Foyle

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foyle, from 889 m² to 265,659 m² (26.57 ha, 65.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Foyle 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.

• 3 Jul 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new dormer window to the front elevation of an existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660766

• 12 Jun 2017Conditional

  for a change of house type under previously permitted planning reference 1715

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17538

• 12 Jan 2017Conditional

  for an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1715

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI006-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland, in SW corner of field with post-1700 field boundaries intersecting the monument at SW, SE and S. This is the most northerly of three ringforts (LI006-040-/042----) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 200m. The two ringforts (LI006-040-/042----) lie 63m and 190m to SE respectively. Monument indicated as a sub-circular shaped area defined by a bank on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 28m N-S, 24m E-W; ext. diam. 42m) enclosed by a bank from NE through S to W and by a scarp from NW to NE. Monument visible today on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13 with enclosing tree-covered bank with a gap at NNW. Traces of outer ditch visible from S through to NW on Google earth orthophoto taken 20/11/2010 may be associated with post-1700 drainage. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019 and 30/06/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• LI006-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland, this is the central monument of three ringforts (LI006-039-/042---) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 200m. Ringfort (LI006-039----) lies 40m to NNW second ringfort (LI006-042----) lies 100m to SE. Monument depicted as a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 35m) enclosed by a bank on the 1840 OS 6-inch map with a trigonometrical station marked in SW quadrant. On the 1897 OS 25-inch map the site is defined by a scarp with a field boundary adjoining at N and S with OS trig. station outside the monument to NW. Visible on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13 as a circular-shaped are enclosed by tree-covered bank with a gap at N which could be modern livestock entrance. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019 and 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 June 2020

• LI006-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland, this is the most southerly of three ringforts (LI006-039-/040---) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 200m. Ringforts (LI006-040-/039----) lie 100m and 195m to NNW respectively. The field boundary marking the townland boundary with Ballyvarry intersects the monument at E. Ringfort depicted as a circular shaped area (approx. int. diam. 31m; ext. dims. 50m NW-SE x 46m NE-SW) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. Shown as a partially levelled monument on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. On this map the upstanding enclosing element is depicted only from S through W to WNW, elsewhere it has been levelled. The monument is visible on Digital global imagery taken 2011-13 in a similar manner to the 25-inch map. On this orthoimage the enclosing element element with traces of an outer ditch are visible from S through W to NW, a gap at SSE gives access to a lane running along the E field boundary. A post-1700 field boundary runs NW from the NWW side of the monument. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 19/11/2019 and 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 June 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foyle.

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 Foyle, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1056 (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 Foyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Foyle · Faill

Area

458,531 m² (45.85 ha, 113.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvarra, Grange Lower, Grange Upper, Killonan, Scart

Placenames

Foyle 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.