Limerick County Council grants permission for 55-home scheme at Barnakyle, Patrickswell, Co. Limerick

In context

It is one of 77 housing scheme applications Limerick County Council has received in the past twelve months, against 1,568 nationally. Of the 3,037 such applications decided by councils in the past three years, 79% were granted.

What happens next

The applicant, or anyone who made a submission on the application, can appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála within four weeks of 1 April 2026. If no appeal is lodged, the council’s decision stands and a final grant issues.

The development description, as lodged

Verbatim from the Limerick County Council register. This is the source for every figure in the story above.

55no. residential units on serviced sites on the grant of outline permission granted under Planning Application Ref. 25/87 for development at this site: Barnakyle, Patrickswell, Co. Limerick The overall development will consist of: The construction of 55no. residential units on serviced sites (incorporating 43no. 4-bed units and 12no. 2-bed units, across 4no. house types), internal roads and pathways; car parking; hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments; open spaces; public lighting; substation; new vehicular and pedestrian access onto R526 road, and all associated site development works including drainage and foul sewer infrastructure works and SuDS measures