Mountsion

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountsion, from 2,081 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 355,969 m² (35.6 ha, 87.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Mountsion 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.

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance, driveway, a bored well and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2540

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  a two storey extension at the rear of an existing dwelling house and a single storey sunroom extension to the front of same existing dwelling house, along with conservation rooflights on the existing dwelling house roof and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23610

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  construction of a revised entrance to the existing dwelling consisting of piers and wing walls and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23434

• 11 Aug 2021Refused

  existing hardstanding area, perimeter fencing and hedging. Permission for the construction of an agricultural hay barn and relocation site entrance, change of use of existing Creamery yard to commercial use for the sale of cars and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211146

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  part demolition of, including alterations and extension to existing dwelling, including all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21462

• 16 Sept 2020Refused

  hardstanding area, perimeter fencing and hedging. Also for the change of use to commercial for the sale of cars. All with associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20922

• 5 Mar 2020Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works, which is in the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS 611)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20196

• 14 Oct 2019Refused

  concrete hardstanding area to front of existing creamery, perimeter security fencing and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 191018

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountsion.

Architectural heritage

• Dromkeen Bridge, bridge, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch limestone built road bridge, built c. 1820, over the River Dead. Roughly dressed limestone walls having dressed voussoirs to segmental arches. V-cutwater to upstream elevation. Flat limestone copings to parapet wall.

• Mountsion House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1780, having basement level to rear north-east elevation and single-storey extension to north-west elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to north-west elevation having limestone sills with timber framed windows. Square-headed opening to north-west elevation of extension having concrete sill and replacement uPVC window. Round-headed opening with surround comprising timber pilasters, carved consoles and spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Limestone step to entrance. Square-headed opening to north-west elevation of extension having replacement uPVC door. Square-headed opening with timber battened door. Single-storey outbuilding to north-west of house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof and rubble stone walls. Round-headed openings with red brick voussoirs. Camber-headed opening having red brick voussoirs. Cast-iron freestanding water pump on rendered base to courtyard to rear of house. Pair of square-profile cut limestone gate piers with cut limestone caps, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate, having snecked limestone walls to east of house.

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 Mountsion, about 1 in 20 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_1175 (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 Mountsion with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Mountsion · Cnoc Sióin

Area

718,889 m² (71.89 ha, 177.64 acres)

Civil parish

Dromkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 187 households in the Caherconlish East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Corelish West, Deerpark, Drombane, Dromkeen North, Gortnadromin, Mountsion, Pallasbeg

Placenames

Mountsion 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.