Racecourse Demesne

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racecourse Demesne, from 765 m² to 467,782 m² (46.78 ha, 115.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Racecourse Demesne 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 Apr 2017Conditional

  building of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, upgrade existing agricultural entrance, install septic tank including associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600339

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 Racecourse Demesne.

Recorded monuments

• TS069-073 Enclosure
  Description

  In level area of pasture to E of old walled garden of Racecourse Hall house. No visible surface trace. Enclosure not marked on either 1840 or latest edition OS 6-inch map but was identified as a roughly circular anomaly (dims. c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on aerial photograph (GSI S.659/8 April 1974). Land generally level in area of possible monument and natural break of slope adjacent to E may form part of the curvilinear anomaly that was identified on aerial photograph. Linear depression to SE of this may further simulate a curvature. Possible natural feature, although inconclusive without proper excavation. Ringfort (TS069-039----) located 490m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Racecourse Hall, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with slightly advanced end bays flanking entrance porch, two-bay side elevations, lower three-bay two-storey wing to rear and recent glazed porch to west. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods held in place by decorative wrought-iron brackets. Rendered coping to entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to wing. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to ground and first floor, those to ground floor set in elliptical-arched recesses. First floor of central bay has highly ornate square-headed surround to tripartite window opening, comprising panelled pilasters surmounted by console brackets and moulded panelled entablature with scalloped detailing to underside of eaves and to window heads. Porch comprises paired render pilasters to front corners with moulded capitals, entablature and impost course. Round-headed window to front wall and door openings to sides, with ornate cobweb fanlights over openings, having fixed twenty-pane window and twelve-pane half-glazed doors. Cut limestone steps and round-profile moulded capped piers with cast-iron railings flanking each side of porch. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to north-west of site having pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings, some with timber louvre fittings. Elliptical-arched gateway surmounted by cut-stone bellcote to yard. Quadrant entrance gates at road comprise vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances. Ashlar limestone piers with moulded caps and plinths to inner pairs of piers and outer terminating piers, with inner pairs of piers having string course, fluting and floral motifs to centre piers. Wrought-iron spearhead railings and double-leaf and single-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

At the centre of the townland of Racecourse Demesne, 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 Racecourse Demesne.

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

Name

Racecourse Demesne · Diméin Chúrsa an Ráis

Area

605,761 m² (60.58 ha, 149.69 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Killeenasteena, the unit of the census

Census 2022

677 people lived in 226 households in the Killeenasteena electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lalor's-Lot, Loughfeedora, Racecourse, Shanballyduff

Placenames

Racecourse Demesne 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.