Moorstown

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorstown, from 254 m² to 414,517 m² (41.45 ha, 102.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Moorstown 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.

• 10 Apr 2024Conditional

  change of design of the proposed extension to the existing dwelling as granted under planning application reference number 2360987 and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460262

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  (i) pitching the roof to the existing flat roof annex, (ii) renovate existing dwelling which will include elevational amendments and (iii) construct a waste water treatment system - and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360987

• 11 May 2022Conditional

  a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260220

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of an apple storage shed to infill the space between existing sheds and to erect solar panels on the new south facing roof elevation and to erect solar panels to the south facing roof elevation of existing general storage shed, all with associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21562

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a Poly Tunnel with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601059

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a Poly Tunnel with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601060

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a Poly Tunnel with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601061

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  installation of approximately 21.6kW (130.8m2) of solar PV panels on the roof of an existing apple packing shed and 21.6kW (130m2) of solar PV panels on the roof of an existing apple storage shed

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600425

• 22 Mar 2018N/a

  approximately 21.6kW (130.8m2) of solar PV panels on the roof of an existing apple packing shed and 21.6kW (130m2) of solar PV panels on the roof of an existing apple storage shed

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600347

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 Moorstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-039001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a natural limestone outcrop in the NW sector of the bawn (TS076-039002-). According to the Ormond Deeds, James Keating of Moortowne is a signatory to a petition to Henry VIII in 1542 (Curtis 1937, 215). In 1640 'Robt Cox of Broff in the Con: of Limericke Esqr English Protestt. [was] Proprietor in Mortgage of ...Moorestowne-keatinge...the condition of redemption in Richard Keatinge of Moorestowne aforesd, the Inheritor of the sd lands. Upon the sd lands of Moorestowne-Keatinge stands a castle and a Bawne about it, the walls of a little castle over the gate of the sd bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 311). According to the I.T.A. Survey (1942) 'Richard Keating ..was deprived of his property at the time of the Cromwellian confiscations. Its next owner was a puritan named Godfrey Greene'. This circular four-storey towerhouse (dia. 10.58m N-S) is constructed of limestone rubble, randomly coursed, with external base-batter. The main chamber, at both first and second-floor level, is circular, while the inaccessible third floor is described as being almost square in plan (Wallace 1989, 18). The entrance is in the S face and only accessed from external steps, all of which are broken out. According to the OS Letters sixteen stone steps led up to the entrance (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 42). The pointed doorway has a yett-hole at the apex and on either side. This leads into an entrance lobby (dims. 1.2m x 1.5m) with murder-hole overhead and embrasure opposite with ope broken out, though it probably contained a cross-loop. At the N end of the E wall of the lobby is a narrow, flat-headed doorway which leads into a guard room with yett embrasure on the S side. In the wall opposite the doorway is a large, deep wall cupboard and at the N end of the E wall is a gun-loop, slightly broken out, providing covering fire for the entrance gateway. The third doorway in the lobby is a wide, pointed doorway with remains of an iron hinge on the E internal rebate. It leads, via a step down, into the main ground-floor chamber (int. dims. 5.15m N-S; 5.1m E-W; N wall T 2.83m). It was lit by two round-headed single-light windows at NE and NW, both with gun-loop embrasures on either side. There is a large wall cupboard in the W wall. The first floor was carried on wooden beams. It was entered from the spiral stairs in the SW sector. This floor was lit by two windows in the N and SE, both with gun-embrasures similar to the ground-floor arrangement. The first floor has a dome-vaulted ceiling with wicker-centring. The spiral stairs has been partially broken out up to first-floor level and beyond there are no steps as these were removed by the local unit of the IRA between 1918 and 1922 when, having erected a tricolour on the parapet, they tried to ensure that the Crown forces could not easily remove it (Wallace 1989, 19). The second-floor chamber has a fireplace with a flat lintel and chamfered rounded edges (ibid.). At both second and third-floor level a mural passage is accessed from a flat-headed doorway in the spiral stairs in NW, probably garderobe chambers as the garderobe chute exits at the base of the tower house in the NW sector. The second floor appears to have been used as a dovecot, probably in the 18th or 19th century. In the NE and SW the curving roof-line of the gable rises on the outer wall, with a chimney at the apex at NE. At parapet level there are two machicolations, at SE and NW, the former ivy covered, while shot-holes are visible in the later. In the W sector of the external face at first-floor level the render projects out, possibly indicating the remains of a later structure up against the tower house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 September 2014

