Caherconlish

312 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherconlish, from 8 m² to 91,421 m² (9.14 ha, 22.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 143 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 52 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Education and Community (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Caherconlish Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 27 Aug 2026N/a

  demolition of the existing rear extension, construction of a new extension to the rear, increasing the height of the front elevation, relocation of windows and doors and the conversion of the existing buildings to 4 separate apartment units together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660994

• 1 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of 58 no dwellings comprising of 3 No 3 bedroom semi- detached dwellings. 12 no two -bedroom semi-detached dwellings, 3 no terraced blocks of 4 no dwellings consisting of 6 no mid-terraced two bedroom units and 6 no end of terraced three bedroom units (12 units in total) and 4 no two bedroom single storey semi-detached dwellings. The proposal to include vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access, car, bicycle and motor cycle parking, landscaping, SuDs features, public lighting, boundary treatment and a separate construction access route. Public utilities and services and all associated site works

  Permission, 58 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660886

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  demolition of the existing rear extension, construction of a new extension to the rear, increasing the height of the front elevation, relocation of windows and doors and the conversion of the existing buildings to 4 separate apartment units together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660836

• 23 Oct 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561070

• 16 Jan 2025Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560018

• 30 Nov 2024Conditional

  the construction of a domestic garage and an extension to existing dwelling house, by means of the conversion of an attached garage to living accommodation and the construction of a front porch, including all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2461183

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  relocation of the position on site of house no.'s. 6 & 7 from that granted under Planning Permission Ref. No. 21/550

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2460587

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  the completion of an extension to existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360769

• 7 Jun 2023Conditional

  the (a) existing entrance as constructed & (b) planning permission to remove existing bollard and form vehicular 'dishing' modifications to existing public footpath

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23302

• 24 Mar 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the side of an existing dwelling house along with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22322

• 28 Jan 2022Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2284

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey side and rear extension to existing dwelling, construction of a domestic garage, retention permission to retain and complete vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211531

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  the change of use of retail unit to Veterinary Clinic and associated signage and for planning permission to erect a rear extension at unit

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211483

• 10 Sept 2021N/a

  the construction of 2 semi-detached houses on vacant site, connection to mains services together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211274

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional

  a dwelling, garage/shed, sewage treatment system & percolation area, boundary wall, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21997

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the rear, by means of constructing a dormer window in place of an existing roof light on the first floor and also to install a new first floor bedroom window on the side elevation of existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21709

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of 7 no. two storey townhouse type dwellings with works to include a new site entrance, public carparking spaces, new boundary treatments, alteration to public footpath, public lighting, hard and soft landscaping, connection to public services and all associated site works

  Permission, 7 homes · Limerick County Council, 21550

• 19 Feb 2021Conditional

  construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21181

• 5 Feb 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the front of existing house, to enlarge the existing living room & porch, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21116

• 15 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling, site entrance, connection to public services including all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2132

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing club house building, construction of a 2 storey clubhouse building with an external first floor viewing balcony, construction of a single storey maintenance outbuilding, provide increased ancillary car parking, decommission the existing septic tank and percolation area, installation of a waste water treatment system and percolation area, erect perimeter lighting and site fencing, alter the site layout to provide 2 multi use astro turf courts, a sensory garden and to renovate 2 of the existing hard surface tennis courts, with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201285

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  the change of use of permitted snooker hall associated with public house granted under planning ref 16/435 to restaurant associated with public house, together with all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 201156

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional

  the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201144

• 22 May 2019Conditional

  a change of site boundaries from those previously granted under planning ref. 03/2130

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19506

• 24 Apr 2019Conditional

  an extension to existing dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19399

The 25 most recent of 33 applications.

