St. Francisabbey

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in St. Francisabbey, from 68 m² to 12,637 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers St. Francisabbey 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  a) the construction of an extension to the rear of the hall consisting of a kitchen area and WCs and store, b) permission to demolish existing kitchen and store with all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660273

• 7 Jan 2026Conditional

  development at protected structure consisting of works to (1) the main roof, (2) the external rear walls, (3) the front door, (4) the rear bay-window, (5) the internal non-structural remodelling of ground floor kitchen and back-kitchen areas as per the architects drawing, (6) the existing dilapidated first floor joists over garage (bedroom 2,3) to be repaired - made level where dropped and new wall plate installed to conservation appropriate detail and floor over unheated garage to be insulated between and under joists as per the architects drawings, (7) all existing internal electrical system to be carefully removed and replaced, (8) and existing internal plumbing to be removed and replaced

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660006

• 17 Dec 2025N/a

  the development which will consist of: (1) Main Roof: Strip all non-original plastic gutters at eaves and replace all gutters with black colour alu-cast heritage-style half round gutters and down-pipes. Repair, or if necessary replace, existing lead flashings and cover flashings at chimneys and bay windows. Insulate at attic floor level with mineral wool insulation laid between and over the existing joists. (2) External Walls: Repair, or replace if necessary, damaged cementitious plaster. Carry out structural repairs to to any cracks or defects as detailed on Architect elevation drawings: Hack off loose, damaged or hollow areas of render and re- render to match original; clean and re-decorate. Provide all necessary lead flashings and cover flashings. (3) Front door: A conservation grade joiner/carpenter to be employed to make repairs to original single-glazed ornate fanlight over non-original front door. As secondary pane of glass to be neatly installed internally to provide adequate thermal break and draft exclusion. (4) Rear Bay-Window: Existing dilapidated PVC plastic bay window to kitchen is to be removed and disposed of. the existing 1.8m wide opening in rear wall is to be widened to 2.8m winder opening allowing for a needed dining area in kitchen at bay window. A conservation grade joiner/carpenter is to be employed to make new hardwood bay window to architect’s design. Bay-window supporting wall to be formed in English bonded red bricks set in pale cream colour lime mortar. Bay-window insulated roof dressed in Code 5 lead work by suitable skilled crafts-person. (5) New hardwood glazed back-door to replace non-original aluminium door. (6) Internal non-structural remodelling of ground floor kitchen and back-kitchen areas as per the architects drawings. (7) All existing internal electrical system to be carefully removed and replaced as per architects drawings and details. Care is to be taken to ensure no damage to important original features such as the plaster work to hallway ceiling and walls. In so far as is possible all new electrical will be housed in a secondary service zone behind new timber wainscotting. Chasing and drilling of original walls to be avoided. (8) All existing internal plumbing to be carefully removed and replaced as per architects drawings and details. Care is to be taken to ensure no damage to important original features such as the plaster work to hallway ceiling. The development will consist of work to a Protected Structu

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561321

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  a large scale residential development (LRD), the site is bounded at the South by the R691 Dualla Road, Crottys Lane to the North, undeveloped residential zoned lands to the West and private residences to the East boundary - the development will consist of the erection of 101 dwellings, a childcare facility, construction of a new roundabout and link road and ancillary works on a gross site area of 3.96ha. The proposed development will be accessed from the new roundabout on the R691 Dualla Road and is more specifically described as follows: • 12 no. one- bedroom maisonettes in two-storey semi-detached blocks, • 49 no. three-bedroom two storey semi-detached houses, • 2 no.three-bedroom two storey terraced houses, • 1 no four-bedroom two storey semi-detached house, • 11 no four-bedroom two storey detached houses, • 6no. two-bedroom two-storey terraced houses, • 9 no one-bedroom apartments and 11 no 2 bedroom apartments in a 3 storey building, • a childcare facility (Creche) gross floor space 240m2 , refuse stores and secure bicycle store all located within the ground floor of the apartment building, • 201 car parking spaces, (164 residential, and 37 for visitors and creche) , creche set down area, secure outdoor creche play area, 20 secure cycle spaces and 20 visitor cycle spaces (bicycle stand), • the proposed development will include new entrances leading onto the R691 Dualla Road to the South of the application site and L54151 Crotty’s Lane to the North, construction of a new link road between Dualla Road to the south of the application site and Crotty’s Lane to the North and alterations to the R691 Dualla Road to include new roundabout, new raised tables and pedestrian crossings, • private, communal and public landscaped amenity spaces, internal estate road network, pedestrian pavement network including new internal pedestrian pavements extending to the North and South boundaries of the proposal, inter-site boundary walls and fences, new site boundary walls and fences, undergrounding of existing overhead electricity supply cables traversing the development site, erection of a new ESB sub station, public lighting, public drainage and water services connections and associated site development works

