. The following folklore about Oola Castle was collected from Newtown, National School Co. Tipperary; ' The old people maintain that this castle was built with mortar made from bullock's blood and curds of milk, and that is the reason why the castle is so strong and able to stand against the weather' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0578, Page 043; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922289/4867445/5051677). Castle and earthworks are clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs taken 20/07/1968 and 10/07/1969 (CUCAP AVT044-047; AYO037-038). According to Donnelly (1999, 31; 2010, 198) Oola Castle was an example of a Type 4 late tower house which belonged to the last phase of the tower house building tradition in Limerick. Castle described by Salter (2004, 92) as a 'four-gabled late 16th century O'Brien tower with circular bartizans on the NE and SW corners measures 11.8m by 8.6m. The end has a tier of rooms over the blocked entrance and there is a spiral staircase in the SE corner. The upper three levels have two-light windows with hoodmoulds and fireplaces in the east and west end walls'. See attached ground plan of Oola Castle taken from Donnelly 1999, 32 and 1657 Down Survey map of Coonagh Barony. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 7 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Oolahills East.

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

Name

Oolahills East · Cnoc Úlla Thoir

Area

2,138,874 m² (213.89 ha, 528.53 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oola electoral division: 1,119 people in 427 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Boherdotia, Gortakilleen, Gortyvahane, Knockphelagh (Co. Tipperary), Moanahila, Moanoola, Moanroe, Oolahills West, Shanaclogh East, Shanaclogh West

Placenames

Oolahills East 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.