Townparks

384 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townparks, from 2 m² to 30,132 m² (3.01 ha, 7.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M2Urban Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 180 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 175 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Regeneration (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  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.

• 14 Nov 2025Conditional

  (a) change of use from visitor centre/museum to café in the ground floor of the annex building, (b) internal alterations in the annex building, (c) reopening a previous window on the west elevation of the annex building, (d)reopening two former internal doors at first floor and second floor of the main Damer House, and (e) associated minor works and services. Damer House is a Protected Structure and is recorded on the Tipperary County Council record of protected structures (RPS No. TRPS924)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561156

• 9 Nov 2025Conditional

  alteration, renovation and extension of existing structure to the rear of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561133

• 1 Nov 2025Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling on site, build a new two storey building comprising of a doctor’s surgery including ancillary rooms and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561100

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  reconfiguration of the internal layout of the apartments, amalgamation of 3 studio apartments into a single 3 bed apartment, adding a small dormer extension to the rear of the property along with an additional roof light, installing PVs to the roof at the rear of the property, new high-level window to the rear courtyard gable wall. RETENTION PERMISSION is sought for the existing archway infill commercial unit

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561075

• 22 Sept 2025Conditional

  upgrades to the existing Roscrea WwTP and storm management system to comprise of the construction of a new inlet chamber (5.2m x 2.5m) and associated ducting, cable draw pits, control panels, realignment of existing boundary wall ground works and the provision of a PV Solar Array (36m2) on the existing sludge dewatering house, all at the existing Roscrea WwTP; decommissioning of 2 no. existing pipe bridges and construction of 4 no. pipe bridges (450mm diameter) across the River Bunow, construction of a retaining wall and ancillary works at Beechwalk; the decommissioning of an existing pipe and the construction of a gravity sewer at Beechwalk (66m); the decommissioning of the Storm Water Overflow, reuse of an existing pipe (14m) and the construction of a gravity sewer (205m) between Beechwalk and Cois Aglish connecting to the existing network; creation of a temporary entrance off the R491 to facilitate access to the proposed temporary construction compound adjacent to the existing Roscrea WwTP and all ancillary and associated temporary works to facilitate the development at the construction stage - A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560942

• 15 Sept 2025N/a

  The development applied for consists of: • Obtaining retention permission for the existing archway infill commercial unit. • Reconfiguration of the internal layout of the apartments. Amalgamation of 3 studio apartments into a single 3 bed apartment. • Adding a small dormer extension to the rear of the property along with an additional roof light. • Installing PVs to the roof at the rear of the property. • New high level window to the rear courtyard gable wall.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560908

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  completion for the installation of an electronic gateway and fencing and retention of on-site surface water drainage works and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560750

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  the change of use of existing premises from restaurant to restaurant and takeaway. The building is listed on the Register of Protected Structures (Number TRPS896)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560695

• 23 Jun 2025N/a

  change of use of existing premises from restaurant to restaurant and take away - the building is listed on the register of Protected Structures TRPS 896

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25120

• 29 May 2025N/a

  change of use of existing restaurant to restaurant and takeaway

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2590

• 18 Feb 2025Conditional

  1) installation of first floor to part of existing clubhouse, 2) internal alterations, 3) form new side entrance door and first floor window to east side elevation and 4) all associated site works and PERMISSION for RETENTION and completion of existing lean-to store at side of existing club

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560108

• 7 Jan 2025Conditional

  amendments to previous approved Planning Permission Ref. 22578, for (1) Demolition of (1a) Roscrea Motor Works (incorporating Milan Motors), Church Street, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, E53 CH02 including all below ground fuel tanks and forecourt fuel pumps (1b) 2 storey semi-detached unoccupied residential dwelling house known as Roseville, Lourdes Road, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, E53 Y596 (1c) 2 storey semi-detached residential unoccupied dwelling house known as Maryville, Lourdes Road, Roscrea, Co Tipperary and (1d) single storey detached shed building known as Wrennswood Fuels, Lourdes Road, Roscrea, Co Tipperary, E53 E798 (2) Residential development consisting of the construction of a three storey building accommodating 25 no. apartments comprised of 5 no. studio apartments, 15 no. one bedroom apartments, and 5 no. two bedroom apartments (3) A new vehicular entrance to the proposed development will be formed off Church Street (4) 15 car parking spaces and 15 bicycle parking spaces provided and (5) connections to all services and all ancillary site development works, amendments for which this Planning Application refers are (2) residential development consisting of the construction of a three storey building accommodating 22 no. apartments comprised of 8 no. studio apartments, 3 no. one bedroom apartments and 11 no. two bedroom duplex apartments

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560008

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  1) the renovation of an existing derelict houses, 2) the upgrade of an existing site entrance, 3) the connection to existing services and all associated site works (the proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure RC002)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460843

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) the renovation and conversion of part residential dwelling/commercial premises and the change of use to a Community Support and Care Centre; (2) the demolition of the existing storage shed to rear of property; (3) and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460301

• 23 Nov 2023Conditional

  change of use from cafe to take-away and pizzeria

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360928

• 28 Sept 2023Conditional

  location of existing dwelling house on the site, existing entrance, 2 no. windows to side elevation, front porch and existing sheds

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360776

• 23 Aug 2023Refused

  a change of use from residential to retail at ground floor level and the change of retail to residential at ground floor area and the change of use of bed & breakfast unit to 7 no. residential units on ground and first floor, including all associated site works and services

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 23225

• 26 Jul 2023N/a

  renovation and conversion of existing out houses to a residential dwelling, drainage, upgrade of existing site entrance, connection to existing services and all associated site works (the proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure RC002)

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360552

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling with a garage, connection to public services and all associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360381

• 9 Mar 2023Conditional

  change of use from the existing retail shop to a 2 bed four person residential unit and a new 2 bed three person residential unit to rear yard of property, connection to public utilities and associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360160

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  part demolition of existing shed & Permission for completion of demolition of existing shed & permission for construction of a single storey stone faced shed partially on the same footprint as the original shed all with ancillary site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260706

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  the change of use of existing premises from former shop (jewellers and gifts) to restaurant (coffee and ice cream) including the retention of existing shopfront, windows and alterations.

