Tulla
Tulla is a townland in the civil parish of Darragh, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Tulaigh.
- Area
- 311.6 ha
- 770 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 3,790 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tulla, from 102 m² to 235,896 m² (23.59 ha, 58.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Tulla 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
19 Sept 2025Conditional
construction of a detached domestic shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560944
16 May 2023Conditional
the demolition of existing farm yard sheds and the gable end wall of an existing residential cottage and the construction of a one storey extension to the side, rear and front of the existing cottage including wastewater treatment system, percolation area, surface water soakaways, and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360317
30 Mar 2023Conditional
a dwelling house as constructed (changes to house design previously granted under planning ref.(07/443) and permission for alteration to existing roof windows and the addition of 2no. roof windows to rear to provide means of escape, new treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23186
11 Oct 2021Conditional
a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211414
13 Jul 2020Conditional
the erection of a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20640
5 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20197
28 Nov 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including septic tank, percolation area and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191177
11 Oct 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191016
28 Jun 2019Conditional
a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19638
14 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of a slatted dairy house complete with slatted tanks and the construction of office, plant and dairy within existing building and associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19575
30 Apr 2019N/a
construction of a slatted dairy house complete with slatted tanks and the construction of office, plant and dairy within existing building and associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19425
13 Nov 2018Conditional
a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including septic tank, percolation area and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181099
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tulla.
Recorded monuments
- LI057-050 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
In wet pasture on N bank of Keale River that marks the townland boundary with Darragh Beg. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped mound (diam. c. 10m) enclosed by a fosse. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 November 2021
- LI057-051 Enclosure
Description
In wet pasture 30m W of the Ahaphuca River that marks the townland boundary with Cullane South. Shown as a circular enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a bank from NW-NE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Monument is clearly visible as an oval-shaped area (dims. 26m NW-SE; 21m E-W) enclosed by a bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tulla.
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
- About 1 in 10 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tulla.
- 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 Tulla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Tulla · Tulaigh
- Area
- 3,115,555 m² (311.56 ha, 769.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Darragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Darragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 375 people lived in 130 households in the Darragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfeerode, Ballyshane, Cullane South, Darragh Beg, Darragh More, Knockanevin (Co. Cork), Ruppulagh, Spittle, Sraharla (Co. Cork), Tooraleagan
- Placenames
- Tulla 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.