Castlelough

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelough, from 9 m² to 495,556 m² (49.56 ha, 122.45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlelough 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.

• 3 May 2026N/a

  a new dwelling house, site entrance, garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660395

• 22 Aug 2023Conditional

  revised site boundaries complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development and PERMISSION to refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23224

• 4 Aug 2023N/a

  revised site boundaries complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development and PERMISSION to refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23210

• 26 Jul 2023N/a

  refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, Permission also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23203

• 3 May 2022N/a

  erection of new dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance, garage and ancillary services

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22328

• 28 Jun 2019Conditional

  an effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600718

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  dwelling extensions, removal of existing shed, new septic tank, percolation area and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600562

• 6 Apr 2018Conditional

  to 1. Build a slatted cubicle house combining a silage wall alongside existing silage pit. 2. Alter existing farm roadway along with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600421

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011

Recorded monuments

• TN013-004 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Situated on the crest of a rise in undulating terrain, with Castlelough House 450m to the N and the shoreline of Lough Derg 130m to the W. Depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch. The map depiction and the close proximity to Castlelough House would suggest that this was a tree-ring. Not visible at ground level. 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: 16 January 2012

• TN013-015 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  An early eighteenth-century house, built c. 1720 which is depicted on two early to mid-eighteenth-century estate maps as a two-storey building with five bays, a central door with three dormer windows, a hipped roof with a chimney at either end of the roof and a possible wing on either side. The present building has a Victorian front built on c. 1860. The old part of the house is of double pile construction. The stairs is beautifully carved, reminiscent of Damer House, Roscrea and like Damer House the balustrades go directly onto the step. In the basement there are corner corbel supports in two separate rooms, but their function is unclear. In a 'cottage' in the yard a coin dating to c. 1690 was found behind the fire mantle. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'castle of Castleloghy and oppossitt to the castle standeth a thatcht Tennemt' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 153). 'Donogh O Bryen of Bellanaha Esqr Irish Papist' is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid., 152). 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

• TN019-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking a stream to the S. A circular area (diam. 32m N-S) enclosed by a tree-lined earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 1.3m) with a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m). No entrance feature visible. The depiction on the OS 6-inch map along with the presence of trees on the bank suggest the use of this site as a tree-ring. It may originally have been a ringfort. 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

Architectural heritage

• Castlelough, country house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey two-pile country house, of various dates. Front block, built c.1820, has canted bay windows flanking open projecting flat-roof porch. Earlier rear block of c.1720, is four-bay and three-storey with dormer attic and has single and two-storey additions to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and with moulded render parapet except to rear elevation of rear block. Rendered walls, with cut limestone quoins and plinth to front block. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, with cut-stone sills. Later block has one-over-one pane windows and earlier block has exposed sash boxes with wide variety of small-pane window, including horizontally-sliding timber sash windows to ground floor, some double sash windows and narrow single lights to west elevation. Brackets and render cornices to bay windows and with render surrounds to all other windows of front block. Tripartite window over porch has render pilasters, frieze, cornice and brackets to mullions. Canted bay window to west gable of front block. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Yard of outbuildings to northwest with stone belfry, pitched, hipped and half-hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered and rubble stone walls and with square-headed and segmental-arch openings having timber sash and casement windows.

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 Castlelough, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Castlelough, Portroe6 sales

Name

Castlelough · Caisleán an Locha

Area

2,483,527 m² (248.35 ha, 613.69 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownarra, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,497 people lived in 560 households in the Castletown electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballywilliam, Castletown, Coole, Lackaroe

Placenames

Castlelough 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.