Mountheaton

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountheaton, from 127 m² to 432,230 m² (43.22 ha, 106.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountheaton 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.

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO FRONT FAÇADE OF MAIN DWELLING, REMOVE EXISTING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL & REPLACE WITH NEW ENTRANCE & FRONT BOUNDARY WALL IN NEW POSITION ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 22374

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  (a) permission for photovoltaic panels on north side and portion of south side of Store/Farm Shop/Office building roof and (b) retention permission for photovoltaic panels on south side of Store/Farm Shop/Office building roof all with associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20634

• 23 Jan 2017Conditional

  construction of two internal bridges over the Bunnow River between Liffey Mills existing development and the proposed development in County Offaly with all associated site works. This development is in conjunction with a planning application to Offaly County Council (Ref No. PL2/16/411)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600041

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mount St.Joseph Woods 000913
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. Joseph's, Mountheaton 002063

Recorded monuments

• OF042-037 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No surface trace visible of any castle in the area of the Cistercian monastery of Mount St Joseph. Mountheaton House was possibly built on top of the castle and may incorporate fragments of the earlier castle. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1905–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c.1915, with GR royal cipher and crown motif. The door incorporates a later SE (Saorstat Éireann) emblem. Located at Mountheaton Crossroads in a wall adjacent to southern entrance gates to Mount Saint Joseph's Abbey.

• Mount Saint Joseph College, church/chapel, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell Catholic chapel, built in 1940 within the grounds of Mount Saint Joseph College. Joined to school by corridor. Four-bay nave with triple-pile transepts, canted-bay apse and sacristy to north. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and carved stone cross to southern gable. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof to sacristy. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with chamfered plinth course, tooled quoins and corbelled eaves course. Pointed-arched openings with moulded reveals, stone tracery, stained glass and hoodmouldings. Timber battened doors with cast-iron door furniture. Stone plaque to exterior of apse reads: 'DOM SUB INVOCATIONE DEIPARAE IMMACULATE REGINAE VIRGINUM AD MCMXL'. Pointed-arched arcading with octagonal columns divide nave and transepts. Gallery to rear of nave accessed by timber stairs. Timber doors to porch with stained glass. Glazed terracotta tiles to porch. Stone stoops to porch. Corridor links church to school.

• Mount Saint Joseph College, sports hall/centre/gymnasium, 1930–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey former sports pavilion, built c.1940, with central clock tower, flanking entrance porches and shower-block to south. Now disused. Set within grounds of Mount Saint Joseph College. Flat roof hidden by castellated parapet. Pitched slate and corrugated sheeting roof with lantern to shower block. Rendered walls with string courses and plinth course. Metal casement windows with tooled stone sills. Replacement glazed aluminium doors to porches. Timber battened doors to rear of shower block. Double handball alley abuts rear elevation. Glazed wall tiles and terrazzo floor to interior. Metal ceiling trusses and showers to shower-block. Concrete stairs with timber newel posts, handrails and wrought-iron balusters.

• Mount Saint Joseph College, school, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan nine-bay two-storey with attic secondary school or college, built in 1905, with central pedimented breakfront and projecting end bays. Located in Mount Saint Joseph Abbey complex. Slate mansard roof with terracotta crested ridge tiles, limestone chimneystacks and roof vent surmounted by spire. Rock-faced limestone walls with tooled limestone quoins, limestone corbelled cornice and parapet punctuated by decorative arches. Square-headed twin-lights to ground-floor within chamfered limestone surrounds and with continuous hoodmoulding. Pointed-arched window openings to first floor collected into triple and twin-lights with chamfered limestone surrounds, continuous sill course and hoodmouldings. Dormer windows to mansard roof with decorative finials. Tudor arched door opening set into projecting gabled entrance porch with timber panelled double doors with overlight and sidelight. Door accessed up limestone steps. Courtyard to rear of school enclosed by modern two-storey addition.

• Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, monastery, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan two-storey multiple-bay Gothic Revival Cistercian monastery, built c.1905, with cloisters to rear and additional wing added. Incorporates outbuildings and yard of former Mount Heaton House to rear, built c.1800. Pitched slate roof to L-plan structure with bratishing, rock-faced limestone chimneystacks. Random coursed rock-faced limestone walls with buttresses. Statues to gable end of dormitory. Lancet windows with hoodmouldings and stained glass. Ringed cross to gable of dormitory. Extension to south with hipped slate roof, terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar limestone chimneystacks and corbelled eaves course. Rock-faced limestone walls. Timber sash windows with tooled stone surrounds. Terracotta pots to chimneystack. Two-storeys over raised basement. Steps rise to timber door with sidelights. Porch with battened timber door in pointed arched opening with hoodmoulding. Blind quatrefoil to south west side of dormitory L-plan. String courses incorporate hoodmoulding to L-plan. Sacristy to east with pointed arched opening, stone mullions creating five lancets. Stone crosses to gables apexes. Grave yard with metal crosses of monks. Stone Celtic crosses with metal and concrete enclosed by cast-iron railings piers with antefixes and crosses and trefoil-headed lattice work. Farmyard buildings with pitched slate roofs with brick chimneystacks. Random coursed stone walls and brick surrounds to timber sash windows. Set around a yard.

• Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c.1780, with bowed side elevations and altered front elevation with flanking three-stage towers and castellated entrance porch. Extensive remodeling works c.1960 with attic storey and modern extensions added to north and south and castellation and labels removed from front elevation. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with rusticated plinth course to front elevation. Limestone quoins and cornice to side and rear elevations. Square-headed window openings to front elevations with rendered surrounds, replacement timber casement and sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation with tooled limestone surrounds with keystones, limestone sills and timber sash windows. Steel windows to attic. Arched door opening to castellated porch with carved sandstone surround and timber double door accessed up limestone steps. Door opening to garden elevation comprises square-headed door opening flanked by sidelights with a limestone surround with keystones and accessed by steps flanked by cast-iron railings.

• Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, church/chapel, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform Catholic church, built in 1880, with eleven-bay nave, side aisles, apse and tower with spire added in 1935. Pitched slate roof with limestone coping, cast-iron rainwater goods and cross finial over entrance bay. Snecked rock-faced black limestone walls with buttresses. Pointed-arched window openings to side aisles and paired windows to clerestory with chamfered limestone reveals and stained glass windows. Lancet windows to apse. Triple lancet light to gabled entrance elevation. Pointed-arched door opening to projecting gabled entrance bay with recessed carved sandstone surround arranged in three orders. Main entrance is flanked by pointed-arched door openings to the side aisles. Tower with belfry, broach tower and pinnacles. Arcaded nave to interior.

• Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, farmyard complex, 1885–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex with ranges of single- and two-storey outbuildings enclosing yard, begun c.1888, with ranges built in 1905 and completed by 1917. Still in use as a farmyard. Yard accessed through arched openings to north-west and south-east of yard and surmounted by bellcote to south-east. Pitched slate roofs with limestone and red brick chimneystacks and roof vents. Random coursed walls with ashlar limestone dressings to carriage arch openings and some window and door openings. Variety of window openings including dormer windows and timber sash and cast-iron windows.

• Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, gate lodge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan three-bay two-storey gate lodge, built 1903, with single-storey bay and canted-bay window to front, full-height canted-bay window rear and extension to side. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and red brick chimneystacks and bargeboards to gables. Hipped slate roof to single-storey bay to front and lean-to slate roof to side extension. Ruled-and-lined render to walls. Timber casement windows. Porch set at an angle to front elevation with timber posts supporting lean-to roof. Replacement timber battened door. Limestone gate piers with wrought-iron gates, flanking ruled-and-lined rendered walls, cast-iron railings and stone wheel guards.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1676 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Mountheaton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Mountheaton · Baile Sceanach

Area

2,775,238 m² (277.52 ha, 685.78 acres)

Civil parish

Corbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Mountheaton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mountheaton electoral division: 665 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncracken (Co. Tipperary), Clybanane (Co. Tipperary), Clyduff, Lisnageeragh, Scorduff, Timeighter (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Mountheaton 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.