Tooracurragh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tooracurragh, from 187 m² to 267,239 m² (26.72 ha, 66.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Tooracurragh 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.

• 7 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18530

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• WA005-012 Ogham stone (present location)
  Description

  An ogham stone (grit, 1.32 x 0.38 x 0.28m; see WA005-014003-), originally from the central structure at Tooracurragh church site (WA005-014001-) and known as the 'stone of Formach' (Lyons 1946), is now at a nearby farmhouse. The inscription was read by Macalister (1945, 291, no. 301) as DOMOKI. It also has a cart-wheel design in false relief and an incised Latin cross. (Moore 1999, 1500) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 12 August 2016

• WA005-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 55m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and situated on the shoulder of a N-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims. 50m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by a curved field wall N-SE, an internal scarp SE-SW and an external scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) W-N. There is no visible entrance. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 27th July, 2010.

• WA005-014001 Church
  Description

  Located on a gentle N-NE-facing slope. This is an early ecclesiastical site. The church is marked as a rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) within a large subrectangular field (dims. c. 145m NE-SW; c. 120m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The church is now reduced to a low mound (diam. c. 20m; H c. 0.5m) within an oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 165m N-S; c. 115m E-W) defined by a curved field bank NW-NE, a straightened field bank NE-SE, a low scarp (H 0.5m) and outer berm (Wth 15m) SE-S and a destroyed field bank S-NW. An ogham stone, which has been read as DOMOKI (Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 191), was moved from the central structure c. 1880 to a nearby farmhouse (WA005-012----). (Power 1923; Lyons 1946) Lyons, P. (1946) Notes - The stone of Formach, JCHAS 51, 85-6. Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) (reprint 1949) Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Stationery Office, Dublin. Power, Rev. P (1923) Miscellanea - An early inscribed pillar at Tooracurragh, Co. Waterford. JRSAI 53, 196-7. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 October 2010

• WA005-014002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-NE-facing slope. This is an early ecclesiastical site. The church (WA005-014001-) is now reduced to a low mound (diam. c. 20m; H c. 0.5m) within an oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 165m N-S; c. 115m E-W) defined by a curved field bank NW-NE, a straightened field bank NE-SE, a low scarp (H 0.5m) and outer berm (Wth 15m) SE-S and a destroyed field bank S-NW. An ogham stone (WA005-014003-) was moved from the central structure c. 1880 to a nearby farmhouse (WA005-012----). (Power 1923; Lyons 1946) Lyons, P. (1946) Notes - The stone of Formach, JCHAS 51, 85-6. Power, Rev. P (1923) Miscellanea - An early inscribed pillar at Tooracurragh, Co. Waterford. JRSAI 53, 196-7. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 22nd October, 2010.

• WA005-014003 Ogham stone
  Description

  Situated on a gentle N-NE-facing slope. An ogham stone (grit, 1.32 x 0.38 x 0.28m), which has been read as DOMOKI (Macalister 1945, 291, no. 301), was moved from the central structure of church (WA005-014001-) c. 1880 to a nearby farmhouse (WA005-012----). 'It [also] bears what is apparently intended to be an equal-armed cross pattée in cavo rilievo, with pellets on the arms, enclosed in a circle, as well as a Latin cross with a crescent-shaped expansion at the base' (Macalister 1945, 291, no. 301). (Moore 1999, 1500) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 23 July 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tooracurragh.

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 Tooracurragh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tooracurragh.

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 Tooracurragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Tooracurragh · Tuar an Churraigh

Area

836,986 m² (83.7 ha, 206.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilronan (Clonmel No. 2 Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Glenahiry

Electoral division

Graignagower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 201 households in the Graignagower electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barranashingaun, Deerpark, Deerpark Mountain, Kilcreggane, Kilgreany

Placenames

Tooracurragh 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.