# Toor, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Particles, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Tuar. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,985,924 m² (198.59 ha, 490.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,940 m² (4.49 ha, 11.1 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Particles, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/particles.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Particles, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 222 people lived in 86 households in the Particles electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31076 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121895 - Centre: latitude 52.328877, longitude -8.531837 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 144 m² to 499,607 m² (49.96 ha, 123.46 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1659192: 499,607 m² (49.96 ha, 123.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659192.md - Parcel 1658386: 458,318 m² (45.83 ha, 113.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658386.md - Parcel 1601341: 387,159 m² (38.72 ha, 95.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601341.md - Parcel 1663110: 151,122 m² (15.11 ha, 37.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663110.md - Parcel 1606741: 117,766 m² (11.78 ha, 29.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606741.md - Parcel 1659193: 77,954 m² (7.8 ha, 19.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659193.md - Parcel 1606742: 67,348 m² (6.73 ha, 16.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606742.md - Parcel 1590714: 53,501 m² (5.35 ha, 13.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590714.md - Parcel 1650409: 36,379 m² (3.64 ha, 8.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650409.md - Parcel 1606743: 31,887 m² (3.19 ha, 7.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606743.md - Parcel 1659184: 9,359 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659184.md - Parcel 1601196: 3,599 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601196.md - Parcel 1673921: 2,580 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673921.md - Parcel 1628015: 2,524 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1628015.md - Parcel 1653511: 777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653511.md - Parcel 1657626: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657626.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Toor in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC, site code 002036, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002036 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains, site code 002036 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1900, Regional interest, registry number 21905604, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21905604. 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. ## 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 Toor, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/toor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Toor 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) - Ardpatrick: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardpatrick.md - Baunatlea: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baunatlea.md - Coombs: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coombs.md - Fanningstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fanningstown-120973.md - Glenanair West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenanair-west.md - Sunville Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sunville-upper.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/toor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/toor