# Woodroad, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Stradbally, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Bóthar Coill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 544,069 m² (54.41 ha, 134.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,020 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Stradbally, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/stradbally.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Castleconnell, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31401 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 121940 - Centre: latitude 52.691894, longitude -8.486469 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodroad, from 246 m² to 236,179 m² (23.62 ha, 58.36 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1601996: 236,179 m² (23.62 ha, 58.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601996.md - Parcel 1673668: 126,514 m² (12.65 ha, 31.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673668.md - Parcel 1596117: 44,787 m² (4.48 ha, 11.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596117.md - Parcel 1608959: 23,346 m² (2.33 ha, 5.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608959.md - Parcel 5881626: 22,502 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5881626.md - Parcel 1669401: 21,005 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669401.md - Parcel 1668621: 17,979 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1668621.md - Parcel 1596787: 12,050 m² (1.2 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596787.md - Parcel 1606492: 5,873 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606492.md - Parcel 1612351: 4,123 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612351.md - Parcel 1593607: 3,622 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593607.md - Parcel 1592203: 3,087 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592203.md - Parcel 1657473: 2,953 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657473.md - Parcel 1607200: 2,474 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607200.md - Parcel 1605453: 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605453.md - Parcel 1641266: 2,293 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641266.md - Parcel 1595583: 2,128 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595583.md - Parcel 1616286: 2,073 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616286.md - Parcel 1657964: 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657964.md - Parcel 1622409: 2,013 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622409.md - Parcel 1619334: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619334.md - Parcel 1617454: 1,538 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617454.md - Parcel 5881586: 868 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5881586.md - Parcel 4927638: 246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4927638.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Woodroad 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 13 Mar 2025, Limerick County Council 2576: Refused. Permission. infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purpose. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2576/0 - 16 Feb 2024, Limerick County Council 2445: Refused. Permission. infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2445/0 - 21 Aug 2023, Limerick County Council 23417: Refused. Permission. infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23417/0 - 10 Oct 2022, Limerick County Council 221093: Conditional. Permission. an extension to the side of the house including a detached domestic car port and a new site entrance to replace the existing. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221093/0 - 18 Aug 2017, Limerick County Council 17777: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. a converted garage to living room, an extension to kitchen, a domestic garage, a fuel store and also the retention of a second site entrance. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17777/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Woodroad. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI006-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI006-012----. On undulating pasture south of a disused quarry, townland boundary with Gardenhill lies 30m to E. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map with trig. station marking 137 ft. OD in the centre. Shown as a D-shaped area (approx. dims. 28m E-W x 34m N-S) with straight side (approx. L 26m) at N enclosed by a bank on 1897 OS 25-inch map which indicates that the shape of the monument has been modified on the N side between the two map dates. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 11 July 2020 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 Woodroad. ## 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 Woodroad, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1088, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1088.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/woodroad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/woodroad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/woodroad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Woodroad 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) - Ballynacourty: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynacourty-120325.md - Brackloon: https://everytownland.com/limerick/brackloon-120513.md - Drominboy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drominboy.md - Drominboy Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drominboy-lower.md - Drominboy Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drominboy-upper.md - Gardenhill: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gardenhill.md - Gortnalahagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortnalahagh.md - Sallymount: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sallymount.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/woodroad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/woodroad