Fanningstown

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fanningstown, from 19 m² to 175,211 m² (17.52 ha, 43.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 52 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Fanningstown 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.

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing two-storey dwelling house due to pyrite damage and replace it with a new two-storey dwelling house, together with the installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660277

• 9 Feb 2026Conditional

  domestic garage and adjoining shed together with rooflight on front elevation of dwelling house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2633

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660052

• 9 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a portal frame extension to an existing service warehouse, a new portal frame plant storage unit & associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560429

• 6 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a bay window and side window to existing dwelling house, alterations to existing site entrances and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460425

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  sunroom constructed on to the side of existing dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360783

• 8 Jul 2023Conditional

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, and polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360484

• 25 May 2022Refused

  dwelling house, on site treatment system and polishing filter, new entrance gates and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22590

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works above and below ground

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19543

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 Fanningstown.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a slight N-facing slope with good to moderate views in all directions. The enclosure is located 240m E of the townland boundary with Castleroberts and 140m S of the townland boundary with Liskilly, enclosure (LI021-041----) lies 400m SW. The site is depicted as a circular enclosure abutting a N-S field boundary on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 32m N-S; 30m E-W) with an external fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The N and W side of the ringfort have been incorporated into the surrounding field boundaries on the 1897 map. Inspected by ASI in 2000 and described as, a slightly raised D-shaped area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarp and external fosse on the N, E and S sides (Wth 5.3m; D int. 0.4; ext. 0.2m). A field boundary, depicted on the on historic maps, runs from the SE-NW and defines the W side of the ringfort, it curves slightly around the monument. The external ditch is visible as a semi-circular earthwork adjacent to the modern field boundary on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 10 August 2020

• LI021-046 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level pasture, with moderate views in all directions. The site is located 240m E of the townland boundary with Castleroberts, 350m N of Fanningstown Castle (LI021-047----) and 200m WNW of enclosure (LI021-050----). It is depicted as a large tree lined circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map with field boundaries extending from the site to the S and E. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m N-S; 49m E-W) surrounded by a bank and external fosse (ext. diam. c. 65m N-S; 68m E-W). Inspected by the ASI in 2000, and described as no surface remains visible. Known locally as a ‘fort’. The levelled enclosure is visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13, and on Google Earth orthophotos in 05/02/2009, 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. The Google Earth image dating from 28/06/2018 shows the dry bank as a ring of scorched grass surrounded by the fosse, a circular feature (diam. c. 8m) is also visible outside the enclosure c. 12m to SE. The site is likely to be a ringfort. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 10 August 2020

