Spital-Land

327 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Spital-Land, from 4 m² to 54,456 m² (5.45 ha, 13.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 87 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 357 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2City Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Education and Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Local Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 31 May 2026Conditional

  vehicular access gate and concrete driveway at the front of the property & the retention of a single story extension and timber frame pergola to the rear of the property

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660612

• 7 May 2026Conditional

  1, demolition of front wall of existing takeaway premises, including removal of section of mono-pitched front roof; removal of existing railings & dwarf walls at front of premises [Blackboy Road- Mulgrave Street]. 2. permission for change of use and sub division of existing takeaway unit into 2no. units - [Unit 1] pharmacy, including new extension at front, new glazed shop front and entrance [Blackboy Road-Mulgrave St.] 2 no. rooflights to existing flat roof [proposed pharmacy] ; [unit 2] medical centre at rear to include new rear extension new entrance, entrance steps, and disabled ramp. Enlargement of existing 3n? windows at rear, new flat roof to proposed extension [medical centre] at rear to include 1no.roof-light. 3, permission for new signage [proposed medical centre] at rear above proposed new entrance; new insert sign for proposed pharmacy to replace inset sign of existing freestanding metal framed sign at Blackboy Road- Mulgrave Street. Internal alterations and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26117

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) vehicular entrance (2) front porch (3) pitched roof over side and rear ground floor extensions and (4) first floor bedroom extension

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660099

• 9 Dec 2025Refused

  the replacement of 1 No. internally illuminated 6.4m x 3.35m Premiere advertising display with 1 No. digital 6.28m x 3.4m advertising display at 23 Sarsfield Street, Limerick (a Protected Structure RPS No. 3462) and all associated site works and services and the permanent decommissioning of 2 No. 6.3m x 3.5m advertising displays

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561295

• 29 Apr 2025Refused

  car parking facilities to serve the medical centre and pharmacy, including signage at the car park entrance. Retention of flagpoles at the car park entrance and signage mounted on poles and walls on the northeast elevation serving the car park. Retention of LED signs on the south and southwest elevations. Permission is also sought for new shopfront signage on the south and southwest elevations

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560380

• 13 Mar 2025Conditional

  A new four storey (7,370 m²) Primary Care Centre (PCC) building to include entrance foyer, waiting areas, GP service, BreastCheck Clinic, Community Care Services, Clinical Diagnostics, Dental, Orthodontic & Restorative surgeries, Chronic Disease Management, consulting rooms, retail café and all associated administration and ancillary spaces, roof mounted plant area and photovoltaic panels. Widening of the existing vehicular and pedestrian entrance along Mulgrave Street and localised widening of existing campus road along with provision of new access road to serve the development site, 110 no. parking spaces, including 7 no. accessible parking bays and 110 no. bicycle parking spaces. New drainage connections (including new foul pumping station), attenuation and associated site services. Landscaping, boundary treatments, external lighting, and all related site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of the St. Joseph’s Hospital a Protected Structure (RPS 3363)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560205

• 11 Feb 2025Conditional

  a new pharmacy sign and Retention Permission for two existing pharmacy signs

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2529

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  an extension to a retail unit, elevation & signage changes, canopy alterations & associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461256

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  the sub-division and change of use of a portion of the existing "The Track Bar" to provide a separate retail pharmacy unit. Works include subdivision of building, alterations to front elevations, new signage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461090

• 21 Oct 2024N/a

  an extension to a retail unit, elevation & signage changes, canopy alterations & associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461045

• 20 Jul 2024N/a

  the following development, consisting of a 315m metal railing on stone plinth, including three vehicular gates and 200m paladin style fencing including one vehicular gate. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a number of protected structures. There are seven protected structures located on the site of the proposed development [RPS Numbers: 3257, RPS 3359, RPS 3362, RPS 3363, RPS 6015, RPS 6016, RPS 6051]

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460731

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  a new single storey temporary building (787 m²) for the Chronic Disease Management Service, to include entrance foyer, waiting areas, clinical, gym and education rooms along with administration areas. Provision of new set-down and parking areas to tie into existing campus roads infrastructure, 38 no. parking spaces, including 2 no. accessible parking bays, and 22 no. bicycle parking spaces. New drainage connections, attenuation and associated site services. Landscaping, external lighting and all related site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of St. Joseph’s Hospital, which is a Protected Structure (RPS No. 3363).

