Pallas More
Pallas More is a townland in the civil parish of Youghalarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Phailís Mhór.
Parcel 2951628
- Area
- 219,404 m² (21.94 ha, 54.22 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,140 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Pallas More
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- TN020-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NNE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a ringfort (TN020-017) to the NE. A circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2m) with no entrance feature visible. Site covered in dense vegetaton making detailed examination impossible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 233.2 ha
- 576 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 7,605 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallas More, from 216 m² to 395,031 m² (39.5 ha, 97.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Pallas More 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
9 Aug 2024Conditional
a single-storey detached dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, realignment of existing access laneway, site entrance, repositioning agricultural access gate and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460656
10 Nov 2023Conditional
a single storey/storey and a half style dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and all associated site works including demolition of existing derelict dwelling and out buildings
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 23285
29 Aug 2023N/a
a single storey/storey and a half style dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and all associated site works including demolition of existing derelict dwelling and out buildings
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23230
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 Pallas More.
Recorded monuments
- TN020-010 Moated site
Description
Situated on flat pasture in an upland area. A well-preserved moated site consisting of a raised square platform (dims. 30m x 30m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.5m) with a wide, flat-bottomed, waterlogged fosse (Wth 6m; D 2.3m) and possible traces of an outer bank. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2.8m) midway along the SE side. A stone wall (T 0.9m) along the SE side of the entrance may indicate a stone bridge. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a N-facing slope of rising ground an upland area with a ringfort (TN020-018) to the SW. A circular area (diam. 22m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) visible from S to W where it acts as a field boundary, elsewhere reduced to a scarp. No entrance feature visible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NNE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a ringfort (TN020-017) to the NE. A circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2m) with no entrance feature visible. Site covered in dense vegetaton making detailed examination impossible. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-022001 Church
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area with a children's burial ground (TN020-022002-) located inside the walled graveyard which encloses the medieval church. The overgrown church and graveyard overlooks Newtown River located 230m to the E. The site of Pallas Castle also known as Shesheraghnacaslane (TN020-024001-) is 590m to the SW and Knocknacrohy Hill is 640m to the W. In 1840 the OS letters recorded that this hill was called, ‘Cnoc na Croiche, that is “Gallows Hill”, from the circumstance of a gallows having been erected there formerly for hanging culprits thereon. The spot whereon the gallows stood is till shewn, is of a circular form and remains untilled and covered. The gallows, according to local information, consisted of two sticks both of which were fixed in the extremity of the circular spot; and another stick placed across the top (O’Flanagan 1923, vol. 3, 16). Pallas church is not indicated on the 1654-56 Down Survey map of Youghal parish which depicts Pallas Castle in the area indicated on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Gleeson recorded the name of this church as ‘Teampuillin’ (Gleeson 1951, 97). In 1840, Thomas O’Conor wrote in the OS letters that the patron saint of this parish is, ‘Saint Cunlan, whose well (TN014-044001-) is situated in Youghal Village. His festival, as well as can be learned from the people, fell on 25th or 29th July. Some say it took place eleven days before the 1st August; if so, is should fall on the 20th or probably the 19th of July. His Crozier, or Bachall Chunnlain, was kept in the possession of a family of the Hogans. It was in the hands of the grandfather and father of Denis Hogan, who is a tailor, and lives in the townland of Creggane, about one mile south-south-east from Youghal Village, and in Youghal Parish. It is said that Dennis himself is in possession of this relic at present. It is described as being made of wood with a brass image on it’ (O’Flanagan 1923, vol. 3, 17). The present poorly preserved remains consist of only the E half of a small rectangular chapel (ext. dims. 6.95m N-S; 5m E-W; wall T 1.02m) possibly of early medieval date constructed with intermittently coursed rubble stone. A punch dressed limestone