Scoul

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scoul, from 5,171 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres) to 190,462 m² (19.05 ha, 47.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Scoul 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Scoul in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Scoul.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-086 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture 150m E of the townland boundary with Cloonygarra. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential site from examination of aerial photographs (GSIAP R. 494) taken 16/04/1974. Visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 26m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 April 2021

• LI039-087 Quarry
  Description

  In pasture 190m W of the townland boundary with Ballyania. Enclosure (LI039-085----) lies 180m to NW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1893 OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped depression or quarry face located immediately N of a farm track running E-W. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. Non-antiquity associated with quarrying activity for adjacent farm track. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, 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_1001 (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 Scoul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Scoul · Scamhall

Area

295,951 m² (29.6 ha, 73.13 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromin electoral division: 577 people in 197 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyania, Cloonygarra, Dromin South

Placenames

Scoul 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.