Proonts
Townland in the civil parish of St. Peters and St. Pauls, barony of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; in Irish Prointe
- Area
- 11 ha
- 27 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 4,232 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Proonts, from 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres) to 36,649 m² (3.66 ha, 9.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Kilmallock Local Area Plan 2019-2025, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Jul 2022Conditional
demolition of existing front porch, construction of a new porch to the side of the existing dwelling, construction of a 1st floor extension resulting in an increase in overall height, modifications to the existing dwelling, alterations to the existing entrance and associated site works. Retention is also sought for a utility room extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22737
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 Proonts.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Proonts.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Proonts.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1002 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Proonts with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Proonts · Prointe
- Area
- 109,901 m² (10.99 ha, 27.16 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
- Abbeyfarm, Ardkilmartin, Coolroe, Deebert
- Placenames
- Proonts 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.