Howardstown South

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Howardstown South, from 213 m² to 237,852 m² (23.79 ha, 58.77 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 Howardstown South 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.

• 5 Oct 2020N/a

  the construction of extensions to the front and rear of the existing dwelling, as well as carrying out alterations to the front, rear and side elevations of the existing dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20993

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 Howardstown South.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-055 Earthwork
  Description

  In improved pasture 100m W of the townland boundary with Dromacummer West. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but shown as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a scarp. Outline of the monument respected by curving drainage ditch from N-E-S. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as a slight hollow with possible water channel/ditch running out of SW side on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/03/2015. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 April 2021

Architectural heritage

• Howardstown Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch limestone road bridge over the River Maigue, built c. 1800, with roughly dressed walls with rubble cappings to parapets. Cut voussoirs to round-headed arches and ashlar V-cutwaters.

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 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Howardstown South · Baile Shiuird Theas

Area

1,327,952 m² (132.8 ha, 328.14 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athlacca South, Cappanafaraha, Cooleen, Dromacummer East, Dromacummer West, Glenma, Harding Grove, Howardstown North, Kilbreedy

Placenames

Howardstown South 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.