Oolahills West

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oolahills West, from 32 m² to 112,157 m² (11.22 ha, 27.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Oolahills West 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.

• 16 Feb 2025Refused

  the demolition of a small single storey store to the south east of the Public House and its replacement with residential accommodation spread over 2 levels and joining in to the present first floor level over the Public House for use as their private family home, as well as the construction of 2 no. 2 storey houses (2 units in total, semi-detached) on the vacant site to the immediate southeast of the public house, with vehicular access from the minor road to the northeast of the site, as well as all associated site works on and under land including entrance gates, boundary treatment, connections and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2560122

• 4 Oct 2023N/a

  the demolition of a small single storey store to the south east of the Public House and its replacement with residential accommodation spread over 2 levels and joining in to the present first floor level over the Public House for use as their private family home, as well as the construction of 2 no. 2 storey houses (2 units in total, semi-detached) on the vacant site to the immediate southeast of the public house, with vehicular access from the minor road to the northeast of the site, as well as all associated site works on and under land including entrance gates, boundary treatment, connections and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360725

• 2 Apr 2023Conditional

  the following: Boiler shed/store attached to rear of garage. Increase in height of rear boundary wall and all associated site and ancillary works.

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360192

• 26 Jan 2023Refused

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all other ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2345

• 2 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, to sink a well and installation of a wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211659

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, extension to the side of existing garage consisting of public toilet & alterations to the front elevation of the garage, gates & wire fence at the front of the property and rear entrance from the public road

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211070

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  the demolition of existing porch to front of dwelling and construction of new extension to front of dwelling house of 22sqm gross floor area

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21807

• 13 Jul 2018Conditional

  a single storey extension to the south and west of an existing house to provide additional domestic accommodation, as well as minor changes to the existing house layout internally, a detached garage and store located to the south, and all associated site works on and under land

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18714

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 Oolahills West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Oolahills West.

Architectural heritage

• O'Donnell Monument, monument, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone monument, erected c. 1930, comprising Celtic style cross with inscribed plaque, rectangular-plan plinth and concrete base.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Oolahills West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Oolahills West · Cnoc Úlla Thiar

Area

301,075 m² (30.11 ha, 74.4 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oola electoral division: 1,119 people in 427 households; 82% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glebe, Gortakilleen, Moanoola, Oolahills East

Placenames

Oolahills West 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.