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 Caherconlish.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-077 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 93-4) recorded the following details about Caherconlish Castle; 'Kakinles C[astle]. was commenced. It was held by Theo. Walter le Botiller in 1214 (CJS.PX). 1285-7 Cathair-cind-lioss "rampart guarded, solid stone," with vaulted towers and drawbridge, stormed and burned by Torlough O'Brien, Prince of Thomond (Wars of Torl., Plea R.). 1338 Murage allowed the provost and bailiffs of Catherkenlyshe to build a stone wall round the town, which was on the marches, with Irish rebels on every side (Close R.). 1358 Edward III. gave it a charter (Pat. R.). 1583 W. Bourke held C[astle]. (Des. R. 37). 1605 It was leased by Lord Caher to Theo. Borke (cited C.S., xxi., p. 17). 1641 Monument to latter and his wife, Slany Brien, erected in church. 1680 Dyneley sketched the church and peel tower (R.S.A.I. ix., p. 197). 1690 It was occupied by King William, and in 1691 by Ginckell, when advancing to besiege Limerick. Fabric - Fitzgerald mentions four C[astle].s in 1827, and a fortified gate (vol. ii., p. 285); little is now extant. Dyneley's view shows a peel tower, four stories high, with a bartizan at one corner'. Caherconlish House described in 1837 as 'a handsome modern residence, erected near the site of the old family mansion, by the proprietor, Major Wm. Wilson; it is surrounded by fine plantations and ornamental grounds. The old mansion, which stood on a rock, was one of the castles above noticed, and though previously exhibiting no extraordinary marks of decay suddenly split from top to bottom, one half falling into a heap of ruins, and the other left standing; the gateway, on which are the arms of the Wilson family yet remains' (Lewis 1837, Vol. 1, 239-40). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 December 2020

• LI014-078 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Situated on a ridge in rolling pasture with good views in all directions. Though depicted with hachures on the 1923 OS six-inch map, it appears from the 25-inch map that the pattern of hachures represent a terraced garden in front of Caherconlish House and not an ancient enclosure. The house and gardens are no longer evident. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 June 2013

• LI014-079001 Historic town
  Description

  The historic town of Caherconlish was described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Caherconlish is located in east Limerick just off the Limerick to Clonmel road. The placename suggests that there was a pre-Norman settlement here but there is no actual documentary evidence for its existence. It is not until the coming of the Anglo-Normans that the settlement is first mentioned. It formed part of the lands of Owney which were granted to Theobald Walter, ancestor of the Butler family. It is fortunate, perhaps, that it was to the Butlers that Caherconlish belonged because as a result an informative extent of the manor, prepared in the year 1300, survives (White 1932, 154-8). This extent makes it clear that Caherconlish was a borough settlement at the heart of a manor on which free tenants, cotters and betaghs also lived. Unfortunately the extent provides no knowledge of the size of the settlement or its appearance but it is clear from a grant of murage in 1358 that Caherconlish was defended, probably by earthen ramparts (Ir Rec Comm 1829, 61). The settlement was exposed to attacks by the native Irish, particularly the O'Briens and the "Wars of Turlough" recount the capture and burning of the castle in the 1280s. The borough appears to have declined in the later middle ages and it seems to have been already deserted at the time of Dinely's visit in the 1680s. The medieval borough was probably centred on the present village which has an L-shaped pattern bounded by a small stream on the west called the Groodie. There are no pre-1700 houses in the town. There are records of four Castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the OS.map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S.map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a college (Lewis 1837, i, 239). The settlement recieved a murage grant in 1358 granting the "provost, bailliff and commonalty of the town of Catherkenlyshe" the right to collect murage for twenty years (Ir Rec Comm 1829, 61). A gatehouse is said to have survived until the early part of the 19th century (Westropp 1906-7, 93) but no trace of it survives today. The medieval defences probably consisted of earthen ramparts but their course remains unknown. Reports of stone axeheads, pottery, house foundations are said to have been found in College. Field to the west of the settlement (Lynch 1896, 357)." (Bradley et. al 1989, 88-93) Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079002 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Irregular-shaped earthwork annotated as 'Caherconlish Castle (site of)' on current ed. OS 6-inch map described in the Urban Archaeological Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, Vol. 1, 92-3) as follows: "Ringfort: An irregular shaped platform, 18m north-south by 35m east-west and up to c. 4m above surrounding ground level, is located on rising ground to the west of the village. There are good views to the north and west but restricted to the south and east. The platform is built on limestone outcrop which rises abruptly to the north, west and south-west but more gradually to the east and south-east. The feature appears to be partly natural but could have been adapted as a platform-type earthwork; there are no features on the summit." Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079003 Graveyard
  Description