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260671

• 28 Sept 2022Conditional

  1) demolition of (1a) Roscrea Motor Works (incorporating Milan Motors) including all below ground fuel tanks and forecourt fuel pumps (1b) two storey semi-detached unoccupied residential dwelling house known as Roseville (1c) two storey semi-detached residential unoccupied dwelling house known as Maryville and (1d) single storey detached shed building known as Wrennswood Fuels, 2) construction of a three to five storey building accommodation 27 no. apartments comprised of 18 no. one bedroom apartments, 7 no. two bedroom apartments and 2 no. three bedroom apartments, 3) a new vehicular entrance to the proposed development off Church Street, 4) 9 car parking spaces and 10 bicycle parking spaces and 5) connections to all services and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 27 homes · Tipperary County Council, 22578

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  (a) the change of use from shop to restaurant on the ground floor of the building and the construction of a single storey extension to the rear all with ancillary site works and the development will consist of (b) Permission for the completion of the following- construction of the same single storey extension to the rear, formation of rear yards/amenity spaces and new boundary wall along Madden's Lane all with ancillary site works, the building is listed on the Register of Protected Structures (Number RC019)

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211893

• 10 Dec 2020Refused

  change of use of existing derelict storage building from commercial to residential use and renovation of same as new private dwelling house along with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201478

The 25 most recent of 47 applications.

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 Townparks.

Recorded monuments

• TN012-010 Historic town
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. Roscrea was originally an Early Christian monastic site (TN012-010001-/005-/006-) founded in the seventh century by St Cronán. In the early twelfth century, at the Synod of Rathbreasail, Roscrea was absorbed into the newly created diocese of Killaloe (Gleeson and Gwynn 1962, 62). Due to political pressure the separate diocese of Roscrea was created at the Synod of Kells in 1152, however, this was short-lived and the diocese of Roscrea was re-absorbed into Killaloe diocese at the end of the twelfth century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 192). The Romanesque church (TN012-010001-), round tower (TN012-010005-) and high cross (TN012-010006-) all date to the twelfth century. An unusual carved stone pillar (TN012-010011-), late eighth century in date (Roe 1967, 131-2), reflects the craftsmanship/activity of the earlier monastic period. In the early thirteenth century a motte (TN012-010008-) was erected on or near the site of the present castle (TN012-01007-) which was built towards the end of the thirteenth century, with rebuildings and modifications continuing up to the seventeenth century. An impressive early eighteenth-century house now occupies the centre of the bawn (TN012-010007-). There are references to an Augustinian foundation in the twelfth century but this does not appear to survive into the thirteenth century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 192). The Franciscan friary (TN012-010010) to the south of the town, was founded in the fifteenth century, probably by Maolruony na Feasoige who died in 1443. In 1399-1400 the reeve and community were amerced with representatives of other boroughs (Martin 1981, 49; COD, 1350-1413, vol. 2, 244). Monastic site Situated within the town of Roscrea. A monastery was founded at Roscrea by St Cronán in the seventh century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 43). The Book of Dimma and the Roscrea brooch, both of which are dated to the eighth century, are products of this monastery (Cunningham 1994, 29). His first foundation was at Sean Ros (TN012-014----) near Monaincha, however due to its inaccessibility to travellers and pilgrims, the church was moved to Roscrea which was located on the 'Slíghe Dála' (Gleeson and Gwynn 1962, 60). Archaeological remains from this period consist of a graveslab dedicated to Rechtabhra which has been dated to the ninth century (Petrie and Stokes 1878, 39) while the decorated stone known as the Roscrea pillar has been dated to the late eighth century (Roe 1967, 131-2). A cross-inscribed slab which has been recently identified in the walls of Roscrea castle may also have come from the nearby monastery. Other ecclesiastical remains at Roscrea are the Romanesque church, a round tower, a high cross and the Franciscan friary. In 2002 archaeological trenching at Demesne, Dublin Road carried out by Alan Hayden for a commercial development revealed no archaeological features. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 02E0331 (Bennett 2004, 481). Archaeological monitoring carried out in 2002 by Christopher Road for an extension to the Health centre at Roscrean revealed no archaeological features. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 02E0033 (Bennett 2004, 481-2). In 2002 archaeological monitoring carried out by John Channing for a residential development at Glentara, Roscrea revealed no archaeological features. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 02E0710 (Bennett 2004, 482). Archaeological monitoring carried out in 2002 by Stuart Elder at No. 10 Main Street Roscrea revealed no archaeological features. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 02E1676 (Bennett 2004, 482). In 2002 archaeological testing carried out by Billy Quinn for a residential development revealed at Glebe View, Roscrea, revealed evidence for nine tanning pits of 19th century date. This testing was carried out under Licence No. 01E1125 (Bennett 2004, 482). 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

• TN012-010001 Church
  Description

  National Monument No. 126. The earliest church building in the town of Roscrea is the twelfth-century church dedicated to St Cronán located directly opposite the round tower (TN012-010005-) and adjacent to the twelfth-century high cross (TN012-010006-). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a 'church and chancell downe' (Murphy 1914, 222). The church was in good repair and used for service until 1812 when it was largely demolished with only the W gable (ext. dims. 33ft (10m) N-S) and a short section of the nave surviving (Gleeson 1915, vol. 2, 370; Harbison 1970, 235). The highly decorated W gable consists of a central round-arched triple-ordered decorated doorway flanked on either side by two round-arched blind arcades. Over the doorway there is a triangular-shaped pediment containing a full-length figure with a rosette on either side. There appears to have been several more rosettes but unfortunately due to decay these have disappeared (Harbison 1970, 235). Triangular-shaped pediments decorated with chevron decoration exist over the blind arcades. Moulded antae project from the gable. At a later stage a bellcote was constructed on the apex of the gable. 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

