Tooraree Lower

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooraree Lower, from 31 m² to 318,312 m² (31.83 ha, 78.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tooraree Lower 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  erection of a Two Storey Domestic Dwelling & Domestic Garage with existing entrance, proposed new Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and connections to all existing services & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560804

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of (1) a slatted cattle house, complete with associated underground slurry tanks and calf creep straw bedded lie-back area and a feed passage with an overhang roof, (2) an ancillary concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23234

• 11 Mar 2020Conditional

  construction of a) a single storey dwelling with attic accommodation, serviced by a waste water treatment unit and percolation area, b) a domestic garage, c) a new site entrance, with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20214

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, serviced by a mechanical treatment unit & polishing filter, a domestic garage, with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191088

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, serviced by a mechanical treatment unit & polishing filter, a domestic garage, with all associated site works. Protected Structure no. 727 is located within the site enclosure

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191089

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI018-073 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, atop low rise. Roughly oval area (36m N-S; 48.8m E-W) defined by gradual scarped edge ( H 1m; Wth 6m) NW->SW; enclosure truncated by N-S field boundary SW->NW. Interior level and under grass. No entrance feature evident. External bank shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map from SE->S is no longer evident, nor is field boundary which continued line of bank to meet existing field boundary at SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at foot of E-facing slope. Formerly circular enclosure (diam. 20.8m N-S) is now truncated on E side by N-S field boundary (boundary to enclosing bank: 15.7m E-W). Site is enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.65m) with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 1.6m), now surviving SE->NE. Breaks in bank at SSW and W used by cattle accessing interior. Interior, marshy and covered with rushes, slopes down to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at foot of E-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now truncated on NE side by field boundary and trackway. Surviving interior (diam. 23.4m E-W) is enclosed by flat-topped earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.3m; Wth 2.8m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.6m) E->N. Break in bank at E (Wth 3.2m). Interior is level and covered by tall grass. Immediately inside entrance is slight depression in which is embedded some limestone boulders. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-107 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, at the foot of an E-facing slope. An upright stone that has split into three sections along its long axis (NNE-SSW). The highest section (H 2m; at base: 1.8m x 0.35m) is at the E side and has a roughly-triangular profile with a pointed top. The lower sections (H 1.5m; 0.7m x 0.14m & H 0.85m; 0.66m x 0.2m) have a roughly rectangular profile. Packing stones are evident around the base of the stone. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI018-108 Standing stone
  Description

  In hilly pasture, on the SE-facing slope of an E-W ridge. An upright stone of conglomerate (H 1.3m; Wth at base 1.1m; Wth at shoulder 0.95m; T 0.6m), with its long axis aligned NE-SW. It leans slightly to SE. It is roughly rectangular in section and has a rectangular profile with a rounded top. The surface of the stone has been polished by cattle rubbing against it; they have also worn an area around the base revealing several packing stones. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooraree Lower.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tooraree Lower, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tooraree Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Tooraree Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Tooraree Lower · Tulach Fhraoigh Íochtarach

Area

3,678,114 m² (367.81 ha, 908.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfergus, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Kilfergus, the unit of the census

Census 2022

442 people lived in 178 households in the Kilfergus electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygiltenan Upper, Cloonlahard West, Dromagarraun, Killeany More, Tinnakilla, Tooraree Upper

Placenames

Tooraree Lower 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.