Castlequarter

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 768 m² to 185,910 m² (18.59 ha, 45.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlequarter 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.

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  1. Demolition of existing general store, milking parlour with wash area and bulk tank room 2. Permission for the constriction of agricultural building to include straw bedded livestock housing, slatted cubicle livestock housing and milking parlour with associated facilities along with slatted slurry storage tanks 3. Installation of meal bin along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560417

• 30 Jun 2020Conditional

  increasing the number of children in the pre-school from 8 to 11 children from that previously permitted under planning application reference 06/1424

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20566

• 8 Apr 2020Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20303

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 Castlequarter.

Recorded monuments

• LI058-004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In 1840 Kilbeheny Castle was described by the Ordnance Survey as follows; On the Townland of Castlequarter to the west of this Church there is a ruin of an old Castle which was built, according to tradition, by Beithne O’Brien, who also built and gave name to the Church of Kilbeahany. Its south and west walls are destroyed down to the very foundations, excepting a small fragment of the south wall. This castle measured on the inside twenty four feet [7.3m] in length and eighteen feet [5.5m] in breadth and consisted of five stories. Its walls are about sixty feet [60m] high and four feet six inches [1.4m] thick’ (O’Flanagan 1929, 69). Westropp (1906-7, 198) recorded the following details about Kilbeheny Castle; ‘1502 Donchad O'Brien died; he was lord of Pubblebrian and Aherloe to Coill beithne (A.F.M.). 1584 Mahowne mac Murrogho O'Brien owned Killinevehyne (Inq. Exch., 15). It then passed to Edm. mac Gibbon the White Knight, who, 1601, captured the Sugan Earl and brought him to his C[astle]. of Kilvenny (Pat. Hib., ii., p. 242). 1603 Sir Ric. Boyle was granted Kilvehoine or Kilvehehny ruinous C[astle]. with its pastures and mountains, late estate of Mahowin mac Muriegh O'Brien, attainted (Pat. R.). 1608 The White Knight held the C[astle]., mill, watercourse, and village at his death; his grandson died unmarried, 1611, when it passed to his sister, Lady Margaret Fenton (Inq. Chan., 17b). 1650 Oliver Cromwell took the C[astle].: "I possessed a C[astle]. called Kilbenny, upon the edge of the County of Limerick, where I left 30 foot" (Letter to Lenthal : Carlyle, ed. 1846, vol. ii., p. 142). 1655 Held by Sir W. Fenton (C.S., xxv., p. 4). The castle was described in 1938 as follows; ‘This castle is now very dilapidated, all one side having fallen down, exposing the vault, which is not very high up. At either side of it a sort of passage in the wall is to be seen, but the stairs has disappeared. It is still possible to climb up on to the top of the vault. In the basement room there is a small square window, and high up in one angle of the building is a little corner window’ (Healy, James N. James Nagle, 1916-1993., “Kilbeheny, Near Mitchelstown : from "Castles in County Cork", Vol. 04, no. 05 : graphic,” Local Studies Digital Library, accessed September 29, 2021, https://www.corklocalstudies.ie/items/show/3970). See attached black and white photos courtesy of Cork County Library Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 September 2021

• LI060-002 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of hill on slight ESE facing slope. Annotated 'Burial ground' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as an oval shaped earthwork. Only a short section of the SE quadrant of this enclosure survives above ground where it consist of two earthen banks (L 18m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m), transected at NE by a road running NW-SE. Inner bank (top Wth 3.05m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m) terminated at S by bush visible on aerial images, outer bank (top Wth 1.7m; ext. H 0.4m) has a sharper profile than the inner bank which may suggest that it was a later enclosing feature. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/01/2020. See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 October 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlequarter.

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 Castlequarter, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

1,035,151 m² (103.52 ha, 255.79 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeheny, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Knocknascrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

241 people lived in 76 households in the Knocknascrow electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Behanagh, Carrigane (Co. Cork), Churchquarter, Coolboy, Coolyregan (Co. Cork), Garryvurragha, Knockrour

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.