Burncourt

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burncourt, from 44 m² to 325,501 m² (32.55 ha, 80.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of new 5m high ball-alley wall on the north east corner of the site and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21859

• 16 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of new single storey extension to the north-east elevation and to the rear of existing primary school building, to accommodate 3 no. mainstream classrooms with ancillary accommodation including w.c.s and new boiler house. Ancillary works to include: minor elevational alterations to existing school building; removal from site of existing boiler house; removal of 1 no. existing temporary prefabricated unit; removal of 1 no. existing covered shelter and removal of existing oil tank and installation of new enclosed (1.8m high fencing) oil tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20599

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  construction of an astroturf playing area with security fencing, floodlighting and ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600606

• 25 May 2018Conditional

  construction / installation of 1 No. single storey temporary prefabricated unit to accommodate a mainstream classroom with ancillary accommodation including wc's and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600652

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  for construction of; 1) a single storey extension to the southwest elevation of the existing primary school, to accommodate new ASD Unit comprising of 1 no. classroom, corridor, sensory room, para-educational room and ancillary school accommodation to serve same, 2) to construct new sensory garden to serve ASD Unit, to be enclosed by 2m high fencing with a side access gate on northeast side of the sensory garden and 3) to construct new single storey extension to the northwest elevation of existing school building to accommodate a disabled access W.C. including any modifications to existing structure to accommodate proposed works to widen existing vehicular school entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600575

• 9 Apr 2018N/a

  construction of a single storey extension to the South West elevation of the existing primary school, to accommodate the new ASD unit comprising 1 no classroom corridor sensory room, para-educational room, ancillary school accommodation to serve same and sensory garden, to construct new single storey extension North West elevation of existing school building to accommodate a disabled access W.C. including any required modifications to existing structure to accommodate proposed works and to widen existing vehicular school entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600423

• 5 Apr 2018Conditional

  retain indefinitely the single rear extension to dwelling, pump house, parts of the existing agricultural building and retention of new domestic effluent treatment system and all site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600412

• 12 Mar 2018N/a

  to retain indefinitely the single-storey rear extension to my dwelling, pump house, parts of the existing agricultural building and retention of new domestic effluent treatment system and all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600301

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  portacabin classroom

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600529

• 6 Apr 2017N/a

  a portacabin classroom

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600353

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shanbally Wood 000972

Recorded monuments

• TS080-002 Church
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope just the off crest of a ridge overlooking a valley floor to the E. According to Power (1908, 60) the 'site of this early religious establishment will be found due north - at distance of two fields - from the present church. In process of quarrying limestone for burning in a kiln close at hand, greater portion of the church site proper has been cut away'. The church is not visible at ground level. A large disused quarry with a limekiln, which is marked on 2nd (1904-5) ed. OS 6-inch map, is still evident. The location should only be considered as indicative of the general area described by Power. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 21 October 2015

• TS080-004001 House - fortified house
  Description

  In a valley at the foot of the Knockmealdown Mountains, on relatively level ground which drops off slightly to the S, in pastureland. The house was built by Sir Richard Everard in 1641, this date being carved on an ex-situ architectural fragment (TS080-004004-). The house was burnt in 1650, probably by Cromwellian forces, though there is a tradition that Lady Everard burnt it herself to stop it falling into Cromwell's hands. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'Sir Richard Everards Mansion house, called Everards Castle the walls onely standinge and some cabbins within a bawne, the sd house beinge burned is yett without repaire' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 374). A H-plan house consisting of a main block, two-storey over partial basement with a gable-fronted attic and four square angle towers, each being three-storey over basement with attic. It is built of rubble limestone, roughly coursed with cut limestone quoins and window surrounds. There is a good survival of external rendering with pseudo quoins and window surrounds highlighted in the plaster work. The fenestration is typical of the 17th-century, consisting of flat-headed single, two or three-light windows being mullioned and transomed, all have hood-mouldings overhead. The E façade has mainly three-light windows while the W façade has all two-light windows. The main entrance is roughly centrally placed in the W facade at ground-floor level, there were steps up to the entrance which are now gone. There are several fireplaces in the building, all of polished limestone. Small mural chambers in the NE and NW angle towers are probably 'privy' chambers which contained chamber pots. There is a side entrance at the W end of the S wall of the main building. Above the first floor on both W and E facade there was a wooden wall-walk supported on limestone corbels. There are a number of shot-holes protecting the two entrances and the house was surrounded by a bawn. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 06 January 2014