  Permission, 81 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2361010

• 5 Jul 2022Conditional

  a two storey extension to the south of the existing school.The extension will consist of the provision of link corridor to the existing school, general classrooms, technology rooms, ancillary accommodation, external play areas, sensory garden, ballcourt and additional car parking spaces along with associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260345

• 28 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission to erect a plaque to the memory of Cumann na mBan and all the other valiant, patriotic women who participated in the for a free Ireland

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22260

• 9 Aug 2019Conditional

  alterations to the roof of the boiler house, store room and toilet at the rear of the church; re-covering of the roof of the Sacristy which is attached to the roof to be altered; replacement of decayed timber floor in the store and toilet; alterations within store room and toilet to create new WC changing area; adjustment to external ground levels and provision of French drain at base of wall and all associated site and ancillary works, all within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600878

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 St. Francisabbey.

Recorded monuments

• TS061-025008 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  E of Friar Street and outside the southern end of the E length of the medieval town wall (TS061-025023-). The site is currently occupied by an RC Church and a former Convent complex. The friary, also known as Hacket's Abbey, was founded in c. 1265 by Lord William Hacket for the Conventual Franciscans (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 244). The foundation became Observant in 1538 and in the same year the Archbishop of Cashel Edmund Butler obtained the friary for a small rent (ibid.). During the course of the dissolution of monasteries, the Cashel friary was seized, but the friars were apparently allowed to stay on (ibid.). An inquisition of the 7th April 1540 described the precinct as comprising a church and steeple, dormitory, hall, four chambers, kitchen and two gardens, one acre, all in a ruinous state and not valued; the possessions included 18 messuages and gardens, and 16 acres of land, valued at £3 10s. 2d.(ibid.). The friars finally abandoned the premises in c. 1550 (ibid.). There are no extant structural remains of the Franciscan Friary. An 18th-century illustration (Grose 1791 (reprint 1982), 47-8) shows the friary church from the SE, with three tall lancet windows in the E gable and sequential lancets in the S wall of the chancel, though the most easterly appears enlarged with a segmental head. The partial E wall of a S transept is depicted, as well as the S gable and E wall of a possible side chapel, W of the transept. This side chapel is shown with a three-light traceried window with hood-moulding in the S gable. The text accompanying the sketch states that 'On the night of the 14th of February, 1757, the lofty and beautiful steeple of this church fell to the ground. This religious house was situate at the rear of Friar-street, and is now so much gone to ruin, that it is scarcely possible to trace the divisions of the building: what remains measures east and west, one hundred and fifty feet (45m) in length, and twenty-five (7.6m) in breadth; on the south side, opposite the centre of this range, is a small chapel, with niches for candles, and a handsome window. In the year 1781, the great east window and many other parts of the Abbey were pulled down, to employ the materials in private buildings.' In 1888 John Davis White noted that not a stone of the abbey was still standing, having been replaced by the modern Catholic church. He added that a 'stone coffin' (TS061-025077-), said to be that of Sir William Hackett, had been placed at the entrance to the church and was being used as a holy water recepticle. Other graveslabs and effigies from the Franciscan Friary have been moved to the C of I Catherdral of St. John the Baptist and to the Vicar's Choral on the Rock of Cashel. There are several architectural fragments visible in the external face of the RC church boundary wall. Two limestone capitals (TS083-019104-; TS083-019105-) from the friary, dating to the latter half of the 13th century, are currently stored in South Tipperary County Museum. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 February 2015

