Kilcoorha

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcoorha, from 215 m² to 354,488 m² (35.45 ha, 87.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Kilcoorha 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 Jul 2022Conditional

  existing changes to cottage, namely extensions to North, East, West and new front porch, also planning permission for new packaged wastewater treatment unit and tertiary filter all at his property

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22767

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, front boundary walls and entrance, mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21839

• 14 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, soiled water storage tank, upgrade existing agricultural entrance and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2127

• 17 Dec 2020Conditional

  a dwelling house, garage, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201362

• 6 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181188

• 16 Feb 2018Conditional

  construction of a farm building onto an existing farm building consisting of a six bay slatted unit with side cubicles as well as underground storage tank with calving pins, crush, walkway and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18130

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 Kilcoorha.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, sloping down gently to N. Site is depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on S bank of stream on 1841 OS 6-inch map; on 1924 OS 6-inch map arc of enclosing bank shown only NE->SW, but replaced by river bank NW->NE and by field boundary SW->NW. Field boundary and enclosing bank now levelled. Shallow fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.2m) defines arc of enclosure NE->SW. Steep fall down to W in ground level follows line of removed field boundary on W side. Sharp fall down to river defines N side. Roughly circular area enclosed by these features (33.5m N-S; 26m E-W) is level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Oval area (34m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.35m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 0.6m). Field boundary runs immediately outside fosse SSE->NNW. Interior level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having single-bay single-storey extension to side (west) with two-bay single-storey extension to rear (south). Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Pitched artificial slate roof with uPVC rainwater goods to side extension. Bitumen clad flat roof with timber clad eaves to rear extension. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills and replacement timber casement windows to front and rear elevations, uPVC casement windows to side (east, west) elevations. Square-headed door openings throughout, having timber battened door to front elevation with decorative wrought-iron strap hinges and fittings. uPVC door to side (east) elevation. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west. Rendered enclosing walls with render capping and square-profile piers supporting single-leaf 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 Kilcoorha, 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 Kilcoorha.

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

Name

Kilcoorha · Cill Chonrach

Area

1,464,999 m² (146.5 ha, 362.01 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mountplummer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

383 people lived in 124 households in the Mountplummer electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahawilk, Ballyduhig, Coolygorman, Gorteen, Hernsbrook, Inishkeen, Lisnafulla, Raheenagh

Placenames

Kilcoorha 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.