Stonehall

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonehall, from 170 m² to 179,817 m² (17.98 ha, 44.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Stonehall 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.

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21625

• 31 Aug 2018Conditional

  the construction of a two storey detached dwelling house, garage, site entrance and all associated site works including waste water treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18871

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Curraghchase Woods SAC 000174
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Curraghchase Woods 000174

Recorded monuments

• LI011-074 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope immediately below brow of hill. Roughly circular area (32m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 2.05m; ext. H 1.6m), best preserved NW->ENE. Wall has vertical external face containing large blocks of limestone, stones heaped against inner face give slumped profile. Wall much collapsed along N arc with gap (Wth 2.25m) at E. Interior, sloping down to the S, is covered by cultivation ridges on E-W axis. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-077 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In scrub-covered area, at base of W-facing slope into valley. Ovoid area (7m N-S; 9m E-W), containing well at centre, enclosed by wall (H 1.25m) with gateway on W side. Well opening (0.56m N-S; 1m E-W) covered by W-facing stone arch (H 0.67m; Wth 0.58m) with stone-built gabled statue niche overhead containing statue of St. Bridget. To S steps lead upslope via a gravel pathway back and around well to N. Modern pipe drains well to feed cattle trough c. 4m to S. Bushes, with rags attached, to W. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 212) rounds made here often, especially on 1st Feb.; water said to cure 'sore eyes and other ailments' (ibid.). See attached photo taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00208 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17001. See attached colour photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Stonehall, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Stonehall · Ard Lomáin

Area

730,719 m² (73.07 ha, 180.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kilcornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacdonagh, Blossomhill, Castlegrey, Currahchase, Currahchase North, Kilbreedy

Placenames

Stonehall 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.