Inch

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inch, from 124 m² to 4,899 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  to build a straw storage building, to build an extension to an existing straw bed unit and provide effluent storage tank and all associated works. (The proposed works are within the curtilage of Inch House, a protected structure S-189)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20986

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  to erect a rainwater harvesting system adjoining existing grain and potato store at farmyard. The proposed works are within the curtilage of Inch House, a Protected Structure S-189

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600768

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 Inch.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Inch.

Architectural heritage

• Inch House, country house, 1730–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay three-storey country house over basement, built c.1740 but possibly incorporating earlier fabric, with two-bay central breakfront and three-bay side elevations. Now also in use as guest house and restaurant. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Coursed dressed limestone masonry with ashlar sandstone dressings to breakfront openings, moulded sandstone cornice, sandstone string courses to front elevation between floors and render plat-band to other elevations. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to first floor and three-over-six to second, with six-over-six pane to rear and gables, all with limestone sills. Ground floor openings enlarged in nineteenth century to give high tripartite traceried windows. Large round-headed opening in rear with elaborate stained-glass window with teardrop over-light. Carved sandstone Venetian doorway to front, having timber panelled door with stained-glass spoked fanlight and sidelights and with steps to door. Two-bay single-storey wing, containing chapel to southeast, having hipped slate roof, rendered walls and lancet and round-headed stained-glass windows. Flight of stone steps leads from garden level to house. Outbuildings to site. Pair of three-bay single-storey gate lodges having hipped slate roofs, uncoursed random stone walls and square-headed openings with limestone sills. Quadrant entrance-way with cast-iron piers, cast-iron railings set on limestone plinths and flanked by square ashlar stone piers and walls.

• Inch House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-bay single-storey L-plan house, built c.1820. Now in use as outbuilding. Hipped slate roof having projecting stone and brick chimneystack. Exposed roughly dressed stone and rendered walls with ashlar sandstone eaves course. Round-arch openings with tripartite windows with diamond astragals, cobweb fanlights and limestone sills. Timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight. Stepped belfry of dressed limestone with bell over segmental-headed entrance to courtyard to northwest.

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 Inch, 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

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

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

Name

Inch · An Inse

Area

804,001 m² (80.4 ha, 198.67 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Inch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

407 people lived in 148 households in the Inch electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annfield, Ballypatrick, Bouladuff, Clehile, Magherareagh, Monroe, Pollagh

Placenames

Inch 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.