Toor

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 144 m² to 499,607 m² (49.96 ha, 123.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Toor 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Toor in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor.

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former parochial house, built c. 1890, with return and lean-to extension to rear (west) elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Camber–headed openings to ground floor having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Camber-headed door opening having moulded render surround and timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings.

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 5 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 Toor.

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 Toor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Toor · An Tuar

Area

1,985,924 m² (198.59 ha, 490.73 acres)

Civil parish

Particles, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Particles, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Particles electoral division: 222 people in 86 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardpatrick, Baunatlea, Coombs, Fanningstown, Glenanair West, Sunville Upper

Placenames

Toor 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.