Birchgrove

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Birchgrove, from 41 m² to 39,034 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 28 Oct 2021Conditional

  a change of use from current office use to light industrial use with associated offices to the existing detached outbuilding (Annex 2) and provision of an electric compressor to the front left of the property, which will be housed within a sound proofed enclosure. This (Annex 2) building is to the rear of Birchgrove House (recorded protected structure REF S94). No material changes to the existing building are proposed either internally or externally

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211584

• 21 Oct 2021N/a

  change of use, from current office use to light industrial use with associated offices to the existing detached outbuilding (Annex 2) and provision of an electric compressor to the front left of the property, which will be housed within a sound proofed enclosure, this (Annex 2) building is to the rear of Birchgrove House (Recorded Protected Structure REF S94) no material or structural changes to the existing building are proposed either internally or externally

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211547

• 5 Oct 2021N/a

  change of use from current office use to light industrial use with associated offices to the existing detached outbuilding (Annex 2) and provision of an electric compressor to the front left of the property, which will be housed within a sound proofed enclosure, the Annex 2 building is to the rear of recorded Protected Structure ref S94, no material or structural changes to the existing building are proposed either internally or externally

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211467

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 Birchgrove.

Recorded monuments

• TN012-012 Architectural feature
  Description

  Situated in garden wall SE of Birchgrove Hse. Fragments consist of reconstructed pointed with roll and hollow mouldings in chamfer of doorway which narrows towards base. Pointed hood-moulding over doorway terminates in fluted chamfer-stop, N stop is better preserved. Doorway rests on stone plinth. Pock-dressing on inner face of jambs. Doorway appears to have been accurately reassembled when taken from its original late fifteenth/sixteenth century building of origin. Doorway 0.9m wide and 2.13m high above ground, actual height of doorway c.1.9m. Doorway of sandstone with one small section of jamb of limestone. According to Lewis's Topographical Dictionary the doorway was taken from the Woman's Church at Mona Incha (Jackson 1939, 46-7, Plate IX). On either side of the doorway there is a frag. of tracery and above the doorway there is a sandstone jamb with slight curve and chamfered edge. Tracery also appears to be of sandstone. Other loose architectural frags. mentioned in Jackson's article (ibid) have been taken into Damer House, Roscrea TN012-010003. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Birchgrove House, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey over basement country house, with central pedimented breakfront, built c.1730, having Ionic portico addition approached by flight of steps. Two-storey over basement two-bay addition to west with shallow bow to front and tower on bowed central bay of west gable, c.1830. Two bows and return to north elevation. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and with ogee-shaped lead dome to tower. Rubble sandstone walls with sandstone quoins. Square-headed openings and with loops to westernmost bay. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors of front, three-over-three to second floor and varied to rear, all with limestone sills having ashlar sandstone Gibbsian surrounds and Gothic-style timber glazed window having stained glass details to the bowed bay and with brick dressings to windows in west gable. Timber panelled double-leaf door with glazed cast-iron panels and flanked by niches. Extensive single-storey and two-storey outbuildings to north having hipped slate roofs. Remains of walled garden to south with sandstone store house, and four brick kilns.

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 Birchgrove, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1746 (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 Birchgrove with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Birchgrove · Garrán an Bhirsigh

Area

257,157 m² (25.72 ha, 63.54 acres)

Civil parish

Corbally, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Roscrea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,606 people lived in 2,431 households in the Roscrea electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Benamore, Corville, Monaincha, Verdanthill

Placenames

Birchgrove 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.