Kilbreedy

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbreedy, from 1,075 m² to 334,962 m² (33.5 ha, 82.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Kilbreedy 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.

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  (i) Demolition of existing slatted unit, (ii) Construct in its place a new slatted unit. Proposed slatted unit to incorporate easy feed & underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete, (iii) Extend existing slatted tank to provide an external agitation point, (iv) Construct an underground soiled water tank. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560647

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance & all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2461056

• 12 Jun 2024N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460580

• 10 Aug 2021Conditional

  extension of duration for 16/486 for existing entrance and Planning Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system & percolation area

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217032

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of a slatted unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201185

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  a) Alterations to front boundary entrance gates, pillars & railings, b) Repositioning of main dwelling onsite, c) Omission of 2no. windows either side of the front door on north facing elevation and inclusion of new fantail detail/glazing around same door, d) Change of fenestration to each elevation of the main dwelling, e) Omission of quoin stones, f) Retention of domestic garage as constructed, and all associated site works and services

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1741

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 Kilbreedy.

Recorded monuments

• LI047-043001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 423) recorded the following details about Kilbreedy Church; 'A parish in Coshlea. Kylbrigd Minor, 1291; Kilbride, 1302; consent to divide the land of Tancardus Russell in Kilbride Minor, Jordan Prendergast had enfeoffed him 1329 (Plea R., 149 of xviii Ed. II, m. 20). Kilbride Minor dedicated to St. Brigid, Feb. 1st, 1410. Also 1418 and 1615. Fabric - It had a nave and choir 30½ feet [9.3m] by 20 feet 9 inches [6.4m], and 23 feet [7m] by 20 feet 9 inches [6.4m]. The middle gable and sides of the choir stood in 1840. There were two south windows, one with two heads ending in a cusp cut out of one block of gritstone (O.S.L., 8, p. 284, and sketch)'. See attached sketch of church window taken from Ordnance Survey Letters Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 June 2019

• LI047-043002 Graveyard
  Description

  The medieval church ruins (LI047-043001-) of Kilbreedy stands in NE quadrant of graveyard which consists of a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 39m N-S x 33m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall. Graveyard now covered with bushes and scrub vegetation which are visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• LI047-044 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Saint Bridget's Well" local name. Not on maps. A small clear pool, roughly lined with large stones. One large stone is set on edge beside the well. On the roadside, with a stile leading in to the well. Rounds are still made, but by few. Formerly very popular, especially for the cure of sore eyes'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch limestone humpback bridge over River Loobagh, built c. 1870, with roughly dressed walls with rubble cappings. Dressed voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. Cut stone U-cutwater to east elevation.

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 Kilbreedy, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_956 (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 Kilbreedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Kilbreedy · Cill Bhríde

Area

1,509,244 m² (150.92 ha, 372.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbreedy Minor, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Bruree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breesheen North, Breesheen South, Cloonlogue, Glenfield, Knocksouna, Mountblakeney, Tankardstown South, Thomastown

Placenames

Kilbreedy 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.