Athlacca North

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Athlacca North, from 906 m² to 197,858 m² (19.79 ha, 48.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Athlacca North 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.

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  to install a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26211

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, new entrance and entrance walls, the installation of a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211813

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 Athlacca North.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-009 Earthwork
  Description

  In flat pasture, 36m E of townland boundary with Glenma and 86m S of townland boundary, enclosure (LI039-008----) lies 250m to SW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch sheet as a roughly oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 26m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 April 2021

• LI039-010 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  In flat pasture, 315m S of Kilbroney Church (LI039-102001-) and St. Broney's Well (LI039-012002-). Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch sheet as a linear earthwork (L. c. 53m) running N-S, where it is shown as a possible sunken or hollow way flanked by a bank on either side. Upstanding monument visible as a linear feature overgrown with trees (L. c. 69m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 where traces of the levelled road are visible as a linear cropmark running NW-SE (L. c. 74m) to N of upstanding section. Possible roadway leading N towards Kilbroney Church, or could be the remains of a watercourse such as a mill-race. Paleochannel or old watercourse visible running into linear earthwork at NE visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 April 2021

• LI039-012001 Church
  Description

  Church ruins described by O'Donovan as a 'mere ruin, but from what remains of it you may ascertain that is measured on the inside forty five feet [13.7m] in length and twenty feet [6m] in width. its west gable is destroyed down to the very foundations, as is also the south wall except two small fragments. A considerable part of the east gable remains, as also of the north wall, from which it can be seen that it was a very rude little building not more than four hundred years old. the east gable has a remarkably rude window, which is now disfigured on the inside and outside. The north wall is three feet [0.9m] thick and about eleven feet [3.3m] high' (OSL Athlacca Parish, 111). Westropp (1904-5, 432) recorded the following details about Kilbroney; 'Tullerboy, Keilbruoiny, between Athlacca and Tullorboy, 1410. Lewis says it was built by the Templars on their manor of Eoss Temple (i., p. 84). Fabric - It is 45 feet [13.7m] by 20 feet [6m]; fragments of the south and east walls, with defaced east window, remain; they are 11 feet [3.3m] by 3 feet [0.9m]. Well of St. Broney [LI039-012002-] near it'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-012002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about St Broney's Well; ‘Close to the ruin (LI039-012001-) called Kilbroney. The well is now dry and the stone work collapsing. Only a few old people have heard that it is a holy well. No tradition of devotions'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-113 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Ruins of Athlacca House standing on N side of the Morningstar River depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and known locally as the 'Mansion House' may have been built on site of or incorporated medieval castle of Athlacca. Modern farmyard now stands on site of Athlacca House. Athlacca Church (LI039-014001-) and graveyard (LI039-014002-) 210m to E. Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Athlacca; '1285 Athleketh, a manor of Maur. FitzGerald, frequently appears with Adare, as a manor of the Earls of Kildare. 1318 J. Gower held it. There is little independent mention of it. 1655 David Lacy held Aghleakagh C[astle]. mill, and orchard (C.S., xxiv., p. 9 ; D.S.A., 42). 1666 Granted to C. Ormsby (Act Sett.). The C[astle]. was standing in 1827 (FitzGerald, i., p. 323), destroyed before 1840'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 David Lacy of Athlacca an Irish Papist was the owner in Athlacca of 'a Mill [LI039-115----] an orchard and twoe good tatch houses, with a Castle' (Simington 1938, 126). Tower-house type castle depicted on the 1654-7 Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that 'in the S of the td. [Athlacca North] is an old ruin. Mansion House - Old Court, near Athlacka Village. In ruins. An ancient residence of the De Lacy family (OSNB Athlacca Parish]'. See attached Down Survey barony map Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Athlacca North, 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 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 Athlacca North.

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

Name

Athlacca North · An tÁth Leacach Thuaidh

Area

1,993,286 m² (199.33 ha, 492.55 acres)

Civil parish

Athlacca, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Athlacca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

402 people lived in 156 households in the Athlacca electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athlacca South, Coolboy, Glenma, Inchinclare, Rathcannon, Rosstemple, Tullerboy

Placenames

Athlacca North 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.