• TN012-010002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated immediately E of St.Cronán's Romanesque church (TN012-010001) and presently surrounding the Church of Ireland church of St. Cronán's. The graveyard contains a number of architectural fragments. Also discovered in the graveyard were two cross-slabs (TN012-010004). In the S wall of the graveyard there are three fragments of roll-moulded stone, including one piece that is part of an arch. They measure 0.15m x 0.14m; 0.34m x 0.18m and 0.29m x 0.28m. At time of inspection there were also two loose architectural fragments on a nineteenth-century altar tomb adjacent to the W wall of the graveyard, north of St. Cronán's Romanesque church. Both are pieces of limestone tracery. One is decorated with linear chiselling in parallel lines along the chamfered faces and inner face, the edges being left free. There is a glazing-bar hole in the middle of the inner face. This fragment appears to have been embedded in a concrete wall as some concrete and lime mortar are still attached to it. It measures 0.34m x 0.14m and the chamfer is 0.13m wide. The other fragment is roughly dressed and it also appears to have been embedded in a concrete wall as concrete is still attached to one side. There are glazing slots on both inner faces. The tracery has a chamfered edge on both sides, inner and outer. It is 0.42m long, the surface is 0.16m x 0.12m. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A number of fragments from the Franciscan friary in Roscrea, formerly located in the gardens of Birchgrove Hse, E of the town, are on display in Damer House. These consist mainly of fragments of tracery from the E window of the friary and a cloister base (Jackson 1939, 46-7). There is also a carved fragment with a Romanesque chevron design which is thought to come from St. Cronán's Romanesque church in Roscrea (TN012-010001-). A pointed doorway, traditionally said to have come from the Woman's Church at Monaincha was also formerly at Brichgrove (ibid.). Another architectural fragment is located on the bridge over the River Moneen, which leads from the ruins of the Franciscan friary (TN012-010010-) to St. Cronán's R.C. church. It is at the S end of the W side of the parapet and consists of a limestone cloister base, 0.91m long and a max. of 0.42m wide. It originally formed part of the cloister associated with the Franciscan friary. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated immediately E of St. Cronán's Romanesque church (TN012-010001-) and presently surrounding the Church of Ireland church of St. Cronán's. The graveyard (TN012-010002-) contains a number of architectural fragments (TN012-010003-). Also discovered in the graveyard was one cross-slab and one inscribed stone (TN012-010004-; TN012-010015-). One, now in the National Museum, is a broken sandstone slab (0.55m x 0.44m x 0.05m) carved with a double-lined ringed cross carved in relief in a two-line frame (Crawford 1912, 240). There is an inscription under the ring of the cross which reads 'Rechtabra'. It has been dated to the ninth century (Petrie and Stokes 1878, vol. 2, 39). The other inscribed slab (TN012-010015-) is lost. It had an inscription in two lines "OROIT DO U CHERBAILL OROIT DO RIG ELE" (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 217). Described by Okasha and Forsyth as `The text is incised in three horizontal lines across the two quadrants below the cross-arms, between the ring and the bar. ... Enough of the upper quadrants survive to indicate that they were not inscribed' (Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 215). According to Petrie this name may perhaps be identified with that of the person mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters when in 898 AD the annals record the death of 'Reachtabhra, of Roscre, died' (Petrie 1878, 39). According to Okasha & Forsyth`The stone was found `in the churchyard of Roscrea' and was known in 1870 when it was drawn by a Miss Boxwell .. No further details of the circumstances of discovery are recorded. In 1878 it was in the possession of Stokes. It later formed part of the Royal Irish Academy's collection, which was transferred to the NMI in 1890' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 214). This slab is now housed in the National Museum of Ireland (Cat: reg. no. x2903). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010005 Round tower
  Description

  National Monument No. 126. Situated in the NE part of Roscrea town directly across from St Cronan's Romanesque church (TN012-010001-). In 1131/1135 the round tower was struck by lightning (Gleeson and Gwynn 1962, 63). An impressive well-preserved six-storey round tower (int. diam. 2.5m) constructed with coursed sandstone masonry supported on a basal plinth. At SE at first-floor level is a round-headed moulded doorway with an internal reveal for the door. There are three windows on the tower including two flat-headed single-lights at second and fourth-floor level and a triangular-headed window facing E at second-floor level. A single-masted ship is carved on the internal N jamb of the latter window (Barrow 1979, 189) with a possible belted cross on the opposite jamb (Stout 1984, 99). After the 1798 rebellion the tower was shortened by c. 6m by the army authorities after it had been used by snipers shooting at the castle (Harbison 1970, 235). According to Gleeson the tower was used as a belfry until the present C of I church was built in 1812 (Gleeson 1915, vol. 2, 372). 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

• TN012-010006 Cross - High cross (present location)
  Description

  National Monument No. 126. High Cross replica now stands in the grounds of St Cronán's C of I graveyard in Roscrea town with the Romanesque church (TN012-010001-) and round tower (TN012-010005-) to the S and W respectively. Original twelfth-century sandstone high cross was moved in 2004 from this location and is now housed 55m to the NW inside the OPW Black Mills Interpretative centre (TN012-010014-). Described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 162-3) as following; 'The lower fragment of the shaft is 1.78m high, 80cm wide and about 40cm thick at the bottom. The upper fragment, comprising most of the head, is now 1.2m tall, and although the south arm has been broken away, it must have measured about 1.50m across the arms originally. There seems to have been a small rope moulding on the edges of the shaft. On the east and west faces the decorated panels are seperated by horizontal raised mouldings. The surviving armpit has a stepped outline, and there is the remnant of a volute on the interior surface of the ring. There is also an exterior volute or cushion-moulding where the exterior surface of the ring meets the shaft and the arm. The whole surface of the cross is sadly worn and pitted, but the carved figures in relief suggest that, in its original state, it must have been one of the most splendid of the 12th century crosses in Ireland. Lower fragment of shaft: EAST FACE E 1 : ADAM AND EVE - Adam and Eve stand, seemingly clothed, on either side of a tree with a thick trunk. E 2-3 : Two badly worn panels, apparently bearing animal interlace. E 4 : Possibly a centaur with two figures behind, one seemingly blowing a pipe of Pan, all proceeding towards the left. SOUTH SIDE S 1 : A Bishop of Abbot. - A long robed figure in high relief with a cloak (held together by a brooch?) and bearing an inturned crook in right hand. S 2 : Above the figure in relief there seems to be a panel bearing the lower portion of two frontal figures. WEST FACE A number of panels of much abraded animal interlace. NORTH SIDE A long robed figure in high relief, belted at the waist and with belt-ends hanging down in front. The hands of the figure are down by the side. The head, which was inserted seperately, is now missing. Head EAST FACE Bishop or Abbot - A bishop or abbot, dressed in a (?) chasuble, the pleats of which can be seen from the side, holds a crozier with both hands in front. His mitre is difficult to make out, but it seems to have risen to a triangle on the south side. The north arm bears a circular depression. SOUTH SIDE The south arm and ring have been replaced by a modern substitute. However, a small portion of the top of the shaft survives, showing the upper part of a panel bearing the heads of two human figures. WEST FACE : THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST Christ, probably bearded and with his hair falling down onto his shoulders, stretches out his emaciated long arms, that on the right being a modern replacement. He is apparently clad in a long robe with a belt at the waist. NORTH SIDE At the top of the shaft there is a panel bearing indeterminate sculpture in low false relief. Between the cushion moulding at the top and bottom of the underside of the ring there is an animal interlace with two serpents with widely-opened mouths at the top and bottom, intertwined by a narrower beast. Part of the end of the arm has been cut away. There may have been figure sculpture at the top of the shaft, but if so, it is now unrecognisable'. 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. Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of updated revision: 8 April 2015