• TS076-039002 Bawn
  Description

  On an E-facing slope on limestone outcrop, in undulating pastureland. A tower house (TS076-039001-) is situated 0.52m from the middle of the W wall. The bawn (int. dims. 56.4m N-S; 39m E-W at N end and 43.3m E-W at S end) is constructed of limestone walling, rubble filled with clay mortar (int. H c. 3.6-5m including parapet) with external lime render and a very slight, gradual base-batter. There is a gatehouse on the E wall, opposing circular angle towers on the NE and SW angles, while the NW and SE angles are rounded. The SW angle tower was modified in 18th or 19th century and an external doorway inserted. The gatehouse consists of a vaulted passage (H c. 5m; Wth 2.2m), with a portcullis slot and murder hole between two lower cut-stone arches (H c. 3.2m) at the E end of the passage way. A guardroom (int. dims. 2.28m N-S; 5.15m E-W; W wall T 0.67m; N wall T 0.93m; S wall T 1.17m) on the N side of the passage consists of one storey with a vaulted loft and is entered on the N side through a flat-headed doorway with high threshold to step over. The S wall of the bawn (T 1.34-1.4m; H 2.1m) has a narrow inserted entrance (Wth 1.29m). Three modern concrete stables have been built up against the internal W face. Also utilising the W internal face of the bawn, which is built on rock outcrop, is a house of possible 18th-century date located beween the modern stables and the tower house. It is constructed of limestone rubble with mostly brick surrounds and the fireplace on the S wall has a brick oven. External ground level along the W wall comes up to first-floor level of this later house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 16 September 2013

• TS076-039003 Earthwork
  Description

  In the field immediately N of the tower house (TS076-039001-) and bawn (TS076-039002-) at Moorstown, these earthworks were identified on an aerial photograph (CUCAP 13 July 1966 APA 2) and are visible on ASIAP (298) 20 and 21, 13-09-2000. The earthworks do not form any discernible pattern and may be the result of backfilled quarry activity. There is an unusual rectangular structure (int. dims. 10.1m N-S; 13m E-W; ext. dims. 12.9m N-S; c. 16.5m E-W) c. 20m N of the N wall of the bawn. It is defined by a trench which appears to have been filled with limestone rubble, the W side is built into a terrace which extends to the N and S. The interior is level, the ground slopes to the E beyond the eastern limit of the structure. The date and function of this structure is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 September 2014

• TS076-039004 Building
  Description

  Built onto the internal E face of the W wall of the bawn (TS076-039002-) of Moorstown tower house (TS076-039001-) which lies immediately to the N. The W wall of the building re-uses the W wall of the bawn which is built on rock outcrop. A roofless building (ext. L 18.25m; int. Wth 6.03m; E wall T 0.59m) is of late 17th-century/18th-century date with later modifications. It is constructed of limestone rubble with roughly cut limestone quoins and a very course pebble dash render. The opes have brick surrounds, though a window at first-floor level at the N end has a N jamb of cut limestone with an internal chamfer and plain margins with punch dressing within. The house is divided into four rooms, with a broken out cross-wall further dividing the second most southerly room. Each room has an opening in the E wall into the interior of the bawn. The N room has chamfered limestone spud-stones for a double door. A partition wall between this room and the room to the S only rises to first-floor level. The E wall of the N room has evidence of at least three phases of construction. The N wall of this room projects internally from the bawn to support the external stair to the tower house entrance. The room to the S of this has a wide, large breach in the W wall at first-floor level. The S room has a large fireplace which projects internally from the S wall, with a well-preserved brick oven to the E. The oven has an opening to the fireplace and a separate opening to the room, the latter is blocked up. The building appears to be an outbuilding, possibly incorporating stables, but also incorporates a bakehouse and possibly accommodation. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-071001 Enclosure
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB89.AA.02 16 July 1989) shows the cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by a fosse and with an entrance facing NE. A ring-ditch (TS076-071002-) is located in c. 50m to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-071002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  An aerial photograph (GB89.AA.02 16 July 1989) shows the cropmark of a ring-ditch. A circular enclosure (TS076-071001-) is located c. 50m to the N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1850, having windbreak with pitched roof, and with recessed lean-to addition to south-west gable. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, brick chimneystack, eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with painted smooth render to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills throughout. Front has six-over-six pane windows to first floor and one-over-one pane windows to ground floor, and rear has two-over-two pane to first floor and one-over-one pane to ground floor. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door. Single-storey outbuildings facing each other across yard to front of house, with pitched slate roofs, eaves courses and painted roughcast rendered walls. Garden to rear.

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 Moorstown, 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 Moorstown.

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

Name

Moorstown · Baile na Móna

Area

2,592,829 m² (259.28 ha, 640.7 acres)

Civil parish

Inishlounaght, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Ballyclerahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,049 people lived in 367 households in the Ballyclerahan electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingeary East, Blackcastle, Cuckoohill, Currenstown, Derrygrath Upper, Husseystown, Kilmurry, Loughlohery, Rathmore, Woodrooff, Woodrooff

Placenames

Moorstown 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.