Carroward West

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carroward West, from 26 m² to 462,760 m² (46.28 ha, 114.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 34 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
• N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of two detached, two-storey, two-bed dwellings with two off-road parking spaces, gardens, enclosures and all ancillary siteworks and services

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660953

• 14 Aug 2026N/a

  detached garage and storage shed as constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660939

• 4 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the existing dwelling house, the construction of a domestic garage, the construction of dog kennels and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561011

• 4 Jun 2024Conditional

  planning reference number 22/1153; the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, connection to public foul sewer, new vehicular entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24235

• 26 Oct 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, connection to public foul sewer, new vehicular entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 221153

• 31 Aug 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211223

• 2 Jun 2020Refused

  the construction of a 27 metre high free standing communications structure(total height with antennas 27.1 metres) with associated antennae, communication dishes, ground equipment and all associated site development works. The development will form part of Eircom Ltd existing telecommunications and broadband network

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20452

• 20 Aug 2018Conditional

  for the change of use from a ground floor retail unit to two-storey town house & associated site works. Retention Permission is also sought for front elevation changes & partial internal alterations

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18832

• 8 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4843

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 Carroward West.

Recorded monuments

• LI054-040002 Church
  Description

  In centre of graveyard (LI054-04003-) fragmentary ivy-clad remains of parish church of Dromcolliher. Only parts of N and S walls now stand; built of roughly coursed blocks of stone. Described in 1840 as rectangular in plan, though W gable had fallen by then (OSL vol. 2, 21-2). North wall stands in two sections with gap at centre caused by insertion of burial vault; NE corner fallen and unclear whether present W end of wall original, but original length c. 25m. East wall missing both ends (internal width of church 6.5m) and surviving section heavily masked with ivy; gap (Wth 0.9m) near E end may be window position. Interior completely filled with burial plots, the earliest noted dated 1766 (near NE corner). East window described in 1840 as having a single pointed light (ibid.); there were also two very-damaged windows in S wall but no doorway evident (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-040003 Graveyard
  Description

  At SW edge of Dromcolliher village, on E side of road. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S), with recent extension to S. Near centre is fragmentary ruin of Dromcolliher parish church (LI054-040002-); interior of church filled with burial plots: on line of W gable is headstone dated 1769 whilst just inside line of E gable is one dated 1766 (oldest noted headstone); just N of church are series of late- 18th century headstones. Large vaulted tomb at NW corner of graveyard, by entrance gate, and a smaller tomb overlying part of N wall of church dated 1839. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1840, having render shopfront to front (north). Now in use as a restaurant. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack, corbelled rendered eaves course and replacement aluminium rainwater goods with cast-iron downpipe. Rendered walls with channelled render quoins to first floor of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with render sills and decorative raised render surrounds, to front (north) elevation, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Rendered shopfront comprising fluted pilasters surmounted by capped brackets with fleur-de-lis style motifs, frieze and moulded cornice. Recent timber facia board to frieze. Square-headed window openings surmounted by architrave with corbels accommodating round-headed fixed timber-framed single-pane display windows with timber spandrels over rendered stall riser. Square-headed door opening having double-leaf timber panelled doors surmounted by single-pane overlight.

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 Carroward West, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_599 (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 Carroward West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Carroward West · An Cheathrú Ard Thiar

Area

1,700,374 m² (170.04 ha, 420.17 acres)

Civil parish

Dromcolliher, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnagarrane, Carroward East, Castlelishen (Co. Cork), Coolaboy, Curra (Co. Cork), Dromanig (Co. Cork), Knockacraig, Poulavare (Co. Cork), Woodfield

Placenames

Carroward West 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.