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460583

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  a new two storey (2,904 m²) building for the child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS); to include entrance foyer, waiting area, assessment, therapy / treatment and family rooms along with administration areas associated with the day hospital and outpatient departments, regional headquarter office accommodation and all ancillary spaces and permission for the provision of new access road, to tie into existing campus roads infrastructure, 65 no. parking spaces, including 4 no. accessible parking bays, 4 no. motorcycle parking and 56 no. bicycle parking spaces, new drainage connections (including new foul pumping station), attenuation and associated site services including the provision of a new standalone ESB sub-station. landscaping, boundary treatments, external lighting and all related site development works. The proposed development is within the curtilage of the St. Joseph’s Hospital a Protected Structure (RPS No. 3363)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460563

• 28 May 2024N/a

  the installation of a 315 meter-long metal railing atop a stone plinth, complemented by three metal gates for access points. Following this, a 200 meter stretch of paladin-style fencing will be erected, featuring one gate. This fencing serves the purpose of demarcating a section of the property, facilitating its transfer to a new owner while ensuring security and delineation of boundaries

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460519

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling and retention permission sought for bay window with slate roof to the front of the dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2315

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a light industrial unit complete with all ancillary office space and staff areas, site works to include connection to existing site services, extension of exisitng car parking including layout amendments to existing parking layout, construction of all new boundaries/walls and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221009

• 5 Sept 2022Conditional

  use as a restaurant with takeaway facility of ground floor of existing unit and erection of new signage to front elevation

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22960

• 25 Mar 2022Conditional

  for the removal of existing ground floor roof and construct first floor extension over with slate pitch roof at the rear of dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22331

• 4 Mar 2022Conditional

  1 no. log cabin shed (5m x 4m x 2.6m high) located within rear patio of existing building and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22276

• 3 Mar 2022Conditional

  a corridor connecting the house to the granny flat and also seeks RETENTION PERMISSION for the granny flat and other associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22248

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  demolition of the existing single storey vacant retail unit and other structures (in ruin) on the site and the construction of a purpose-built housing scheme for older persons and/or persons with disabilities consisting of 15 no. social housing apartments, with a mix of 6no. one bed units and 9 no. two bed units, all in a single building of 3 storeys. The apartment building includes balconies on the north and east elevations and ground level private gardens to the north and east. The development also comprises of 6 no. surface car parking spaces, 3 no. of which are accessible spaces, 15 no. bicycle parking spaces, refuse storage, hard and soft landscaping including a landscaped courtyard to the rear, lift and stairs access to the rear, private and communal open space, new boundary treatment and all associated and related works including site engineering and civil works. Proposed new vehicular access to proposed development will be from Woodlawn Park, with pedestrian entrances proposed from both Woodlawn Park and Ballysimon Road. The gross floorspace is 1050 sq.m

  Permission, 6 homes · Limerick County Council, 211257

• 3 Sept 2021N/a

  change of use of commercial unit from bakery/café granted under planning ref. 17/252 to use as a tyre sales depot, installation of external car lift to rear of commercial unit and retention permission of car wash storage room

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211242

• 12 Jul 2021Conditional

  the front porch, the chimney stack to the rear of the house and other associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21987

• 28 Apr 2021Conditional

  a detached outbuilding used for storage to the rear of the dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21557

• 18 Jan 2021Conditional

  conversion of attic space to habitable area

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2142

The 25 most recent of 49 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 Spital-Land.

