Thornfield

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thornfield, from 342 m² to 97,184 m² (9.72 ha, 24.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Thornfield 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Thornfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Thornfield.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thornfield.

Architectural heritage

• Thornfield House, country house, 1800–1814 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over basement country house, extant 1814, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay-two storey on a square plan centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to ground floor; three-bay (three- or four-bay deep) two-storey wing (north) on a square plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks including paired rendered central chimney stacks (east) having stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Square-headed door opening within prostyle distyle Doric portico approached by flight of three cut-limestone steps with columns on padstones having responsive pilasters supporting ogee-detailed cornice on triglyph-detailed frieze on entablature below blocking course, and moulded rendered surround framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings ("cheeks") with cut-limestone sills, and moulded rendered surrounds framing timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed central door opening (east) with ceramic tiled threshold, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having one-over-one sidelights. Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter having stringcourses below conical capping supporting wrought iron gate.

• Thornfield House, laundry, 1855–1901 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey laundry, extant 1901, on a rectangular plan; single-bay two-storey recessed end bay abutting single-bay three-stage tower (north) on a square plan. Hipped gabled and pitched slate roof with clay or terracotta ridge tiles, red brick Running bond "wallhead" chimney stack (west) having red brick capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters; pyramidal slate roof (tower), clay or terracotta ridge tiles with weathervane to apex, and no rainwater goods on decorative timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick flush quoins to corners. Square-headed door opening (south) with red brick block-and-start surround framing timber boarded door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Set in grounds shared with Thornfield House.

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

At the centre of the townland of Thornfield, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1089 (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.

• Thornfield, Ashbourne Avenue10 sales

Name

Thornfield · An Seanmhaigh

Area

413,535 m² (41.35 ha, 102.19 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Biddyford, Clyduff West, Knockbrack East, Knockbrack West, Laghtane East, Laghtane West, Raheen, Rivers

Placenames

Thornfield 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.