Giantsgrave

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Giantsgrave, from 101 m² to 178,466 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 92 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 10 Mar 2025Conditional

  a) changes to the front, rear and side elevations of the house, b) three domestic sheds (a boiler house, a garden shed and a domestic shed) as constructed, c) the site entrance as constructed, and d) boundary treatments

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560188

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single-storey domestic garage to the rear of the property and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460651

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  1) to remove existing foundation to section of site boundary, 2) development of gabion baskets, 3) new boundary treatment, 4) and associated drainage management. This proposal is an amendment to that permitted under Planning permission ref 20/1609

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360297

• 19 Apr 2023N/a

  1) the removal of existing foundation to section of site boundary, 2) the development of gabion baskets, 3) a new boundary treatment, 4) and associated drainage management. This proposal is an amendment to that permitted under Planning permission ref 20/1609

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360247

• 26 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a single-storey extension to the side of my existing dwelling and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21397

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear and side of our existing house and to decommission the existing septic tank and install a new packaged wasterwater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21374

• 31 Dec 2020Conditional

  1) demolish existing rear extension and garage/shed area, 2) construct new extension and carport area, 3) raise the roof of the existing house, 4) amend existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201609

• 15 Dec 2020N/a

  (1) Demolish existing rear extension and garage/shed area, (2) Construct new extension and carport area, (3) Raise the roof of the existing house, (4) Amend existing entrance (5) upgrade existing wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201510

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  an existing single domestic garage

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201385

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  (a) An extension to the existing waste intake shed including backlit signage, (b) A new higher roof to existing waste intake shed, (c) An open fronted shed over the WEEE area, (d) An open fronted shed to the wood picking area, (e) New concrete storage bays, (f) New 2 storey weighbridge building and weighbridge, (g) New single storey prefabricated clock in and staff locker building, (h) 2 new vehicular entrances including re-aligned hedgerows and widened roadways, (i) New staff carparking and paladin fence surround, (j) New elevated walkway, (k)Relocation of existing fuel storage tank on site, (l) Expansion of concrete yards, (m) New packaged waste water treatment system and percolation area on site, (n) New metal sheeted fence and gate, (o) New 9m high post and mesh windbreak to rear of wood-picking area AND FOR PERMISSION FOR THE INDEFINITE RETENTION OF (p) Concrete storage bays, (q) A single storey prefabricated staff welfare facility consisting of toilets, showers, canteen and meeting room

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600515

• 20 Jul 2018Conditional

  extensions and alterations to bungalow residence granted planning under Ref No P. 35873 and Planning Permission Retention for Detached Carport/Garage as constructed

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600927

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  extensions and alterations to bungalow residence granted under Ref No. P3587 and Planning Permission Retention for Detached Carport/Garage as constructed

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600864

• 10 Aug 2017Conditional

  retention for the revised location on site from that of existing timber framed and latted store/shed, include for all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600897

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 Giantsgrave.

Recorded monuments

• TS077-054 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  On the summit of a hill, at the highest point in the vicinity. S of cross-pillar is under pasture, area N of stone is planted with young conifers. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) there is a reference to 'the stones standing, upon the sd hill to the lands of Rathduffe' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 297). This refers to at least one standing stone in Rathduff townland, part of which appears to have become Giantsgrave townland. In Lewis' topographical dictionary (1837, 508) he refers to an upright stone at Giant's Grave which is 'about eight feet [2.4m] high above the ground, on which two crosses are sculptured; that on one side of the stone is in raised relief, that on the other in bas relief'. Again the stone and two crosses are described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 51-2) at which time there was 'a small piece of land left untilled about this stone measuring eighteen feet [5.5m] from east to west and seven feet [2m] from north to south'. According to the OS Letters the hill was called 'An Cnoc Air a bhFuair Fionn Fios i.e., the hill on which Finn (Mac Cumhaill) received his (prophetic) knowledge, and the Townland is called An Chloch Fhada i.e., the Long Stone, in Irish, and Giant's Grave in English' (ibid.). Another local legend claimed that the stone was cast from the top of Slievenamon by a giant to its present position (White 1892, 28), while another tradition asserted that the stone was erected to mark the grave of some Ulstermen who fell in a sortie during the siege of Clonmel (Power 1908, 5). Cross-inscribed pillar stone (H 2.74m), aligned NW-SE, composed of sandstone and inscribed with a cross on both broad faces. That on the SW face is in relief, with circles hollowed out in the angles and a circular knob surmounting the triangular apex of the head. There is a blank panel above this. The other cross, on the NE face, approximately half way up the stone, is sunken with a central bosse. This face has split on the W side. A concrete wall (H 1.04m) now encloses the pillar stone, and is a maximum distance of 1.05m from the stone. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-101 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight N-facing slope in river valley, in wet, marshy, low-lying meadow. River runs c. 100m to N. No visible trace of monuememt at ground level. Enclosure identified on aerial photograph (OS AP 9723) as a possible circular earthwork or cropmark (diam. c. 21m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• The Thatch, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house built c. 1800, with curving windbreak to entrance. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash sliding windows. Square-headed door opening with render surround and having timber and glazed door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof and painted roughcast rendered rubble sandstone walls. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched corrugated asbestos roof, painted roughcast rendered rubble sandstone walls and battened timber doors to square-headed openings. Rubble sandstone boundary walls with square-profile piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Rendered piers with carved limestone cap to west having wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Giantsgrave, Clonmel7 sales

Name

Giantsgrave · An Chloch Fhada

Area

1,040,987 m² (104.1 ha, 257.23 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Clonmel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonmel Rural electoral division: 5,750 people in 2,019 households; 70% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyveelish South, Clashaniska Upper, Lawlesstown, Rathduff Lower, Rathduff Upper, Rathronan Demesne

Placenames

Giantsgrave 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.