Newcastle

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Newcastle, from 57 m² to 343,429 m² (34.34 ha, 84.86 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.

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a spectator stand to serve existing playing field with all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560483

• 9 May 2025N/a

  a spectator stand to serve existing playing field with all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560394

• 31 Jan 2024Conditional

  the extension, re-roofing, to make elevational changes and re-positioning of the existing entrance to the existing dwelling

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460063

• 24 Jan 2024N/a

  extension, re-roof, make elevational changes and re-position entrance to dwelling house

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460046

• 11 Jan 2023Conditional

  three detached dwellings and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 233

• 8 Jun 2022N/a

  three detached dwellings and assoicated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22404

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  (A) construct a pedestrian walkway to perimeter of existing playing fields with associated fencing, (B) construct an Astroturf playing area, (C) install 6 No. 12m high lighting columns with LED Lamp heads, with surround fencing to playing area (D) all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21281

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 Newcastle.

Recorded monuments

• TS086-022 Enclosure
  Description

  On a N-facing slope on gently inclining hill, in lush meadow. Monument indicated as large irregular hexagonal enclosure on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map and as large roughly circular enclosure on the latest ed. (diam. c. 70m N-S; c. 66m E-W). The enclosure has been levelled with only a slight scarp visible in the NE quadrant (H 0.4m), which continues to curve to the N for c. 15-20m. There is a shallow depression at the base of scarp, possibly indicating the presence of a fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m). There is no visible trace above ground of the S side of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• TS086-023 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight rise on valley floor c. 220m S of a tributary of the River Duagh, in an old orchard adjacent to a farmyard. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) it is described as an 'ould ruinous Castle, whereof one side is onely standinge' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 376). The castle is marked as 'site of castle' on both 1st (1840) and 2nd (1907) ed. OS 6-inch maps. There is no visible trace of the monument above ground. According to Graves (1876-78, 51) this was the principal castle of the De Prendergasts. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 November 2013

Architectural heritage

• Convent of Mercy, school, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey school, built c. 1885, having six-bay east elevation, four-bay west elevation, lower single-bay entrance porch to north end, and recent prefabricated flat-roofed classroom extension to south. Hipped slate roof with central rendered chimneystack, sheeted eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Pointed arch window openings with brick voussoirs and surrounds, limestone sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with Y-tracery to upper sashes. Square-headed timber battened door and pointed arch window to porch. Rendered walls with rendered piers to site boundary with decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

• Convent of Mercy, convent/nunnery, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey with attic convent, built c.1885, having lower three-bay three-storey addition to full length of rear. Gablets to middle bay of front and rear elevations. Now disused. Pitched slate roof to main block, with flat roof to addition, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods, and decorative render cross finials and decoratively carved timber bargeboards to all gables. Smooth rendered walls with render quoins, and having render platband to first floor sill level. Segmental-headed window openings to front and side elevations of older part, with render hood-mouldings and with round-headed window to gablet over entrance, and square-headed windows to addition, all with painted sills and square-headed timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane except ground floor of addition which has two-over-two pane. Segmental-headed door opening having moulded render hood-moulding with cross, and timber panelled double-leaf door with sidelights and overlight. Square-headed door opening to rear with recent glazed timber door. Rendered boundary walls and piers with 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 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 Newcastle.

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.

No address of the register names Newcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Newcastle · An Caisleán Nua

Area

655,346 m² (65.53 ha, 161.94 acres)

Civil parish

Templetenny, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ballyporeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyporeen electoral division: 964 people in 362 households; 82% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyporeen, Carrigavisteal, Dangan, Moher

Placenames

Newcastle 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.