Toornafulla
Toornafulla is a townland in the civil parish of Killeedy, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Tuar na Fola.
- Area
- 626.5 ha
- 1,548 acres
- Land parcels
- 287
- registered freehold, median 3,210 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
287 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toornafulla, from 28 m² to 277,441 m² (27.74 ha, 68.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Toornafulla 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Aug 2026N/a
construction of two detached dwelling houses, vehicular entrances, connections to public foul sewer and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660889
3 Mar 2026N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, install mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, construct front boundary entrance walls with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660234
3 Mar 2026N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, install mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, construct front boundary entrance walls with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660233
14 Oct 2025Conditional
construction an Astro Turf pitch with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561041
9 Jun 2025N/a
construction of two detached dwelling houses, vehicular entrances, connections to pubic foul sewer and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 25180
6 Mar 2025Conditional
replacing existing post & wire fence along access road and east and partial north boundary of GAA grounds with 1.8m high boundary fence. Replace existing spectator fence to south and east boundary of playing pitch with a 1.8m high fencing with all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560178
4 Dec 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, installation of a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with entrance wall and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461198
23 Jul 2024Conditional
the decommission of an existing septic tank system and the installation of a new mechanical aeration unit and percolation system; with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460736
17 Nov 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling with entrance onto lower road and connection to all services with ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23553
11 Apr 2023Conditional
the construction of a split level single storey 3 bedroom dwelling house , entrance onto lower road , connection to mains services , all with ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360214
27 Jun 2022Conditional
for change of use of part of the existing first floor of the Community Centre to a Pre-school with all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22713
14 Mar 2022Conditional
the demolition of the remaining front wall of existing derelict cottage, erect new cottage with attic conversion and erect new front boundary wall with entrance gates with existing connections to all existing services
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22294
8 Dec 2021Conditional
demolition of existing entrance porch and construction of a single storey extension to their existing dwelling house with connection to all existing services with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211699
19 Oct 2021Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, entrance walls, connection to public services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211460
4 May 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey part storey and a half style dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21589
22 Feb 2021Conditional
construction of an easy-feed house with a lie back area and associated underground slurry tank
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21192
5 Jan 2021N/a
construction of an easy-feed house with a lie back area and associated underground slurry tank
Permission · Limerick County Council, 212
17 Jul 2020Conditional
the construction of 4 no. single storey dwelling houses, service road with connection to all public utility services with all associated site works
Permission, 4 homes · Limerick County Council, 20678
15 Jul 2020Conditional
demolition of existing derelict two storey dwelling house, construction of a new replacement dwelling house with attached domestic garage, installation of a new mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, utilise existing entrance and access road with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20654
16 Jul 2019Conditional
a change of use from a ground floor residential bedroom to a shop & WC ancillary to a restaurant front and side signage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19699
28 Mar 2019Conditional
a drop off area, parking area, entrance, boundary wall, fencing, pedestrian access, agricultural access, traffic calming and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19291
11 Jan 2019Conditional
construction of a calf house and feed passage
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1916
22 Oct 2018Conditional
change of use of two storey nursing home partly granted planning under planning file 07/2073 known as Lir Nursing Home to ground floor restaurant, dining area and toilets. The ground floor is to have a private residential bedroom and en-suite. Access to first floor from lobby with stairs and the first floor to be changed to residential, signage and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 181034
13 Feb 2018N/a
construction of 4 no. single storey dwelling houses, service road with connection to all public utility services with all associated site works
Permission, 4 homes · Limerick County Council, 18116
31 Jul 2017Conditional
constructed boundary wall and railing to front elevation of existing house, alterations to layout internally and planning permission to connect to existing main sewer and all associated site works, change of use from Garda Station to domestic dwelling and balcony/stairway to rear
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17730
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- 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 Toornafulla.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, commenced in 1855, completed in 1859. Comprising five-bay nave with single-storey porches to front (north) and rear (south). Recent four-bay single-storey sacristy to rear with projecting end-bay, having further flat-roofed extension to side (east) and porch to side (west). Pitched slate roofs throughout with rendered eaves, having render gable copings with render cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone bellcote to side (west) gable of nave, having tooled limestone coping, Celtic cross finial, pointed arch opening with chamfered reveals and recent speakers. Tooled limestone corbelled impost blocks to gables of porches and nave. Hipped slate roofs to sacristy extension. Flat bitumen clad roof to sacristy addition and porch. Dressed rubble stone walls with tooled limestone quoins to front and side (east) elevations of nave and throughout front porch. Rendered walls to side (west) and rear elevations of nave, throughout rear porch and sacristy. Trefoil-headed window openings with chamfered tooled limestone sills to front and rear elevations of nave, having block-and-start limestone surrounds with chamfered reveals and margined lead-lined windows. Pointed arch window opening with chamfered tooled limestone sill to side (east) elevation of nave, having block-and-start surround surmounted by relieving arch with dressed stone voussoirs. Containing tooled limestone plate tracery with three trefoil-headed lancets having lead-lined stained glass windows. Group of three trefoil-headed window openings with chamfered limestone sills to side (west) elevation of nave, having lead-lined stained glass windows. Trefoil-headed window opening with chamfered tooled limestone sill to side (west) elevation of sacristy, having timber casement window. Pointed arch window opening with chamfered tooled limestone sill, surround, voussoirs any keystone to side (south) elevation of rear porch, having group of three trefoil-headed lancets within tooled limestone tracery, having margined lead-lined stained glass windows. Square-headed window opening with render sill to sacristy, having and replacement timber casement windows. Pointed arch door opening with chamfered tooled limestone surround to front porch, having tooled limestone step, hoodmoulding with corbelled label stops and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Square-headed door openings to rear porch and sacristy, having double-leaf timber battened doors to side (east) elevation of rear porch, recent steel door to side (west) elevation of sacristy porch and timber battened door to side (east) elevation of sacristy. Arch-braced timber framed roof to interior of nave springing from tooled limestone corbels. Herringbone timber floor with central mosaic tiled avenue with crucifix inspired mosaic motif towards chancel area. Central mosaic tiled plaque to floor commemorating Rev. P. Corkery. Timber balcony with timber staircase and confessional booths to western end of nave with timber Stations of the Cross to interior walls. Marble reredos with central brass shrine flanked by statues of Blessed Virgin Mary and Christ Marble altar and altar rail to chancel. Pointed arch recess to interior of front porch accommodating tooled limestone piscina. Situated with own grounds with grotto to Blessed Virgin Mary to west and graveyard to south. Recent tarmac avenue with render footpath having decorative wrought-iron hand rail. Enclosed within recent dressed stone walls with render coping and square-profile piers having render capping, single and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Toornafulla, about 1 in 5 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 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 Toornafulla.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Toornafulla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Toornafulla · Tuar na Fola
- Area
- 6,265,444 m² (626.54 ha, 1,548.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Glengort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 719 people lived in 264 households in the Glengort electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleanglass North, Cleanglass South, Glenquin South, Gortnaskehy, Killaculleen, Knocknadiha, Milleenduff (Co. Cork), Reanagillee Commons, Tooreenmacauliffe (Co. Cork)
- Placenames
- Toornafulla 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.