Recorded monuments

• LI005-040 Gallows
  Description

  Modern housing estate built on site of Gallows Green annotated in this area on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Gallows Green is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of St Patrick's Parish (NLI, MS 718). See attached Down Survey map of the parish of St. Patrick's which shows the gallows or gibbet of 'Gallows Green'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Barracks, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay two-storey over basement building, c. 1815, with centrally-placed three-point arched door opening, window opening and pediment above having copper lantern. Originally built as the store keeper's quarters for the artillery barracks and historically used as a temperance hall. Two-bay two-storey over basement north elevation. Three-bay two-storey over basement south elevation. Rendered multiple-bay single-storey hall to rear linked by 1950s entrance bay, fronting onto Newtownmahon with stripped classical façade. Hipped slate Dutch style roof with perpendicular ridge to pediment. Finials to ridge ends. Projecting eaves and painted timber fascia. Substantial red brick chimneystack to southwest, c. 1970. Arched sheet clad roof over hall to rear. Façade, side and rear elevations faced in handmade red brick laid in Flemish bond with cement re-pointing. Flush limestone ashlar quoins to side. Limestone ashlar basement elevation with cement re-pointing, terminating at ground floor level with a limestone plinth course. On all elevation square-headed window openings, red brick flat arches, reveals, limestone sills, uPVC windows. Basement windows having limestone reveals, with wrought-iron grilles to north elevation. Three-point arched door opening, patent rendered reveals. Painted doorcase comprising flat-panelled pilasters flanking hardwood timber door, c. 1990, and glazed timber side lights, c. 1990, with fluted frieze with rosettes above. Tripartite glazed timber fanlight, c. 1990. The front door is arrived at by a flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Soft landscaped front site enclosed by curved limestone ashlar, plinth wall with limestone coping. Large site to west, formerly occupied by domestic operations of the barracks. This site is enclosed from Roxborough Road by rubble limestone wall with red brick faced garden elevation laid in English garden wall bond. Gate opening from Roxborough Road, closed by modern sheet metal gates. Brick lean-to structure to west site rising above coping level of boundary wall. Massive limestone corbels or machicolations to side of this.

• Barracks, 1805–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of detached gatehouses, built in 1807, forming part of the artillery barracks. Each is linked by rendered screen wall, c. 1950, but formerly flanked entrance. Each elevation forming a symmetrical pair of gabled-fronted elevations with limestone ashlar twin arcade to ground floor. Arcaded limestone ashlar barrack elevations with brick-faced oculus to rubble limestone pediment, with later openings and accretions, dating to mid twentieth century. Pitched slate roof to both structures. To all sides arched openings are blocked-up and rendered or glazed. Traces of an archway linking the two pavilions evident on barracks elevation. Detached four-bay two-storey red brick building, once housing the officer quarters. Possibly larger originally. Defensive quality to roughcast rendered elevation to street with limestone ashlar quoins and eaves, with gun loop to corner. Four-bay elevation to barracks lined in red brick laid in Flemish bond with lime mortar pointing, limestone quoins and eaves. Blocked-up arcade. To street elevation small boarded-up camber-arched window openings with high sill level. Former shopfront display windows introduced to street elevation, though no longer in use. Boarded-up square-headed window openings to first floor level, brick flat arches and limestone sills. Detached multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to west side of square with concrete block additions to west and pitched slate roof. Red brick gabled elevation lay in Flemish bond. Squared limestone side elevation walls. Single-storey accretion to side, c. mid twentieth century. Detached L-shaped multiple-bay single-storey ashlar masonry stable block, built, c. 1815, with an arcaded barracks elevation, and facing Roxborough Road to the rear, with a high unarticulated rubble limestone walls. Two-storey centre-piece joins both wings of the structure with single round-arched opening, flanked by square-headed openings with lunette lights above. Pitched slate roof survives to one wing only. All round-arched openings blocked or boarded-up. Blocked-up camber-arched window opening to centrepiece with limestone sill. The barracks is currently occupied by a number of light industry uses. The yard is largely concrete covered, though limestone sets have been detected. A number of mid to late twentieth-century structures have been added to the site. The site is enclosed from Musgrave Street by the gate lodges, attendant outbuildings, and former officers quarters. The site has been subdivided to the northeast. A tall rubble limestone, with varying courses encloses the site from Roxborough Road. To this boundary wall there is a blocked-up arched entrance.

