Blossomhill

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blossomhill, from 2,100 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 292,189 m² (29.22 ha, 72.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Blossomhill 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.

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  a) retention and completion of a detached meeting room including concrete base. b) retention of the opening of an access/entrance in existing stone wall. c) retention of external lighting. d) all associated site works. The works are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (RPS Reg. No. 183).

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560464

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, garage, onsite treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, well and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20111

• 28 Mar 2019Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, garage, onsite treatment system and percolation area, new entrance, well and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19296

• 14 Nov 2018N/a

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181101

• 14 Aug 2018N/a

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 18812

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: Curraghchase Woods SAC 000174
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Curraghchase Woods 000174

Recorded monuments

• LI011-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on break in N-facing hill-slope; terrain falls away sharply to the E and W. Circular area (32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.35m; Wth 5.4m) NNE->N but with a dry-stone field wall (H 0.45m; Wth 2m) running along top of scarp S->N, and enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.35m) N->NNE. Interior, under pasture, level except along W verge which dips down before it meets enclosing wall. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, built in 1828. Comprising three-bay gable-fronted nave having single-storey gable-fronted sacristy to north elevation and square-profile single-storey flat-roofed porch, built in the 1950s, to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, timber eaves course and finial to south elevation. Random coursed rubble limestone walls having cut limestone quoins, cut limestone plinth course to porch. Cut inscribed limestone plaque to south elevation. Pointed arch opening to south elevation with flanking lancet openings. Cut tooled limestone surrounds and sills, and stained glass windows. Pointed arch openings to nave having cut tooled limestone surrounds, sills and stained glass windows. Pointed arch openings to east and west elevations of porch with cut tooled limestone surrounds and sills, timber tracery and stained glass windows. Pointed arch opening to west elevation of sacristy having cut tooled limestone surround, sill and stained glass windows. Segmental-headed opening to south elevation of porch with cut tooled limestone surround and timber battened door. Pointed arch opening to east elevation of sacristy having cut tooled limestone surround and timber battened door. Interior features including timber pews, plastered walls with plastered blind arcade, timber panelled gallery supported by pair of marble columns. King post roof trusses to ceiling. Metal bell tower on rendered base to south-east of building. Pair of square-profile cut limestone piers, with chamfered edges and cut limestone gabled caps with trefoil motifs, flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate. Adjoining cast-iron railing on cut limestone plinth wall to south of building.

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 Blossomhill, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Blossomhill.

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 Blossomhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Blossomhill · Cnoc Bláithche

Area

746,968 m² (74.7 ha, 184.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kilcornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshonickbane, Boherboy, Castlegrey, Crokerspark, Currahchase North, Stonehall

Placenames

Blossomhill 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.