Kells

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kells, from 323 m² to 448,059 m² (44.81 ha, 110.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Kells 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.

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, drive-way, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 24304

• 2 Feb 2023Refused

  for (a) permission to retain change of use to existing agricultural buildings to steel fabrication unit including change of use from agricultural storage outbuildings to storage in association with steel fabrication premises, (b) permission to retain construction of 3 No. Extensions to existing buildings incorporating (i) machine shop incorporating specialist steel saw, (i) external canopy and (iii) extension to existing workshop incorporating set out area and storage, (c) permission to retain existing 2 No. portacabins on site for purposes of office, staff canteen and staff toilet, together with permission to retain all ancillary site works associated with the change of use including concreting of yard areas, external rollers for movement of steel, construction of walls, and connection to existing septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2364

• 24 Sept 2020Refused

  2 no. as constructed dry stores and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20960

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  erection of a slatted beef unit

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19496

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  construction of a 18m x 5m hurling wall and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19121

• 14 Nov 2018Conditional

  2 no. as constructed silage pits and walls and associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 181103

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  a constructed cubicle house and slurry storage tank and as constructed dairy building, and planning permission for a new calf shed and a new agricultural building comprising dry feed store, machinery store and feed passage and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 171205

• 27 Jun 2017Conditional

  the demolition of existing rear extension to existing cottage, alterations to existing cottage, demolish existing chimney and replace with new chimney, permission to construct a new storey and a half type extension including single storey link corridor to rear of existing cottage, waste water treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17606

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 Kells.

Recorded monuments

• LI054-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. Denuded earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m) survives S->W, and earthen field boundary (H 1.2m) NNW->SE may incorporate enclosing bank. Marshy interior under rough pasture; NW quadrant is slightly higher than remainder of interior. Farm passage cuts through W side of interior on NNW-SSE axis. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-025 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pasture immediately to E of public road. Partially incorporated into S field boundary ESE->SW. Sub-rectangular area enclosed by inner and outer earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 4.2m). Well preserved inner bank (ext. H 1.6m) heavily masked by dense vegetation cover with cattle break (Wth 1.2m) at WSW. Outer bank (int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.55m), best preserved SW->WSW, becomes low and spread out NNE->ESE. Waterlogged fosse (D 0.3m), fed by stream at W, contains dump of domestic rubbish at NW. Slight dip (D 0.2m; Wth 1.2m) runs along outer edge of outer bank NNE->ESE. Level interior under rough pasture, inaccessible along inner bank due to dense briar growth . Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kells, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_649 (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 Kells with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kells · Na Cealla

Area

1,506,932 m² (150.69 ha, 372.37 acres)

Civil parish

Dromcolliher, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carroward East, Coolaboy, Gardenfield South, Gorteens, Mundellihy

Placenames

Kells 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.