• LI021-047 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Fanningstown (Baile an Fhainínigh/the town of An Fainíneach/Fanning) Castle consists of a tower house and bawn (LI021-047001-) which was extended in the 18th and 19th centuries and in recent times was converted into a four-star self-catering accommodation. Castle and bawn stands in the W quadrant of the townland, in the parish of Adare which lies in the barony of Coshma. Old Deer Park 780m to E of castle as shown on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Caherass Church (LI021-090----) 1.5km to S and Castleroberts (LI021-037----) 1.5km to W. Westropp (1906-7, 164-5) recorded the following details about Fanningstown Castle and bawn; ‘Not to be confused with Fanningstown in Fedamore (infra, No. 203). It may be the Ballyatheney or Ballyatneny (i.e. Bally-anhiny) held with Adare in 1285 by Maur [ice]., father of Ger[ald]. F[itz]. Maur[ice]. (C.S.P.L). 1567 Tithes of Bally fenninge granted to Sir Warham St. Leger (Fi[ant]. 1143), and in 1592: granted to Sir H. Wallop (Fi[ant]. 5964). 1655 Fanningstown C[astle]. and bawne held by Edm[und]. Fanning (C.S., xxiv., p. 34). Fabric - The peel tower is fairly perfect, but embodied in modern buildings’. No castle is depicted in this townland on the 17th century Down Survey map of Coshma barony (Hib. Reg.) or the parish map of Ballingaddy (NLI, Ms. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the deceased Edmund Fanning of Fanningstown listed as an ‘Irish Papist’ was in possession of ‘one ploweland with a castle, bawne, a t[h]atch[ed] house, and an orchard thereuppon’ (Simington 1938, 143). Multi-period castle described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; ‘Detached former country house, built c. 1810, built within the bawn of a medieval castle. Comprising crenellated single-bay three-storey block with crenellated single-bay two-storey block to west, having two-bay single-storey extension to west, lean-to and crenellated four-stage round-tower to rear (north) elevation. Nine-bay two-storey block perpendicular to rear. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls. Limestone machicolations to roofline and guarderobe-like projection having blind cross loops to main block front (south) elevation. Rubble limestone boundary walls to south and west incorporating tower house to west. Rubble limestone walled garden to south-west, having round-headed carriage arch with red brick voussoirs. Fanningstown Castle, retains much of its original grandeur as can be seen in the impressive crenellated tower and round tower. The substantial nineteenth-century additions were built by P. Nagle of Cork. The complex form is indicative of various building phases in its past and the house incorporates earlier building fabric to the interior.’ (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21902126). The castle and bawn are described on the castle website as following; ‘There was a castle at Fanningstown by 1285. It is difficult to date the remaining castle ruins which consist of a small, almost square chamber without upper floors or roof, and a round staircase tower which, pierced with arrow-slit windows, rises about three floors, but from which the staircase and roof have been removed. There is the remains of a bartizan (a turret corbelled out from the wall on cut stone corbels, used for defence) on the west corner. This castle was incorporated into one corner of a battlemented bawn wall which enclosed a large courtyard. It is possible that the other three corners were given towers or the external appearance of towers. There is one of the latter on the NE corner, surmounted by double battlements which are typical of Irish medieval castellated architecture. It could be a nineteenth-century addition, like the one on the NE corner which was incorporated into the new house, of which more later. A seventeenth-century description of Fanningstown draws attention to a single plowland, a thatched house, and an orchard. These could have sustained a steward charged with the upkeep of the castle. They might well have lain safely within the bawn walls, though it is not impossible that the present extensive walled orchard adjacent to the bawn could have had a seventeenth-century or earlier origin. At Fanningstown part of the bawn wall was taken down and a new house erected. The castle was left to one side as a ruin. Nothing of this new house now remains. It was, however, still in existence when the Ordnance Survey cartographers visited in 1840, and from their map it is possible to see that the new house faced the old courtyard with a long impressive façade and a bow-fronted entrance. The orchard was to the rear. An eighteenth-century cut stone opening can be seen in the eastern wall. Fanningstown was now entered by a road from the east which ran off the Patrickswell-Croom Road, marked by a gate lodge which still stands’ (https://www.fanningstowncastle.com/history). Salter (2004, 81) described the castle as; 'Towers about 6m square survive at the SW and SE corners of a bawn [LI021-047001-] now occupied by farm buildings. Each had a third storey level bartizan on the outermost corner, and a spiral stair in a turret projecting from the corner within the bawn. The SE tower remains complete as part of a farmhouse, but only the stair turret and bartizan corbels remain of the upper part of the SW tower'. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 October 2020

