Tymon South

369 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tymon South, from 2 m² to 71,040 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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.

• R2RES (Existing residential)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 358 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3DC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1OS (Open space, park)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3HA-DV (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3LC (District, neighbourhood centre)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Tymon South 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dodder Valley 000991

Recorded monuments

• DU022-103 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig (1973, 12)mentions an 18th century house callled Sally Park. This is a 4 bay, three storey building. It was the home of Handcock, the historian of Tallaght. It is thought to be pre-1740 in date (Pers comm Frank Myles 01 March 1999).

Architectural heritage

• Sally Park, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay three-storey Georgian country house, c.1770, now in use as a nursing home. Granite tetrastyle Doric entrance portico with offset double-leaf glazed timber door. Ground floor windows low sills, timber sashes. Upper floors mix of uPVC casement and timber sashes. Ground floor rendered below first floor sill course. Hipped slate roof with parapet. Two-storey wing to west with single Wyatt window on each floor. Seven-bay single-storey wing to east. West elevation has brick chimney stack flanked by lancet windows. North façade has modern stair tower. Grounds to north curtailed by concrete retaining wall due to road widening.

• Tymon South House, farm house, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey former farmstead, c.1810, now a domestic dwelling. Comprises two abutting domestic buildings, byre and two roofless barns, all surrounding cobbled courtyard. Front elevation has four windows set symmetrically about modern porch having door with moulded scrolls in timber surround. Plain window openings with metal casement windows set in roughcast elevations. Adjacent building has bow front with Wyatt window. Side elevations have plain windows and east has shallow lean-to roof over extension. Hipped slate roof with sprocketed eaves, two chimney stacks set axially, and other set transverse in adjacent building. Decorative iron garden entrance gate and dressed stone gate posts with flanking wall sections surmounted by railings.

• Carmelite Monastery of the Assumption, school, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former school, c.1868, now used as convent accommodation. Timber door and timber casement windows in lancet openings with red brick dressings, in coursed rubble wall. Dressed stone coping and kneelers, truncated gable finials. Gable end façades each with three lancets. Pitched slate roof with various rooflights inserted. Adjoining two-storey former stable buildings to south-west, converted to convent use. Cut stone gate piers.

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 Tymon South, about 1 in 20 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3153 (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.

No address of the register names Tymon South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Tymon South · Tigh Motháin Theas

Area

423,839 m² (42.38 ha, 104.73 acres)

Civil parish

Tallaght, and its townlands

Barony

Uppercross

Electoral division

Firhouse Village, the unit of the census

Census 2022

12,254 people lived in 3,945 households in the Firhouse Village electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycragh, Knocklyon, Tallaght, Templeogue

Placenames

Tymon South 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.