Limerick

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Limerick, from 453 m² to 365,895 m² (36.59 ha, 90.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Limerick 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 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission to demolish existing shed on site and permission to erect three block

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231348

• 31 Oct 2023Refused

  Permission to erect 2 no. two bed apartments with connection to public services

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231309

• 5 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220588

• 17 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to (1) convert existing outbuilding to fully serviced dwelling use

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211785

• 8 Nov 2021N/a

  Permission to convert existing outbuilding to fully serviced dwelling use and al

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211726

• 19 Feb 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to a dwelling and permission to upgrade effluen

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210232

• 25 Jan 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a bungalow with services and domestic garage with ancillary

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210081

• 16 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling with services and all associated site and

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201354

• 6 Apr 2020Refused

  Permission to erect an apartment with connection to public services

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200419

• 6 Apr 2020Refused

  Permission to erect an apartment with connection to public services

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200418

• 21 Oct 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING: A) OF AGRICULTURE BUILDING

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191417

• 1 Oct 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO ERECT 2 NO. 2 STOREY SEMI DETACHED TOWN HOUSES WITH CONNECTION TO

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20181337

• 11 Jul 2018Refused

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING AND ERECT A DWELLING WITH

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180950

• 11 Jul 2018Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR 1) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING AND 2) RETENTION

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20180948

• 29 Jun 2018N/a

  PERMISSION TO DEMOLISH EXISTING DWELLING AND ERECT A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20180881

• 19 Oct 2016N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20161154

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 Limerick.

Recorded monuments

• WX003-025 Structure
  Description

  Marked as a small enclosure or mound (diam. c. 15m) at the corner of a field on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a S-facing slope. It is not known if the settlement of Limerick (WX003-052----) was fortified, but this feature, which is not visible at ground level, might have been a tower on the perimeter of the defences. Limerick church (WX003-026001-) is c. 100m to the ENE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 14 February 2012 Amended: 17 December 2020

• WX003-052 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Laurence Esmonde was a scion of the Esmonde family of Johnstown castle (WX042-017----). Unlike the rest of the family he was a loyal Protestant and became one of the two Commissioner for the Plantation of Wexford in 1611, and an MP for the county in 1613 (McHugh 2001). He was rewarded with grants of about 5500 acres centred on Lemmeneagh that became Limbrick or Limerick where he was required to build a castle. It had been built by 1621 and became the centre of the manor which had the right to hold courts and weekly markets with fairs once a year. Sir Laurence was also the Commander of Duncannon Fort (WX044-015001-) from c. 1603 until his death in 1645 and he spent much time there. At the outbreak of the Rebellion in 1641 he was able to provide 140 men for the defence of Limerick castle, most of whom would have been his tenants, fleeing to Limerick for safety. His own son, Sir Thomas Esmonde, was amongst the rebels and Sir Thomas held the castle until he burnt it at the approach of Oliver Cromwell in 1649. According to the Civil Survey (1654) Sir Thomas owned all the land in the parish of Kilkeavan in 1641 but the castle is described as ruined in 1654 (Simington 1953, 14-15). Prior to 1641 Limerick seems to have been a prosperous place as two innkeepers, a gentleman and a merchant were on a list of those from Limerick suspected of rebellion in 1641, together with a tailor and a cook in the neighbouring townland of Coolnagloose (Whelan 1990, 25-6). By his rebellion Sir Thomas forfeited the Limerick lands which became part of the estates of the Duke of Albemarle and were finally confirmed to him in 1668 (Griffiths 1890, 105-08). Although the castle might be ruined the rebellion did not destroy the settlement as in 1659 the village had a population of 11 Englishmen and 55 Irish (Pender 1930, 553). However, it was in decline, although four fairs continued to be held there into the nineteenth century (Lewis 1837, 2, 116). It was finally destroyed by evictions in 1837, at which time, on the eve of the Great Famine, it still had a hundred inhabitants (Gahan 1999). A survey of 1669 (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1987, 191-2) describes the settlement as: ‘The manor house was a large Stone Building, situated on the southside of a A large Hill, but in the time of Rebellion was all Burnt to ye Ground only ye Wales, some say by Sir Thomas Esmonde’s order. To it Joyunes A large Garden and orchard, and severall very large vines Against ye House wale. And from it Eastward is A long straggling Irish Towne. At the East end a Chapple. And about ye Middle of it A Reasonable good slate House in which Mr. Daulton lives, though badly in repayre and all ye rest to ruine.’ The settlement site is situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Local tradition maintained that the village associated with Limerick castle (WX003-024----) was located between the castle and the church (WX003-026001-). It is not known if it was fortified, but the small circular feature (WX003-025----) marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map in this area could have been a tower on its defences. Its suitability as an archaeological resource was assessed in 2012-13 (Harte 2013, 2012-13). A magnetic gradiometer survey and an earth resistance survey (12R0118) identified numerous subsurface features in a rectangular field (dims c. 250m ENE-WSW; c. 100m NNW-SSE) which even had the surface remains of some relict earthen banks, but the precise character of the features was unclear. Archaeological testing (13E0018) established the existence of between eight and nine burgage plots as well as earlier features including curvilinear ditches. (Harte 2012-13) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey. Sold, 1890. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on an L-shaped plan, clay ridge tiles, rendered, ruled and lined buttressed chimney stacks having stepped capping, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered rendered, ruled and lined battered walls. Central door opening. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds on a corner site with rendered piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron gate.

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 Limerick, 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 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 Limerick.

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

Name

Limerick · Luimneach

Area

697,146 m² (69.71 ha, 172.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcavan, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Limerick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,056 people lived in 341 households in the Limerick electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynestragh Demesne, Barracurragh, Borleagh, Borleagh Demesne, Castleland, Killinierin, Knocklahaun

Placenames

Limerick 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.