• TN012-010007 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  National Monument No. 211. Situated in the town of Roscrea on rising ground with the River Bunnow immediately to the E and a church, round tower and friary nearby (TN012-010----). A timber castle, referred to in 1245 as a moat and wooden tower (mote et britagium) (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 1, no. 2760), was built at Roscrea by the king's council in 1213 (Cunningham 1987, 71-4). It was built on church property and, according to an inquisition of 1245, the bishop stopped the work and threatened to excommunicate the justiciar and his men. However, he was persuaded to allow them to continue with the promise of compensation (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 1, no. 2760) and, throughout the remainder of the 13th century, there are many references in official administration documents to the castle (Cal. doc. Ire. vols. 1-3, passim). Between 1278 and the early 1280s there are references to building works at Roscrea when the castle was rebuilt in stone under the direction of John de Lydyard (PRI rep. DK 36th, 47; Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 2, nos. 1570, 2336; vol. 3, no. 169). In 1315, when Edmond Butler was created first earl of Carrick, he was granted the manors and castles of Carrick and Roscrea (Curtis 1932, 207-8). Roscrea remained in Butler hands until 1703, when it was sold by the 2nd duke of Ormond. In the later 16th century the castle was in the possession of Sir Edmund Butler, a brother of the 10th earl, and Sir Edmund's son Piers, who was executed in 1597 (Gleeson 1947, 63-5). In 1631 Roscrea was leased to Mary Butler a daughter of the 11th earl of Ormond and her husband, Sir George Hamilton the elder (Manning 2001, 149-54). Hamilton appears to have died by the mid-1650s and his only son by Mary Butler died without issue in 1658. The castle was captured by Owen Roe O'Neill in 1646 and by the Cromwellians in 1650. It was described in the Civil Survey 1654-6 as 'one castle and a bawne with two turrets In Roscrea Inhabitted being in Repayre' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 29) with the proprietor in 1640 being the Countess of Ormond. The Cromwellian garrison was still there in 1659 when 37 soldiers and their wives were recorded as being stationed there (Pender 1939, 318). A fine three-storey over basement house, called Damer House, was built within the castle in the early 18th century. The complex was used as an army barracks for most of the 19th century and is now a National Monument. The stone castle was built on the site of the early thirteenth-century timber castle and probably partly followed its outline. This is one of Leask's keepless castles with gatehouse at N, curtain wall and flanking angle towers at E and W (Leask 1936, 180-81) (int. dims. 57m E-W; 60m N-S; wall T 2.6-3.4m). The gatehouse (ext. dims. 17.2m E-W; 11.5m N-S; wall T 2.9m) stands three storeys high constructed with roughly coursed sandstone rubble which had Jacobean-style chimney stacks added in the seventeenth century and a slate roof added in the nineteenth century (Stout 1984, 117). Originally the castle was defended externally by the river to the E and a rock- cut moat (Wth 3m) which was discovered running along the W wall beside the SW tower (ibid., 121). A drawbridge and portcullis and an overhead machicolation of later date protected the main entrance at the gatehouse. The barrel vault over the gate-passage has been mostly reconstructed during the recent restoration and leads into the courtyard. Opposing doorways were built in the modern side walls of the passage but no evidence survived to suggest there were ever doors at these points. The ground-floor rooms at each side of the passage have original doorways in the south wall giving access from the courtyard. The W chamber has a basement prison accessed only through a trap door. A spiral stairs in the E wall of the gatehouse gives access to the upper floors. Also accessed off the spiral stairs at first-floor level was a pointed-arched doorway, which leads onto the wall-walk of the curtain wall at the NE angle. A large chamber with an impressive triple-bay groin-vaulted ceiling fills the entire first floor and is lit by large modern lancet-type windows set into large segmental-arched embrasures. The remains of an impressive fireplace are situated in the middle of the S wall and consist of engaged shafts rising from a decorated base with dogtooth decorated capitals which supported a stone canopy, now partly destroyed. The mouldings on the engaged columns and fireplace canopy are of the roll with frontal fillet type. The portcullis and drawbridge machinery was housed on the northern side of this chamber. A doorway in the NW angle gives access to a mural passage in the W wall, which leads to a garderobe contained within a heightened section of the curtain wall. The large chamber at second-floor level is, in its present form, a secondary feature. Originally it had low north and south side walls on the inner side of wall-walks with parapets and its roof abutted the east and west end sections of the gatehouse, which continued upwards to a higher level. Water from the roof flowed along these wall-walks to exit through gargoyles at the corners. Three of these redundant gargoyles survive in place. In a secondary phase of building the original north and south side-walls were removed and replacements built in line with the outer north and south faces of the tower. These walls contain tall segmental-arched window embrasures. An entrance in the W splay of the S window embrasure gives access to a mural passage, which leads to a spiral stairs from which the wall-walk and several mural chambers are accessed. A doorway at the W end of the N wall of the second-floor chamber gives access to a mural passage which leads to a spiral staircase in the NW angle which leads up to the wall-walk. Also accessed off the same passage is a flight of stairs, which leads down to the protruding SW angle tower. Here there is a doorway from which the wall-walk of the W curtain wall was accessed. A reused Early Christian cross-inscribed slab (TN012-010013-) was used as a door lintel in this mural passage. A third floor was inserted above the second floor in the 17th century and a number of fireplaces were added on the second and third floors. The curtain wall is pierced by several plunging cross-loops in large segmental-arched embrasures. A large gateway is situated off-centre to the S on the W portion of the curtain wall and was possibly blocked up when the construction of the castle was complete. The SW angle tower (ext. diam. 8.2m; wall T 2m) consists of three storeys with a gabled roof (modern) and a tall rectangular chimney stack and has a ground-floor entrance at E. There is also a first-floor doorway to E and doors leading onto the W and S wall-walks of the curtain wall. There are long cross-loops with sandstone surrounds providing flanking fire along the W facade of the curtain wall. A pointed doorway at the W end of the S wall beside the SW angle tower is a postern, which was protected externally by a drawbridge and by a later machicolation accessed from the wall-walk of the curtain wall. An impressive array of putlog holes is visible on internal face of the curtain wall along the W side. The SE angle tower consists of a D-shaped two-storey building (ext. dims. 10m E-W; 9m N-S; wall T 2.2m) with a gable at the west end. The 19th-century roof has recently been repaired. The tower possesses an impressive vaulted basement while the first floor was greatly altered in the eighteenth-century. Damer House (TN012-010009-), an imposing eighteenth-century house, was constructed in the S side of the courtyard with a large gateway of similar date and D-shaped gate lodge piercing the N side of the curtain wall and occupying the NE angle of the courtyard respectively (Stout 1984, 116). 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

