Walshestown

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshestown, from 169 m² to 138,774 m² (13.88 ha, 34.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Walshestown 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 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of a broiler breeder house, concrete aprons, feed silos, clean and soiled water storage tanks, close existing site entrance and construct a new vehicular site entrance in-lieu of existing entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660895

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  (A) a dwelling house as constructed and (B) Planning Permission to construct a garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660678

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  the change of site boundaries and installation of on-site treatment plant and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460050

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a bungalow style dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packages wastewater treatment system with soil filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211399

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, soiled water storage tank and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201350

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, a domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a new roadside entrance gate and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 20965

• 29 Jul 2020Conditional

  amendments to planning permission 19/337. The amendments consist of changes to dwelling design, domestic garage, site layout, site boundary and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20733

• 9 Apr 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste-water treatment system, new site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19337

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  demolition of an outhouse and the construction of an extension to dwelling house, new wastewater treatment & disposal system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17223

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 Walshestown.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-096 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on slight W-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked semi-circular enclosure (c. 20m N-S; c. 10m E-W) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-178 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight W-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Walshestown, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_517 (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 Walshestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Walshestown · Baile an Bhreatnaigh

Area

934,994 m² (93.5 ha, 231.04 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Knockaderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

541 people lived in 176 households in the Knockaderry electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill Beg, Ballynakill More, Lissaniska East, Lissaniska West, Mahoonagh Beg, Rathfreedy

Placenames

Walshestown 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.