Skehanagh North

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Skehanagh North, from 1,186 m² to 608,190 m² (60.82 ha, 150.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Skehanagh North 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Skehanagh North in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Skehanagh North.

Recorded monuments

• TN023-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located c. 350m NW of Skehanagh House in low-lying terrain in pasture with a nearby stream running along the E side of the site and into the fosse. A roughly circular area (diam. 54m N-S; 52m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.6m), a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m), an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.9m) and an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.5m). The outer bank and fosse do not survive at E and the inner E bank has been augmented by material from the adjacent stream which was deepened in recent years. In the interior there is a smaller enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by a bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.2m) and shallow fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.15m) best preserved in the SW quadrant. A NE-SW field wall transects the N half of the site, terminating at SW in the inner fosse and joining with a field boundary at NE. No definite entrance feature visible. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring. 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

• TN023-069 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on fairly level ground in pasture with a slight slope down to the E; the site overlooks a nearby ringfort (TN023-042) to the W. A standing stone (H 1.32m; dims. 0.75m x 0.56m) aligned NW-SE, composed of sandstone with large quartz pebble inclusions. The NE face is partially split and kicks out at the base. The stone rises to its apex at NW and is roughly rectangular in plan. 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

• Skehanagh House, house, 1915–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey house, built c.1920, with three-bay front and five-bay return elevations, canted end bays and glazed timber entrance porch to front façade. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles with finials and with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with decorative render quoins and plat-bands. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative render surrounds and continuous sill courses, central window to upper storey of front having triangular pediment and those of side elevations having label-mouldings. Square-headed main door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door with sidelight and over-light and with timber glazed panelled outer door with steps. Outbuildings to yard to north. Gate lodge built c.1940 with pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting, brick chimneystacks and square-headed openings with label-mouldings. Rendered dressed limestone piers having wheel guards and decorative cast-iron railings to entrance to east.

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 Skehanagh North, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Skehanagh North · An Sceachánach Thuaidh

Area

734,019 m² (73.4 ha, 181.38 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

371 people lived in 131 households in the Killea electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolgarran, Gorteen, Kilballyhemikin, Killough, Mien, Skehanagh South

Placenames

Skehanagh North 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.