Tonteere
Tonteere is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybrood, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Tóin Tíre.
- Area
- 98.9 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 45,497 m² (4.55 ha, 11.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tonteere, from 215 m² to 270,895 m² (27.09 ha, 66.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Tonteere 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
11 Jun 2021Conditional
construction of a replacement dwelling while maintaining the existing derelict cottage for non-habitable and non-commercial use as a feed store/storage unit. The replacement dwelling is to be served by a packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works to include a new vehicular entrance, boundary treatment and connections to adjacent utilities
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21821
21 May 2020Conditional
Extension of permission for planning ref. 15/313
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207015
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 Tonteere.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-054 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In gently undulating pasture. Subcircular area (13.5m N-S), truncated on E side (now 8m E-W), defined by scarped edge (Wth 1.25m; H 0.4m) SE to NE, with external fosse (basal Wth 2m; total Wth 9.8m; D 0.95m) W-N. Fosse opens out into a water-filled depression at WNW where there is a natural spring. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013
- LI023-202 Moated site
Description
In improved wet pasture, 45m E of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI023-201----) 75m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 187: AP 4/3688). Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (approx. 46m NNW-SSE; 45m ENE-WSW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 187 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 September
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tonteere.
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 Tonteere, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tonteere.
- 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 Tonteere with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Tonteere · Tóin Tíre
- Area
- 988,733 m² (98.87 ha, 244.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybrood, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrood, Ballyhobin, Mountminnett
- Placenames
- Tonteere 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.