Thomond Gate

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomond Gate, from 1 m² to 1,026 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• M2City Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 46 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 3 Jul 2024N/a

  the demolition of an existing flat roofed extension to the rear of an existing structure and permission to construct an extension to rear of the existing property to include: a three storey link building and a two storey extension area to incorporate a two bedroom apartment, a change of use of the ground floor of existing structure from a retail unit to a one bedroom apartment, convert the first and second floor of existing structure to a two bedroom apartment (Total number of proposed apartments = 3, consisting of 2 number two bedroom apartments and 1 number one bedroom apartment). Permission is also being sought to replace the existing pitched roof of the main structure with a flat roof structure and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460664

• 20 May 2024Conditional

  the conversion of an existing attic space of the dwelling house into residential accommodation along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460477

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  the following development: (a) to change the ground floor use of the existing building from shop to residential apartment; (b) to alter & renovate the existing upper floor apartment; (c) to construct a 3-storey extension to the rear of the existing building which will be accessed from O’Halloran Lane and will comprise three no. 2 bedroom apartments; (d) to locate the main entrance serving all units at O’Halloran Lane; (e) to make elevational changes to the existing building; and (f) all associated site works and services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460360

• 23 Nov 2022Conditional

  demolition of an existing single storey garage and the construction of a two storey extension to an existing house and sundry other minor works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221232

• 3 Aug 2022Conditional

  development works from TUS Moylish Campus to the City. Segregated cycle lanes and footpath upgrades along Cratloe Road, Sexton Street North and High Road with a number of dedicated pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities. Upgrade of the traffic signals and junction layout at Hassett's Cross, Cross Road and Belfield Court Junctions to provide a protected junction arrangement for cyclists & bus priority measures of public transport. An inbound bus lane extending along Cratloe Road from Moylish Roundabout to Hassett's Cross. Traffic calming measures on Belfield Court and Belfield Gardens such as raised table junctions and build out with cycle by-pass. Upgrade works to bus stops, side road junctions and new road surfacing. Installation of LED public lighting. Surface water drain works. Landscaping works including tree removal & tree planting and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 228014

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  the erection of a new crash repair structure substantially replacing the car crash repair structure destroyed by arson; together with alterations to the fenestration, extension to the south and extension into part first floor compared to the original structure; signage; replacement of existing boundary walls with new; relocation of the original structure entrance to the courtyard; and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22764

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  changes to the existing elevation to include an additional entrance to studio apartment granted under planning reference 18/281

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18690

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  the change of use from beauty salon to apartment on the first floor

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18503

• 27 Mar 2018Conditional

  remodelling of existing house, which is currently being refurbished as a single dwelling. The proposed works include the following amendments/alterations (a) subdivision of the existing dwelling into two studio apartments, (b) minor front elevation modification, (c) ancillary site services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18281

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore 002048

Recorded monuments

• LI005-017147 Bastioned fort
  Description

  Speed's map of Munster c. 1610 shows a projecting fortification protecting the W side of Thomond Gate which gave access to the medieval walled town (LI005-017010-) of Limerick via Thomond Bridge (LI005-017002-). Test excavations carried out on site of extramural gate [Thomond Gate] at the western end of Thomond Bridge by Edmond O'Donovan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd under licence no. 99E0407, the results of which were summarised as following; 'The medieval defences of the city included an extramural gate at the western end of Thomond Bridge, hence the etymology of the placename 'Thomond Gate'. The gate was on the bridge and has been illustrated on early maps of the town, including Hardiman's map, dated 1590. Speed's map, dated 1610, illustrates a star-shaped fort outside Thomond Gate. These post-medieval earthen fortifications are further illustrated on Greenville's map, c. 1640, and are likely to have been developed and altered to withstand the various 17th-century sieges of the city. The modern streetscape (Mass Lane, Castleview Avenue and Halloran's Lane) around Thomond Gate may reflect the line of elements of these earthworks. However, little consistency exists in the cartographic sources on the layout and exact location of the earthen defences around the Thomond Gate area. Test excavation was carried out at Thomond Gate. Five test-trenches, 4-6m long, were excavated on the location of manhole shafts within the zone of archaeological potential at the western end of Thomond Bridge. River gravels or natural boulder clay was encountered in all of the trenches; no archaeological indicators were found above these deposits. The assessment was limited to the construction corridor of the Main Drainage Scheme and as a result could not shed any further light on the nature of the post-medieval earthwork defences in the Thomond Gate area. It is proposed to monitor all construction work in the zone of archaeological potential' (www.excavations.ie). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 20 December 2019

Architectural heritage

• J.J. Bowles, public house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey rendered public house, built c. 1800, with historic shopfront, and flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear. Steeply pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack to north gable wall, and red brick chimneystack to south party wall. Small rooflight to rear span. uPVC rainwater goods. Painted ruled and lined rendered front elevation and painted smooth rendered rear elevation, unpainted rendered side elevation. Nineteenth-century timber shopfront with six Doric pilasters joined by timber fascia with cornice above. Two display windows rising from rendered stallrisers, one tripartite, the other bipartite, with timber mullions and shoulder arches, clear glazing and wrought metal security grilles. Two square-headed door openings, one to upper floors with flat-panelled timber door leaf and two-pane overlight; door to public house with double-leaf doors leading to double-leaf glazed timber doors. Square-headed window openings throughout, with rendered reveals, painted sills, nineteenth-century bipartite casement windows with twelve-pane top-hung lights. Elaborate timber casements to rear elevation with moulded timber mullions. Site enclosed from the River Shannon by retaining wall faced with large limestone blocks on which wrought-iron railings are fixed.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_950 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Thomond Gate with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Thomond Gate · Sparr Thuamhan

Area

19,765 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres)

Civil parish

St. Munchin's, and its townlands

Barony

North Liberties

Electoral division

Killeely B, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeely B electoral division: 890 people in 381 households; 50% of households own their home; 7% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Deanery Land, Farranshone Beg, Farranshone More, Prior's Land

Placenames

Thomond Gate 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.