sill and single chamfered jambstone are all that remains of a single-light window visible in the E wall. A small spud stone visible on the inner face of the window sill supported an internal wooden shutter for this unglazed window. A large gap in the entre of the N wall of the church may be the remains of a broken out window. Internally there is a small aumbry at the E end of the S wall and at the S end of the E wall. Only a short section of the NW angle of the chapel walls remain upstanding with low wall footings marking the outline of the W wall of the church with no remains visible of the destroyed S wall of the chapel. Small low ivy-covered orthostats to the S and E of the church may indicate a possible burial area. The church and the overgrown graveyard (TN020-022003-) now covered with dense vegetation is enclosed by a low earth and stone bank on top of which there is a poorly preserved 19th century stone wall with evidence of a stile giving access to the graveyard on the E side of the wall. Gleeson recorded that ‘The first few courses of masonry near the ground suggest a building of 12th century but there is no identifiable feature of that period. There is a 15th cent. E. window with an aumbry and piscina’ (Gleeson 1951, 97). According to Gleeson this church ‘may have been a ‘disert’ reconstructed in the 15th century as an oratory or domestic chapel of the Mac Ui Briains, one of whose seats was at ‘The Pallas’ (Gleeson 1951, 97). In 1840 the OS letters described the condition of the church whe it recorded that the , ‘ruins are situated on a round hillock like an earthen moat of considerable extent. The Church was an oblong building and was constructed of grit stone and lime and sand mortar. On the interior part of the wall that remain some of the stones are quadrangular shaped and long; and others, but the fewer in number, are shapeless or polygonal and small. The exterior of the part of south side wall that now remains exhibits a structure of long and quadrangular shaped stones all with very little exception. The exterior of the west gable presents a structure partly of the same kind of stones as to shape and size; but for the most part of stones of smaller size. Some are long and thin, some small and some are shapeless or polygonal. The south east corner outside is destroyed, and part of the east gable at the ground at north east corner. The small portion of the north wall remaining joined to east gable exhibits on exterior a structure similar to that of exterior of east gable just noticed. The ruin now consists of the east gable reduced in height in the highest part to the original height of south side wall as seen at present. Some parts of the gable are lower than the height of the side wall just mentioned. Of the south side wall attached to east gable, partly retaining its original height just now remarked. Of a small bit of north side wall attached to east gable. The remainder of the side walls and the whole of west gable are demolished to the foundation, with the exception of two small bits of the west gable and north side wall, one of each forming the northwest angle, and about three feet [0.9m] in height on the exterior of the whole length of west gable (at the foundation). The portion of gable at north side wall remarked above as forming with it the north west angle is about five feet [1.5m] high on exterior. The structure here appears of comparatively large stones. The foundations of all the walls that fell are, however, perfectly traceable, so as to determine in connection with the walls above remarked as remaining, the original length and breadth of the building. The length of the edifice was thirty one feet [9.4m]. The breadth was eighteen feet [5.47m]. Height of the part of south side wall now remaining, is on the interior eight feet at highest part to west. Thickness of it is three feet two inches [0.95m]. Length of the part of south wall now remaining is sixteen feet [4.85m]. Height of bits of walls in north west angle is four feet [1.2m] on interior. The west bit measures near six feet [1.8m] in length on the interior; north bit measures five feet [1.5m] in length on same side. Length of north wall attached to east gable is on the interior near four feet [1.2m] below. Height of it is seven feet [2.1m] on interior. Thickness of it is three feet [0.9m]. On the exterior the structure of north wall runs to near middle of the building. The part of it jointed to and continued from the portion just above remarked as attached to east gable, is no more than three feet [0.9m] in height, which height it gradually loses till it terminates in length at the middle of the building as above remarked. On east gable was a window all destroyed on inside, the wall being broken on each side and under and demolished above from top. On outside it is constructed of chiselled grit stone of greyish brown colour, and is curvilineally pointed. It is placed four feet four inches [1.3m] on this side from the ground, and is five and a half inches [0.14m] broad, and three feet ten inches [1.15m ] high. Apertures are broken through the wall under the window, seen on both sides, exterior and interior. There was a window on south side wall now broken to near the bottom, being opened at top. Two stones, one each side, remain outside, resting on the bottom stone. The three are chiselled grit. It was masonwork inside where reddish brown grit stone is seen. Between it and east gable is in south wall also a quadrangular recess of the same kind of stone the one side of which is very close to east gable. Just at it is a small quadrangular recess of same kind of stone in east gable. There is a burial here. Some rude stones set in the
