Summerville
Summerville is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Drom Aichir Mór.
- Area
- 104.5 ha
- 258 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,262 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Summerville, from 601 m² to 671,514 m² (67.15 ha, 165.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 May 2023Conditional
the construction of 1no. single story dwelling house, upgrade works to to the existing site entrance, new fenced/hedged site boundaries, wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, detached shed to the rear of the site, and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360294
12 Feb 2018Conditional
existing entrance to rear of property, stone built wall to the front and garage as constructed. Permission sought to provide planting along the front wall and within the original site boundary
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18110
6 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct 16 no. semi-detached residential dwellings(a mix of three and four bedroom house types) & all associated infrastructure including new vehicular access onto Main Street, connections to public utilities and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 16 homes · Limerick County Council, 17645
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 Summerville.
Recorded monuments
- LI003-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop ridge. Circular area (26.2m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank WNW->E and defined E->WNW by scarped edge (H 1.85m; Wth 5.5m). Bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.35m), best preserved at NW, lowers at N (ext. H 0.15m). Scarp best preserved at ESE, lowers at S (H 0.25m). Dry-stone field wall runs tangentially to W arc, 5m outside it. Interior, under pasture, dips gently down towards centre. 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 Summerville.
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 Summerville, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Summerville.
- 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 Summerville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Summerville · Drom Aichir Mór
- Area
- 1,044,958 m² (104.5 ha, 258.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Pallaskenry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,104 people lived in 392 households in the Pallaskenry electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycahane, Ballymartin, Drominaclara, Drommoher, Moig East Glebe, Pallas
- Placenames
- Summerville 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.