Tooreen

141 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen, from 18 m² to 1,029,910 m² (102.99 ha, 254.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 92 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.4Utilities (Other gas and electricity uses)
  Croom Local Area Plan 2020-2026, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  improvement of the existing agricultural entrance and roadway together with all associated site works. This is within the curtilage of Protected Structure ( RPS 733)

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560274

• 26 Feb 2024Conditional

  the development that consists of an extension to the existing facility consisting of additional light industrial manufacturing area, two storey ancillary office space for staff facilities resulting in additional gross floor area of 3050m2. Other works include a proposed new vehicular entrance to the southeast of the site, relocation of exiting football pitch, the construction of a new car park providing an additional 43no. parking spaces including accessible spaces, EV charging stations, and a set-down area. The provision of 1no. loading bay to the northern elevation, secure bicycle parking spaces, plant and photovoltaic units to the roof level, provision of SuDS measures including swale to northwestern end of site with all ancillary landscaping, associated site works and services. The development will also include works to the existing medical facility northern elevation to facilitate integration with the proposed extension

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460159

• 2 Oct 2023Conditional

  ground floor extension of area 830m2 warehouse, first floor extension to internal mezzanine of area 30m2 office space, alterations to existing facade, external HVAC tanks to the north elevation, 4 no. sheds and alterations to site works including car parking layout

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23477

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  the erection of a 30 m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated equipment all enclosed in security fencing and to remove the existing 12m timber pole telecommunications support structure (overall height 14.5m) at the eir Exchange, Tooreen (Td), Croom, Co Limerick. The proposed development is located within the curtilage of the former railway station for Croom, a Protected Structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221207

• 14 Sept 2020Refused

  erection of a 24m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated equipment all enclosed in security fencing and the removal of the existing 12m timber pole telecommunications support structure (overall height 14.5m). The proposed development is located within the curtilage of the former railway station for Croom, a Protected Structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20913

• 9 Jul 2020N/a

  erection of a 24m high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennas, dishes and associated equipment all enclosed in security fencing and the remove the existing 12m timber pole telecommunications support structure (overall height 14.5m)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20614

• 1 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1981

• 23 Nov 2018N/a

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181136

• 15 Dec 2017Conditional

  over clad the wall & roof areas of the existing two gable roof buildings to the front of the site in a selected insulated metal panel system, to modify the fenestration of the existing facades, to change the colour of the existing 2 storey portal frame building to the rear of the site to match the new over clad structures, to extend the first floor office area by a 52m sq. internal mezzanine area and all ancillary site works & services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171183

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tooreen.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In woodland pasture, 75m E of the River Maigue and the townland boundary with Anhid East. The medieval church and graveyard of Anhid (LI030-064001/3-) is located 200m to SW and an enclosure (LI030-066----) is located 185m to SE. The site is depicted as an enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is later depicted as an embanked enclosure on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map (ext. dims. c. 50m N-S; 50m E-W), no fosse is depicted on the map. Annotated ‘Ballynookan Fort' on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. The ringfort is not visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. On the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 the site is covered by a linear woodland that runs along the E bank of the river. The enclosure is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020 due to dense tree coverage. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 29 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey house and shop, built c. 1840, having timber tripartite shopfront to front (north) elevation. Half-hipped sprocketed roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings to first floor with render keystone, replacement uPVC windows and painted stone sills. Shopfront comprising fluted pilasters supporting fascia and cornice with dentillated course. Square-headed display openings having fixed windows. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over half-glazed timber panelled door having flanking pilasters.

• Croom Railway Station, railway station, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built in 1862, having gable-fronted wings to north and south elevations, four-bay single-storey extension to rear (east) elevation. Gable-fronted addition to north wing, front (west) elevation. Now in disuse. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roofs to wings having overhanging eaves. Flat roof to extension. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to north wing, front elevation having cast-iron sill guard and internal timber shutters. Venetian windows to wings, rear elevation with render surrounds, limestone sills and remains of one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening having render surround and replacement overlight over replacement half-glazed door with sidelight. Rubble limestone water tower to north having cast-iron water tank.

• Croom Railway Station, goods shed, store/warehouse, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey railway goods shed, built c. 1862, with lower office gable-fronted projection to north elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs with limestone chimneystack. Coursed rubble limestone walls having limestone quoins and corbels to west elevation. Segmental-headed tripartite openings with brick surrounds, multiple-pane cast-iron fixed windows with limestone sills having brick relieving arch over. Diocletian openings to gables with brick surrounds, inset bipartite windows having multiple-pane cast-iron windows and limestone sills. Square-headed window opening to office, with brick block-and-start surround and limestone sill. Square-headed openings to west elevation and gable-ends having brick relieving arches and sliding timber battened doors. Square-headed opening to office with brick block-and-start surround and timber battened door. Raised timber platform to interior.

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpback railway bridge, built c. 1862, over the Patrickswell to Charleville railway line. Coursed rock-faced limestone walls and parapets, with rock-faced voussoirs to segmental-headed arches, and having cut limestone copings to parapet and platform. Rubble limestone approach walls to bridge.

• Islandmore, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement square-plan country house, built c. 1820, with central single-bay breakfront to front elevation. Pair of curved staircases leading up to pedimented entrance doorway. Six-bay two-storey over basement side elevations with projecting porch. Attached three-stage square tower to rear. Square-headed window openings with entablatures over ground floor windows. Rendered walls. Hipped roof with projecting eaves. Rendered chimneystacks. Outbuildings and stables set around a courtyard to rear with further attached outbuildings.

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_913 (ZIP).

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

Name

Tooreen · An Tuairín

Area

2,860,157 m² (286.02 ha, 706.76 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Croom, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Croom electoral division: 1,931 people in 671 households; 68% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anhid East, Anhid West, Ballymacsradeen West, Corrabul, Corrabulbeg, Croom, Garrane, Skagh, Tullovin

Placenames

Tooreen 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.