# Thomond Gate, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of St. Munchin's, barony of North Liberties, Co. Limerick; in Irish Sparr Thuamhan. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 19,765 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 144 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): M2 City Centre, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: St. Munchin's, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/st-munchins.md - Barony: North Liberties - Electoral division: Killeely B, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 890 people lived in 381 households in the Killeely B electoral division. 50% of households owned their home. 7% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30466 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 122013 - Centre: latitude 52.670298, longitude -8.630143 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomond Gate, from 1 m² to 1,026 m²; 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4862082: 1,026 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4862082.md - Parcel 2384267: 447 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384267.md - Parcel 2385254: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385254.md - Parcel 2385658: 326 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385658.md - Parcel 2384190: 299 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384190.md - Parcel 2384506: 261 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384506.md - Parcel 2384123: 234 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384123.md - Parcel 2384636: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384636.md - Parcel 2384686: 193 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384686.md - Parcel 5674680: 186 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5674680.md - Parcel 2383991: 184 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383991.md - Parcel 5430428: 181 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5430428.md - Parcel 2385176: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385176.md - Parcel 2383310: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383310.md - Parcel 5153524: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5153524.md - Parcel 2384352: 178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384352.md - Parcel 3568514: 174 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3568514.md - Parcel 2383459: 170 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383459.md - Parcel 2384047: 168 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384047.md - Parcel 5316800: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5316800.md - Parcel 2384407: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384407.md - Parcel 5768825: 159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5768825.md - Parcel 5154558: 158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5154558.md - Parcel 2386674: 156 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386674.md - Parcel 2383460: 155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383460.md - Parcel 5927767: 154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5927767.md - Parcel 1604710: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604710.md - Parcel 3269229: 151 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3269229.md - Parcel 2383624: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383624.md - Parcel 2385093: 145 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385093.md - Parcel 2386673: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386673.md - Parcel 2383921: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383921.md - Parcel 2384465: 142 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384465.md - Parcel 3269228: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3269228.md - Parcel 1653439: 111 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653439.md - Parcel 5352104: 109 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352104.md - Parcel 5927766: 108 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5927766.md - Parcel 5828351: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5828351.md - Parcel 5741380: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5741380.md - Parcel 2383808: 97 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383808.md - Parcel 2386032: 93 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386032.md - Parcel 3269994: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3269994.md - Parcel 5653736: 82 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5653736.md - Parcel 1657658: 81 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657658.md - Parcel 2386508: 43 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386508.md - Parcel 1594367: 37 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594367.md - Parcel 3269218: 36 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3269218.md - Parcel 5667369: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5667369.md - Parcel 3269227: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3269227.md - Parcel 2385202: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385202.md - Parcel 2384981: 16 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384981.md - Parcel 2384720: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384720.md - Parcel 2386296: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386296.md - Parcel 2384938: 10 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384938.md - Parcel 2383717: 9 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2383717.md - Parcel 1670127: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670127.md - Parcel 2385013: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2385013.md - Parcel 2384818: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384818.md - Parcel 2384592: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384592.md - Parcel 2386295: 2 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386295.md - Parcel 1632216: 1 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632216.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - M2 City Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 46 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/Limerick-Development-Plan-Volume-1-Written-Statement-including-Variation-No-1.pdf#page=387 - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 19 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2023-05/Limerick-Development-Plan-Volume-1-Written-Statement-including-Variation-No-1.pdf#page=387 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 3 Jul 2024, Limerick County Council 2460664: N/a. Permission. the demolition of an existing flat roofed extension to the rear of an existing structure and permission to construct an extension to rear of the existing property to include: a three storey link building and a two storey extension area to incorporate a two bedroom apartment, a change of use of the ground floor of existing structure from a retail unit to a one bedroom apartment, convert the first and second floor of existing structure to a two bedroom apartment (Total number of proposed apartments = 3, consisting of 2 number two bedroom apartments and 1 number one bedroom apartment). Permission is also being sought to replace the existing pitched roof of the main structure with a flat roof structure and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460664/0 - 20 May 2024, Limerick County Council 2460477: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the conversion of an existing attic space of the dwelling house into residential accommodation along with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460477/0 - 19 Apr 2024, Limerick County Council 2460360: Conditional. Permission. the following development: (a) to change the ground floor use of the existing building from shop to residential apartment; (b) to alter & renovate the existing upper floor apartment; (c) to construct a 3-storey extension to the rear of the existing building which will be accessed from O’Halloran Lane and will comprise three no. 2 bedroom apartments; (d) to locate the main entrance serving all units at O’Halloran Lane; (e) to make elevational changes to the existing building; and (f) all associated site works and services. