Castlequarter

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 35 m² to 250,023 m² (25 ha, 61.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Castlequarter 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 Nov 2025Conditional

  Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 20/1121: construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, foul connection to public main services, site entrance and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257033

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  change of use of former licenced premises to a dwelling including modifications of the existing structure, construction of extensions to the front, the side and the rear, construction of front boundary wall and entrance together with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211547

• 30 Oct 2020Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, foul connection to public main services, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201121

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 Castlequarter.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-140 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Site of Fedamore Castle located in the townland of Castlequarter. No surface remains visible of castle (O'Kelly 1943, 223). Westropp (1906-7, 175) recorded the following details on Fedamore; 'Site marked in "Castlequarter." 1186 ffedomair granted to Magio Abbey (Charter). It was a manor, 1237 (C.S.P.I.). 1317 W. de Camville held Fedmer; Geffry was his son and heir; he had a suit with Sir T. de Clare about the lands (Plea R., 119). 1347 Matilda de "Vernon," Isab. de Bermingham, and others got livery (Pipe R.). 1351 Ric. de Stafford married Marg. de "Verdon," heiress of Matilda, and held Fedemer (Ibid.). 1583 J. mac Dairegeloch had held the old C[astle]. of fedamore (Des. R., 5b). 1588 This was granted to Edm. Manering (Inq. Exch., 25), and to Donat, Earl of Thomond, as Feadamore old C[astle]., late estate of Earl of Desmond (Pat. R.). 1657 Bart., Earl of Thomond, held it, the manor, Courts, &c. (C.S., xxxi., p. 18)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Barnaby, Earl of Thomond, was in possession of Fedamore on which there was a 'Courte leete & Court Baron doe belong to the mannor of ffedamore with some Royalties' (Simington 1938, 106). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

Architectural heritage

• The Thatch, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820, now also in use as a pub, having abutting pitched slate building to rear (east) elevation and flat-roofed extension to south elevation. Hipped straw thatched roof with central red brick chimneystack. Painted pebbledashed walls, with timber fascia board over door. Square-headed openings with replacement top opening timber windows and painted sills. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door and overlight. Wrought-iron gate and outbuildings to north with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and whitewashed rubble walls.

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 Castlequarter, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

803,987 m² (80.4 ha, 198.67 acres)

Civil parish

Fedamore, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Fedamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,340 people lived in 449 households in the Fedamore electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Drominycarra, Enaghroe, Fedamore, Poultalloon

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.