Castle-Erkin North

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castle-Erkin North, from 172 m² to 251,090 m² (25.11 ha, 62.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Castle-Erkin North 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.

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  renovation and extension of existing dwelling house and demolition of existing agricultural outbuildings

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2535

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new replacement vehicular entrance, single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, new domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360490

• 26 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of a slatted cattle shed complete with underground slurry storage tank and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360353

• 20 Dec 2022Conditional

  The construction of an agricultural machinery storage shed, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2260008

• 18 May 2018Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural building for the housing of cattle and an underground slurry storage tank, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18490

• 31 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of dwelling, garage, entrance, installation of effluent treatment system including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17279

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 Castle-Erkin North.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-161 Enclosure
  Description

  This monument is evident as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on Google Earth and www.bing.com/maps/. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 June 2013

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings having inset spoked fanlight over timber panelled door. Rendered boundary walls to site with render copings.

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 Castle-Erkin North, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1152 (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 Castle-Erkin North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Castle-Erkin North · Caisleán Oircín Thuaidh

Area

1,162,073 m² (116.21 ha, 287.15 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, 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

Ballyart, Castle-Erkin South, Grange East, Greenane, Knockeen, Lombardstown, Templemichael, Woodfarm

Placenames

Castle-Erkin North 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.