Altavilla

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altavilla, from 66 m² to 601,498 m² (60.15 ha, 148.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Altavilla 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.

• 13 Mar 2023N/a

  the demolition of existing rear single storey extension and to construct a new single storey rear extension. Retention permission is also being sought for existing single storey side extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23151

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 Altavilla.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-169 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NNE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 20.5m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.75m), best preserved along S and W arcs where stone-faced externally, but much degraded NE->ESE where it has becoming scarp-like in profile. Enclosing element and level interior are masked by dense overgrowth though there are some clearings along E and W verges of interior. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

Architectural heritage

• Altavilla House, country house, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey over basement country house, built between 1745-46, having shallow breakfront to front (south) elevation. Centre block joined by screen walls to two-storey flanking wings enclosing courts. Roughly dressed parapet to roofline with limestone copings, carved limestone eaves course, carved fox to breakfront and rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble limestone walls with galleting and having carved plinth course, quoins. Rendered walls to east and west elevations. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and voussoirs with galleting. Square-headed openings to basement having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills, voussoirs with galleting and cast-iron sill guards. Round-headed opening to first floor, east elevation having spoked fanlight over six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window and limestone sill. Oculus to west elevation with limestone surround and spoked fixed window. Round-headed niche to rear (north) elevation having carved limestone impost course, voussoirs with galleting and limestone sill. Square-headed opening to rear, basement with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sill. Four-bay two-storey L-plan wing to west having hipped slate roof with yellow brick eaves course and rendered chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls to front (south) elevation and rendered walls to rear (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with remains of three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows, tooled limestone voussoirs and sills. Round-headed niches to first floor having carved keystones, voussoirs, shared sill and flanking square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Camber-headed door opening to rear having yellow brick voussoirs. Square-headed carriage opening to rear with timber battened doors. Six-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack. Render over roughly dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile channel rendered piers to west having dressed limestone walls with round-headed niches having limestone sills and copings. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to north-west with double-leaf cast-iron gates. Dressed limestone walls with limestone coping adjoining east elevation having square-headed pedestrian entrance with carved limestone block-and-start surround and drop keystone with flanking round-headed niches having limestone sills, voussoirs and keystones. Pair of square-profile monolith chamfered limestone piers with carved caps and plinths to south. Single-bay single-storey gate lodge to south. Hipped slate roof having overhanging eaves with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron brackets. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings. Pair of square-profile rusticated piers to south with carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron spear-headed gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

• Altavilla Mill, mill (water), 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay splayed U-plan former corn and tuck mill, built c. 1790, comprising eight-bay two-storey centre block, six-bay three-storey block to west and six-bay two-storey block to east. Pitched slate roofs to east and centre blocks, hipped slate roof to west block. Rubble limestone walls to east and centre blocks. Rendered walls to end bays, centre block and west block. Square-headed window openings, some having timber lintels. Square-headed door openings, some with timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed carriage arch to east block, north-west (front) elevation having dressed limestone voussoirs and inset square-headed timber battened doors. Round-headed carriage arch to centre bay, north (front) elevation. Round-headed opening to east elevation having roughly dressed voussoirs. Pair of square-profile roughly dressed limestone pier to north having double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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 Altavilla, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_511 (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 Altavilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Altavilla · Tulaigh

Area

1,336,116 m² (133.61 ha, 330.16 acres)

Civil parish

Lismakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardgoul North, Ballinloughane, Ballyan, Bullaun, Conigar, Milltown South, Scart

Placenames

Altavilla 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.