Rathfreedy

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfreedy, from 187 m² to 214,661 m² (21.47 ha, 53.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Rathfreedy 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.

• 15 Mar 2024Conditional

  a change of house type and site layout from previously granted under planning permission ref. 22/813

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2492

• 25 Jul 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associate site works (Outline Planning Ref: 21/1580)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22813

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211580

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191257

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 Rathfreedy.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 52m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 3.1m) with external fosse (D 1.9m; Wth 4.8m). Break in bank (Wth. 1.8m) with causeway (Wth. 3.8m) across fosse at N. Fosse infilled with refuse W->NW; otherwise it is waterlogged. Interior level and covered by mature sycamore and whitethorn trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 42m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 1.3m; Wth 1.8m). Break (Wth 2m) through bank at NE. Field boundary encloses site c. 2m outside external edge of fosse. Interior, covered by rough grazing but with some scrub and trees, is covered by low corrugations which are probably remains of cultivation ridges. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 33m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.65m) with an external fosse (D 1m; Wth 2m). Field drain runs radially out from fosse at SW and fosse appears to have been re-cut in recent times. Interior level and covered by mature beech and oak trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-091 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture. Roughly rectangular area (c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) with an external fosse (D 0.3m). Possible entrance via break in bank (Wth. 6m) with ramp into fosse at NE. Interior level. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 33). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-109 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In level pasture. A roughly crescent-shaped mound (11.40m N-S; 22.0m E-W; H 0.40m) of burnt material. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-110 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In slightly undulating pasture. An irregularly shaped mound (15.60m N-S; 7.00m E-W; H 0.40m) of burnt material. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-111 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In slightly undulating pasture. A roughly oval-shaped (8.00m N-S; 11.00m E-W; H 0.25m) mound of burnt material. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Rathfredagh Cheshire Home, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1820, with full-height canted bays to front (south), five-bay two-storey wing to side (east) and gable-fronted three-bay two-storey traversing end-bay to side (west). Recent extension to side (east). Now in use as a care home. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with snecked limestone chimneystacks, tooled limestone gable copings, timber clad eaves with brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Gabled dormer windows to side (east) wing with aluminium rainwater goods. Snecked sandstone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and cut limestone block-and-start surrounds throughout, having mixed two-over-two and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with occasional uPVC casement replacements. Portico to front (south) elevation, having flat roof with tooled limestone cornice over limestone and sandstone pilasters with round-headed opening to front, having tooled limestone voussoirs and keystone. Recent wrought-iron gate to opening. Cut limestone stepped approach with rounded flanking plinth. Rendered walls to interior of portico, having square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Two-bay single-storey lodge to south of site with pitched slate roof and snecked sandstone chimneystack. Snecked sandstone walls with cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and block-and-start surrounds, having tripartite windows with two-over-four and one-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-profile cut limestone gate piers to front of lodge, having flanking rubble stone walls with cut limestone coping and timber railing. Set within own grounds.

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 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_517 (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 Rathfreedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Rathfreedy · Ráth Bhroíle

Area

1,087,089 m² (108.71 ha, 268.63 acres)

Civil parish

Clonelty, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Knockaderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockaderry electoral division: 541 people in 176 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill More, Ballynoe, Lissaniska East, Walshestown

Placenames

Rathfreedy 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.