Richhill

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Richhill, from 50 m² to 58,613 m² (5.86 ha, 14.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Richhill 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.

• 31 May 2022N/a

  the construction of a single-storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new sewerage treatment unit with polishing filter, new vehicular entrance and associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22614

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  the construction of a wastewater treatment system & polishing filter in lieu of an existing septic tank system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22187

• 7 Oct 2021Conditional

  the decommissioning of an existing septic tank system and the construction of a replacement wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211394

• 8 Oct 2020Refused

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 201010

• 18 Aug 2020Conditional

  upgrade of existing domestic waste water treatment system, replacing existing soil filter with eco-flo filter

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20805

• 20 Nov 2019N/a

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 191139

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of an extension to side of existing dwelling and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18166

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  Extension of Permission from Ref No:11/957 (montessori school and afterschool, site entrances, drop off area, waste water treatment works and all associated site works)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177031

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 Richhill.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-107001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a small rise, in otherwise low‐lying and poorly drained, rough pasture, bounded by the old N7 to W and a housing estate to S. Fulacht fia (LI006-107002-) in Area B was located to SE, near the S edge of the site. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Aegis in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Number A026, NRA Reg. E2329) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Áine Richardson as part of Rich Hill 1 (Richardson 2009, 4). This was designated Area A and was located in the NW portion of the site on a low rise. The fulacht fia in Area A consisted of three clay lined troughs, two possible boiling pits, three roasting pits, one fire dump pit, a large shallow pit with an associated platform, a large pitwith an adjunct access pit, various additional pits, numerous stakeholes and a burnt mound (ibid, 11). One of the troughs underlying the burnt mound cut into earlier features and was in itself cut by a roasting pit. Another trough and a number of pits also truncated the burnt mound. This indicated that there were at least three probable phases of activity associated with the fulacht fia. Three radiocarbon dates taken from the key features returned a consistent date of Middle Bronze Age. An irregular-shaped burnt mound (c. 27m N-S; 11m E-W; D 0.4m) consisting of heat-shattered stone and charcoal inclusions. During the excavation multiple sections were cut through its body to show an apparent frequency of individual burnt mound deposits which increased from S to N (ibid, 16). This was reflective of the increased archaeological activity towards the centre and N of the mound. The mound was cut by a clay lined trough and four pits (ibid). Hazel charcoal was recovered from a sample taken from the clay lined trough and it was radiocarbon dated to 1126 – 945 cal BC (2σ) (UBA‐12318) returning a date range sometime between the end of the Middle and the start of the Late Bronze Age (ibid, 14). Approx. 6m to S of the trough was a rectangular-shaped boiling pit. Charred hazel nutshells and a single grain of barley were recovered from a sample taken from one of the boiling pits. It also yielded a piece of chert debitage classed as an inner flake (E2329:191:109) (ibid, 11). Alder charcoal was recovered from a sample taken from the subrectangular-shaped pit. It was radiocarbon dated to 1267 – 1045 cal BC (2σ) (UBA‐12323) dating this feature to the end of the Middle Bronze Age. A large subrectangular-shaped pit (L 6.8m; Wth 3m; D 0.8m) with an access pit was cut into the burnt mound towards the N end. Hazel charcoal was recovered from a secure context which returned a radiocarbon date of 1207 – 1014 cal BC (2σ) (UBA‐12315) dating this feature to the end of the Middle Bronze Age (ibid, 18). See attached location map from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 July 2020

• LI006-107002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On generally level ground, in low‐lying and poorly drained, rough pasture, bounded by the old N7 to W and a housing estate to S. Fulacht fia (LI006-107001-) in Area A was located to NW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Aegis in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Number A026, NRA Reg. E2329) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Áine Richardson as part of Rich Hill 1 (Richardson 2009, 4). The fulacht fia in Area B was located in the SE area of the site. It consisted of a burnt mound and four pits (ibid, 4). The remains of the burnt mound were irregular-shaped (9.5m NE-SW; 6.5m NW-SE; D 0.2-0.5m) and had been damaged by ploughing, where it was patchy in appearance (ibid, 8). The mound consisted of heat-shattered stone and charcoal inclusions. A sample of alder charcoal taken from a secure context of one of the pits was radiocarbon dated to 2836 – 2493 cal BC (2σ) (UBA‐12327) and returned the use of the site to the Late Neolithic period (ibid, 8). At least one of the pits is assumed to have been the trough. Specialist analysis of a polished stone axe head recovered from topsoil across this area suggested potential Mesolithic activity (ibid, 4). See attached location plan from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 July 2020

• LI006-107003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On generally level ground, in low‐lying and poorly drained, rough pasture, bounded by the old N7 to W and a housing estate to S. Identified by Aegis in 2006 during test trenching (Ministerial Direction Number A026, NRA Reg. E2329) prior to the construction of the Southern Limerick Ring-Road and excavated in the same year by Áine Richardson as part of Rich Hill 1 (Richardson 2009, 4). Fulacht fia excavated in Area C measured 8m north–south by 9m. It had two possible troughs below the mound, the larger measuring 2.19m east–west by 1.81m and 0.32m in depth, the smaller measuring 1.6m in diameter and 0.51m in depth. These were unlined and filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal-rich deposits. See attached location plan from excavation report. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Rich Hill, country house, 1780–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, with older wing to side dating from the seventeenth century. Additions to side, added in 2009. Skirt slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and render parapet. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening having spoked fanlight over timber panelled door with flanking engaged columns. Pair of dressed limestone square-profile piers to south-east having carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gate.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1054 (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 Richhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Richhill · An Cnoc Rua

Area

259,602 m² (25.96 ha, 64.15 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyvarra electoral division: 4,513 people in 1,473 households; 77% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagowan, Carrowkeel, Lisnagry, Mountshannon, Rivers

Placenames

Richhill 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.