Toomaline Upper

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toomaline Upper, from 90 m² to 458,125 m² (45.81 ha, 113.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Toomaline Upper 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.

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of a cattle underpass with effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660227

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA, NEW ENTRANCE TO BE SHARED WITH EXISTING FAMILY HOME AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2260010

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance off existing private passageway, dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21477

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockanavar Wood 000961

Recorded monuments

• LI016-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight SE-facing slope, in pasture, with excellent views from S-W-WNW and restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area defined by a field boundary to WSW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a subcircular-shaped area (24m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.7m; H 0.7m) that has been eroded at N with possible entrance ramp (Wth 2.4m) at E. The interior is level and a disused earth and stone field boundary runs NNW-SSE across the W sector. Monument is visible as a subciruclar-shaped, partially tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 July 2020

• LI016-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a low rise, in pasture, with moderate views in all directions. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m N-S x 27m E-W) defined by a scarp with fosse and external bank, field boundaries radiate out from SW, NW and NE. Levelled monument visited by the ASI in 1999 and described as no surface remains visible. According to local information, this monument was removed in the 1980s, although it had been known locally as a ‘fort’ (SMR File). Partially levelled monument visible as an oval shaped area defined by a cropmark from NW-N-E-S-SW and incorporated into the field boundary from SW-W-NW on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/01/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

• LI016-017 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  On the summit of a hill, with slight SSW-facing slope, overlooking the Cahernahallia River valley to SE. Ringfort (LI016-018----) lies 105m to SE. On the demesne lands of Toomaline House located 365m to S. Depicted as a circular grove of trees and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure, with field boundaries radiating from NNW, NE, SE and WSW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 51m) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.2m; Wth 3.8m). There are numerous small cattle breaks in the bank, although there is no obvious entrance. The bank resembles a field boundary rather than being an original feature. The interior has a SSW-facing slope, is very slightly dome-shaped and has been planted with regular rows of coniferous trees. Monument visible as a circular-shaped tree-planted area on ASI aerial photos (ASIAP 354, 17) taken 2003, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/01/2020. Possibly the site of a tree-ring or a ringfort that has been modified and reused as a tree-ring in the post-1700 period. See attached plan and cross sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

• LI016-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slight S-facing slope, overlooking the Cahernahallia River valley to E with excellent views from E-S-W, overlooked by higher ground from W-N-E. Tree-ring (LI016-017----) lies 105m to NW. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure, with a trackway approx. 5m to E. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank reduced to a scarp. The bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth 4.7m) is visible from NW-N-NE and the scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.6m) from NE-E-S-W-NW. The interior is level, having been cut into the upslope at N and raised on the S side to compensate for hillslope. A short portion of the scarp (Wth 4m) is low and eroded at SSE, indicating a possible entrance. Monument visible as a subcircular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on ASI aerial photos (ASIAP 354, 17) taken 2003, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached plan and cross sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Toomaline, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, comprising two-bay two-storey extension and single-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystack to extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and twelve-over-eight pane timber sliding sash window to ground floor. All having limestone sills. Round-headed opening with spoked fanlight over double-leaf timber panelled doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door openings. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west having single-pitched corrugated-iron roof with metal vents. Random rubble limestone walls. Square-headed door openings, now partially blocked up. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with rubble limestone voussoirs.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toomaline Upper.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Toomaline Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Toomaline Upper · Tuaim Ó Laighin Uachtarach

Area

1,119,284 m² (111.93 ha, 276.58 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Doon South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doon South electoral division: 1,352 people in 507 households; 75% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernahallia (Co. Tipperary), Doon South, Glengar (Co. Tipperary), Gortaderry (Co. Tipperary), Knockanavar (Co. Tipperary), Lisgaugh, Lissowen, Toomaline Lower

Placenames

Toomaline Upper 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.