# Toryhill, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cnoc Droma Asail. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,229,506 m² (122.95 ha, 303.82 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,886 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Croom, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/croom.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Garrane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 317 people lived in 108 households in the Garrane electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30671 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121906 - Centre: latitude 52.537515, longitude -8.693644 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toryhill, from 677 m² to 376,651 m² (37.67 ha, 93.07 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1609653: 376,651 m² (37.67 ha, 93.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609653.md - Parcel 1656577: 228,981 m² (22.9 ha, 56.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656577.md - Parcel 1653648: 184,735 m² (18.47 ha, 45.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653648.md - Parcel 2723424: 126,319 m² (12.63 ha, 31.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2723424.md - Parcel 1589850: 106,218 m² (10.62 ha, 26.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589850.md - Parcel 1667080: 36,249 m² (3.62 ha, 8.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667080.md - Parcel 1608169: 27,892 m² (2.79 ha, 6.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608169.md - Parcel 1609556: 24,984 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609556.md - Parcel 1632240: 19,962 m² (2 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1632240.md - Parcel 1665679: 15,694 m² (1.57 ha, 3.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665679.md - Parcel 1643095: 8,617 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643095.md - Parcel 1609640: 7,687 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609640.md - Parcel 1609641: 6,366 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609641.md - Parcel 1650545: 6,048 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650545.md - Parcel 5358930: 5,724 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5358930.md - Parcel 1656578: 5,140 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656578.md - Parcel 1656492: 4,765 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656492.md - Parcel 1645436: 4,707 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645436.md - Parcel 1626986: 4,368 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626986.md - Parcel 1656488: 4,249 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656488.md - Parcel 1590509: 4,221 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590509.md - Parcel 1656570: 4,148 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656570.md - Parcel 1663573: 3,854 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663573.md - Parcel 1599864: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599864.md - Parcel 1619421: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619421.md - Parcel 2386969: 1,721 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386969.md - Parcel 1588287: 829 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588287.md - Parcel 1667947: 677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667947.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Toryhill 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) 1 application, newest first. - 7 Apr 2026, Limerick County Council 2688: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a straw bedded house, feed passage and soiled water tank with the curtilage of a Protected Structure. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2688/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Tory Hill SAC, site code 000439, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000439 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tory Hill, site code 000439 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-111001: Hillfort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-111001-. The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Possible contour fort identified by Grogan (2005, 113). Positioned surrounding the summit of Tory Hill, an isolated hilltop situated in low-lying terrain, with extensive views from the summit. Possible hillfort overlooks river to E. There is no information regarding the enclosing elements available. No obvious entrance features recorded. No evidence for any internal features on the surface (Grogan 2005, 113). There has been no archaeological investigations of this hillfort and further information is not available. First identified by Grogan (2005, 113).The hillfort is not depicted in any historic mapping.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0687.html) Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2020 - LI022-111002: Inscribed stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-111002-. An altar stone from Croom with a post medieval ogham inscription. It is now in the National Museum of Ireland (Ref. 1941:117). Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 15/12/2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toryhill. ## 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 Toryhill, 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_912, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_912.zip (ZIP). - 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/toryhill.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toryhill.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toryhill.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Toryhill 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) - Ballygriffin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballygriffin.md - Ballylusky: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballylusky.md - Coologe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coologe-120753.md - Corrabul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabul.md - Corrabulbeg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corrabulbeg.md - Garrane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/garrane-121027.md - Honeypound: https://everytownland.com/limerick/honeypound.md - Maghera: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maghera.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/toryhill - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/toryhill