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460360/0 - 23 Nov 2022, Limerick County Council 221232: Conditional. Permission. demolition of an existing single storey garage and the construction of a two storey extension to an existing house and sundry other minor works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221232/0 - 3 Aug 2022, Limerick County Council 228014: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. development works from TUS Moylish Campus to the City. Segregated cycle lanes and footpath upgrades along Cratloe Road, Sexton Street North and High Road with a number of dedicated pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities. Upgrade of the traffic signals and junction layout at Hassett's Cross, Cross Road and Belfield Court Junctions to provide a protected junction arrangement for cyclists & bus priority measures of public transport. An inbound bus lane extending along Cratloe Road from Moylish Roundabout to Hassett's Cross. Traffic calming measures on Belfield Court and Belfield Gardens such as raised table junctions and build out with cycle by-pass. Upgrade works to bus stops, side road junctions and new road surfacing. Installation of LED public lighting. Surface water drain works. Landscaping works including tree removal & tree planting and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/228014/0 - 8 Jul 2022, Limerick County Council 22764: Conditional. Permission. the erection of a new crash repair structure substantially replacing the car crash repair structure destroyed by arson; together with alterations to the fenestration, extension to the south and extension into part first floor compared to the original structure; signage; replacement of existing boundary walls with new; relocation of the original structure entrance to the courtyard; and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22764/0 - 6 Jul 2018, Limerick County Council 18690: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. changes to the existing elevation to include an additional entrance to studio apartment granted under planning reference 18/281. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18690/0 - 22 May 2018, Limerick County Council 18503: Conditional. Permission. the change of use from beauty salon to apartment on the first floor. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18503/0 - 27 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18281: Conditional. Permission. remodelling of existing house, which is currently being refurbished as a single dwelling. The proposed works include the following amendments/alterations (a) subdivision of the existing dwelling into two studio apartments, (b) minor front elevation modification, (c) ancillary site services. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18281/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore, site code 002048 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI005-017147: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI005-017147-. Speed's map of Munster c. 1610 shows a projecting fortification protecting the W side of Thomond Gate which gave access to the medieval walled town (LI005-017010-) of Limerick via Thomond Bridge (LI005-017002-). Test excavations carried out on site of extramural gate [Thomond Gate] at the western end of Thomond Bridge by Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd under licence no. 99E0407, the results of which were summarised as following; 'The medieval defences of the city included an extramural gate at the western end of Thomond Bridge, hence the etymology of the placename 'Thomond Gate'. The gate was on the bridge and has been illustrated on early maps of the town, including Hardiman's map, dated 1590. Speed's map, dated 1610, illustrates a star-shaped fort outside Thomond Gate. These post-medieval earthen fortifications are further illustrated on Greenville's map, c. 1640, and are likely to have been developed and altered to withstand the various 17th-century sieges of the city. The modern streetscape (Mass Lane, Castleview Avenue and Halloran's Lane) around Thomond Gate may reflect the line of elements of these earthworks. However, little consistency exists in the cartographic sources on the layout and exact location of the earthen defences around the Thomond Gate area. Test excavation was carried out at Thomond Gate. Five test-trenches, 4-6m long, were excavated on the location of manhole shafts within the zone of archaeological potential at the western end of Thomond Bridge. River gravels or natural boulder clay was encountered in all of the trenches; no archaeological indicators were found above these deposits. The assessment was limited to the construction corridor of the Main Drainage Scheme and as a result could not shed any further light on the nature of the post-medieval earthwork defences in the Thomond Gate area. It is proposed to monitor all construction work in the zone of archaeological potential' (www.excavations.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2019 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - J.J. Bowles, public house, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21507001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LI®no=21507001. End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey rendered public house, built c. 1800, with historic shopfront, and flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear. Steeply pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack to north gable wall, and red brick chimneystack to south party wall. Small rooflight to rear span. uPVC rainwater goods. Painted ruled and lined rendered front elevation and painted smooth rendered rear elevation, unpainted rendered side elevation. Nineteenth-century timber shopfront with six Doric pilasters joined by timber fascia with cornice above. Two display windows rising from rendered stallrisers, one tripartite, the other bipartite, with timber mullions and shoulder arches, clear glazing and wrought metal security grilles. Two square-headed door openings, one to upper floors with flat-panelled timber door leaf and two-pane overlight; door to public house with double-leaf doors leading to double-leaf glazed timber doors. Square-headed window openings throughout, with rendered reveals, painted sills, nineteenth-century bipartite casement windows with twelve-pane top-hung lights. Elaborate timber casements to rear elevation with moulded timber mullions. Site enclosed from the River Shannon by retaining wall faced with large limestone blocks on which wrought-iron railings are fixed. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Thomond Gate, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_950, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_950.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thomond-gate.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thomond-gate.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thomond-gate.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Thomond Gate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Deanery Land: https://everytownland.com/limerick/deanery-land.md - Farranshone Beg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/farranshone-beg.md - Farranshone More: https://everytownland.com/limerick/farranshone-more.md - Prior's Land: https://everytownland.com/limerick/priors-land.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thomond-gate - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/thomond-gate