• Hospital/infirmary, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey rendered former hospital, built in 1811, with central breakfront and single-storey porch to front. Now in use as a college. Six-bay three-storey wings to east and west of rear, with various accretions, c. 1930-60. Seven-bay three-storey structure located to the east, built c. 1920. Various prefabricated structures in grounds. Roof to principal building hidden behind parapet wall to front. Extensions to rear and west of building have flat roofs, c. 1940. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to sides and rear of main building and rear of ancillary seven-bay building. Square-headed window openings throughout, stucco surrounds to front elevation, with pediment entablature to ground floor openings, segmental pediments to first floor openings. Tripartite openings to end wings of front elevation of main building, having mullions which may be painted stone. Large square-headed stair hall light with margin-paned sash window, having coloured glass to sides. One-over-one timber sash windows throughout, with ogee horns throughout. Tetrastyle Doric entrance porch, comprising three-quarters engaged columns supporting entablature. Entrance arrived at by steps covered in glazed tilework, c. 1970. Square-headed door openings with teak timber doors, c. 1990. Interior appears relatively intact with fine later additions such as a terrazzo floor and terrazzo finish to a concrete stairs, c. 1950. Splayed entrance to front boundary wall with mild steel railings on cast concrete coping. Classically inspired square pillars with shaped base, corners in relief. A recessed metope inspired frieze, cornice and urn. Four other piers are flat faced with a recess and projecting coping. Remainder of boundary wall comprising coursed rubble limestone with concrete coping. Entrance directly opposite that to the Limerick Prison.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey building, built c. 1900, with half-dormer second floor and prolonged to west by secondary multiple-bay elevation. Single-bay full-height gabled breakfront to façade with flat-roofed stair hall projection having projecting chimneybreast flanked by narrow side lights, and timber entrance porch attached to west. Two-bay two-storey with attic second floor to east-facing side elevation. Three-bay two-storey rear elevation with half-dormer second floor, prolonged by two-bay wing to west. Complex roof plan with gabled slate roof with deep overhanging eaves over main section, traversed to the east by a gabled breakfront roof, hipped slate roof to two-bay wing. Hipped slate roofs over dormer window openings and timber panelling to upper section of gables. Red brick chimneystacks, with cornice and render flaunching, and tapering clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods, and sewer vent pipe. Red brick faced walls to ground floor level, laid in English garden wall bond, with original flush pointing, terminating with a moulded brick stringcourse at first floor level. First and half dormer elevation faced in roughcast render with moulded red brick stringcourse delineating attic level to gabled breakfront. Red brick camber-arched window openings at ground floor level, including two three-sided bay windows, one with canted sides, all having red brick reveals, red brick sills and sill courses to bays, and original timber casement windows. To first floor and dormer attic level are square-headed window openings with flush window frames and timber sills, bipartite and tripartite timber casement windows with timber mullions and transoms. Large square-headed multiple-paned stair hall light flush with façade with leaded stained glass casements. Leaded glass to windows of multiple bay wing on front elevation. Square-headed front door opening with red brick reveals, having chamfered edge above plinth level. Glazed timber door leaf, possibly original. Door opens onto covered porch comprising red brick plinth walls carrying stout Jacobean style timber columns and responding pilasters supporting a low gabled timber porch with coffered soffit. Limited internal access with stair hall having fine door architraves, over door entablatures and flat-panelled timber doors. Open well closed string staircase with squared flat-panelled timber newels with ball finials and droplets to base. Running mould cornice to entrance hall and stair hall ceilings. To timber segmental-arched recess under staircase is a snug with integrated seating flanking a timber chimneypiece with tiled medallion and tiled inset under staircase flanked by sidelights. Blocked moulded archivolt. Original Adamesque chimneypiece and joinery including shutter boxes and flat-panelled shutters evident in rooms. Located to southeast of grounds of Saint Joseph's Hospital, with terraced lawn to the rear. Squared rubble limestone walls to the enclosed a private yard to the west with small gabled rubble limestone outbuildings forming the western boundary of this enclosed yard.

• Limerick Prison, prison/jail, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Prison complex, built between 1816-21, on a radiating principle with five cell block wings radiating like spokes from a central administrative hub. Decagonal in plan, the central tower is 60 feet high, containing Governor's residence, committee room, chapel and hospital. Wings detached from tower, each wing being linked by an ornamental cast-iron walk bridge to the second floor chapel of the tower. Opening with block-and-start surrounds. Complex comprises many secondary structures added throughout the nineteeth and twentieth centuries. Stripped Doric limestone entrance with coursed limestone inner and outer boundary wall. Square columns to each side of the entrance, blank frieze, no use of triglyphs, with large prominent dentils. Fronts onto Mulgrave Street.

