Toryhill

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toryhill, from 677 m² to 376,651 m² (37.67 ha, 93.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Toryhill 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.

• 7 Apr 2026Conditional

  the construction of a straw bedded house, feed passage and soiled water tank with the curtilage of a Protected Structure

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2688

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: Tory Hill SAC 000439
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tory Hill 000439

Recorded monuments

• LI022-111001 Hillfort
  Description

  The hillfort was recently described in the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland as following; 'Possible contour fort identified by Grogan (2005, 113). Positioned surrounding the summit of Tory Hill, an isolated hilltop situated in low-lying terrain, with extensive views from the summit. Possible hillfort overlooks river to E. There is no information regarding the enclosing elements available. No obvious entrance features recorded. No evidence for any internal features on the surface (Grogan 2005, 113). There has been no archaeological investigations of this hillfort and further information is not available. First identified by Grogan (2005, 113).The hillfort is not depicted in any historic mapping.' (http://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/records/IR0687.html) Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2020

• LI022-111002 Inscribed stone
  Description

  An altar stone from Croom with a post medieval ogham inscription. It is now in the National Museum of Ireland (Ref. 1941:117). Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 15/12/2016

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_912 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Toryhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Toryhill · Cnoc Droma Asail

Area

1,229,506 m² (122.95 ha, 303.82 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Garrane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Garrane electoral division: 317 people in 108 households; 95% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygriffin, Ballylusky, Coologe, Corrabul, Corrabulbeg, Garrane, Honeypound, Maghera

Placenames

Toryhill 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.