Toor

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 268 m² to 60,234 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space & Recreation (Active open space)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  the change of design of dressing room building from that previously granted under planning permission number 22/197, and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461043

• 8 Mar 2022Conditional

  (a) construction of one playing pitch in addition to ancillary goal posts and ball nets (b) dressing rooms (c) car park (d) previously permitted septic tank and percolation area (e) astro turf/wall ball area and (f) lighting for two pitches, astro turf/wall area and perimeter path and (g) viewing stand

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22197

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  a) proposed new single storey extension to rear of the existing dwelling; b) associated alterations to existing dwelling external elevations to accommodate proposed new extension and internal layout; c) all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201471

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 Toor.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toor.

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 Toor, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toor · An Tuar

Area

211,578 m² (21.16 ha, 52.28 acres)

Civil parish

Thurles, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Thurles Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,365 people lived in 851 households in the Thurles Rural electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawntameena, Carrigeen, Killinane, Racecourse

Placenames

Toor 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.