• TN012-010008 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  No visible remains of the fortification erected by the Norman forces in 1213 on the termon lands of St Cronan (Stout 1984, 112). In 1213 the king commanded Henry, Archbishop of Dublin, to give to Reginald de Pontibus full seisin of the castles of Dorles, Roskere (Roscrea), Armolen and Kakaulis, which belonged to Theobald Walter (Cal. doc. Ire vol. 1, no. 514). The present stone castle and bawn (TN012-010007-) may have been built on the site of an earlier fortification which was described as a 'mote et britagium' in 1245 (Cunningham 1987, 124). 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

• TN012-010009 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Located within the curtain wall of Roscrea castle (TN012-010007-). Known as 'Damer House', this is an early eighteenth-century house, three storeys over basement with nine bays, built of coursed sandstone rubble. It has simple architraves, keystones and moulded sills and a cornice, wide eaves and hipped roof in the early eighteenth-century style (Craig 1982, 22). The central doorway, with steps up to it, has fluted Corinthian pilasters and a scroll pediment. It has retained its original carved staircase which is elaborately panelled underneath (ibid). The house was used as a barracks for most of the nineteenth century, then as a school, after which it housed the County Library and Engineering Offices (Bence-Jones 1988, 99). After a period of neglect the building was saved from demolition in the 1970s by the Irish Georgian Society and restored (ibid.) . 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

• TN012-010011 Cross - High cross (present location)
  Description

  Presently located inside the OPW Black Mills Interpretative Centre (TN012-010014-) this sculpture was previously located in Rockforest House, c. two miles east of Roscrea and was moved to Timoney Park, four miles SE of the town, in 1907 (Roe 1967, 127). The sculpture consists of a hollow three-sided pillar (dims. 0.4m x 0.35m x H 0.9m) with a small hole on top and one side missing. The hole and the missing side may be the result of the pillar being used as a trough (ibid.). The pillar has rounded moulded corners - its E face is decorated with fanciful animals and the S face has a possible hunting scene along with geometric and interlace patterns (Harbison 1992, vol. 1, 163; Roe 1967, 127-32). Described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 163-4) as following: 'Where it originally came from is unknown, and while it has been suggested that it came from Monaincha [TN018-001005-], there is no evidence for this. It has rounded mouldings at the corners. EAST FACE Bottom: Unidentified scene. - On the bottom of the east face three figures seem to hold up sticks or spears and advance to the right towards a (?) seated figure, behind whom there may be another figure. The seated figure seems to grasp at the stick of the foremost standing figure which projects upwards to the panel above where it crosses what seems to be an animal figure, and where it has an unusual boss that may represent DAVID PRESENTING THE SAUL THE HEAD OF GOLIATH ON A STICK. Centre : (?) DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN. - What seems at first like a boss in the centre is, in fact, ….head, as a body can be seen below it. There is apparently an animal on either side of the figure, so that the scene could represent DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN. Above the central figure there is a semi-circle seeming to contain two men on the left, the front one with a long stick held diagonally above the head of the central figure, and there would seem to be animals in the right-hand portion. Top : Griffin - On top there is a beaked griffin, possibly holding two legs in its mouth. SOUTH SIDE S 1 : Unidentified scene - A figure on the left may ride on a quadruped, and there may be a figure behind a (?) tree and two further figures in front. The state of the carving is too poor ro be able to make any definite identification, but the panel could conceivably represent THE ENTRY OF CHRIST INTO JERUSALEM, akin to that on the left of the bottom register of the base pf the west face of the Cross of the Scriptures at Clonmacnois. S 2 : Four small and seemingly interlinked bosses, with other larger ones forming a rough circle around it . S 3 : A quadruped with high arched body, either swallowing a serpent or having it emerge from its mouth which is turned backwards. NORTH SIDE N 1 : (?) A hunting scene - A panel with much abraded figure sculpture, of which all that can be made out is a man on the right with a spear over his shoulder. As there may also be a quadruped on the left, it is possible that this may be a hunting scene of the kind found on the bases of some High Crosses. Above it, there is probably an animal interlace enclosed by a riassed circular moulding. N 2 : A quadruped which is more likely to be a winged griffin than a horse with rider'. 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. Compiled and updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 8 April 2015

• TN012-010013 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated in the town of Roscrea on rising ground with the River Bunnow immediately to the E and a church, round tower and friary nearby (TN012-010----). A timber castle (TN012-01008-), referred to in 1245 as a moat and wooden tower (mote et britagium) (Cal. doc. Ire vol. 1, no. 2760), was built at Roscrea by the king's council in 1213 (Cunningham 1987, 71-4). It was built on church property and, according to an inquisition of 1245, the bishop stopped the work and threatened to excommunicate the justiciar and his men. However, he was persuaded to allow them to continue with the promise of compensation (Cal. doc. Ire vol. 1, no. 2760) and, throughout the remainder of the 13th century, there are many references in official administration documents to the castle (Cal. doc. Ire vols. 1-3, passim). Between 1278 and the early 1280s there are references to building works at Roscrea when the castle (TN012-01007-) was rebuilt in stone under the direction of John de Lydyard (PRI rep. DK 36th, 47; Cal. doc. Ire vol. 2, nos. 1570, 2336; vol. 3, no. 169). A doorway at the W end of the N wall of the second-floor chamber of the castle gives access to a mural passage which leads to a spiral staircase in the NW angle which leads up to the wall-walk. Also accessed off the same passage is a flight of stairs, which leads down to the protruding SW angle tower. Here there is a doorway from which the wall-walk of the W curtain wall was accessed. A reused Early Christian sandstone cross-inscribed slab was used as a door lintel in this mural passage. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010014 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  National Monument No. 126. Depicted as the Black Mills' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and now converted into an OPW heritage centre. This is probably the site of one of two mills that are mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-56. One refers to a 'Grinding Mill erected uppon a small River running through the sd towne', the other 'a corne mill upon a brooke (Simington 1931 vol. 1, 29). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Updated by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 27 March 2015

• TN012-010015 Inscribed slab
  Description

  Situated immediately E of St.Cronán's Romanesque church (TN012-010001-) and presently surrounding the Church of Ireland church of St. Cronán's. The graveyard (TN012-010002-) contains a number of architectural fragments (TN012-010003-). Also discovered in the graveyard was one cross slab and one inscribed-slab (TN012-010004-; TN012-010015-). Now missing inscribed slab described by Petrie as 'The stone...has disappeared, and no record of it has been found, except this rude sketch, made by a police-sergeant named Water, who lived in Roscrea twenty years ago, and whose letter, containing this drawing, was found among Dr. Petrie's papers after his death' (Petrie 1878, 39-40). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The stone was found in pieces in 1812 `When removing the foundation stones [of the twelfth-century church]' ... but it was already lost in 1878. It was drawn by Richard Molloy of Roscrea at some time between 1813 and 1815; this drawing is preserved in the RIA ... Another drawing of the stone, made by a local police-sergeant, Mr Water, and dating from about the 1850s, was found among Petrie's papers on his death in 1866 and published in 1878' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 217). The stone was a plain rectangular slab with no carving on it other than two lines of an inscription, this inscription reads [O~R~]DOUCHERBAILL O~R~D[O]RIGELE (Stokes 1878) which reads as OROIT DO U CHERBAILL OROIT DO RIG ELE. When translated this reads as 'A prayer for Ua Cerbaill, a prayer for the king of Éile' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 217-19). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010016 Inscribed slab (present location)
  Description

