Skoolhill

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skoolhill, from 122 m² to 141,662 m² (14.17 ha, 35.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Skoolhill 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.

• 14 May 2026Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660542

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 22/357

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267008

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional

  the installation of a steel tech shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460245

• 20 Jul 2023Conditional

  an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360518

• 31 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22357

• 26 Jul 2021Conditional

  the demolition of existing house and to replace with a new dwelling, entrance and sewage treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211063

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  an extension to front of an existing light industrial storage unit, new dock leveller and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201209

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181265

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Skoolhill 001996

Recorded monuments

• LI022-106 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Skool Castle and bawn (LI022-106001-) described by Westropp (1906-7, 187) as following; 'Alleged by Dyneley to have been built by King John (R.S.A.I.,ix., p. 197). 1583 The Earl of Desmond held Awney Manor "duobus lez Sculles in p'orhia de hospital" (Des. R., 3b). 1612 J. Stritch held the C[astle], bawn, water-mill, and two weirs at 'ambo skules," in fee; his son W. succeeded (Inq. Chan., Car. I., No. 89). 1624 Sir W. Parsons held the two Skulls, late estate of Alderman W. Stritch (Pat. R.). 1639 James held the C[astle], bawn, and mills, "in duobus Skules" (Inq. Chan., 234). 1657 C[astle]. held by W. Hurley. 1666 Scuill and Ballyneety confirmed to Capt. A. Ormsby. 1680 Capt. Ingoldesbye held it. Fabric. - Almost levelled; only parts of the north and south walls, 10 feet [3m] and 22 [7m] feet high, stood in 1840 (O.S.L., 8, p. 378)'. Tower House like structure depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Fedamore Parish (NLI, Ms 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that on the lands of William Stretch late of Limerick there stood in Scoole 'a Castle, a Mill Seate [LI022-106002-] & 8 Cabbins' (Simington 1938, 107). Cropmarks of levelled castle and bawn (LI022-106001-) visible on OSi aerial photographs. The cropmarks are barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-106001 Bawn
  Description

  Skool Castle (LI022-106---) and bawn described by Westropp (1906-7, 187) as following; 'Alleged by Dyneley to have been built by King John (R.S.A.I.,ix., p. 197). 1583 The Earl of Desmond held Awney Manor "duobus lez Sculles in p'orhia de hospital" (Des. R., 3b). 1612 J. Stritch held the C[astle], bawn, water-mill, and two weirs at 'ambo skules," in fee; his son W. succeeded (Inq. Chan., Car. I., No. 89). 1624 Sir W. Parsons held the two Skulls, late estate of Alderman W. Stritch (Pat. R.). 1639 James held the C[astle], bawn, and mills, "in duobus Skules" (Inq. Chan., 234). 1657 C[astle]. held by W. Hurley. 1666 Scuill and Ballyneety confirmed to Capt. A. Ormsby. 1680 Capt. Ingoldesbye held it. Fabric. - Almost levelled; only parts of the north and south walls, 10 feet [3m] and 22 [7m] feet high, stood in 1840 (O.S.L., 8, p. 378)'. Cropmarks of levelled castle and bawn visible on OSi aerial photographs. The cropmarks are barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-107001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Stone fort described in 1942-3 as following; 'A circular space enclosed by a very collapsed stone rampart, a large part of the N.E. sector of which is formed by the utilisation of a natural outcrop of limestone rock. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 135' [41m]. This fort is in the centre of a complex of ancient field fences which run in various directions over the hilltop on which it is situated. Two of them join into the rampart, one on the west side, the other on the S.W.' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 230). Outline of cashel with circular-shaped annexe or quarry to NW clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Complex series of linear earthworks forming a field system to the S and W of the cashel are clearly visible on OSi aerial photographs but are not as clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-107002 Field system
  Description

  Stone fort (LI022-107001-) with field system described in 1942-3 as following; 'A circular space enclosed by a very collapsed stone rampart, a large part of the N.E. sector of which is formed by the utilisation of a natural outcrop of limestone rock. The entrance is not recognisable. The overall diameter is 135' [41m]. This fort is in the centre of a complex of ancient field fences which run in various directions over the hilltop on which it is situated. Two of them join into the rampart, one on the west side, the other on the S.W.' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 230). Outline of cashel with circular-shaped annexe or quarry to NW clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Complex series of linear earthworks forming a field system to the S and W of the cashel are clearly visible on OSi aerial photographs but are not as clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

• LI022-211001 Field system
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI022: Bruff 9001: AP 4/3697.

• LI022-211002 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 22, Bruff 90.02: AP 4/3697) and described by Doody (2008, 131) as a 'subrectangular ditched enclosure, c. 55m x 35m, truncated by modern field boundary. Possible internal bank and internal circular enclosure' ; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013

• LI022-244 Enclosure
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of Skool Hill, in pasture, with good views from W-N-E and restricted elsewhere. The townland boundary with Loughanstown lies 130m to N. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large oval-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 9003: AP4/3697). Monument is visible as a substantial rectangular-shaped cropmark (72m E-W; 47m N-S) with a rectangular-shaped enclosure (66m N-S; 47m E-W) adjoining to E, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 01/10/2015. See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Skoolhill.

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 Skoolhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Skoolhill · Cnoc Sciúil

Area

962,285 m² (96.23 ha, 237.79 acres)

Civil parish

Fedamore, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Ballybricken, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballybricken electoral division: 1,932 people in 646 households; 91% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghadoolarty North, Cloghadoolarty South, Grange, Loughanstown, Rockstown, Skool

Placenames

Skoolhill 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.