- TN020-022002 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area. A church (TN020-022001) and graveyard (TN020:022003) are located on a hilltop immediately to the W. There are no visible remains of any grave-markers in the area. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-022003 Graveyard
Description
Situated on high ground in an upland area with a children's burial ground (TN020:022002) immediately to the E. The present remains consist of only the E half of a small rectangular church (TN020-022001) constructed with coursed sandstone blocks. There is a destroyed window visible in the E wall and only the chamfered sillstone of a single light visible at the E end of the S wall. Internally there is a small aumbry at the E end of the S wall and at the S end of the E wall. Small orthostats to the S of the church may indicate a possible burial area. The church and graveyard (TN020-022003) is enclosed by a low earth and stone bank. Gleeson (1951-2, 97) describes the church as having a fifteenth-century E window with aumbry and piscina now destroyed. According to the OS Letters the church measured 31 ft (9.45m) long by 18ft (5.5m) wide with walls 3 ft (0.91m) thick (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 16-17). O'Hanlon describes a well-preserved building of which two gables survive to full height with partial remains of side-walls (Gleeson 1915, vol. 1, 263). He also noted that the wall construction was of fine ashlar masonry in a cyclopean fashion (ibid.) which might indicate an early date for this building. In the centre of the E gable there was a mullioned window with grotesque head carved over the window sill (ibid.). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN020-024001 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
Description
Situated on a natural ridge of rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'ruinous castle with the priviledge of a court leete and courte' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 141-2). Donogh O Bryen is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The OS Letters describe a water-filled moat with the wall-footings of castle on top of rock outcrop (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 14). The present remains consist of the collapsed masonry of a castle which was enclosed at its base on the W side by a rock-cut moat (TN020-024002-) with causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at WSW. Possible early medieval castle. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 16 January 2012
- TN020-024002 Bawn
Description
Situated on a natural ridge of rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'ruinous castle with the priviledge of a court leete and courte' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 141-2). Donogh O Bryen is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The OS Letters describe a water-filled moat with the wall-footings of castle on top of rock outcrop (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 14). The present remains consist of the collapsed masonry of a castle (TN020-024001-) which was enclosed at its base on the W side by a rock-cut moat (Wth 3.5m; ext. D 1.4m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at WSW. The rock cut-moat forms the enclosing defensive element of the bawn or courtyard of Pallas Castle. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 16 January 2012
- TN020-039001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the SE slope of a low hillock in an upland area with a fulacht fiadh (TN020-039002) to the SE. A circular area (diam. 27m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m) mainly reduced to a scarp with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.3m) and possible causewayed entrance (Wth 3.3m) at NE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
- TN020-039002 Fulacht fia
Description
Situated on flat poorly drained land in an upland area with a possible ringfort (TN020-039001) to the N. A poorly preserved, low, circular mound of burnt material (dims. 9m x 11m; H 0.4m), cut by a modern drain on a N-S axis revealing burnt material in both faces of the drain. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Pallas More.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Pallas More, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Pallas More.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Pallas More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Pallas More · An Phailís Mhór
- Area
- 2,332,147 m² (233.21 ha, 576.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Youghalarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Youghalarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,001 people lived in 346 households in the Youghalarra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymoylin, Boolaglass, Carrigmadden, Clashabreeda, Knockanfoil More, Knockannamohilly, Pallas Beg
- Placenames
- Pallas More 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.