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

Townland in the civil parish of Clonelty, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Ráth Bhroíle.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,087,089 m² (108.71 ha, 268.63 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,103 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Clonelty, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/clonelty.md
- Barony: Glenquin
- Electoral division: Knockaderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 541 people lived in 176 households in the Knockaderry electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31820
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121731
- Centre: latitude 52.449739, longitude -8.974537 (WGS 84)

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

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathfreedy, from 187 m² to 214,661 m² (21.47 ha, 53.04 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1661660: 214,661 m² (21.47 ha, 53.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661660.md
- Parcel 1645381: 113,049 m² (11.3 ha, 27.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645381.md
- Parcel 1662220: 84,881 m² (8.49 ha, 20.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662220.md
- Parcel 1604390: 80,749 m² (8.07 ha, 19.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604390.md
- Parcel 1612610: 74,494 m² (7.45 ha, 18.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612610.md
- Parcel 4872018: 65,220 m² (6.52 ha, 16.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872018.md
- Parcel 1616222: 64,356 m² (6.44 ha, 15.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616222.md
- Parcel 1660326: 38,566 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660326.md
- Parcel 1606454: 36,655 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606454.md
- Parcel 1658788: 36,533 m² (3.65 ha, 9.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658788.md
- Parcel 1657539: 28,658 m² (2.87 ha, 7.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657539.md
- Parcel 1658983: 22,275 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658983.md
- Parcel 1589601: 5,600 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589601.md
- Parcel 5197774: 4,607 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5197774.md
- Parcel 1602481: 4,172 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602481.md
- Parcel 1636523: 3,168 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636523.md
- Parcel 5165186: 2,645 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5165186.md
- Parcel 1611183: 2,575 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611183.md
- Parcel 1655748: 2,201 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1655748.md
- Parcel 1656692: 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656692.md
- Parcel 1631430: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631430.md
- Parcel 1657088: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657088.md
- Parcel 4872012: 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872012.md
- Parcel 1649874: 1,977 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1649874.md
- Parcel 1609899: 753 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609899.md
- Parcel 3854204: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3854204.md

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

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.

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

4 applications, newest first.

- 15 Mar 2024, Limerick County Council 2492: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a change of house type and site layout from previously granted under planning permission ref. 22/813. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2492/0
- 25 Jul 2022, Limerick County Council 22813: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associate site works (Outline Planning Ref: 21/1580). File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22813/0
- 15 Nov 2021, Limerick County Council 211580: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211580/0
- 18 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191257: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191257/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathfreedy.

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

- LI037-046: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-046----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-047----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-048----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-091----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-109----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-110----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-111----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Rathfredagh Cheshire Home, country house, 1820–1840, Regional interest, registry number 21903703, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21903703. 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.

## 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 Rathfreedy, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_517, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_517.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/rathfreedy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathfreedy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathfreedy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Rathfreedy 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)

- Ballynakill More: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynakill-more.md
- Ballynoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynoe-120382.md
- Lissaniska East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lissaniska-east.md
- Walshestown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/walshestown.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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