Stephenstown

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stephenstown, from 56,071 m² (5.61 ha, 13.86 acres) to 264,856 m² (26.49 ha, 65.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Stephenstown 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 Stephenstown 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 Stephenstown.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-098 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 60m E of the townland boundary with Adamstown. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an L-shaped suken depression on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 1:5,000 No. 2559; Site No. 040199) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on OSi orthoimages taken 200-12 or on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Possible cropmark of linear earthwork visible oon Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Possible trackway. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-099 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 140m E of the townland boundary with Adamstown. Not depicted asdan antiquity on OSi maps. Shown as a square-shaped field (dims. c. 29m N-S x 29m E-W) enclosing a buildings at E side on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Identified as a square enclosure on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2559; Site No. 097; strip map 4 site 4/27) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Post-1700 enclosure or haggard associated with farm building as depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-100001 Field system
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballinvana and 350m W of the Morningstar River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible deserted settlement (Strip Map 4 site 4/28) consisting of rectangular enclosures and field system during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2562; Site No. 040098) taken 03/11/1984. A cluster of 6 barrows (LI040-10006/012-) are located in S quadrant of field system. Visible as a pattern of linear cropmarks running N-S and E-W on aerial photograph (ASIAP (344) 16) taken 05/01/2003 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph, ASIAP aerial image (344 (16) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 18 June 2021

• LI040-100002 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 430m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2561; Site No. 040193) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-100003 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 460m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a ring-barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 1:5,000 2562; Site No. 040183) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-100005 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 320m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 185) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100006 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 270m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 184) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100008 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 300m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 188) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100009 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 255m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 185) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100010 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 250m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 186) taken 03/11/1984. Cropmark of circular feature visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100011 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 260m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 189) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of ring-ditch visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

• LI040-100012 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture N of a watercourse and 230m W of the Morningstar River. One of 11 possible barrows (LI040-100002/012-) located within an area measuring 300m E-W x 200m N-S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a ring-barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2562; Site No. 187) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 16 June 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Stephenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Stephenstown · Baile Stiofáin

Area

689,023 m² (68.9 ha, 170.26 acres)

Civil parish

Athneasy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Emlygrennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Ballinscaula, Ballinvana, Elton

Placenames

Stephenstown 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.