Mitchelstowndown

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mitchelstowndown, from 3,549 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres) to 158,135 m² (15.81 ha, 39.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Mitchelstowndown 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.

• 5 Mar 2025N/a

  a dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment system with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2559

• 26 Jan 2022Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system soil filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2270

• 2 Dec 2021N/a

  construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system soil filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211662

• 23 Dec 2019N/a

  the construction of a 30 metre high free standing monopole communications structure and its associated antennae, communication dishes and ground equipment within a 2.4m high palisade fence compound

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191296

• 9 Aug 2018Conditional

  the demolition of an existing shed, demolition of part of an existing dwelling and part of an existing shed, construction of a single storey extension attached to the side of an existing dwelling including elevational changes and replacement of the existing dwelling roof with a new amended slate roof, revised site boundaries, a new upgraded waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18800

• 7 Feb 2018Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension attached to the side of an existing dwelling house, construction of porch to front of existing dwelling, refurbishment of existing dwelling, construction of detached domestic garage, improvements to existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1894

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey dwelling house and small shed and construction of a new single storey detached dwelling, refurbishment of existing shed to home office and study area, a new potable well, a new upgraded waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171107

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  construction of an extension to an existing agricultural building and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17378

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  construction of a single storey granny flat and domestic garage attached to the side and rear of their existing dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17101

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 Mitchelstowndown.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-026 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 255m W of townland boundary with Knocklary. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (diam. c. 16.5m) defined by a scarp with wide outer fosse. Outline of platform defined by wide rush-filled fosse visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (318) 22) taken 05/10/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 13 September 2021

• LI049-028 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, immediately S of the Morningstar River that forms the townland boundary with Mitchesltowndown East. Possible barrows (LI049-029002/004-) lie 90m to the NE. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Potential earthwork identified as a rectangular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2779, Site 249) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. The earthwork appears to be the remains of a levelled building with attached field boundary depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 13 September 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mitchelstowndown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mitchelstowndown · Baile Mhistéala na dTamhan

Area

538,147 m² (53.81 ha, 132.98 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Glenbrohane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

474 people lived in 186 households in the Glenbrohane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfroota, Cloghast, Knocklary, Mitchelstowndown East, Mitchelstowndown West

Placenames

Mitchelstowndown 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.