• TS080-004002 Bawn
  Description

  In valley at foot of Knockmealdown mountains, on relatively level ground which drops off slightly to the S, in pastureland. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'Sir Richard Everards Mansion house, called Everards Castle the walls onely standinge and some cabbins within a bawne, the sd house beinge burned is yett without repaire' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 374). The N, E and S walls of the bawn enclosing Burncourt Castle (TS080-004001-) survive including the NE and SE angle of the bawn. There is a length of bawn on the N side (T 0.65m) roughly opposite the NE corner tower of the house. The W end of the N wall survives as a low wall (H 1.6m) running up to later farm buildings. The E wall (H 5m) runs N-S c. 40m E of the fortified house and the S wall (L 41.5m; T 0.65m; int. H 1.75m) runs E-W and has a blocked opening 7m from W end (W 1.37m). At the SE angle there is a bartizan which projects beyond the wall by 1.2m. The bartizan (H c. 1m) is supported on two double corbels to the S and E and by a single corbel with pyramidal chamfer at the angle. Approx. 2m N of the SE angle there is a small embrasure for a shot-hole, obscured on the external face by ivy. The ground level drops S of the bawn in line with the E wall of the bawn. Mid-way along the E wall, c. 57m from the SE angle, the wall has largely collapsed, wall-footing survives with an earthen bank above it. The wall has collapsed in the NE angle and an earthen bank remains. A drain has been cut c. 4m from the SE angle revealing a wall-footing 0.8m below ground level. There is no evidence of a base-batter. Later walls include a length of wall (L 25.8m) running E-W towards the SW angle of the fortified house, the wall has collapsed and a rubble wall rebuilt between the SW angle and the surviving length of wall which is of limestone rubble, roughly coursed (T 0.7m; H 3m). A length of wall (L 29m; T 0.9m; H 1.6-2m) runs from the NW angle tower, abutting the N end of the W wall. There is an entrance gap in the wall (W 1.4m) 1.75m W of the fortified house. A loose architectural fragment of wide chamfered surface with a large pyramidal broach-stop with punch tooling is possibly from the original bawn entrance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 06 January 2014

• TS080-004003 House - 17th century
  Description

  A depiction of Burncourt fortified house (TS080-004001-) in Grose's Antiquities (1791, vol.2, 58) shows what appears to be a late 17th-century house in the foreground. Only the upper storey, of what was presumably a two-storey house with dormer attic, is visible. It has heavy gable-ended chimney stacks, consists of five-bays and has three dormer windows. The front façade is presumably W facing. Nothing of this house now survives, it has been replaced by farm buildings. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 06 January 2014

• TS080-004004 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Inserted in a modern wall near the road, 70m SW of Burncourt Castle (TS080-004001-). The stone (L 1.1m; W 0.19m) appears to have been the lintel of a internal doorway or fire surround, opening 0.7m L and came from Burncourt castle the adjacent fortified house. It bears the date '1641'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS086-004 Enclosure
  Description

  On a flat ridge in low lying marshy terrain with Shanbally river flowing c. 30m to S. No visible trace of monument which appears as a roughly circular cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP 19 July 1970 BDS 23). In this photograph the field appears to have been reclaimed and regularised but these boundaries are no longer evident and rough scrub has returned. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1935, having canted flat-roofed bay windows to ends of front elevation. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystacks having stepped render copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, double to first floor, having concrete sills. Segmental-headed door opening, having render keystone motif, and timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights. Replacement uPVC windows to side elevations and to middle of first floor front. Single-storey with attic outbuilding to west of site with pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Roofless four-storey seventeenth-century fortified house to rear of site. Rendered rubble stone walls to site boundary, with pedestrian and vehicular entrances having decorative wrought-iron gates and square-profile piers.

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1950–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1952, having altar to north end, six-bay nave elevation, two-stage tower to west end of front elevation, flat-roofed confessional projections to side elevations of nave, and having flat-roofed single-storey sacristy to north end of east elevation. Pitched slate roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods and having concrete cross finial over gable-front, and with pyramidal copper roof to tower. Wetdashed rendered walls with rendered plinth, square-headed niche to tower with statue of Virgin Mary. Timber windows, triangular-headed over entrance, square-headed transomed and mullioned elsewhere, with stained glass, concrete sills and render surrounds. Square-headed door opening with timber battened double-leaf door with decorative mosaic overdoor with date 1952, and having cantilevered concrete canopy overhead. Concrete steps and ramp to entrance, with steel railings. Interior of church has gallery over rendered screen, rendered concrete portal frame roof supports, and marble altar furniture with cantilevered canopy overhead. Graveyard to site. Rendered walls and piers with steel vehicular and pedestrian gates to site entrance.

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 Burncourt, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Burncourt · An Chúirt Dóite

Area

1,252,347 m² (125.23 ha, 309.46 acres)

Civil parish

Shanrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Burncourt, the unit of the census

Census 2022

472 people lived in 177 households in the Burncourt electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhurrow, Ballysheehan, Monaloughra, Shanbally, Toor Beg

Placenames

Burncourt 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.