Tinnacross
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcullen, barony of Eglish, Co. Offaly; in Irish Tigh na Croise
- Area
- 27.5 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,165 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tinnacross, from 17 m² to 86,152 m² (8.62 ha, 21.29 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tinnacross 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
22 Jul 2022Conditional
A 10 YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON TWO SEPARATE AND DETACHED PARCELS OF LAND, PARCEL 1 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF CLONBEALE BEG GLEBE, RATHURE NORTH, WHILE PARCEL 2 IS LOCATED IN THE TOWNLAND OF PARKMORE. BOTH SEPARATE PARCELS WILL BE CONNECTED TO AN EXISTING PERMITTED SOLAR DEVELOPMENT UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REF: PL20/476 BY UNDERGROUND CABLES (WILL BE SUBJECT TO A SEPARATE STRATEGIC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CONSENT APPLICATION). EACH DETACHED PARCEL CONTAINING PV PANELS WILL BE LAID OUT IN ARRAYS OVER A TOTAL DEVELOPMENT AREA OF CA. 69HA, ALONG WITH ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING: 24 NO. POWER HUBS (CA. 15.25M2 X 2.4M) WHICH INCORPORATE AN INVERTER AND A TRANSFORMER, 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING (11.1M2 X 2.5M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY CLIENT SIDE SUB-STATION BUILDING (15.25M2 X 2.9M), 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY EQUIPMENT STORAGE BUILDING (7.5M2 X 2.7M), 1 NO. SINGLE STOREY GRP KIOSK (3M2 X 4M), 12 NO. CCTV CAMERAS MOUNTED ON 4M HIGH POLES, PERIMETER SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION
Permission · Offaly County Council, 22368
30 Aug 2021Conditional
THE INSTALLATION OF A ROOF TOP SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY (2476 SQ.M) AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON EXISTING MANUFACTURING FACILITY
Permission · Offaly County Council, 21536
8 Mar 2019Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING OFFICE/RETAIL BUILDING AT GROUND & FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 19100
20 Feb 2019N/a
ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING OFFICE/RETAIL BUILDING AT GROUND & FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 1960
1 Feb 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO ROOMS AT GROUND & FIRST FLOOR LEVEL, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1937
29 Aug 2018Conditional
1) EXISTING SITE WORKS COMPRISING OF, A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE OFF THE L003 PUBLIC ROAD, A NEW STAFF CAR-PARKING AREA, A NEW LORRY PARKING AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE ROADWAYS IN SO FAR AS THEY ARE COMPLETE. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO COMPLETE SAME. 2) PERMISSION IS SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A NEW WEIGHBRIDGE. 3) PERMISSION FOR EXTENSIONS TO THE NORTH-WEST AND NORTH-EAST OF EXISTING BUILDINGS TO COMPRISE GRAIN INTAKE BUILDINGS AND TRUCK LOADING AND PALLET STORAGE BUILDING
Retention · Offaly County Council, 18372
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 Tinnacross.
Recorded monuments
- OF030-021001 Church
Description
No surface remains visible of any church located to the rear of Tinnacross House. 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
- OF030-021002 Graveyard
Description
No surface remains visible of any graveyard located to the rear of Tinnacross House, Graveyard depicted on first edition of the OS six inch map with church site (OF030-021----) in centre of graveyard. 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
- Tinnacross House, farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1820, with return to rear and farmyard to rear site. Situated in its own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Variety of timber sash windows with stone sills. Projecting central entrance porch to façade with smooth rendered plinth surmounted by glazed panels with timber mullions and slate roof. Square-headed door opening to porch with glazed timber panelled door flanked by sidelights. Random coursed stone outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and timber battened doors surrounding rear yard. Roughcast rendered walls surround front garden accessed through wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rear site accessed through square-profile roughcast rendered gate piers. Main entrance with smooth rendered square-profile gate piers with wrought-iron gates and flanking quadrant walls.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tinnacross.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Tinnacross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Tinnacross · Tigh na Croise
- Area
- 274,738 m² (27.47 ha, 67.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcullen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eglish
- Electoral division
- Drumcullen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcullen electoral division: 454 people in 152 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonbeale Beg Glebe, Mullanafawnia, Raheenglass, Rathmount, Springfield, Thomastown Demesne
- Placenames
- Tinnacross 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.