Wonderhill

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wonderhill, from 1,464 m² to 186,931 m² (18.69 ha, 46.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Wonderhill 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.

• 30 May 2024Conditional

  a change of site boundary and site layout plan from that granted in Planning Ref. 23/407 and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460537

• 10 Aug 2023Conditional

  the construction of a detached dwelling served by a new vehicular entrance from the public road and a treatment system and soil polishing filter. The development to include all ancillary site works, including a bored well, boundary treatments, landscaping and connections to adjacent utilities

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23407

• 18 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a two-storey three bedroom dwelling, together with a detached garage, new entrance sewage treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211597

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 Wonderhill.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-237 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat pasture. The site is located 60m E of the townland boundary with Galboola and 380m SW of an enclosure (LI023-238----). The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 131; AP 4/3633) as an enclosure. No surface remains visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing enclosure labelled Bruff 131 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 31 August 2020

• LI023-238 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a S-facing slope with good views to the S and W. The site is located 390m E of the townland boundary with Galboola and 380m NE of an enclosure (LI023-237----). The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 132; AP 4/3633) as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m). The site survives as an above the ground monument on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/20 17 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing enclosure labelled Bruff 132 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 31 August 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Wonderhill.

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 Wonderhill, 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 Wonderhill.

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

Name

Wonderhill · Cnoc an Uafáis

Area

1,023,632 m² (102.36 ha, 252.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteely, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Kilteely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

611 people lived in 222 households in the Kilteely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyphilip, Galboola, Kildromin

Placenames

Wonderhill 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.