  Listed by Okasha & Forsyth as Monaincha 5 who state that the slab of old red sandstone measuring 0.445m x 0.58m x 0.04m,`was first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the museum, and the three fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church (TN018-001001-) at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW and by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny where they remain' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). The inscribed slab reads [--][.]C~S~ AE[.][-- which can be expanded to [--] SANCTUS AE[.][--] (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The letters CS are an abbreviation, or part of an abbreviation, perhaps [s]c~s~, the standard abbreviation of s(an)c(tu)s `saint', found in the genitive case s~c~i~ on a slab from Kilbrecan, Aran Mór [Macalister 1949, no. 531, KBRCN/1]' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 210). This slab (TN018-001014-) is now on display in the Black Mills Interpretative Centre (TN012-010014-) at Roscrea, but originally came from the vicinity of the Romanesque church at Monaincha. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010017 Inscribed slab (present location)
  Description

  Listed by Okasha & Forsyth as Monaincha 6 who state that the slab of old red sandstone measuring 0.33m x 0.335m x 0.045m , 'was first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the museum, and the three fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church (TN018-001001-) at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW and by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny where they remain' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). The inscribed slab reads [--]C~[S~][.][-- which can be expanded to [--] SANCTUS [--] (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 212). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The close similarity with the lettering on Monaincha 5 (TN018-001014-) suggests that this might also have read [s]c~[s~] for s(an)c(tu)s `saint''. This slab (TN018-001015-) is now on display in the Black Mills (TN012-010014-) Interpretative Centre at Roscrea, but originally came from the vicinity of the Romanesque church at Monaincha. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN012-010018 Cross - High cross
  Description

  High Cross replica now stands in the grounds of St Cronán's C of I graveyard in Roscrea town with the Romanesque church (TN012-010001-) and round tower (TN012-010005-) to the S and W respectively. Original twelfth-century sandstone high cross (TN012-010006-) was moved in 2004 from this location and is now housed 55m to the NW inside the OPW Black Mills Interpretative centre (TN012-010014-). Described by Harbison (1992, vol. 1, 162-3) as following; 'A sandstone 12th century cross consisting of two original fragments for the cross. The lower fragment of the shaft is 1.78m high, 80cm wide and about 40cm thick at the bottom. The upper fragment, comprising most of the head, is now 1.2m tall, and although the south arm has been broken away, it must have measured about 1.50m across the arms originally. There seems to have been a small rope moulding on the edges of the shaft. On the east and west faces the decorated panels are seperated by horizontal raised mouldings. The surviving armpit has a stepped outline, and there is the remnant of a volute on the interior surface of the ring. There is also an exterior volute or cushion-moulding where the exterior surface of the ring meets the shaft and the arm. The whole surface of the cross is sadly worn and pitted, but the carved figures in relief suggest that, in its original state, it must have been one of the most splendid of the 12th century crosses in Ireland. Lower fragment of shaft: EAST FACE E 1 : ADAM AND EVE - Adam and Eve stand, seemingly clothed, on either side of a tree with a thick trunk. E 2-3 : Two badly worn panels, apparently bearing animal interlace. E 4 : Possibly a centaur with two figures behind, one seemingly blowing a pipe of Pan, all proceeding towards the left. SOUTH SIDE S 1 : A Bishop of Abbot. - A long robed figure in high relief with a cloak (held together by a brooch?) and bearing an inturned crook in right hand. S 2 : Above the figure in relief there seems to be a panel bearing the lower portion of two frontal figures. WEST FACE A number of panels of much abraded animal interlace. NORTH SIDE A long robed figure in high relief, belted at the waist and with belt-ends hanging down in front. The hands of the figure are down by the side. The head, which was inserted separately, is now missing. Head EAST FACE Bishop or Abbot - A bishop or abbot, dressed in a (?) chasuble, the pleats of which can be seen from the side, holds a crozier with both hands in front. His mitre is difficult to make out, but it seems to have risen to a triangle on the south side. The north arm bears a circular depression. SOUTH SIDE The south arm and ring have been replaced by a modern substitute. However, a small portion of the top of the shaft survives, showing the upper part of a panel bearing the heads of two human figures. WEST FACE : THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST Christ, probably bearded and with his hair falling down onto his shoulders, stretches out his emaciated long arms, that on the right being a modern replacement. He is apparently clad in a long robe with a belt at the waist. NORTH SIDE At the top of the shaft there is a panel bearing indeterminate sculpture in low false relief. Between the cushion moulding at the top and bottom of the underside of the ring there is an animal interlace with two serpents with widely-opened mouths at the top and bottom, intertwined by a narrower beast. Part of the end of the arm has been cut away. There may have been figure sculpture at the top of the shaft, but if so, it is now unrecognisable'. 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 April 2015

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, c.1880, with fluted shaft having fluted cap with acorn finial and lion mask spout.

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1910, with gabled end bays shared with neighbouring houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls and square-headed openings with paired timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed battened door and timber gable-fronted canopy above having pitched slate roof and carved bargeboards with shamrock motif.

• Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, c.1880, with fluted shaft and cap with acorn finial, lion mask spout and bucket stand.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace corner-sited six-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1830, with former shopfront to Main Street elevation. Formerly pair of three-bay houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walls. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and fixed two-over-two pane to ground with brick voussoirs. Square-headed doorways with brick lintels, timber panelled door and glazed door. Former shopfront comprising square-headed opening with glazed timber door, plate glass window and concrete sill and fascia. North and west walls of building are skewed and corner is chamfered. Stone outbuildings to rear.

• House, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house and public house, built c.1945. Now in use for dental practice with former shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Stretcher bond brick walls with render string course and edging. Margined timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with raised render reveals and keystones. Shopfront comprising rendered walls with render cornice, fixed windows with concrete sills and timber half-glazed doors with over-lights.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1870. Now also in use as shop with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof. Rendered walls with render cornice, consoles and with continuous sill course to second floor. Timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with decorative render surrounds, render sills and with frieze and cornice to first floor. Shopfront comprising channelled render piers, timber fascia, dentillated cornice, plate glass window and timber panelled door with over-light.

