Tiermore
Tiermore is a townland in the civil parish of Shanagolden, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Tír Mhór.
- Area
- 31 ha
- 76 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 50,426 m² (5.04 ha, 12.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tiermore, from 4,215 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres) to 300,387 m² (30.04 ha, 74.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Tiermore 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
7 Jan 2026Conditional
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 20/1162: the construction of a multi storey dwelling house, comprising of a single storey and two-storey section. An entrance, driveway, garage, waste water treatment, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267001
12 Nov 2020Conditional
the construction of a multi storey dwelling house, comprising of a single storey and two-storey section. An entrance, driveway, garage, waste water treatment, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201162
5 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a storey and a half style dwelling house, entrance, driveway, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20198
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 Tiermore.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying pasture, on very gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI019-107 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope into river valley. Roughly circular (diam. 31m) area enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.5m). Enclosing bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.15m) has a very low internal height becoming scarp-like in places. Bank is heavily masked by overgrowth and has been denuded by cattle at SSE and NNW. Boulders from field clearance have been dumped along edge of interior at NNE. Interior slopes gently down to SE and is strewn with fallen tree limbs and loose stones. 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 Tiermore.
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 Tiermore, 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tiermore.
- 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 Tiermore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Tiermore · Tír Mhór
- Area
- 309,536 m² (30.95 ha, 76.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shanagolden, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunmoylan, Kilcosgrave, Kilmoylan, Oldabbey, Rathfarra
- Placenames
- Tiermore 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.