Kerrikyle
Kerrikyle is a townland in the civil parish of Rathronan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Ceithre Choill.
Parcel 5804833
- Area
- 6,702 m² (0.67 ha, 1.66 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 358 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kerrikyle
Planning applications on this parcel
27 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls and the installation of a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21548
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 162.5 ha
- 402 acres
- Land parcels
- 57
- registered freehold, median 19,521 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kerrikyle, from 713 m² to 150,792 m² (15.08 ha, 37.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kerrikyle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Aug 2025Conditional
(i) existing substructure works, specifically the completed installation of house foundations; (ii) Planning permission to complete the construction of a single-storey residential dwelling, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, and all ancillary site development works (previously granted permission under planning application reference 20/535 and amended under planning application reference 24/346)
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560784
29 May 2025Refused
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 20/535: demolition of existing dwelling house and garage, construction of a replacement dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257012
9 Sept 2024Conditional
the change of house type and relocation of vehicular entrance from previously approved planning permission ref. no. 20/535 and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24346
13 Jun 2024Conditional
a revision to site boundary from previously approved Planning Permission Ref. 21/1448 and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24243
15 Oct 2021Conditional
demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of a two storey replacement dwelling house, entrance, driveway, garage, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211448
27 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls and the installation of a mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21548
19 Jun 2020Conditional
demolition of existing dwelling house and garage, construction of a replacement dwelling house, entrance, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20535
7 Dec 2017Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171138
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- LI028-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In coniferous forest, on steep ENE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), could not be located in dense undergrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kerrikyle.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kerrikyle, 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 Kerrikyle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kerrikyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kerrikyle · Ceithre Choill
- Area
- 1,625,044 m² (162.5 ha, 401.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylin, Ballyvoghan, Glenastar, Glendiheen, Glensharrold, Glenville
- Placenames
- Kerrikyle 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.