  On S side of Caherconlish village with castle site (LI014-079004-) in field to SSW. Ruins of Caherconlish nave and chancel parish church (LI014-079005-) in centre. Polygonal shaped area (approx. dims. 55m N-S x 70m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at S end of E wall. Numerous architectural fragments from medieval church reused as grave markers, including several stone corbels. A drawing of the graveyard in 1681 by Thomas Dineley shows that the nave and chancel church formed the N boundary of a burial ground that was enclosed by a curving stone wall with entrance gate at SE (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 23 November 2018

• LI014-079004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Caherconlish Castle depicted as a roofed tower house type structure standing to the SW of the church and graveyard in 1681 by Thomas Dineley (NLI, MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). In this drawing the castle is depicted as a small multi-storey tower with round-headed entrance in E wall of castle. The external entrance to the castle was protected by a projecting box-machicolation accessed at wall-walk level. Possible angle-machicolation at second floor level on the SE angle. Site of Caherconlish Castle described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 89) as following; "There are records of four castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the O.S. map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S. map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House to the south-west of the village (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a "college" (Lewis 1837, i, 239)." Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079005 Church
  Description

  Multi-period fortified nave and chancel parish church of Caherconlish that was drawn in 1681 by Thomas Dineley which shows that the roofed nave was entered through a round-headed doorway located at W end of nave that is now blocked up. A single light slit ope possibly of cruciform shape is visible at W end of S wall of nave with triple light flat-headed window of 17th century appearance at E end of S wall of nave. The unroofed chancel walls were topped with stepped battlements and was entered through a flat-headed doorway with hood-moulding, probably dating from the late 16th/ early 17th century. A double bellcote rising from the apex of the chancel arch is visible above the roof line of the nave. Remains of an angle buttress are visible on the SE angle of the chancel. The church formed the N boundary of a burial ground that was enclosed by a circular-shaped stone wall with entrance gate at SE (NLI, MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197). Caherconlish Castle which is depicted as a tower house type structure stood outside the burial ground to the SW. Caherconlish C of I church ruins built in 1780 incorporating the W end of the medieval church ruins described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "This small medieval nave and chancel church, built of uncoursed rubble limestone, is unroofed, covered in ivy and in poor condition. It was altered in the nineteenth century when the nave walls were thickened, an east wall inserted to the west of the chancel arch and a west tower added. The chancel is now very ruined but it had a battered east wall and long and short quoins on the south east angle (some sandstone) and there is one splay of a window on the south wall. The centre of the chancel is filled with mortuary crypts. The chancel arch was originally pointed but when the church was shortened a smaller round arch, probably now functioning as the window of the nineteenth century church, was inserted. The nave was lit from the south by three windows but all are lacking jambs and tracery. There is an opening in the north wall and a doorway and flat lintelled mural stairs in the west end of the wall which may have led to an earlier tower. The west wall is nineteenth century." (Bradley et. al. 1989, 90-1). Caherconlish described by Westropp (1904-5, 440) as following; 'It was once a walled town, with four castles, and the ruins of a "college." A fortified gate stood till not long before 1826 (Fitzgerald, i., 285). Carkynlys, 1259 (Plea R.); Cathairconlish, 1285-7 (Wars of Torlough), when its castle was stormed and burned by Torlough O'Brien, king of Thomond. He "faced for rampart-guarded solid stone Cathair cind lioss." Inquisitions about persons killed in this raid are numerous. They are usually described as "slain at Karkynlys by Terdeluach Obreen, and other felons." The harbouring of the Irish by de Burgo, of Castle Connell, and the abbot of Wetheney, and the plundering of "Karkenlys Church," are fully recorded (Plea R., vol. ii., p. 126, xviii Ed. I., m. 31 ; in 40, p. 135, &c, &c). Records are numerous. Karkynglissi, in Wethney, 1302. Murage to provost and bailiffs of "Catherkenlysche, as lying on the marches, with the Irish rebels on every side" (Close R.). King Edward's charter is preserved, Nov. 9, 1358; Carkynlis deanery, 1615. The rectories of Carkynlishe, Killyvorly, Eathiordan, and Cayrelly, granted to Walter Ap. Howell,1552 (Fiants, 1020). The parishes of Caherconlish, Luddenbeg, and Willestown United, 1791 (L.M.H.). Fabric - T. Dyneley gives a sketch in 1680. It shows a ruined wing, with five-stepped battlements. The rest had a cross-shaped light and pointed door, and a triple window of oblong lights. In 1840 a fragment of the east end, 12 feet [3.65m] high and 7 feet [2.1m] long, stood, supported by a vault. The I. C. church covered the rest of the site. Monuments - Gabbett and Bourke. Theo. Bourke and his wife, Slaney Brien, "1441" (recte, 1641); mentioned also by Dyneley; and Annabel Gould, and the relatives of John Maunsell, 1662 (see Fitzgerald, i., p. 285). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Levelled building annotated on six-inch map as 'Chimney Site of' may have been one of the four castles located the medieval town of Caherconlish. Described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 89) as following; "There are records of four castles in the town (Westropp 1906-7, 94), traces of which survived apparently until the early 19th century but these have also vanished. These appear to have been fortified town houses of the type which still survives at Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and at Ardee and Carlingford, in Co. Louth. The site of one castle is marked on the O.S. map to the south-east of the churchyard but no remains survive there and another is marked on the O.S. map to the north of the village. Another castle may have been on the site of Caherconlish House to the south-west of the village (Lenihan 1866, 727). There are also references to a "college" (Lewis 1837, i, 239)." Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 October 2018

