Tooraree Upper

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooraree Upper, from 372 m² to 223,173 m² (22.32 ha, 55.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 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.

• 5 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460804

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  widen and upgrade an existing entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1842

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tooraree Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Upper, 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 Upper.

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

Name

Tooraree Upper · Tulach Fhraoigh Uachtarach

Area

2,515,595 m² (251.56 ha, 621.62 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, Glashapullagh, Glenagragara, Knockdown, Tooraree Lower

Placenames

Tooraree 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.