• TS061-025108 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  This effigy is reputedly from the 'Hackett Chapel' of the Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-). It is currently set into a limestone niche at the E end of the SE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock's graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). See TS061-025078- for a description of the tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 December 2011

• TS061-025109 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  This effigy probably came from the Hackett chapel in the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) c. 100m to the NE. It is currently set into a limestone niche at the E end of the NE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). See TS061-025086- for a description of the tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 December 2011

• TS061-025110 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  The effigy probaly came from the Hackett chapel in the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) c. 100m to the NE. It is currently set into a limestone niche at the S end of the SW boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). See TS061-025087- for a description of the tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 December 2011

• TS061-025111 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  This effigy probably come from the Hackett chapel of the nearby Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-). It is currently set into a limestone niche at the S end of the SW boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). See TS061-025088- for a description of the tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 20 December 2011

• TS061-025152 Graveslab
  Description

  Originally from the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) in the town of Cashel. The graveslab is currently housed in the Vicars Choral on the Rock of Cashel. It is described under the entry (TS061-025079-) where it is presently located. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 January 2012

• TS061-025154 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Incorporated in the external face of the S wall of the graveyard of the R. C. church which occupies the site of the former Franciscan friary (TS061-019008-). A sandstone fragment with moulding along one edge and the surface is dressed with diagonal tooling. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 February 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with integral carriageway to south end of front elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and render eaves course. Painted rendered walls with render plinth and quoins. Roughcast rendered walls to southwest gable. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills, replacement uPVC windows and render surrounds comprising panelled pilasters, moulded consoles, decorative friezes, dentillated cornices and pediments. Square-headed door opening to north end of façade with replacement timber door, cobweb over-light, concrete step, and render surround comprising fluted pilasters and consoles, decorative frieze, dentillated cornice and pediment. Square-headed integral carriageway, now partially blocked, with metal panelled door.

• Convent/nunnery, 1825–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan former convent complex, built c.1830, and chapel added 1865 and enlarged 1885. Now in use as nursing home. Comprises six-bay three-storey central block with glazed porch addition, flanked by slightly-advanced gable-fronted blocks, that to northwest being eleven-bay and three-storey, rear-most four bays projecting slightly, and southeast chapel block having nine-bay double-height nave. Square-plan three-storey tower with rendered double bell-cote to rear of centre block, recent single-bay three-storey addition to northwest block with lean-to roof, and L-plan multiple-bay single-storey hipped roof addition along northwest side of chapel. Gable-fronted glazed-roof and slate porches to principal and northwest elevations respectively, with recent conservatory to latter. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Carved limestone cross finials and dressed limestone coping to gable-fronts and carved limestone and timber cross finials to porches. Carved limestone and cast-iron cross finials and dressed limestone coping to chapel gables. Snecked dressed limestone walls to gable-fronts, having dressed limestone quoins and plinths, chapel also having moulded limestone string course at first floor sill level and limestone plat-band to front and dressed limestone diagonal buttresses to northeast gable. All other walls are rendered. Front façade of centre block has square-headed window openings with render block-and-start surrounds and keystones, rear has camber-headed windows to second floor and square-headed elsewhere, all windows having limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground and first floors and three-over-six pane to second floor. Northwest block has pointed segmental-headed window openings throughout with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, having cut limestone voussoirs and painted chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds to gable-front and square-headed windows with similar frames to tower. Multi-foil opening to upper part of gable-front, with stained-glass window, painted stone surround and pointed relieving arch above having cut limestone voussoirs. Chapel has pointed-arch openings with stained-glass windows and having chamfered stone block-and-start surrounds and carved stone hood-mouldings to gable-front, with tracery to latter consisting of ogee-headed lights with trefoil lights over. Carved limestone trefoil windows set into plat-band of gable-front. Bull's eye window to upper part of gable-front with painted stone chamfered surround, stained glass and carved limestone hood-moulding. Trefoil openings to upper gables of chapel side walls. Single-storey addition to side of chapel has pointed segmental-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, some barred. Front porch has glazed timber sides on concrete plinths with coloured glazing, some Y-tracery and decorative carved timber bargeboards. Pointed segmental-arch opening to gable-front of northwest block with timber panelled door, paned over-light, painted chamfered stone block-and-start surround and cut limestone voussoirs above. Square-headed opening to front porch with replacement half-glazed timber door. Segmental-headed opening to tower to rear of centre block with replacement timber door and spoked fanlight. Chapel has pointed arch opening with decoratively chamfered dressed limestone surround, carved limestone hood-moulding and timber battened double-leaf door with decorative strap hinges. Entrance gates comprise chamfered cut limestone piers with carved limestone caps and plinths with cast-iron gates and having decorative wrought-iron arch above.

• Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1770–1855 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built 1772-1804, re-fronted 1850, with ten-bay double-height nave elevations, single-bay double-height chancel, five-bay entrance front with slightly-advanced arcaded three-bay pedimented gable-front with two-stage clock tower above. Flight of limestone steps to entrance front. Canted projection and three-bay single-storey addition to south side elevation, latter with recent timber entrance porch, multiple-bay single-storey sacristy extension to chancel end with hipped roof. Pitched slate roofs to main building with dressed limestone eaves course to side walls of nave, cast-iron rainwater goods and having rendered chimneystack to chancel gable. Tower has square-plan cut limestone base with metal clock faces, cut limestone cornice with round-plan drum over, having fluted pilasters separating window openings and having ornate capitals, and domed metal roof with decorative cast-iron cross finial. Flat roofs to front end bays with carved limestone balustraded parapet walls, carved limestone cornice and frieze with gilded lettering. Carved limestone pediment to gable-front with enamelled and gilded tympanum and carved limestone modillions and having dressed limestone frieze with gilded lettering below. Dressed limestone coping and cross finial to south extension. Dressed limestone walls with dressed limestone plinth to front elevation and ruled-and-lined rendered walls to side and rear elevations. Square-headed recessed panel detailing to upper storey of gable-front with carved limestone engaged balustrade and string course below and having round-headed blind windows, single-light to centre, flanked by double-lights, having engaged marble colonnettes with carved plinths and capitals, carved limestone archivolts, with mosaic of Crucifixion to middle light. Enamelled and gilded panels below, above and dividing blind windows. Rectangular enamelled panels to upper part of flanking bays of front elevation. Round-arch openings to arcade of gable-front, with carved limestone archivolts and separated by square-plan piers with carved limestone impost course and dressed limestone plinths. Nave elevations have round-headed window openings to upper part and cambered to lower, with limestone sills and stained-glass windows. Dressed limestone voussoirs to windows of front ends of nave elevations. Triple lancet windows to chancel with carved limestone hood-mouldings and stained-glass windows. Square-headed openings to tower with metal louvers. Round-headed openings to inner side of arcade with timber panelled double-leaf doors, fanlights, dressed limestone plinth blocks and chamfered limestone surrounds and voussoirs. Square-headed openings to end bays of entrance front with carved limestone pediments having enamelled and gilded tympanums, carved limestone surrounds with dressed limestone plinth blocks and having timber panelled doors. Ornate interior has arcaded side aisles with square-profile columns, arcaded galleries above with round columns, panelled timber parapets and having semi-circular panels above. Stations of the Cross and statues to piers of arcade. Coffered timber ceilings, ornate carved marble reredos and altar, gilded walls to chancel and stained-glass windows. Graveyard to site.

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 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 low. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

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

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 St. Francisabbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

St. Francisabbey · Mainistir Phroinsias

Area

50,516 m² (5.05 ha, 12.48 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,652 people lived in 1,039 households in the Cashel Urban electoral division. 47% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cashel, Hughes'-Lot East, Ladys Well

Placenames

St. Francisabbey 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.