# Thornfield, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeenagarriff, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Seanmhaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 413,535 m² (41.35 ha, 102.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,611 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeenagarriff, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/killeenagarriff.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Ballyvarra, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/31275 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121874 - Centre: latitude 52.673208, longitude -8.493421 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thornfield, from 342 m² to 97,184 m² (9.72 ha, 24.01 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1669372: 97,184 m² (9.72 ha, 24.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669372.md - Parcel 1595230: 84,882 m² (8.49 ha, 20.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595230.md - Parcel 1628054: 52,530 m² (5.25 ha, 12.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628054.md - Parcel 1595180: 42,068 m² (4.21 ha, 10.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595180.md - Parcel 1669495: 21,497 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669495.md - Parcel 1669371: 21,411 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669371.md - Parcel 1669492: 16,312 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669492.md - Parcel 1595168: 14,382 m² (1.44 ha, 3.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595168.md - Parcel 1595330: 12,840 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595330.md - Parcel 1595166: 12,626 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595166.md - Parcel 1595167: 11,918 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595167.md - Parcel 1595231: 10,972 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595231.md - Parcel 1669493: 9,144 m² (0.91 ha, 2.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669493.md - Parcel 1669494: 3,992 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669494.md - Parcel 1669497: 1,140 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669497.md - Parcel 1637883: 342 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637883.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Thornfield in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Thornfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Thornfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thornfield. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Thornfield House, country house, 1800–1814, Regional interest, registry number 21900640, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21900640. Detached four-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, extant 1814, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay-two storey on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay (three- or four-bay deep) two-storey wing (north) on a square plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks including paired rendered central chimney stacks (east) having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed door opening within prostyle distyle Doric portico approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps with columns on padstones having responsive pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice on triglyph-detailed frieze on entablature below blocking course, and moulded rendered surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening (east) with ceramic tiled threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter having stringcourses below conical capping supporting wrought iron gate. - Thornfield House, laundry, 1855–1901, Regional interest, registry number 21900641, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21900641. Detached three-bay two-storey laundry, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan; single-bay two-storey recessed end bay abutting single-bay three-stage tower (north) on a square plan. Hipped gabled and pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond "wallhead" chimney stack (west) having red brick capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters; pyramidal slate roof (tower), clay or terracotta ridge tiles with weathervane to apex, and no rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening (south) with red brick block-and-start surround framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Set in grounds shared with Thornfield House. ## 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 Thornfield, about 1 in 5 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. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1089, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1089.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/thornfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thornfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thornfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Thornfield, Ashbourne Avenue: 10 sales, https://everytownland.com/limerick/thornfield-ashbourne-avenue.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Biddyford: https://everytownland.com/limerick/biddyford.md - Clyduff West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clyduff-west.md - Knockbrack East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockbrack-east.md - Knockbrack West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockbrack-west.md - Laghtane East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/laghtane-east.md - Laghtane West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/laghtane-west.md - Raheen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/raheen-121712.md - Rivers: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rivers.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/thornfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/thornfield