Tooreen

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooreen, from 193 m² to 285,661 m² (28.57 ha, 70.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Tooreen 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.

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/414

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267015

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/415

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267016

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 21/23: the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing together with all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257030

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 21/24: the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257031

• 23 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22707

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21414

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21415

• 13 Jan 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2123

• 13 Jan 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2124

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191301

• 7 Oct 2019N/a

  (a) the existing detached single storey domestic garage structure constructed in two phases. Phase 1 measuring 33sq.m constructed in the year 2001, and phase 2 measuring 39sq.m constructed in the year 2010. (b) material change of use from domestic garage to residential accommodation for dependent relative located within phase 2. (c) Retention of all previously constructed services, landscaping and ancillary works to and associated with the detached garage structure and residential accommodation for dependent relative

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19997

• 31 Aug 2017N/a

  the conversion of a garage attic to an independent living unit, alterations to the elevations, car port and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17812

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 Tooreen.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 93) recorded the following details about Tooreen Castle; '1540 Tuairín held by Sliocht Ríockard (Rental). 1586 By Geffry beg, mac Tho. Bourke (Peyton, 256). 1622 The ruinous C[astle]. of Tuorin granted to Sir W. Parsons as part of late estate of Jas. Riordan (Pat. R.). 1655 Held by N. Haly (O.S., xxix., p. 14 (D.S.A.I., 6). 1666 Confirmed to Clayton (Act. Sett.). Fabric. - The north wall 25 feet [7.6m] high, 21 feet [6.4m] wide, and four feet [1.2m] thick (O.S.L., 8, p. 154)'. The castle was described in 1840 as 'This ruin is about 20 feet [6m] high and part of the walls demolished to the ground. It is set in a low plain' (OSNB Carrigparson Parish, 347). The castle was described in the Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840 as following; 'Of the Old Castle of Tooreen in the Townland of the same name only the north wall and eight feet [2.4m] of the east and west walls joined to this north wall remain to the height of about twenty five feet [7.6m]. It measures twenty one feet two inches [6.5m] from east to west but as no vestige of the south wall remains its dimensions from north to south cannot be ascertained. This castle is situated on very level ground. The walls are four feet [1.2m] in thickness' (OSL, 154). Tower-house like castle depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of South Liberties Barony (Hib. Reg.) and the parish map of Carrigparson (NLI, MS. 718). The terrier of the Down Survey map of Carrigparson parish recorded that in this townland on lands owned by Nicholas Haly [Healy] of Tooreen there was 'a Castle Orchard & Mill Seate' (NLI, MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Nicholas Haly of Tooreen was the owner of 'a Castle, an Orchard, and a Mill seate' (Simington 1938, 469). Only the W half of Tooreen Castle is depicted as upstanding on the 2005 OSi 5k map which matches the 1840 description of the castle remains. Tree-covered castle remains are all that is visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 July 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooreen.

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 Tooreen, 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_1023 (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 Tooreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Tooreen · An Tuairín

Area

1,767,931 m² (176.79 ha, 436.87 acres)

Civil parish

Carrigparson, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernarry (Cripps), Cahernarry (Keane), Carrigparson, Coolishal, Coolreagh, Coolyhenan, Cunnihee, Scart, Whitehall

Placenames

Tooreen 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.