• LI014-079009 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  Broken ledger of a 17th century tomb belonging to Alphra Maunsell who lived at Ballyvorneen which is now in two pieces to the N and S of the medieval nave and chancel church of Caherconlish. Remains of a 17th century tomb described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Mansell slab. 1662. Rectangular sandstone slab (dims. 1.17m x 0.44m x 0.17m) in two pieces on the north side of the graveyard near the Gabbot vault. It is decorated in false relief with a Roman lettered inscription: here lieth the body of APHRA MANSELL MY DEAR MOTHEr daughter of sr will/LIAM CRAFFORD OF KENT HERE ALso lieth/ my deaRE WIFE MARY MANSELL DAVGHter of george booth/ ESQR OF CHESSHIRE AND OF MY SISTER APHRa pecock and her/ daVGHTER ANNE PECOCK ERRECTED BY ME john mansell esquire/ AND INTENDED FOR MYSELF AND/ the rest of my famiLY THIS 12 OF OCTOBER 1662" (Bradley et. al. 1989, 91; Mems Dead vi (1904-6), 114; Westropp 1904-5, 440). This monument was described in 1681 by Thomas Dineley as an altar-tomb and not a graveslab which was located inside the chancel of the church. The inscription on top of the ledger of the altar-tomb read as following; 'HERE LIETH THE BODY OF APHRA MANSEL MY DEAR MOTHER DAVGHTER OF S R WILLM CRAYFORD KT HERE ALSO LIETH MY DEAR WIFE MARY MANSEL DAVGHTER OF GEORGE BOOTH OF CHESHIRE ESQVIRE AND OF MY SISTER APHRA PEACOCK AND HER DAVGHTER ANNE PEACOCK ERECTED BY ME JOHN MANSEL ESQVIRE AND INTENDED FOR MYSELF AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY THIS XII OCTOBER MDCLXII' (Mems. Dead 1904-06, 114; Shirley 1858-67, 198). The lid of this tomb is now broken into two pieces one of which lies immediately S at the E end the nave of the medieval church ruins (LI014-079005-) of Caherconlish where it is visible as a low upright stone with partial inscription 'HERE LYETH THE DAUGHTER OF ...SOL YETH. MY SIST ER OF C PECOCK AND OF JOHN MANSELL THE REST OF M. The second fragment lies to the N of the church ruins at the W end behind the metal link fence that has been erected around the church ruins (pers. comm. Patrick Hourigan). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Patrick Hourigan Date of revised upload: 02 July 2018

