Kilmoylan Lower

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilmoylan Lower, from 18 m² to 445,990 m² (44.6 ha, 110.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 54 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education & Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space & Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Sept 2026Conditional

  the construction of a detached Gym / Weights building for training purposes adjacent to existing dressing rooms together with all associated site works at the existing sports grounds

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661028

• 4 Apr 2026Conditional

  the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660383

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  the construction of an all-weather playing pitch with an integrated hurling ball-wall and an adjoining pitch for sensory-use, together with perimeter fencing, lighting, and all associated site works at the existing sports grounds

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660305

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, connection to existing public sewer, entrance, garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360295

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of an independent agricultural access serving farm yard at existing farm adjacent to existing house together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360091

• 31 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a slatted shed with cubicles, crush and loose area and underground effluent tanks and all associated site works. Demolition of existing storage shed also required

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201438

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a single storey prefab unit to accommodate a gym for Doon GAA Club members only, located to the North of the existing Club House

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20492

• 23 Mar 2020Conditional

  the construction of a first floor extension over single storey annex, internal modifications of first floor layout with alterations to rear elevation and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20246

• 12 Sept 2019Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to side of existing dwelling house consisting of wheelchair accessible bathroom and bedroom together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19909

• 2 May 2019Conditional

  an extension over an existing single storey annex to the south east of the main house - to provide additional domestic accommodation, to include a new kitchen at ground floor level with the annex, an en-suite & walk in wardrobe at first floor level and all associated site works on and under land

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19431

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18191

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  the erection of 6 no. 18 meter high floodlights to existing GAA pitch and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1843

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 Kilmoylan Lower.

Recorded monuments

• LI016-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SW-facing slope, in rough poorly drained pasture 90m SE of Kilmoylan House, overlooking a stream 45m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subcircular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 32m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) standing on the demesne lands of Kilmoylan House with walled garden immediately to W. Not indicated on 1897 OS 25-inch map or revised 6-inch OS map. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped, partially tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. Outline of monument clearly visible on earlier OSi othophotos. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 July 2020

• LI016-008 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 205) recorded the following details about this holy well; ‘Toberfantan on 1840 map. A clear spring well about three feet in diameter in a grove of trees in Doon village. No devotions now, but formerly had a day of devotion on 3rd January, the feast of the patron, St Fintan of Dun Bleisce (Doon). Legend: The well moved when clothes were washed in it'. The following folklore was recorded from Doon National School about St. Fintan's Well; 'There are many wells around Doon. St. Fintan's well is situated at the side of the Barrack. Some years ago it was situated in Bottlehill a strange thing happened there, a woman washed clothes in it and it removed down to the side of the barrack' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 256; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922081/4850591). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00273 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17022 and F025.21.00274 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24553. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Doon Garda Síochána Station, RIC barracks, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former Royal Irish Constabularly barracks, built c. 1800, comprising gable-fronted porch to front (north) elevation, single-bay single-storey extension to west elevation and lean-to to rear (south) elevation. Now in disuse. Pitched slate roof having render chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rubble stone walls. Roughcast rendered walls to porch, lean-to and extension. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills, now blocked up. Square-headed opening to rear, ground floor having painted stone sill, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and cast-iron sill guards. Square-headed opening to porch, west elevation with timber battened door. Pair of rendered square-profile piers to north having single-leaf cast-iron gate and rubble limestone boundary walls with render copings. Pair of recent square-profile rendered piers with render caps and double-leaf metal gates to east.

• Woodbrook, house, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1940, having single-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) elevation and single-bay single-storey extensions to west and east elevations. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Flat roofs to extensions. Rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with render surrounds, concrete sills and timber casement windows to first floor and twelve-over-one pane timber casement windows to ground floor. Square-headed opening having render cornice and consoles over replacement aluminum door obscuring recessed square-headed opening with glazed overlight over half-glazed timber panelled door having flanking sidelights with panelled risers. Flight of rendered steps to entrance. Square-headed opening to east extension, west elevation having timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to east extension, east elevation with render surround and timber battened door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates to east having rendered walls with pebbledash panels, render copings and terminating in a second pair of square-profile rendered piers.

• Kilmoylan House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of square-profile dressed limestone piers, built c. 1800, with stepped limestone caps and flanking pedestrian entrances having single-leaf cast-iron gates terminating in second pair of square-profile piers. Sweeping limestone walls with limestone copings terminating in third pair of piers. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

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 Kilmoylan Lower, 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

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

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

Name

Kilmoylan Lower · Cill Mhaoilín Íochtarach

Area

1,486,052 m² (148.61 ha, 367.21 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Doon South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,352 people lived in 507 households in the Doon South electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooga Lower, Cooga Upper, Doon South, Gortavalla East, Kilmoylan Upper, Lisgaugh

Placenames

Kilmoylan Lower 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.