Herbertstown (Powell)

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Herbertstown (Powell), from 662 m² to 268,662 m² (26.87 ha, 66.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Herbertstown (Powell) 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.

• 19 Jun 2023Conditional

  loose house for horses, concrete yard, dungstead cattle crush. Horse training arena, effluent tank

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23321

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Herbertstown Fen 000436

Recorded monuments

• LI032-207 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  On poorly drained partially reclaimed pasture on the floodplain of the Camoge River 115m to W. which marks the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Possible barrow (LI032-209----) and ring-ditch (LI032-211----) lie 170m to NE and SW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 178: AP 4/3607), as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (11m N-S; 10m E-W) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Monument is visible as a clear circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 11m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 178 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020

• LI032-211 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River, which is 75m to W and also marks a townland boundary with Kilcullane. Enclosure (LI032-081----) lies 60m to SW and ring-barrow (LI032-207----) lies 165m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 280: AP 4/3607), as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a small circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 10m) defined by a fosse, which is best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and is visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 280 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, with single-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening having glazed tripartite overlight over timber panelled door with flanking carved timber panels. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west. Pitched slate roof with roof lights and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Pointed arch openings having fixed timber windows and painted stone sills. Pointed arch opening with half-glazed timber door. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west having pitched slate roof. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement doors. Pair of dressed limestone square-profile piers to east having carved caps, double-leaf cast-iron gates, sweeping limestone walls terminating in second pair of square-profile limestone piers.

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 Herbertstown (Powell), 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Herbertstown (Powell).

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 Herbertstown (Powell) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Herbertstown (Powell) · Baile Hiobaird (Powell)

Area

664,272 m² (66.43 ha, 164.15 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, Ballinscoola, Herbertstown (O'Grady), Kilcullane

Placenames

Herbertstown (Powell) 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.