• LI014-079010 Wall monument
  Description

  17th century wall monument of Theobald Bourke and his wife Slaney Brien located against the E face of the chancel arch in the SE corner of the the chancel of the medieval church ruins (LI014-079005-) of Caherconlish. Described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following; "Limestone wall memorial (dims. 1.35m x 1.46m) in two sections; the lower one consists of a panel flanked by pilasters with architectural designs in false relief and is inscribed in Roman lettering: hVNC TVMVLVM THEObALdS.BoVRK SIbI Et vXORIS sVae / slaNi BRiEN fIeRe FF.CIT../BOVRKIAna SOBOLES caROl sang/ VINE TINCTA ATQVE BRYANNORum/ HIC THEOBALDI lACES TECVM PERlre( ISSIM. FIRMA FIDE MARTIS GLORIA PACls/ IONOS MACTE TAMEN NON TOTVS ABIS TVa FAMA SVPERSTES MAT S/ ET TENVMEROS APHALANX SPIRITVS AD SVPERAS VOL.../ RTHEVS ORA SVRNAE SITO I N ERK OM PIACITVRA TVO ANNO DOM The upper sub-rectangular panel has a crucifixion flanked by depictions of the virgin and John and the symbols of the passion are incised beside Christ' (Bradley et. al. 1989, 91-2; Lenihan 1866, 727; Mems Dead vi (1904-6), 114; Westropp 1904-5, 440). This monument was described in 1681 by Thomas Dineley as a mural monument on the south side of the chancel of the church. The inscription on the mural monument read ; 'HVNC TVMVLVM THEOBALDVS BOVRK SIBI ET VXORI SVI SLANIE BRIEN FIERI FECIT BVRKIARVM SOBOLES CAROLINO SANGINE TINCTE ATQVE BRIANORVM NOBILITATA TRIBV HIC THEOBALDE IACES TECVM' (Mems. Dead 1904-06, 114). Thomas Dineley drew a sketch of this memorial on which he wrote the following about the location of the monument; 'On the right hand going up to the Altar place of ye Chancel of Carigkenlish [Caherconlish] is seen this monument against the wall' (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67). The sketch shows the wall memorial as consisting of three parts with an inscribed panel flanked on either end by urns or vases standing on top of a box like tomb structure. Above the inscribed panel are three round-arched niches with crucified Christ in the central panel with INRI above and skull & crossbones below with ladder on left hand side. To the left there was carved figure of Mary with the words 'Sancta Maria' carved into the arch above the figure. To the right of Christ there is a figure of St. John with the words ST Johannes' carved into the arch above. Above these three figures rise decorative columns/balustrade, the central column is inscribed with the letters I H S. All three columns are topped with a ball finial (Shirley 1858-67, 198). See attached photo of wall memorial courtesy of Patrick Hourigan Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 02 July 2019

• LI014-079012 Tomb - chest tomb
  Description

  Chest-tomb dating from 1672 which marked the burial place of Mary Annabel Gould, daughter of James Gould of Ludden Castle and wife of Sir George Ingoldsby of Ballybricken Castle located on N side of chancel inside the medieval ruins of Caherconlish Church (LI014-079005-). Dineley drew a sketch of this tomb on which he wrote the following about the location of the monument; 'On ye left hand side going to the Alter is seen this upon Sr. George Ingoldesby’s wives mother' (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197-8). The sketch shows the monument as a chest-tomb with A-shaped lid on top of which was carved the following inscription; 'RIS TH M. ANNABEL GOULD DIED XXVII MAY MDCLXXII'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Caherconlish Church, church/chapel, mausoleum, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built in 1770, incorporating fabric from earlier periods. Comprising battered square-plan three-stage crenellated tower to east elevation and two-bay nave. Now ruinous. Octagonal limestone tower with ball finial and cast-iron weather vane to apex. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls to nave. Roughcast render over dressed limestone walls to tower having render strip quoins. Cut limestone architrave to tower, second stage and stringcourses to third stage and roof line. Pointed arch window openings to nave with limestone sills. Pointed arch window openings to tower having limestone sills. Oculi to tower, second stage, north and south elevations with limestone surrounds. Pointed arch door opening to tower, north elevation having tooled limestone surround and cast-iron gate. Inscribed plaque to tower interior. Graveyard to site. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east having wrought-iron double-leaf gates and rendered boundary walls.

