Stokesfield
Stokesfield is a townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Stócaigh.
- Area
- 74.3 ha
- 184 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 20,291 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stokesfield, from 165 m² to 385,142 m² (38.51 ha, 95.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Stokesfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of a new slatted livestock house. Proposed livestock house to incorporate easy feed & underground slatted slurry tank with external agitation & ancillary concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460306
29 Mar 2023Conditional
the construction of a farm road and new farm entrance to the public road
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360187
29 Nov 2022Conditional
The development will consist of permission for a solar farm comprising the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, new access tracks, underground cabling, perimeter fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, installation of 9 transformer containers, a temporary construction compound and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works on lands 24.7 hectares located at Ellaha and Mullagh, Co. Limerick. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the application for planning permission
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221258
20 Oct 2021N/a
construction of a farm road and new farm entrance to the public road
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211463
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stokesfield.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
On level, low-lying pasture, immediately W of stream. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. However, a low curved earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident S->NW. Otherwise, site level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Stokesfield.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Stokesfield, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_436 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stokesfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Stokesfield · Páirc an Stócaigh
- Area
- 742,601 m² (74.26 ha, 183.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Robertstown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Craggs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Deelish, Ellaha, Knockardnacorlan, Oldabbey, Rincullia, Robertstown
- Placenames
- Stokesfield 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.