Tinnascarty
Tinnascarty is a townland in the civil parish of Sheffin, barony of Galmoy, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is Tigh na Scairte.
- Area
- 45.6 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,869 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinnascarty, from 104 m² to 142,351 m² (14.24 ha, 35.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Tinnascarty 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
23 Jun 2025Conditional
for the proposed renovations to existing dwelling to include internal layout changes and elevational changes, proposed storey and a half rear/side extension, proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, proposed new treatment tank and percolation area, proposed relocation of vehicular entrance, proposed stormwater soakaways, landscaping and all associated site works. Including the demolition of an existing single storey extension
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560371
19 Nov 2024Conditional
for construction of a slatted cubicle shed with underground effluent storage tank and to amend the farm entrance approved under Planning Reference 16141, together with all other associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460554
7 Mar 2023Conditional
(A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND FEED PASSAGE (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A CALF SHED AND CALVING FACILITIES, TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2360085
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 Tinnascarty.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tinnascarty.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tinnascarty.
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 Tinnascarty, 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2058 (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 Tinnascarty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Tinnascarty · Tigh na Scairte
- Area
- 456,156 m² (45.62 ha, 112.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Sheffin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Galmoy
- Electoral division
- Balleen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 517 people lived in 173 households in the Balleen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balleen Lower, Garrydague, Tentore, Tifeaghna (Browne), Tifeaghna (Mt. Garret)
- Placenames
- Tinnascarty 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.