• Michael Lynch, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, having shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, dentillated eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to first floor, rendered walls to ground floor having render quoins and stringcourse. Square-headed openings to first floor having render rope moulded surrounds, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and render continuous sill course. Square-headed display openings having replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door. Render shopfront comprising consoles, fascia and dentillated cornice. Square-headed opening having replacement timber panelled door and sidelight.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced pair of two-bay two-storey houses, built c. 1800. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and red brick chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings to north block, having red brick block-and-start surrounds, concrete sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to south block, with red brick block-and-start surrounds, concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber lintel to south block, ground floor openings. Square-headed opening to north block having glazed overlight over replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to south block with glazed overlight over timber panelled door.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached six-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having render shopfronts to west and south elevations. Now in use as a pharmacy. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles, finials and timber bargeboards. Rendered walls having render quoins and stringcourse. Square-headed openings to first floor with render surrounds having architraves with keystones and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to ground floor having render surround with architrave, keystone, concrete sill and bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront to west comprising render Doric style pilasters, fluted consoles with pedimented caps, fascia and moulded cornice. Square-headed display windows, some with fixed timber windows. Square-headed opening having half-glazed timber panelled double doors. Shopfront to south comprising render Doric style pilasters, fluted consoles with pedimented caps, fascia and moulded cornice. Square-headed display windows having fixed timber windows. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door. Square-headed opening having render surround with architrave, keystone and timber panelled door.

• Greenville, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having lean-to and two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with render copings rendered chimneystacks and render eaves course to south elevation. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render plinth course and quoins. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding margin sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with ornate caps, single-leaf cast-iron gate and rendered boundary walls terminating in second pair of piers.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1810, having single-bay single-storey extension to rear (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with render eaves course, terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and timber bargeboards. Rendered walls having render strip quoins. Square-headed openings with render entablatures, brackets, replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having render entablature, brackets and glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with ornate caps having ball finials and rendered boundary walls with render copings terminating in second pair of piers.

• Brook Villa, house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1865, having recent porch to front (west) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, overhanging eaves, timber brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, external timber shutters and concrete sills. Square-headed opening to porch having double-leaf glazed door, accessed via steps. Round-headed opening, obscured by porch, having glazed overlight over timber panelled door with flanking sidelights. Pair of square-profile rusticated limestone piers to west with carved caps, replacement single-leaf metal gate and roughly dressed limestone walls.

• The Old Church, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Gothic Revival style former Church of Ireland church, begun 1866; dated 1871, now in use as private house. Comprising four-bay nave, canted apse to east, gable-fronted porch with open work bellcote to south elevation and vestry having gablet to north elevation. Hipped and pitched slate roof with cast-iron ridge crestings and rainwater goods, limestone copings and eaves course. Hipped slate roof to vestry having ashlar limestone chimneystack and wrought-iron finial. Pitched slate roof to porch with limestone copings and wrought-iron finials. Snecked limestone walls having limestone copings, buttresses, quoins to apse and date stone to vestry. Pointed arch with inset trefoil-headed openings to nave and apse with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds and stained glass windows. Rose window to east having pointed arch limestone block-and-start surround with quatrefoil motifs, central multifoil stained glass opening and surrounding quatrefoil openings. Paired oculi to porch, east elevation having inset trefoil stained glass windows. Square-headed shouldered tripartite openings to vestry, east elevation with limestone surrounds and quarry glazed windows. Pointed arch opening to porch, east elevation having carved limestone surround having marble columns with Corinthian style limestone capitals flanking timber battened double-leaf doors. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron bootscraper. Pointed arch opening to vestry comprising glazed overlight over shouldered square-headed timber panelled door having cast-iron strap hinges. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having limestone walls. Pair of square-profile limestone piers with chamfered corners and inset panels having cross motifs, carved caps, plinths and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Boundary limestone walls to site.

• Brookville, RIC barracks, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, built c. 1865, having two-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (south-west) elevation. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings having glazed overlights over timber panelled doors. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear (south-west) elevation. Pair of rendered piers to north-east with ornate caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Caherconlish, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Caherconlish · Cathair Chinn Lis

Area

887,111 m² (88.71 ha, 219.21 acres)

Civil parish

Caherconlish, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherconlish West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,318 people lived in 774 households in the Caherconlish West electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boskill, Gragane, Hundredacres East, Knockroe, Knockroe (Wilson), Pust North, Pust South, Templemichael

Placenames

Caherconlish 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.