Tankardstown North

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tankardstown North, from 1,309 m² to 251,613 m² (25.16 ha, 62.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Tankardstown North 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.

• 17 Apr 2020Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning Ref. 15/39: the demolition of existing derelict dwelling and the construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207011

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  an extension to the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19917

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 Tankardstown North.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved pasture immediately E of townland boundary with Ballyhinnaught. Ring-ditch (LI047-107----) 85m to S. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. 27m) enclosed by a bank with external drainage channel from NW-E-SW. Outline of monument is visible as a circular-shaped area delimited by trees on aerial photograph ASIAP (372) 24 taken 10/05/2003 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 May 2021

• LI047-009 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Westropp (1906/7, 172-3) recorded the following details about Tankardstown [Baile Thancaird] Castle; '1280 Anne, widow of J. de Cogan, claimed dower off Tancardstown from J. de Penrys (Mem. R.). 1291 Balliitankard held by de Lees, de Goulys, and, in 1320, by the Russells, a suit arising as to whether J. de Cogan had unjustly disseised John, grandfather of Tho. Russell, of it (Plea R.). There was a Tancardus Russell, of Kilbreedy 1325 (Ib.). 1583 Jas. Fox held Ballytanckarde (Des. R., 33b). The C[astle]. is not given in the surveys of 1655. It was granted, 1666, to Capt. C. Ormsby. The site was called Caisleán Baile an Airighte, in 1840 (O.S.L., 8, p. 85)'. Tankardstown Castle depicted as a tower house type structure standing in the centre of a possible polygonal shaped bawn on the 1654-6 Down Survey map of Coshma Barony (Hib. Reg.). Annotated 'Tankardstowne Castle' on the Down Survey map of Tankardstown Parish (NLI, Ms 718). The terrier of the Down Survey parish map recorded that on the lands of Tankardstown there stood a 'decayed castle' which in 1640 was in the possession of Nell Lacy (nee FitzGerald) (ibid.). In 1840 the Ordnance Survey letters recorded that 'there was an old castle, the ancient name of which was "Caisleán Bhaile in Airighthe" in Tankardstown North Townland but not a vestige of it remains at present' (O'Flanagan 1929, 30). See attached Down Survey map of Coshma Barony and map of Tankardstown Parish. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 August 2021

• LI047-107 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture with possible ringfort (LI039-105----) to N. Cropmark of ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 May 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1850, with recent extensions to rear (west) elevation. Thatched roof having rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed openings having concrete sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening with timber panelled door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north having single-leaf metal gate and rendered boundary walls with render copings.

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 Tankardstown North, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

No address of the register names Tankardstown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Tankardstown North · Baile Thancaird Thuaidh

Area

1,737,645 m² (173.76 ha, 429.38 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Bruree, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygubba North, Ballygubba South, Ballyhinnaught, Clogher East, Knocksouna, Tankardstown South

Placenames

Tankardstown North 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.