Castle-Erkin North
Castle-Erkin North is a townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Caisleán Oircín Thuaidh.
Parcel 1661337
- Area
- 1,598 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 295 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Castle-Erkin North
Planning applications on this parcel
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
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- LI014-086001 Church
Description
Site of cruciform R. C. Chapel of post medieval date depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown standing outside the graveyard immediately to the S. No surface remains visible of this levelled church known locally as 'Kilmurry Chapel'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books recorded the following; 'This chapel was thrown down and removed to the S. corner of Ballyvorneen, at the parish boundary of Ballybrood, where it was rebuilt' (OSNB). Westropp (1904-5, 441) recorded that 'the modern R. C. church was built in 1820 on the old site'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2018
- LI014-086002 Graveyard
Description
Situated immediately S and E of roads at a crossroads on a hill overlooking undulating pasture, with good views to N, E and S. Site of R.C. Chapel (LI014-086001-) depicted to S of graveyard on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Graveyard depicted on the 1923 ed. OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular area (c. 20-30m N-S; 20m E-W). The graveyard is still in use. Most of the graves are orientated E-W. One 19th century grave in the E of the site is orientated ESE-WNW. There are several 19th century headstones evident as well as recumbent slabs, which have become covered over by vegetation. Many of the older grave slabs have subsided. There is a possible embankment in the NE of the site (Wth. 4.4m; H 0.9m) where the ground falls away sharply from S to N.
- LI014-087 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope in rolling pasture with good views from NE to SW. The monument is evident as a roughly circular area (20.5m NW-SE; 17.5m SW-NE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth c. 5m; H 2.3m), withan external fosse (Wth 4.2m; D. 0.5m) from NW to NE. The interior slopes down to SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 25 June 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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_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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 116.2 ha
- 287 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 3,073 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
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.
The townland
- 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.