Herbertstown (O'Grady)
Herbertstown (O'Grady) is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcullane, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Hiobaird (O'Grady).
Parcel 1650043
- Area
- 51 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Herbertstown (O'Grady)
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 65.9 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 960 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Herbertstown (O'Grady), from 1 m² to 288,195 m² (28.82 ha, 71.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Herbertstown (O'Grady) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Sept 2026N/a
1) Renovate existing dwelling 2) Construct a rear extension 3) Install a domestic wastewater treatment system 4) Decommission existing septic tank and 5) All ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661063
20 Dec 2024Conditional
construction of one two-storey detached and four two-storey semi-detached houses in existing residential development, along with associated site works
Permission, 5 homes · Limerick County Council, 2461299
24 Mar 2023Conditional
an easyfeed unit and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23174
20 Oct 2017Conditional
Extension of permission from plan ref no. 12/797: completion of 3 no. dwellings and 3 no. garages on as constructed sites (sites 11-13), and Permission for 1 no. dwelling and garage (site 14) to include extension of service road, connection to public services and all associated site development works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177047
5 Apr 2017Conditional
an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17292
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Herbertstown (O'Grady).
Recorded monuments
- LI032-209 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In reclaimed pasture on the floodplain of the Camoge River 270m to W and 80m E of a townland boundary with Herbertstown (Powell). Possible ditch-barrow (LI032-207----) lies 170m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 179: AP 4/3607), as a small penannular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 10m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 179 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020
- LI032-210 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In improved pasture, on the edge of Herbertstown village, 675m E of the Camoge River, which also marks a townland boundary with Kilcullane. Barrow (LI032-209----) lies 415m to WSW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 182: AP 4/3607), as a circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as an arc of a fosse (C 27m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 34m) defined by an internal fosse and an outer bank, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 182 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 351/15 taken on 05/01/2003.
Architectural heritage
- Cloughansoun Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch road bridge over the River Camoge, built c. 1820. Roughly dressed limestone walls with limestone cappings. Segmental-headed arches having rusticated voussoirs. U-cutwaters to south elevation.
- House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and render eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render stringcourse and strip quoins with applied render motifs. Square-headed openings with one-over-on pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed with half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed integral carriage-arch having double-leaf timber battened doors.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Herbertstown (O'Grady), 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 Herbertstown (O'Grady).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Herbertstown (O'Grady) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Herbertstown (O'Grady) · Baile Hiobaird (O'Grady)
- Area
- 658,818 m² (65.88 ha, 162.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcullane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Electoral division
- Cahercorney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 761 people lived in 260 households in the Cahercorney electoral division. 89% 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
- Ballinard, Cahercorney, Herbertstown (Powell), Kilcullane, Moohane
- Placenames
- Herbertstown (O'Grady) 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.