Birchhill

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birchhill, from 12 m² to 148,160 m² (14.82 ha, 36.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Birchhill 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.

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  Construct a slatted cubicle shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600806

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

• TN040-014 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a low hill at the W edge of boggy, marshy, low-lying land. Indicated as an oval enclosure with trees growing around the edge on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the 1953 revision. Not visible at ground level - the field boundaries have been altered making the exact location of the site difficult to ascertain. 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 Birchhill.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Birchhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Birchhill · Cnocán Bhoirne

Area

1,129,238 m² (112.92 ha, 279.04 acres)

Civil parish

Templebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Ballycahill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycahill electoral division: 424 people in 153 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlefogarty, Clon Beg, Drumminnagleagh, Knockane, Knockaneroe, Pallashill, Roskeen North, Rosmult

Placenames

Birchhill 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.