Highmount

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Highmount, from 199 m² to 299,843 m² (29.98 ha, 74.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Highmount 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.

• 22 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25316

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  attached car-port, garage, shed for storage of classic truck, and the raising in height of the front and side boundary wall and piers to include splayed wing walls

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560498

• 6 Nov 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, a domestic garage, a wastewater treatment system, a bored well, a new site entrance and gate and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24428

• 25 Apr 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22463

• 20 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of a two storey detached dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, new on-site waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211466

• 26 Jun 2017Conditional

  an extension to existing dwelling house and all associated sitework

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17593

• 3 Jul 2006Conditional

  Retention of garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8549

• 26 Oct 2005Conditional

  Cattle shed with slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7860

• 14 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and cattle shed with slatted unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1539

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 Highmount.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Highmount.

Architectural heritage

• Highmount House, farm house, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, incorporating remains of earlier single-storey dwelling. Porch surmounted by gable-fronted conservatory and canted bay windows to front (south), three-bay two-storey return to rear (north). Lean-to additions to side (west) and rear of return. Hipped slate roofs to house and canted-bays with looped terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks, rendered eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to return with rendered chimneystack, render gable coping and uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front and side (west) elevations, having rusticated render quoins and panels to front elevation. Render quoins to porch. Rendered walls elsewhere having rendered rubble stone buttresses to rear elevation. Whitewashed rubble stone walls to lean-to to side (west), corrugated-iron walls to rear lean-to. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having raised render surrounds with keystones to first floor of front elevation. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to first floors of front and rear elevations, rear elevation of return. Timber-framed tripartite windows to canted bays, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows flanked by one-over-one pane timber sliding sash sidelights. One-over-one and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to return. Timber-framed bipartite window to rear elevation of return having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Replacement timber and uPVC casement windows elsewhere. Square-headed door openings having rendered voussoirs and surround to side (east) elevation of porch, having fluted timber doorcase and brackets with timber panelled door. Replacement glazed timber door to side (west) elevation of return. Three-bay outbuilding to north-west having two-bay lean-to addition to front (south) and integral carriage arch. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding with integral carriage arches to north of house. Located within own grounds, having splayed entrance comprising rendered enclosing walls with plinth and coping. Lined-and-ruled render walls with rendered capping and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1750, having recent breakfront porch to front (south). Lean-to corrugated-iron shed to side (west). Attached two-bay single-storey cattle shed to side (east) with single-pitch corrugated-iron roof. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with platbands to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having one-over-one pane timber sliding windows. Square-headed door opening having uPVC door. Recent outbuildings to south and west. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing walls and single-leaf galvanised-steel gate.

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 Highmount, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Highmount.

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 Highmount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Highmount · An Mullach Ard

Area

2,577,738 m² (257.77 ha, 636.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Feenagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

340 people lived in 130 households in the Feenagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymongaun, Cloncrew, Cloonlara, Feenagh, Highmount, Kilcolman, Kinteera (Co. Cork), Lyragh (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Highmount 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.