Tobernea West

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tobernea West, from 231 m² to 334,107 m² (33.41 ha, 82.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tobernea West 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  demolition of existing disused derelict house on his land & associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661024

• 20 Jun 2022Conditional

  an existing domestic garage and stores

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22694

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to side of dwelling, permission for retention of 3 velux rooflights to front of dwelling and permission for retention and completion of a domestic garage to side of dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22266

• 8 Dec 2021Conditional

  a new dwelling house, entrance, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211698

• 16 Sept 2021Conditional

  change of existing site boundaries, to demolish existing shed, construct new extensions to sides and rear of existing bungalow dwelling, close up existing site entrance & construction of a new relocated splayed entrance, install new proprietary wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211291

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211006

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  construction of an agricultural extension to an existing agricultural shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21182

• 9 Oct 2020Conditional

  demolition of an existing dwelling house and permission to construct a new replacement dwelling house in a new location, garage, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201018

• 2 Jul 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new detached 2 storey dwelling, construction of a new detached garage with store area, a new vehicular entrance, a new biofiltration waste water treatment unit, a new potable well, boundary treatment and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18668

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  demolition of a loose house and store. Construct a loose house and an easyfeed unit with slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171232

• 21 Jul 2017Conditional

  the placement of mobile home on the site as temporary accommodation for the duration of construction of the extension and also permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of their dwelling house, upgrade existing front entrance & install a mechanical aeration treatment unit & polishing filter and all ancillary services

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 17693

• 24 Jan 2017Conditional

  Two storey dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, entrance & ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1755

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 Tobernea West.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture 150m E of the townland boundary with Effin. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 29m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Monument is visible as roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with traces of a possible external fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of monument partially delimited by bushes is visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 12 August 2021

• LI047-070 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture immediately E of a field boundary and drainage ditch. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular earthwork with tree-planted interior. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 33m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a scarp. Levelled monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016 where it is truncated at W by a field drain running NE-SW. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 August 2021

• LI047-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 65m S of the townland boundary with Thomastown and 100m W of the townland boundary with Tobernae Middle. Partially indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a field boundary curving from S-W-N. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from NW-N-E reduced to a scarp which forms a field boundary from S-W-NW. Intersected at NW by field boundary running NW-SE and at S by field boundary running NW-SE. Levelled monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark 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: 18 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Tobernea House, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former presbytery, built c. 1820, comprising gable-fronted projecting end bay and recent porch to front (south) elevation and lean-to to rear (north) elevation. Hipped artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystacks and timber bargeboards. Roughcast rendered walls with render stringcourse. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening to rear with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed opening to porch having timber panelled door. Square-headed obscured by porch having glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east with single-pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed opening with brick block-and-start surround, fixed window and concrete sill. Pair of square-profile lined-and-ruled rendered piers having ball finials to caps, double-leaf cast-iron gates and cast-iron railings set in rendered plinths terminating in second pair of piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tobernea West, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_982 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Tobernea West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Tobernea West · Tobar Naí Thiar

Area

1,846,090 m² (184.61 ha, 456.18 acres)

Civil parish

Effin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Tobernea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

694 people lived in 238 households in the Tobernea electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brickfield, Effin, Leagane, Newpark, Thomastown, Tobernea Middle

Placenames

Tobernea West 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.