• Magazine, 1805–1820 · National interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey limestone ashlar arsenal, built c. 1810, with a brick constructed barrel vault fronted by limestone pediment to barracks elevation. Large section of front elevation, including clerestorey light, removed, without apparent structural instability. Gabled slate roof, with large slates, and corrugated metal sheeting to north. Massive limestone ashlar battered walls to front elevation with. Limestone coping to gable wall, and limestone eaves supporting rainwater goods. Side elevation with heavy buttressing. Gun loop to front and side elevation. To interior, tamped clay floor, red brick-faced internal elevations and barrel vault.

• Boru House, house, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey polychrome red brick building, built in 1880, with a single-bay two-storey gabled entrance breakfront to the middle third bay, which is surmounted by a limestone arm holding a sword, the emblem of the O'Brien family crest, and a three-sided canted bay window to west. Pitched artificial slate roof with red tiled courses and terracotta ridge tiles. Red brick chimneystacks with modillion cornices and plain clay pots. Replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Limestone fractables to side elevation gables with render flaunching to above. Red brick faced façade, laid in English garden wall bond with limestone ashlar platpands having profiled detailing to window reveals, and vitrified brick stretcher courses returning around window arches. In raised lettering to limestone platbands of gable breakfront: Boru House A.D. 1880. Unpainted rendered gabled side elevations. Dog-tooth eaves course. Pointed arch window openings to ground and square-headed to first floor level, with red brick arches, flush canted limestone sills, and one-over-one timber sash windows with upper sash of ground floor openings following arch. Cylinder glass and ogee horns to each. Pointed arched door opening, with limestone steps and threshold, red brick arch, stop-chamfered red brick reveals, with limestone bands, and original notch-detailed raised and fielded panelled timber door leaf, with original furniture. Cylinder glass overlights above nail-head enriched timber lintel. Front site enclosed from road by red brick wall with limestone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings. Two pedestrian gates hanging from cast-iron rail posts. Red brick carriage arch adjoining neighbouring house, and attached to red brick front site screen wall, is located to west of house, and is distinguished by a ashlar limestone block-and-start reveals, and elliptical red brick arch, with vitrified brick course, and limestone name plaque overhead to gabled tympanum reading: M.O'BRIEN. Double-leaf plank timber gates with cast-iron panelling and wrought-iron hinges. Additional vehicular access to east with sheet metal gate attached to rebuild pebbledash rendered boundary wall. Stable buildings to rear site, which was not accessed.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1820–1830 · National interest
  Description

