Woodroad

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodroad, from 246 m² to 236,179 m² (23.62 ha, 58.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Woodroad 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.

• 13 Mar 2025Refused

  infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purpose. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2576

• 16 Feb 2024Refused

  infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. A Natura Impact Statement will be included with the application

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2445

• 21 Aug 2023Refused

  infill flooded quarried land with topsoil, subsoil, rock and construction and demolition waste to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23417

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  an extension to the side of the house including a detached domestic car port and a new site entrance to replace the existing

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221093

• 18 Aug 2017Conditional

  a converted garage to living room, an extension to kitchen, a domestic garage, a fuel store and also the retention of a second site entrance

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17777

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 Woodroad.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On undulating pasture south of a disused quarry, townland boundary with Gardenhill lies 30m to E. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map with trig. station marking 137 ft. OD in the centre. Shown as a D-shaped area (approx. dims. 28m E-W x 34m N-S) with straight side (approx. L 26m) at N enclosed by a bank on 1897 OS 25-inch map which indicates that the shape of the monument has been modified on the N side between the two map dates. Outline of tree-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 11 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Woodroad, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1088 (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 Woodroad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Woodroad · Bóthar Coill

Area

544,069 m² (54.41 ha, 134.44 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Castleconnell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,607 people lived in 1,298 households in the Castleconnell electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacourty, Brackloon, Drominboy, Drominboy Lower, Drominboy Upper, Gardenhill, Gortnalahagh, Sallymount

Placenames

Woodroad 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.