Tomnasock
Tomnasock is a townland in the civil parish of Oldleighlin, barony of Idrone West, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is Tom na Soc.
- Area
- 133.6 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 19,510 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tomnasock, from 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 237,371 m² (23.74 ha, 58.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Tomnasock 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 Jun 2021Conditional
Permission for the construction of a proposed new single storey extension to the sides and rear incorporating a roof terrace at first floor level with exterior access stairs, stormwater soakaways and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21208
4 May 2017Conditional
Permission to erect milking parlour with collection area, slatted tank, dairy, powerhouse, race, crush, silo and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17140
10 Apr 2017N/a
Permission to erect milking parlour with collection area, slatted tank, dairy, powerhouse, race, crush, silo and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17114
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tomnasock.
Recorded monuments
- CW015-001 Moated site
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as rectangular area enclosed at N and E by fosse and W by embankment (max. dims. c. 55m N-S, 65m E-W). Visible on aerial photograph (GSI S442). Now levelled, but some indications still visible at E. Probably a moated site.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tomnasock.
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 Tomnasock, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2323 (ZIP).
- 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 Tomnasock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Tomnasock · Tom na Soc
- Area
- 1,336,124 m² (133.61 ha, 330.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oldleighlin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Idrone West
- Electoral division
- Oldleighlin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 606 people lived in 199 households in the Oldleighlin electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bannagagole, Clonmore, Lackan, Oldleighlin
- Placenames
- Tomnasock 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.