# Skahard, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Sceach Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 564,618 m² (56.46 ha, 139.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,875 m² (2.29 ha, 5.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Caherconlish, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/caherconlish.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Caherconlish West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,318 people lived in 774 households in the Caherconlish West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31326 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121824 - Centre: latitude 52.599752, longitude -8.505096 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skahard, from 556 m² to 262,580 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1651754: 262,580 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651754.md - Parcel 3419948: 114,550 m² (11.45 ha, 28.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419948.md - Parcel 1615056: 66,097 m² (6.61 ha, 16.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615056.md - Parcel 1615057: 58,514 m² (5.85 ha, 14.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615057.md - Parcel 5629217: 26,033 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5629217.md - Parcel 3419896: 22,875 m² (2.29 ha, 5.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419896.md - Parcel 4279001: 5,518 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4279001.md - Parcel 1650817: 3,958 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650817.md - Parcel 4278999: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4278999.md - Parcel 1619381: 2,050 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619381.md - Parcel 4279140: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4279140.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Skahard 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) 1 application, newest first. - 25 Feb 2019, Limerick County Council 19159: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. a single storey dwelling house as constructed in different position to that granted by original planning permission (ref. no. 78/15365) and permission to redraw site boundaries to incorporate existing septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19159/0 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 Skahard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI014-069: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-069----. Situated on top of a hill in well-drained, rolling pasture with good views in all directions. The monument is evident as a roughly circular area (diam. 26m E-W) enclosed by two concentric banks. The internal bank (int. H 0.1-0.7m; Wth 1-1.2m; ext. H 1.25-1.4m) is constructed of earth-and-stone and is quite heavily eroded by vegetation and by poaching from cattle. The intervening fosse (Wth 1.3-1.7m; D 0.5m) is evident from E to S, and SW to NW. The external bank (int. H 0.3m; Wth 2.4m; ext H 0.2m) is evident in the S and SW. The interior is uneven and poached by cattle and slopes gently down to SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 June 2013 - LI014-072: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-072----. Situated on the gentle W-facing slope of a steep hill in rolling pasture, with good views in all directions. The ground is gently uneven in the area of the monument. Marked on the 1923 OS map as 'Carn (Site of)'. Lynch (1911-13, 25-6) refers to a mound at this location where 'from time to time large portions of the mound…have been removed, and about 100 years ago the skeleton of a man, buried in standing position, was found in the mound.' There was no evident trace of the cairn when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 June 2013 - LI014-073: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-073----. Situated on a NE-facing slope in gently rolling pasture with good views to N, S and SE. Marked on 1840 OS map as a circular area (diam. c. 20m) named 'site of Killavoher Burial Ground.' According to the OS Letter Books 'children were buried here until about the year 1800, when the place was cultivated.' According to Lynch (1911-1913, 26) two whitethorn bushes mark the site of 'Cill a' bhothair, the church of the road'; also according to Lynch (1896, 449) 'many years ago some human bones- but not of children- were found near this kyle.'. There was no evident trace of the monument when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 June 2013 - LI014-119: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-119----. In undulating pasture on S-facing slope with good views in all directions, 100m SW of cairn (LI014-072----). Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified as a conjoined circular enclosure from Bruff Survey aerial photograph (AP 4/3742). No surface remains of the monument visible when inspected in 2005. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 7 July 2020 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Skahard. ## 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 Skahard, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1058, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1058.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/skahard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/skahard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/skahard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Skahard 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) - Carrigarreely: https://everytownland.com/limerick/carrigarreely.md - Highpark: https://everytownland.com/limerick/highpark.md - Hundredacres West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/hundredacres-west.md - Inch St. Lawrence: https://everytownland.com/limerick/inch-st-lawrence.md - Inch St. Lawrence North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/inch-st-lawrence-north.md - Pust North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/pust-north.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/skahard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/skahard