• LI021-047001 Bawn
  Description

  Fanningstown (Baile an Fhainínigh/the town of An Fainíneach/Fanning) Castle consists of a tower house (LI021-047----) and bawn (approx. ext. dims. 38m N-S x 50m E-W) which was extended in the 18th and 19th centuries and in recent times was converted into a four-star self-catering accommodation. Castle and bawn stands in the W quadrant of the townland, in the parish of Adare which lies in the barony of Coshma. Old Deer Park 780m to E of castle as shown on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Caherass Church (LI021-090----) 1.5km to S and Castleroberts (LI021-037----) 1.5km to W. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that the deceased Edmund Fanning of Fanningstown listed as an ‘Irish Papist’ was in possession of ‘one ploweland with a castle, bawne, a t[h]atch[ed] house, and an orchard thereuppon’ (Simington 1938, 143). Multi-period castle described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH) as a; ‘Detached former country house, built c. 1810, built within the bawn of a medieval castle. Comprising crenellated single-bay three-storey block with crenellated single-bay two-storey block to west, having two-bay single-storey extension to west, lean-to and crenellated four-stage round-tower to rear (north) elevation. Nine-bay two-storey block perpendicular to rear. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls. Limestone machicolations to roofline and guarderobe-like projection having blind cross loops to main block front (south) elevation. Rubble limestone boundary walls to south and west incorporating tower house to west. Rubble limestone walled garden to south-west, having round-headed carriage arch with red brick voussoirs. Fanningstown Castle, retains much of its original grandeur as can be seen in the impressive crenellated tower and round tower. The substantial nineteenth-century additions were built by P. Nagle of Cork. The complex form is indicative of various building phases in its past and the house incorporates earlier building fabric to the interior.’ (www.buildingsofireland.ie; NIAH Reg. No. 21902126). The castle and bawn are described on the castle website as following; ‘There was a castle at Fanningstown by 1285. It is difficult to date the remaining castle ruins which consist of a small, almost square chamber without upper floors or roof, and a round staircase tower which, pierced with arrow-slit windows, rises about three floors, but from which the staircase and roof have been removed. There is the remains of a bartizan (a turret corbelled out from the wall on cut stone corbels, used for defence) on the west corner. This castle was incorporated into one corner of a battlemented bawn wall which enclosed a large courtyard. It is possible that the other three corners were given towers or the external appearance of towers. There is one of the latter on the NE corner, surmounted by double battlements which are typical of Irish medieval castellated architecture. It could be a nineteenth-century addition, like the one on the NE corner which was incorporated into the new house, of which more later. A seventeenth-century description of Fanningstown draws attention to a single plowland, a thatched house, and an orchard. These could have sustained a steward charged with the upkeep of the castle. They might well have lain safely within the bawn walls, though it is not impossible that the present extensive walled orchard adjacent to the bawn could have had a seventeenth-century or earlier origin. At Fanningstown part of the bawn wall was taken down and a new house erected. The castle was left to one side as a ruin. Nothing of this new house now remains. It was, however, still in existence when the Ordnance Survey cartographers visited in 1840, and from their map it is possible to see that the new house faced the old courtyard with a long impressive façade and a bow-fronted entrance. The orchard was to the rear. An eighteenth-century cut stone opening can be seen in the eastern wall. Fanningstown was now entered by a road from the east which ran off the Patrickswell-Croom Road, marked by a gate lodge which still stands’ (https://www.fanningstowncastle.com/history). Salter (2004, 81) described Fanningstown as; 'Towers about 6m square survive at the SW and SE corners of a bawn now occupied by farm buildings. Each had a third storey level bartizan on the outermost corner, and a spiral stair in a turret projecting from the corner within the bawn. The SE tower remains complete as part of a farmhouse, but only the stair turret and bartizan corbels remain of the upper part of the SW tower'. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 29 October 2020

• LI021-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On level pasture with moderate views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-046----) 200m to WNW and Fanningstown Castle (LI021-047----) 300m to SW. The enclosure is not shown on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and is first depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 45m) surrounded by a wide fosse which only survives on the S and NW side , the E side of the site is truncated by a later field boundary. Site surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as largely levelled with very low relief remains visible. It consisted of a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 22m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a scarped edge. The scarped edge where the former fosse is located survived as a distinct slope from the edge of the interior of the monument down to the surrounding field surface (Wth 3.4m; D 0.2m). The ringfort is visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 11 August 2020

• LI021-057 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In mature woodland on high ground with good views in all directions. The enclosure is located 225m W of the townland boundary with Rathbranagh and 210m S of the townland boundary with Garranroe. The ringfort known as ‘Lisnasprunane’ (LI021-058----) lies 200m to NE. The site is depicted as a circular fort (ext. diam. c. 60m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map within the ‘Old Deer Park’ 950m E of Fanningstown Castle (LI021-047----) on rough ground. The site is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, but the map does depict an OSi trigonometrical station on the summit of the hillock at the centre point of the enclosure. Inspected by the ASI in 2000 when no definitive enclosing elements could be located. The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 11 August 2020

