Tullovin

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullovin, from 9 m² to 381,418 m² (38.14 ha, 94.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Tullovin 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.

• 27 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling comprising ground floor living accommodation and first floor sanitary facilities, the reconfiguration of the existing entrance to the R516, together with all associated incidental ancillary and site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460388

• 15 Nov 2022Refused

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a wastewater treatment system, new roadside entrance and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 221210

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  an existing telecommunications support structure(previously granted under Planning ref. no. 11/995), together with associated ground equipment cabinets within a fenced compound

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21360

• 28 Feb 2018N/a

  (a) demolish existing open slurry pit and construct a new underground slatted slurry storage tank in its place. (b) construct a roofed livestock cubicle shed. (c) construct a roofed lean-to feeding passage adjacent to existing livestock shed and all other associated siteworks

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18179

• 22 Feb 2017Conditional

  an existing 15m telecommunications support structure carrying associated antenna, link dishes and associated equipment, equipment cabin, compound enclosed by security fence, and access track, the development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd's existing GSM and 3G & 4G Broadband telecommunications networks

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 17168

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 Tullovin.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-066 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  On reclaimed flat pasture adjacent to the S bank of the River Maigue. Depicted as a D-shaped field enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as an embanked D-shaped fort (ext. diam. c. 26m NE-SW; 29m NW-SE) backing onto the River Maigue with a curving ditch and external bank (Wth. 8m; L. 45m) to the SW. The site is not visible on either the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The monument is partially visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016; 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. The siting is not typical for ringfort in County Limerick and has parallels with LI006-001----. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 1 October 2020

• LI031-048 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Tullovin Castle, Sheela-na-gig (LI031-048001-) and bawn (LI031-048002-); '1586 Tuloven C[astle]. in Cosmaye (C.S.P.I., p. 238). 1587 Pardon of Ric. Leas of Toolaobhin. 1600 Pardon of Edm. Leos, of Tullevine, and J. Leos, of Dollagh (Fi. 5006 and 6452). 1606 The same Edm. died, succeeded in C[astle]. by his son Jas., aged 30, in 1636 (Inq. Chan., 161). 1621 Sir W. Parsons was granted Tullavin C[astle]. late estate of Jas. Leo (Pat.). 1637 E. Leo held Tullaghfin (Inq. Chan., 190). 1655 Tullovyne C[astle]., bawn, stone-house, orchard, and two mills, late estate of Jas. Leo (C.S., xxiv., p. 29; B.D., p. 72). 1666 Granted to Cha. Ormsby (Act Sett.). Fabric. - A typical peel tower, with the usual window-slits, probably of late fifteenth century. Carving of a sheelanagig [LI031-048001-] on the outer wall'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmund Leo of Tullovyne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a castle, bawne stone house, an orchard with two mills [LI030-130---]' (Simington 1938, 139). House like castle and watermill depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.). Classified by Donnelly (1999, 22, 37) as a Type 1A tower house which consists of a castle where the; 'ground floor entrance to the building leads to an entrance lobby. To one side of the entrance lobby is a doorway leading to a spiral staircase set in a corner of the building. To the other side is a doorway leading into a small chamber - the subsidiary chamber. The entrance lobby provides a direct route of access through to the main chamber.' Tullovin Castle described by Salter (2004, 97) as 'This building with finely worked openings and a sheela-na-gig on the SE corner is only the end wall of an intended tower. Measuring 9.6m by 5.4m, it contains a spiral staircase and two levels of chambers over an entrance passage flanked by a guardroom. Off the passage from the stair to the third storey of the never constructed main part of the tower is a doorway to a latrine in the south wall. The property passed in the early 17th century from the Leos family to the Parsons family'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 December 2020

• LI031-048001 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Horizontal sheela-na-gig carved onto the external face of a quoin high up on SE angle of tower house (LI031-048----) (Guest 1936, 112; McMahon and Roberts 2001, 153-4). Described by Freitag as a sheela-na-gig ‘carved in high relief on corner stone. Left arm raised to head, depicted with some kind of head-dress and arresting facial features. Long torso with small breasts, ribs and navel; very long, contorted right arm passes under thigh with at least two fingers touching slit-vulva. Legs widely splayed; big toes turned outwards’ (Freitag 2004, 144). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 May 2012.

• LI031-048002 Bawn
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Tullovin Castle (LI031-049----), Sheela-na-gig (LI031-048001-) and bawn; '1655 Tullovyne C[astle]., bawn, stone-house, orchard, and two mills, late estate of Jas. Leo (C.S., xxiv., p. 29; B.D., p. 72). 1666 Granted to Cha. Ormsby (Act Sett.)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmund Leo of Tullovyne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a castle, bawne stone house, an orchard with two mills' (Simington 1938, 139). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 10 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpback railway bridge, built c. 1862, carrying a road over the Great Southern Railway line. Snecked limestone parapet walls having dressed limestone copings.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_914 (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 Tullovin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Tullovin · Tulach Ó bhFinn

Area

2,858,005 m² (285.8 ha, 706.23 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeyville electoral division: 411 people in 137 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anhid East, Ballintaw, Ballyculleen, Ballymacrory, Ballymacrory, Ballymacsradeen East, Ballymacsradeen West, Clorane, Glenbevan, Monaster South, Tooreen

Placenames

Tullovin 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.