Churchquarter

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Churchquarter, from 3 m² to 143,272 m² (14.33 ha, 35.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Churchquarter 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Churchquarter in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Churchquarter.

Recorded monuments

• LI060-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 208) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Our Lady's Well. Not marked on maps. A strong flowing spring. Rounds were formerly made on Saturdays and on 15th August. The water cured sore eyes and other ailments. There are no devotions now. Legends: The well moved when profaned. The water will not boil. A fish which lived in the well was taken away by a priest (reason for this not known)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

• LI060-005001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 454) recorded the following details about Kilbeheny Church; ' The Chapel of Kylmyhyn, 1347 (supra, 368); Coillbeithne, Birchwood, 1502 (A.F.M.); Kylvehenyom, Lim., forfeited by Mathew mac Murrogh in rebellion, 1591 (Inq. 34). A ruinous castle called Kilvehoine, or Kilvehenny, 1607 (Pat. R.); Keilbeheny, 1657 (Petty, 74). Fabric - It stands on high ground among great hills on the border of Limerick and Cork, near their junction with Tipperary. It is 48 feet [14.6m] by 21½ feet [6.5m]. The east window had a double light and round splay arch. The south window and south door splay were oblong, and the door arch pointed. The west door was defaced before 1840; and the north wall had a round-headed window 4 feet [1.2m] from the east gable. The walls were 12 feet [3.65m] by 3 feet [0.9m]. It lies beside the river Funshion'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 June 2019

• LI060-005002 Graveyard
  Description

  The medieval church ruins (LI060-005001-) of Kilbeheny stands in centre of graveyard which consists of an oval-shaped area (approx. dims. 46m N-S x 60m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at W. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• LI060-009 Burnt spread
  Description

  This site was identified during Phase II test excavation of the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown road improvement scheme carried out in May 2006. The site was subsequently excavated on 18–19 August 2006. It was located on the banks of the River Funshion, at the base of a gradual south-facing slope. One small spread of silty clay with moderate inclusions of charcoal and burnt stone was identified. This deposit is likely to be prehistoric in date. A thin deposit of peat (0.1–0.12m deep) overlay the burnt-stone deposit ' (Excavations 2006, Site No. 1253). Burnt spread excavated by Bernice Molloy (A027/000, E4595).

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Gothic Revival gable-fronted cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1872-4, comprising limestone open work bellcote to front (west) elevation, five-bay nave, single-bay transepts and single-bay single-storey sacristy having lean-to to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone copings, cross finials and cut limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Coursed roughly dressed limestone walls having plinth course and dressed quoins. Blind carved trefoil motif to bellcote. Oculus to front with limestone surround, voussoirs, impost course and inset cinquefoil stained glass window. Pointed arch openings to nave having dressed stone surrounds and stained glass windows. Blind oculus over triple lancet openings to transepts with limestone relieving arches, surrounds and quarry glazed stained glass windows. Square-headed openings to sacristy having two-over-two pane timber casement windows. Pointed arch opening to front elevation with render hoodmoulding, limestone surround and Y-tracery glazed overlight over timber battened double-leaf doors. Limestone steps to entrance. Pointed arch openings to transepts, west elevation, having carved limestone surrounds, Y-tracery glazed overlights over timber battened doors. Carved limestone fonts to transept entrances. Square-headed shouldered opening to sacristy with limestone surround and replacement timber battened door. Timber scissors truss roof to interior. Timber galleries to transepts and east elevation, having recessed blind pointed arch motifs. Graveyard to site. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron acanthus-headed gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site. Pair of square-profile cut sandstone piers to south with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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 Churchquarter, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Churchquarter · Ceathrú an Teampaill

Area

402,305 m² (40.23 ha, 99.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilbeheny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

270 people lived in 99 households in the Kilbeheny electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynatona, Behanagh, Carrigane (Co. Cork), Castlequarter, Knockrour

Placenames

Churchquarter 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.