Shower
Shower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilvellane, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Seabhair.
Parcel 511302
- Area
- 1,861 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 327 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Shower
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1149 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 259.8 ha
- 642 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 3,708 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shower, from 100 m² to 227,527 m² (22.75 ha, 56.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 76 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Shower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Sept 2025Conditional
a new two storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 25199
10 Sept 2025N/a
a new two storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25190
3 Sept 2025N/a
a new two-storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25180
17 Oct 2024N/a
a new two storey house complete with a domestic garage, effluent treatment system and a new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24235
25 Jan 2024Conditional
the demolition of existing porch, construction of a single storey extension to both sides of existing house, installation of a new upgraded domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter, new splayed walls to improve existing vehicular entrance together with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460050
4 Apr 2023Conditional
demolition of derelict cottage and timber shed and construction of a new single storey replacement house complete with domestic garage, effluent treatment system, an improved site entrance and also mobile home on site as living accommodation for applicants for duration of construction of the house
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2387
30 May 2022Conditional
ground floor extension, second floor attic development and window variations at ground and rear first floor levels of existing dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22383
6 May 2022N/a
ground floor extension, second floor attic development and window variations at ground and rear first floor levels of existing dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22341
18 Dec 2020Conditional
upgrade of the existing wastewater treatment plant to increase the treatment capacity, comprising of the decommissioning of the existing inlet works including the decommissioning of the existing stormwater overflow outfall from the inlet screens contained therein; the constuction of a new above ground inlet screening works area, the provision of 1 no. above ground ferric dosing system and associated storage tanks, 1 no. oxidation ditch (to be provided partially below ground), 1 no. clarifier tank (partially below ground) 1 no. stormwater storage tank (partially below ground) with outfall to connect to and combine with existing treated wastewater outfall, and an above-ground blower building; and ancillary development including associated underground chambers, cabling and piping, and all associated site development works. A NIS has been prepared in respect of this application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201540
17 Dec 2020Conditional
construction of an extension to domestic garage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201530
26 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a 5 bay slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20947
3 Jul 2020N/a
construction of a 5 bay slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20703
15 Jun 2020N/a
construction of a 5 bay slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20593
23 Apr 2018Conditional
of existing domestic garage and storage shed together with revised site boundary
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600494
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Shower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Shower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Shower, about 1 in 5 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_1149 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Shower · Seabhair
- Area
- 2,598,046 m² (259.8 ha, 641.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilvellane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Newport, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,167 people lived in 1,060 households in the Newport electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaholty, Ballymackeogh, Barna, Killeen, Newport
- Placenames
- Shower 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.