Carrigarreely

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigarreely, from 1,689 m² to 344,755 m² (34.48 ha, 85.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carrigarreely 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.

• 28 Apr 2025Conditional

  a new 126 sq.m domestic shed with ancillary site works to the rear of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25132

• 10 Feb 2021Conditional

  construction of a new sunroom(24sq.m.) with ancillary site works to the side of his existing dwelling and also retention permission for the following unauthorised works: 21sq.m. of additional floor space to dwelling above what was previously granted under planning permission 16/307, 34sq.m. external store, 22sq.m. summer gazabo

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21137

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 Carrigarreely.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-033 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Carrigarreely Castle described in 1840 as follows; 'This castle is placed on a limestone rock, about 2 chains (40m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.1m) high. It retains the appearance of a strong building, and is about 60 feet (18.3m) high and 24 feet (7.3m) wide, being square' (OSNB Caherconlish Parish, 305). The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that the 'walls are perfect. It measures nineteen feet eight inches by fourteen and a half feet in the clear and has five stories; the fourth floor is arched underneath. The height of the structure is about seventy feet and the thickness of the walls about six and a half feet' (OSL Caherconlish Parish, 117-8). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the Lord of Brittas was the owner of 'a Castle, and a bawen' (Simington 1938, 64). Westropp (1906-07, 96) recorded the following details about Carrigareely; 'Fitzgerald calls it Carrigifarrioyla, "the O'Farrellys' rock," and says it was built by the Bourkes and occupied by the O'Dalys (vol. ii., p. 286) ; O'Donovan denies this, and says it was Carraig Fearghaill, Farrell's Rock (O.S.L., 8, p. 408). 1558 Sussex on his progress was entertained with drink by W. Burke as he passed the C[astle]. of Carree Kerellois (Carew, i., p. 274). 1567 Pardon to Theo. Bourke of Carrygkyrily (Fi., 1050). 1576 Theo, died in possession of Karriarilie or Karrigkyrely (Inq. Exch., 9). 1655 Carrigiriell held by Lord Brittas. C[astle]. shown (D.S.A., 14, 18; C.S., xxi., p. 10). Fabric - It stood on a rock 20 feet [6m] high, and was fairly perfect, being about 70 feet [21.3m] high, with five stories, the fourth floor over a vault. It measured 19 feet 8 inches [6m], by 14½ feet [4.4m] inside. Walls 6½ feet [2m] thick (O.S.L., 8, p. 408)'. Tower-house like castle depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) and the parish map of Caherconlish (NLI, MS. 718). Castle described by Salter (2004, 71) as ;'This tower measuring 10.6m by 8.2m lies on a rock with a sheer drop of 6m on the west side and a drop of 1 .5m on the south, so that a two storey range later added on that side had an upper storey almost at the same height as the lowest storey of the main tower. This end contains a tier of mural chambers over the entrance passage and there is a spiral staircase in the SW corner. Not much remains of the main tower above the vault over the third storey. The west wall contains a fireplace on the second storey and a latrine reached from the staircase on the third storey'. Classified by Donnelly (1999, 37) as a Type 1A Tower House which is a castle with a 'ground floor entrance to the building leads to an entrance lobby. To one side of the entrance lobby is a doorway leading to a spiral staircase set in a corner of the building. To the other side is a doorway leading into a small chamber - the subsidiary chamber. The entrance lobby provides a direct route of access through to the main chamber'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• LI014-033001 Bawn
  Description

  Carrigarreely Castle (LI014-033----) described in 1840 as follows; 'This castle is placed on a limestone rock, about 2 chains (40m) in diameter and 20 feet (6.1m) high. It retains the appearance of a strong building, and is about 60 feet (18.3m) high and 24 feet (7.3m) wide, being square' (OSNB Caherconlish Parish, 305). The Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that the 'walls are perfect. It measures nineteen feet eight inches by fourteen and a half feet in the clear and has five stories; the fourth floor is arched underneath. The height of the structure is about seventy feet and the thickness of the walls about six and a half feet' (OSL Caherconlish Parish, 117-8). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the Lord of Brittas was the owner of 'a Castle [LI014-033---), and a bawen' (Simington 1938, 64). The precise location of the bawn around the castle of Carrigarreely has not been identified. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carrigarreely, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1093 (ZIP).

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

Name

Carrigarreely · Carraig Fhearaíle

Area

874,513 m² (87.45 ha, 216.1 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,318 people lived in 774 households in the Caherconlish West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hundredacres East, Hundredacres West, Knockatancashlane, Pust North, Skahard, Tobermalug

Placenames

Carrigarreely 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.