• Roscrea Garda Síochána Station, RIC barracks, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey former RIC barracks, built c.1860. Now in use as Garda station, with integral carriage arch to north end. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and carved brackets to eaves. Snecked cut sandstone walls with stone eaves cornice. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Round-headed door opening with timber battened double-leaf door and with fanlight under cut-stone canopy with consoles and keystone. Segmental-headed carriage arch with cut limestone voussoirs.

• Hotel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey former hotel, built c.1860. Now in use as restaurant with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with triple timber-bracketed eaves and with cut sandstone chimneystack. Snecked cut sandstone walls with raised sandstone quoins, eaves cornice and sill-course. Timber sliding sash windows to upper floors, two-over-two pane within segmental-arch openings to first floor and two-over-pane in depressed-arch openings with raised keystones to second. Timber shopfront comprising fluted pilasters, consoles, fascia and cornice with plate-glass windows and timber half-glazed door.

• House, 1785–1795 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house with attic, built c.1790, ground floor having replacement timber shopfront, with integral carriage arch to north end. Now in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and stone eaves course. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to second floor and six-over-six pane to first, with brick block-and-start surrounds and stone sills. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters, consoles, cornice and fascia with plate-glass windows and timber half-glazed door. Segmental-headed carriage arch with limestone voussoirs.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey, built c.1810, with integral carriage. Now in use as shop, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins and sill course. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows and render surrounds. Segmental-headed carriage opening with channelled render surround and replacement timber double-leaf door. Shopfront comprising timber panelled pilasters flanking openings with consoles, fascia and cornice with awning, plate glass windows, timber panelled double-leaf door with over-lights.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey house, built c.1810. Now also in use as public house and having render pub-front to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render string course. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with render surrounds, having decorative pediments to first floor openings. Pub-front comprising channelled render walls, fascia with painted lettering, dentillated cornice and replacement window and door.

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1800. Now also in use as shop and hairdresser's, having shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with render chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render sill course. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with render surrounds, having decorative pediments over first floor openings. Shopfronts comprising channelled render walls with render plinth, with fascia, dentillated cornice, plate-glass windows and timber panelled doors having over-lights.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1850, with integral carriage arch. Now also in use as shops. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with double-height fluted render pilasters to upper floors. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows, having render surrounds. One shopfront comprising timber fluted pilasters and replacement fascia, plate glass window and timber half-glazed door. Other shopfront comprising timber fluted pilasters supporting timber fascia and cornice, with plate glass window and timber panelled door.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with stone sills. Vitrolite shopfront with recessed glazed door having overlight flanked by chrome fixed windows.

• Allied Irish Bank, bank/financial institution, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey purpose-built bank, built c.1880, with integral carriage arch and having two-storey breakfront, with open internal porch comprising Ionic columns and frieze. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with moulded sill course, cornice, modillions and paired decorated consoles to upper floors. Smooth rendered walls to ground floor with rusticated piers to entrance having render mask and floral decorations and render cornice and frieze. Timber sliding sash windows, with tripartite window to first floor of entrance bay, and having three-over-three pane windows to second floor, six-over-six to first floor, with render surrounds and having keystone decorations to first floor. Plate glass and replacement timber windows to ground floor. Segmental-headed carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf door.

• Bank/financial institution, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey neoclassical-style bank, built c.1870, with slightly advanced end bays and single-bay single-storey extension to southeast having integral carriage arch. Now also in use as office. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and stone parapet. Ashlar sandstone walls with channelled rusticated sandstone to central ground floor bays and with sill course to first floor. Segmental-arch openings to second floor, depressed-arch openings with raised surrounds to first and round-arch openings with voussoirs to ground, all recessed and having timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Round-headed doorways with stone surrounds with rope moulding and decorative keystones, fanlights and with timber battened doors and stone steps. Sandstone segmental-headed carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf door and dressed stone voussoirs.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1855–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey purpose-built bank, built 1858-9. Pitched slate roof with stone parapet. Red brick to first floor with moulded eaves cornice, and ashlar limestone walls with quoins and string course to ground floor. Timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows throughout, with stone surrounds and cornices to first floor, flanking tripartite timber sliding sash window with pilasters, consoles and cornice. Segmental-arch door opening with moulded keystone, having recessed double-leaf timber half-glazed door with over-light, sidelights, carved stone surround and approached by flight of steps. Area to front with railings.

• Saint Patrick's Masonic Lodge 311, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace L-plan three-bay two-storey former Masonic hall, built 1881, partly gable-fronted and having integral carriageway. Flat and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with limestone date plaque inscribed 1773. Square-headed openings with fixed timber windows and stone sills. Square-headed carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf door. Square-headed doorway with timber panelled door having render brackets, cornice, pediment, replacement timber door with sidelights and with limestone date plaque above.

• Saint Cronan's Church (Roscrea), church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, built 1812, with five-bay side elevations to nave, four-stage tower and porch to southwest elevation, and vestry to south-east elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof. Coursed dressed sandstone walls with string courses, crenellated parapets and with pinnacles to gable ends and having crenellations and pinnacles to tower, and diagonal buttresses and pinnacles to porch. Pointed-arch window openings with stained glass, and dressed stone surrounds. Pointed-arch opening with timber battened double-leaf door having dressed stone surround. Graveyard surrounded by rubble boundary wall and cast-iron railings having cast-iron gate set into surviving west front of Romanesque church.

• Bridge, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single segmental-arch road bridge over railway, built c.1870. Rock-faced limestone walls brought to courses with cut-stone string course, parapet copings and voussoirs.

• C. Hennessy, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1850. Now in use as public house and having pub-front to part of ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and stone sills. Cast-iron cresting to first floor sills. Pub-front comprising timber pilasters flanking openings, with timber fascias and cornices above. Plate-glass windows to pub-front and to adjoining large pub window and pair of timber panelled and glazed double-leaf door with over-light.

• House, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built 1878, having integral carriage arch. Now in use as office and surgery, with timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Segmental-arch openings to first floor, having paired round-headed timber casement windows, stone sills and cast-iron sill guards. Timber battened double-leaf door to carriage arch. Replacement timber shopfront.

• House, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-storey house, built 1878, having two-bay ground floor and single window opening to first floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Segmental-headed openings having paired and tripartite round-headed timber casement and fixed windows and stone sills. Cast-iron sill guard to first floor opening. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door with over-light.

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1830 as pair with adjoining house to south. Vacant retail outlet to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth. Square-headed openings to upper floors with tripartite timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to second floor and six-over-six to first floor, with stone sills. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters supporting timber fascia and cornice, with timber panelled door and fixed window.