• LI021-158 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight W-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate to good views in all directions, 30 m S of a townland boundary with Garranroe. Possible monument not depicted as an antiquity on OS historic mapping. The area is depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a long trapezoidal-shaped marshy area (approx. 48m N-S; 29m E-W). Monument identified as a possible enclosure (Site 35) during the Croom bypass excavations. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Possible monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (15m E-W; 12m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017. Of doubtful antiquity. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 August 2020

• LI021-162 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight W-facing slope, in pasture, with moderate views in all directions, 55m E of a townland boundary with Rathbranagh. Not depicted as an antiquity on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as an enclosure (Site 28) during test excavations (Licence No. 97E0408) by Colin Gracie along the Croom bypass in 1997 and was described as a raised circular-shaped mound (diam. 22m). Test excavations revealed an infilled ditch (Wth 3.6m; D 1.2m) and an interior gravel surface of small stones upon which a plain copper-alloy dress-pin (diam. 4mm; L 80mm) (NMI Reg. No. 97E0408:1) was found that has been dated to the 12th-13th century (Gracie 1998). In 1999, Tracey Collins undertook limited excavations (Licence No. 97E0408 ext.) to facilitate two toe drains associated with the Croom bypass road (Collins 2000, 165-6). These excavations uncovered a wide inner U-shaped ditch (Wth 3.8m; D 0.9m) which encircled a platform (ibid). An outer ditch (Wth 9.9m; D 1.8m) was recorded c. 10m out from the inner ditch, on the S side of the monument (ibid). Excavations revealed that this ditch was recut twice, with the latter phase perhaps being associated with a field boundary (ibid). Two phases of activity were noted within the interior, both represented by U-shaped slot trenches which were interpreted as relating to probable houses. A Jew’s Harp and a fragment of medieval local ware were recovered during these partial excavations (ibid). New roadway runs N-S across this area, slightly W of centre. Not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 August 2020

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1890, with crown and royal insignia of Queen Victoria. Set in rubble limestone wall. Manufactured by W.T. Allen and Co. London.

• Fanningstown Castle, country house, castle/fortified house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former country house, built c. 1810, built within the bawn of a medieval castle. Comprising crenellated single-bay three-storey block with crenellated single-bay two-storey block to west, having two-bay single-storey extension to west, lean-to and crenellated four-stage round-tower to rear (north) elevation. Nine-bay two-storey block perpendicular to rear. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls. Limestone machicolations to roofline and guarderobe-like projection having blind cross loops to main block front (south) elevation. Square-headed openings to front and east elevations with limestone voussoirs, sills and replacement uPVC windows. Paired ogee-headed lancet windows to front, ground floor having limestone mullions, block and start surround, sill and replacement uPVC windows. Ogee-headed window openings to round tower with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to rear block having limestone sills, some with replacement timber casement windows, some having replacement uPVC windows. Ogee-headed opening to main block, front elevation with carved limestone surround and double-leaf replacement uPVC doors. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Ogee-headed opening to rear block having brick voussoirs and timber battened door. Square-headed opening to rear block with replacement half-glazed door and limestone voussoirs. Pointed arch opening to rear block having limestone voussoirs and timber battened door. Crenellated and pointed arch integral carriage arch to west with limestone voussoirs. Eight-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having limestone crenellations to rear (west) elevation and single-pitched slate roof with cast-iron rooflights. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with limestone voussoirs, now partially blocked up having inset window. Square-headed openings with limestone voussoirs and timber battened doors. Rubble limestone boundary walls to south and west incorporating tower house to west. Rubble limestone walled garden to south-west, having round-headed carriage arch with red brick voussoirs.

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 Fanningstown, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_881 (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 Fanningstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Fanningstown · Baile an Fhainínigh

Area

2,205,901 m² (220.59 ha, 545.09 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dunnaman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

698 people lived in 237 households in the Dunnaman electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherass, Castleroberts, Garranroe, Liskilly, Rathbranagh

Placenames

Fanningstown 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.