Scoul
Scoul is a townland in the civil parish of Uregare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Scamhall.
Parcel 1595131
- Area
- 100,457 m² (10.05 ha, 24.82 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 397 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Scoul
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI039-085 Earthwork
Description
In pasture immediately N of the townland boundary with Scoul. Possible enclosure (LI039-087----) lies 180m to SE. Indicated as a semi-circular feature but not as an antiquity on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a semi-circular shaped area (dims. c. 13m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a bank with outer fosse transected at S by townland boundary running E-W. A disused gravel pit is depicted 200m to W. Surveyed by the ASI in 1996 when a faint cropmark was the only visible remains recorded. According to landowner earthwork was levelled 10-15 years ago, c. 1980 (SMR File). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 April 2021
- LI039-087 Quarry
Description
In pasture 190m W of the townland boundary with Ballyania. Enclosure (LI039-085----) lies 180m to NW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1893 OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped depression or quarry face located immediately N of a farm track running E-W. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. Non-antiquity associated with quarrying activity for adjacent farm track. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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_1001 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 29.6 ha
- 73 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 100,457 m² (10.05 ha, 24.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scoul, from 5,171 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres) to 190,462 m² (19.05 ha, 47.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Scoul 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Scoul in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Scoul.
Recorded monuments
- LI039-086 Enclosure
Description
In pasture 150m E of the townland boundary with Cloonygarra. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential site from examination of aerial photographs (GSIAP R. 494) taken 16/04/1974. Visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 26m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 April 2021
- LI039-087 Quarry
Description
In pasture 190m W of the townland boundary with Ballyania. Enclosure (LI039-085----) lies 180m to NW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1893 OS 25-inch map as an irregular-shaped depression or quarry face located immediately N of a farm track running E-W. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. Non-antiquity associated with quarrying activity for adjacent farm track. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Scoul.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Scoul, about 1 in 10 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_1001 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Scoul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Scoul · Scamhall
- Area
- 295,951 m² (29.6 ha, 73.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Uregare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyania, Cloonygarra, Dromin South
- Placenames
- Scoul 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.