• P.J. Ahearne, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house with attic, built c.1830. Now also in use as shop and having shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins to upper floors and channelled rendered walls with render pilasters to ground floor. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and stone sills and with render surrounds to second floor openings and render pilasters and cornices to first floor. Square-headed door opening with channelled render voussoirs and decorative keystone, timber panelled door, sidelights and stone steps with cast-iron railings. Shopfront comprising cast-iron fascia with attached lettering, cast-iron cornice, over fixed window and glazed door.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1870. Now also in use as veterinary clinic, with timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with stone sills and render surrounds. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters flanking fixed window and timber panelled door, having timber fascia and cornice.

• Delaney, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1870, with disused shop to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with stone sills. Shopfront comprising timber panelled pilasters flanking fixed plate-glass window and double-leaf timber panelled door, with timber fascia and cornice.

• Tobin, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced house, built c.1860, comprising two-bay three-storey block to north and one-bay two-storey block to south, with former shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and concrete sills. Shopfront comprising render fluted Ionic pilasters flanking carved timber fixed windows and replacement timber panelled door, with render fascia and cornice.

• Meeting house, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former Quaker meetinghouse, built 1773, with later addition to rear. Now used for storage. Pitched slate roof. Rendered walls with slate hanging to south gable. Square-headed fixed timber windows to south elevation, one partly blocked to make doorway. North elevation largely replaced by folding doors accessing addition. Segmental-headed entrance opening in later lobby addition to east.

• Roscrea Post Office, post office, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey post office, built c.1900, with render shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls to ground floor, roughcast rendered walls to upper floors with vertical render plat-bands to quoins. Segmental-headed openings with render surrounds, cornices and sills and timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door, render surround and paned over-light. Shopfront comprising channelled render pilasters, with fascia and cornice above with painted lettering, and having timber fixed windows with render sills.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Now in use as shop and retail outlet with chamfered northwest corner, timber shopfront to west elevation and two-bay two-storey return to south elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with stone sills and render surrounds. Timber half-glazed door with render surround. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters with fascia, consoles and cornice, having plate-glass window with timber surround and timber half-glazed panelled door.

• Damer House, house, 1725–1735 · National interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay three-storey house over basement, built c.1730, with later five-bay two-storey U-plan wing to south-west. Now in use as heritage centre. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks to main block and brick to wing. Rubble sandstone walls with carved sandstone plinth and cornice. Replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to basement and nine-over-nine pane elsewhere, with raised dressed stone surrounds and stone sills in square-headed openings. Replacement timber windows, stone sills and voussoirs to wing. Timber panelled door with paned over-light, flanked by carved stone Corinthian pilasters, with architrave, frieze and cornice with broken scroll pediment above, and approached by flight of limestone steps. Round-headed doorcase to south-west wing with carved stone block-and-start surround and fanlight.

• Luttrell House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey former house, built c.1800, with integral carriage arch. Now in use as office, with timber shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with render surrounds and stone sills. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with cast-iron gate. Shopfront comprising timber pilasters flanking openings, with timber brackets, fascia and cornice above, having carved timber plate-glass windows and with timber panelled double-leaf door.

• The Manse, manse, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey manse house, built c.1890, with single-bay two-storey canted end bays. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with render plat-bands. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows with continuous render sills. Timber panelled door with over-light, render architrave and cornice, approached by stone steps. Garden to front with cast-iron gates and railings.

• Roscrea Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Methodist church, dated 1902, with five-bay side elevations, three-bay projecting bow-plan porch having single-storey advanced gable-fronted entrance front to centre, two-bay vestry to northwest with advanced entrance front, and with single-bay hall at right angles to northwest elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs with artificial slate roof to entrance porch. Snecked rusticated limestone walls with dressed limestone date stone, cut-stone buttresses and pinnacles to front elevation. Chamfered tripled round-headed windows to porch with dressed stone surround, square-headed and pointed-arch windows to upper front elevation and pointed-arch windows to side elevations. Pointed-arch door opening with replacement timber battened double-leaf door, over-light, dressed stone surround and stone steps. Garden to front with decorative cast-iron gate and railings.

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins and plat-bands. Square-headed openings with fluted and channelled render surrounds, stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Timber panelled door with stone step, fanlight and channelled render surround.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1820, having two-storey return to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor, with render surrounds and stone sills. Elliptical-arch opening with timber panelled door, fanlight, sidelights and render doorcase with render roll-moulding and engaged columns, set within concave opening, approached by flight of limestone steps.

• Burgoo Bridge, bridge, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span cast concrete road bridge, dated 1898, over Bunow River, with rusticated limestone piers and cast-iron railed parapet.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, having integral carriage arch. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows, render surrounds and stone sills. Timber panelled door with over-light, channelled render block-and-start surround and concrete steps. Segmental-arch carriage opening with channelled render block-and-start surround and timber battened double-leaf door.

• Abbey Hall, hall, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey neoclassical-style hall over raised basement, built c.1925, having pedimented portico to front elevation, and six-bay side elevations. Half-hipped and pitched artificial slate roofs having cast-iron roof vents. Open-bed pediment with balcony supported on consoles over entrance, flanked by pediments to southwest and northeast elevations, that to former having engaged Doric columns. Rendered walls with cornice, frieze, architrave, plinth and double-height pilasters. Round-headed central blind opening within portico, with half-round pediment flanked by double-height engaged marble Doric columns and render pilasters. Timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to front and two-over-two pane to side elevations, with stone sills, and timber panelled double-leaf door with render surround and with flight of steps.

• Abbey Bar, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, with chamfered corner to ground floor of south-east corner. Now also in use as public house with pub-front to front elevation and pub window to south. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Chanelled rendered walls with render quoins and having timber fascia to south gable. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows, render surrounds and sills. Pub-front comprising channelled render walls to ground floor, render fascia with attached lettering, consoles and cornice above, with plate-glass windows and timber panelled double-leaf door, and with replacement uPVC door in south gable.

• Fountain, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding public fountain, c.1860, re-sited from Main Street/Castle Street junction c.1925, comprising decorative cast-iron tiered centrepiece having human figures and birds, and octagonal-plan ashlar limestone surround having moulded plinth and rim. Pair of cast-iron gas lamp standards to opposite sides of rim.

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

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1722 (ZIP).

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

Name

Townparks · Páirceanna an Bhaile

Area

564,416 m² (56.44 ha, 139.47 acres)

Civil parish

Roscrea, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Roscrea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Castleholding, Clybanane, Demesne, Glebe, Irby, Loughanavatta, Parkmore, Raheens, Whitepark

Placenames

Townparks 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.