Camas South

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Camas South, from 51 m² to 414,856 m² (41.49 ha, 102.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Camas South 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.

• 26 Feb 2026N/a

  a change of use of the existing property from a farm out-building to a two bedroom residential house. Including the insertion of a first floor and alterations to the internal layout, upgrading and repair works, new windows and doors, installations of new services and associated site works. The out-building is part of a Protected Structure RPS No. 213

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660211

• 14 Jul 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dormer dwelling house, boundary walls with new recessed site entrance, piers and gates, detached garage, waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17673

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 Camas South.

Recorded monuments

• LI031-116 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On wet flat pasture, 105m SE of the Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Carrigeen. Enclosures (LI031-195/184----) lie 26m to SW and 20m to NW respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 51.02: AP 4/2061) as a circular-shaped enclosure. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 15m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. Possible ditch-barrow. See Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 April 2021

• LI031-184 Enclosure
  Description

  On wet flat pasture 30m SE of the Morningstar River and the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Enclosure (LI031-116----) located 30m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 51: AP 4/2061) as circular enclosure abutting a field boundary on its E side (ext. dims. c. 35m). The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013 and 14/09/2019. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 51 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 7 October 2020

• LI031-185 Enclosure
  Description

  On wet flat pasture 25m W of a tributary of the Morningstar River and 110m W of the townland boundary with Garbally. Enclosure (LI039-119----) located 330m to SSE. The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 but not on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 54: AP 5/2060) as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m). The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/09/2018 and 14/09/2019). See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 54 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 7 October 2020

• LI031-195 Enclosure
  Description

  On wet flat pasture 105m SE of the Morningstar River and the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Enclosure (LI031-116----) located 26m to NE, enclosure (LI031-184----) located 40m to NW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 nor on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 52.02: AP 5/2061) as a circular enclosure in an open field (ext. diam. c. 25m). The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013; a faint potential circular enclosure (a ring-barrow) is faintly visible on the latest Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/09/2019. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 52.02 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 16 October 2020

• LI039-119 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet pasture 50m W of townland boundary with Garbally. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible monument identified as a potential site of a circular enclosure defined by a soil stain or cropmark visible on aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 50) taken 11/09/1982 as part of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 May 2021

Architectural heritage

• Camas House, outbuilding, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Range of multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings of former Camas House, built c. 1820. Camas House demolished. Half-hipped slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Roughly dressed limestone walls with dressed quoins. Square-headed openings having red brick copings. Two-storey three-bay former coach house to north of outbuildings. Pitched slate roof with red brick chimneystack. Roughly dressed limestone walls with cut limestone stringcourse to gable. Camber-headed openings to first floor with red brick voussoirs and stone sills. Camber-headed openings to ground floor with cut limestone voussoirs. Segmental-arched opening to gable with dressed limestone voussoirs. Single-arch bridge to north-west of site. Segmental arch with dressed limestone walls and cut limestone stringcourse. Rock-faced parapet walls with carved limestone plaque to west parapet. Two single-arch bridges to north-east of site. One having segmental arch with roughly dressed walls and cut voussoirs having prominent keystone. Side elevations of second bridge not visible. Rock-faced parapet walls terminating in square-profile piers with wrought-iron gate to carriageway.

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 Camas South, 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 Camas South.

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

Name

Camas South · Camas Theas

Area

1,786,584 m² (178.66 ha, 441.47 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Bruff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,460 people lived in 542 households in the Bruff electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrea, Camas North, Carrigeen, Garbally, Parkroe, Rathcannon

Placenames

Camas South 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.