  Large complex of stone buildings, built between 1824-27, facing south and comprising a central block with clock tower and six radiating wings of various heights with the central axis having a perpendicular single-storey wing to either end. The central block was formerly the Governor's Quarters and consists of a single-bay two-storey entrance breakfront with clock tower above, flanked by a single-bay and a two-sided right-angled projection which joins a further four-bay two-storey over basement wing set at an angle to either side. The four-bay wings form part of the composition of the central block and attached is a fifteen-bay two-storey over raised basement wing having a lower roof level and lesser detailing. These wings are terminated by a four-bay two-storey over raised basement block which is angled to the same orientation as the central section, forming a pair of slender elevations with the perpendicular single-storey outer wings. This pattern is repeated to the rear with each space between the radiating wings, formerly known as the 'Airing Yards', being occupied by a variety of mostly single-storey stone buildings. Hipped natural slate roofs throughout with several limestone ashlar and rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. The square-plan carved limestone clock tower has chamfered corners, an ogee dome with zinc roof and iron weather vane. A timber faced clock is set in a square recess to all four sides with a latticed panel below, a louvred panel to the chamfered corners and a running cornice above. A heavy square base with cornice has an inscribed limestone plaque reading 1825 in Roman numerals. The entire central section is defined by a copper coated parapet wall with ornate cornice below, while also being distinguished by its squared, coursed, snecked and tooled limestone ashlar walls on a plinth course below. The carved limestone central door surround consists of a replacement double-leaf timber-panelled door with a carved architrave surround flanked by a pair of pilasters and scrolled console brackets supporting a heavy segmental arched cornice containing a spoked fanlight (possibly original). Door opens onto a limestone platform and four steps flanked by a low wall with coping to either side. Square-headed window openings with flush voussoired lintel stones,limestone sills and uPVC windows. The radiating wings have hipped natural slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods with rubble limestone walls which is slightly projecting at basement level with cut limestone course above. Square-headed window openings throughout have dressed limestone surrounds and sills with uPVC windows to the west wing and timber sash windows to the east wing, c. 1900. Most other wings have uPVC windows with some of the single-storey wings having camber-arched window openings with brick reveals and twelve-over-twelve timber sash windows.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey female block, c. 1900, with a two-bay side elevation, a three-bay three-storey return, a blind central bay and a pair of single-storey three-sided canted bays to the ground floor of the east elevation. M-profile hipped natural slate roof to the main section and a hipped natural slate roof to the return, all having sprocketed and stepped eaves. A full-height chimneystack to each side elevation stands forward from the elevation and rises between the M-profile roof. Cast-iron rainwater goods throughout. Squared and snecked hammer-finished limestone ashlar walls with a smooth limestone coping to a plinth course below. Smooth limestone ashlar quoins and window surrounds. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to ground and first floors, eight-over-eight to second floor, all with ogee horns. To the first floor of the east elevation is a round-arched blind niche with a carved surround and pediment above. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber-panelled doors and overlights. A tripartite door opening to the north elevation of the return has a carved stepped limestone surround with a pair of sidelights and a timber-panelled door with a multiple-pane overlight. Situated to the southwest corner of the main hospital block.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · National interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay three-storey hospital building, c. 1900, with a four-bay side elevation and a single-storey three-sided canted bay to front and rear elevations. M-profile hipped artificial slate roof with a red brick chimneystack to the east and uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Rough-hewn rubble limestone walls with squared quoins and smooth limestone ashlar window surrounds. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement hardwood doors. Situated to the west of the main hospital complex.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan limestone ashlar chapel, built in 1863, on a north-south axis, with entrance elevation to south, and chancel and transepts to north, and having a sacristy to north elevation, and multiple gabled porch openings. Pitched gabled slate roof with cast-iron crested ridge tiles. Intersecting gabled transept roof structures with limestone ashlar gable parapets rising from profiled corbelled bases and surmounted at apex by cruciform finial, missing to west transept. Secondary gabled porch roof structures. Cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Squared and coursed ashlar limestone elevations rising from plinth bases, with largely original flush pointing. Cusped-arched lancet window openings with flush smooth ashlar limestone surround incorporating flush canted sills and leaded quarry glass windows obscured by weather glazing. Quatrefoil window opening to apex of north elevation with original centrally-hung quarry glazed window. Distinctive cusped triangular opening to north elevation porch with original quarry glazing. Square-headed soldier arched door openings with flush smooth ashlar limestone surrounds, with stop-chamfered reveals, arrived at by limestone steps, with plank timber doors having original wrought-iron hinges. Nave and interlocking transepts and altar area joined by pointed arched openings around crossing, with limestone ashlar Doric columns, half-engaged columns and piers, with ashlar limestone voussoirs to pointed arches. Original moulded timber skirting and tongued and grooved panelling terminating with moulded dado rail. Herringbone laid parquet flooring throughout. Original lime plastered walls. Deep recessed arched window openings, plainly treated. Pointed-arch arcaded timber altar table on carpeted podium with possible pewter tabernacle flush to south wall. Door to sacristy. Arched flush timber-framed confessional comprising central ogee arched tracery panelled priest door, and two flat-panelled confessors doors. Original timber pews. Exposed A-frame timber roof structure with principal rafters rising from limestone corbels, and curved trusses rising from collar above meeting of rafters. Stop-chamfered detailed purlins, two to each pitch, support secondary rafters with rises with an angle from timber wall plates. Elaborately treated roof structure to crossing with multiple trusses joining four principal rafters which support the eight-sided pitched roof structure.

• John O'Grady Monument, monument, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone and steel monument, erected c. 1940. It takes the form of a weight resting on four limestone balls, on a limestone plinth base with canted podium and commemorative panelling to sides of plinth base. It is dedicated to John O'Grady (1892-1934), a weight thrower.

• Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey single-bay gabled mortuary chapel, built c. 1855, having two-bay sides, with buttressing articulating window piers, and bowed blind arcaded apse to rear. Elaborately conceived limestone ashlar belfry rises from southern gable to which apsidal elevation is attached. Sacristy wing attached to west elevation with abutting chimneystack. Pitched natural slate roof and interlocking secondary roof structures. Slate replaced to sacristy by sheet metal, and lost exposing timber batons to much of western pitch. Cast-iron rainwater goods survive in part. Squared and snecked hammered limestone ashlar walls with original flush pointing, rising to form gable with limestone ashlar parapet coping which is surmounted by apexes. Smooth limestone ashlar bands to elevations returning around rock-faced limestone buttresses. North elevation comprising tall pointed arch rising from unfinished colonnettes with cushion capitals, on a raised base, set in negative reveal to support bull nose moulded smooth ashlar limestone arch, with stopped hood moulding above. Oculus to tympanum with limestone tracery, which is proud of the recessed glazing, forming four linked circles with quatrefoil tracery inset. Pointed-arch window openings with smooth ashlar tracery comprising pointed arch vertical openings with circular tracery above having sexfoil inner tracery. Windows blocked-up from inside with additional sheet metal covering. Square-headed door opening, with corbelled corners, bull nose profiled reveals, and sheet metal gates. Square-headed sacristy door with half-dormer gable rising from corbelled blocks, and having sheet metal door with original wrought-iron hinges. Fine interior with High Church decoration influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, seen in the highly decorative wall mosaics, polychromatic floor tiles, carved stone altar, hammerbeam nave roof and the orignal carved timber pews. Fine pinnacled Spillane monument to southeast within immediate hard surface site surrounding chapel.

• Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery, monument, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding funerary monument, erected 1887, forming a memorial to Irish nationalism, executed in the Celtic Revival idiom, comprising a broad sarcophagus-like plinth which stands on a limestone podium, and supporting a Celtic cross with Celtic-inspired strap and knot-work to faces, and having romanticised kneeling female figure in classical dress (the personification of Éire), leaning on a Celtic harp (symbol of Irish freedom), which rests on its side, and a seated Irish Wolf Hound. One plaque reads: This memorial was erected by the nationalists of the city and county of Limerick in memory of the martyrs Allen Larkin and O'Brien who were executed at Manchester November 23.1867 GOD SAVE IRELAND. Another plaque reads in raised limestone lettering: Surrounded by foemen midst jeering and hate True as steel to the last they went forth to their fate with a prayer for the cause on the high gallows tree Dear home of our fathers they perished for thee. Inscription to base reads: F. Kennedy. Monument located within grounds of Mount Saint Lawrence’s Cemetery, located at junction of Old Cork Road and spur leading to Ballysimon Road. Surrounded by Celtic Revival cast-iron rail panels on limestone plinth base terminating with limestone ashlar piers with ogee finials, linked to rubble limestone cemetery boundary wall. Gates leading from public road and from cemetery.

• Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery, mausoleum, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay aediculated limestone ashlar mausoleum, built c. 1880, in the Doric order, to form a miniature classical temple. To north and south elevations Doric piers support entablature comprising frieze (without triglyphs, though guttae make an appearance) with lettering to front and foliate scrollwork to remaining sides, and dentil enriched cornice, from which a pediment rises. Figurative sculpture to principal pediment obscured by ivy growth. Raised lettering beneath reads: BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHO DIE IN THE LORD THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS FOR THEIR WORKS FOLLOW THEM: 'APOCALYPSE'. Tetrastyle east and west elevations with Doric pilasters and channel rusticated infill elevations supporting entablature. Elaborate wrought-iron gates to north and south elevations closing opening to single-cell naos. Pitched limestone flagged temple roof structure. Commemorative plaque to interior read: IN MEMORY OF ALDERMAN JOHN QUIN D.L. DIED 11TH FEBRUARY 1883, AGES 70 YEARS.

• Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery, mausoleum, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone ashlar rectangular-plan Gothic Revival mausoleum, erected c. 1870, to form a miniature chapel-like structure. Now roofless. Gabled north and south elevations with angle buttressing and limestone gable parapets surmounted to north by a wrought-iron cruciform finial. Pointed arch door opening to north elevation with profiled canted reveals, and stopped hood mould above, with limestone tympanum punctured by cusped triangular opening, above square-headed door opening which has concave lintel corners. Pointed arch arcaded side elevations with stepped reveals and flush canted sills, beneath corbelled eaves course. Remains of pointed arch opening to south gabled elevation, with only trefoil tracery detail to apex of opening surviving mindless vandalism. Lime plastered internal walls with blind pointed arch arcaded sides. Brick construction revealed internally.

• Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery, mausoleum, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached limestone monument, erected c. 1890, as a faux church ruin. It forms one gabled elevation returning to form side elevations which give the appearance of having collapsed. Limestone Celtic cross surmounts gable punctured by a pointed arched window opening with plain limestone Y-tracery and splayed reveals. Plot demarcated by limestone plinth wall supporting cast-iron rail posts and wrought-iron horizontal rails. Multiple grave markers and Celtic cross grave marker within the plot. All this allegory is evoked in literary form on a marble plaque which reads: THE CELTIC CROSS RAISE OVER ME. AND THE IVY AROUND IT TWINE. IT WILL TELL TO THE LAND THAT BORE ME. THAT THE ANCIENT FAITH WAS MINE. AND THOUGH FALLEN AND LOW FOUND I. ALL TRAMPLED AND POOR AND LONE. YET MY HEART GREW THE CLOSER AROUND IT LIKE THE IVY AROUND THAT STONE.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, hospital/infirmary, 1890–1910 · National interest
  Description

  Attached nine-bay three-storey men's block, c. 1900, set perpendicular to the main hospital block to the east. It is almost identical to the women's block and both are joined by a five-bay three-storey wing. M-profile natural slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods and sprocketed and stepped eaves. A red brick chimneystack to the west section and a limestone chimneystack to the north and south side elevations of the eastern section. The seven-bay section has rough-hewn rubble limestone walls and squared limestone quoins with a single-storey three-sided canted bay to the north and south elevations. Square-headed window openings throughout with tooled limestone surrounds and original twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to the first floor eight-over-eight to the second floor and uPVC to the ground floor. The connecting five-bay wing has a flat roof and rough-hewn squared and snecked limestone walls over plinth course. Square-headed window openings to both elevations with aluminium windows and a square-headed door opening to the south elevation with a classical carved limestone surround and a glazed timber-panelled door. The easternmost nine-bay section has rock-faced squared and snecked limestone ashlar walls over plinth course with a pair of single-storey three-sided canted bays to the east elevation and a blind central bay. Square-headed window openings with smooth limestone surrounds and sills and twelve-over-eight timber sash windows to the first floor only, uPVC windows to the ground and second floors, with a central round-arched niche to the first floor of the east elevation having a carved limestone surround and pediment above. A further gable-fronted outbuilding is located to the north forms part of the later additions to the hospital complex.

• Saint Joseph's Hospital, building misc, 1890–1910 · National interest
  Description

  Gable-fronted three-bay two-storey building, c. 1900, with five-bay side elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with a timber vented lantern and cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared and coursed limestone ashlar walls. A central gauged brick round-arched window opening with a multiple-pane timber window having timber transom and mullions, flanked by a pair of gauged brick segmental-arched window openings with six-over-six timber sash windows and limestone sills. Below is a similar tripartite arrangement of a central segmental-arched carriage arch opening with timber plank doors and flanked by a pair of gauged brick segmental-arched window openings with fixed-pane timber windows, iron bars and limestone sills, same to the side elevation openings. This building has a timber gallery to the interior on three sides supported by cast-iron columns and a timber trussed roof structure. Situated to the south of the main hospital complex. Concrete water tower to rear of site.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_973 (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 Spital-Land with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Spital-Land · Fearann an Spidéil

Area

751,563 m² (75.16 ha, 185.72 acres)

Civil parish

St. Lawrence's, and its townlands

Barony

North Liberties

Electoral division

St. Laurence, the unit of the census

Census 2022

St. Laurence electoral division: 988 people in 314 households; 77% of households own their home; 10% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonlong, Crossagalla, Flankerhouse, Galvone, Irishtown, Killalee, Monaclinoe, Prior's-Land, Rathbane North, Singland

Placenames

Spital-Land 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.