Castlemoyle North

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlemoyle North, from 704 m² to 159,289 m² (15.93 ha, 39.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlemoyle 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 Castlemoyle 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 Castlemoyle North.

Recorded monuments

• TS052-034009 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. Ardmayle church (TS052-035005-) and graveyard (TS052-035006-) are located c. 100m to W. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes this as 'a good Castle' which in 1640 was under the proprietorship of 'Theobald Butler of Ardmayle Esqr. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 245). According to Davis White (1892, 7) it was 'the residence of the Butlers, and subsequently of the Cootes. Cromwell is said to have attacked it and after gaining possession to have hanged the proprietor'. This four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 10.75m N-S; 8.75m E-W; E wall T 1.3m including base-batter) is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with evidence of external harling, well-cut quoins and a base-batter (H 2.75m; Wth 0.3m). The battlement level does not survive. The external face of the N wall and N end of the E wall is ivy covered. The ground floor is entered through a doorway, now broken out, at the W end of the N wall. There is a small lobby area with a murder-hole overhead which is blocked. From the lobby a mural stair rises to W and a pointed doorway gives access to the ground-floor chamber. The internal floor level has been deepened and is c. 0.85m-1m lower than the original level. A foundation plinth projects internally along the W wall. The chamber was lit by four flat-headed windows, the embrasures of which splay both internally and externally. There are two windows in the E wall, both within round-arched arcades, the northernmost window broken out to create a later entrance. The other windows are centrally placed in the S and W walls. There are two wall cupboards in the W wall, one at either end. The first-floor was entered through a flat-headed doorway from the spiral stair in the W wall. It was supported on a wooden floor carried on well-cut corbels on the E and W walls and was lit by three flat-headed windows, one in the N wall and two in the E wall. There are four wall cupboards at this level. A quite narrow, flat-headed doorway at the S end of the W wall gives access to a garderobe chamber which dog-legs into the S wall. In the N wall, above the ground floor doorway, there is an embrasure which appears to be broken out, possibly for re-use as a fireplace, utilising the murder-hole chute as a flue. The murder-hole chute rises through the thickness of the wall and appears to have been accessed from the top floor of the tower house. A splayed wall-cupboard in the NW angle contains a peep-hole overlooking the stairs. The second floor was entered through a flat-headed doorway at the S end of the W wall, from the mural stair. This doorway is cut into the pointed vault which roofs the second floor. This level had a wooden floor which was carried on corbels projecting from the E and W walls. It was lit by two flat-headed windows, centrally placed in the N and E walls. In the S wall, just below the apex of the vault, the wall projects out on a continuous corbel course. The vault is keyed into the S wall, unlike the N wall where the vault was built first and the apex of the wall built up to meet it. The stair rises in the W wall and is lit by loops, with slop-stone bases, opposite the doorway to each floor level. It has several unusual features including a deliberately cut peep-hole (Wth 0.13m x H 0.165m) in the stair lintel overlooking the NW angle of the stair which could be accessed from the splayed wall cupboard in the NW angle at first-floor level. Near the top of the stairs there are two pairs of opposing draw-bar holes in the E and W stair wall which appear to relate to a recess in a stair lintel which may have housed some form of gate/stair yett (H c. 1.6m; Wth of stairs 0.7m), with a hinging mechanism above, to block access to the floors above the vault. When in position the base of the gate may have been secured to a step where a well-cut hole (Wth 0.1m; H 0.075m; D 0.1m) mid-way along the base of a step is perfectly in line with the hinge in the roof of the stairs and the draw-bar holes. At third-floor level the stair turns at the SW angle into a small lobby which is overlooked by an internal loop in the garderobe chamber. The third floor is entered through a flat-headed doorway at the W end of the S wall. The walls at third floor level survive to a height of c. 2m and are heavily overgrown with ivy, with saplings establishing themselves on the roof of the vault. Though broken out, there appear to have been centrally placed windows in the N, E and W walls and an ogee-headed single-light window survives in the S wall, with window seats in the high embrasure which is raised above the garderobe chamber which runs along the S wall. There are four wall cupboards. A doorway at the E end of the S wall of the third-floor chamber gives access to a lobby which leads to an oubliette trapdoor straight ahead, with slop-stone in the wall above, a garderobe chamber in the S wall and a stair in the SE angle which descends to a chamber at second-floor level along the E wall and ascends via a spiral stair at the E end of the S wall to the battlements. The garderobe is lit by two loops in the S wall and an internal loop, mentioned above, in the N wall. Roughly mid-way along this chamber there are opposing put-logs (H c. 0.8m) in the N and S walls which may have supported some form of internal screen. The garderobe chute exits near the W end of the S wall where the external face is broken out. The oubliette chamber (H 1.45m; Wth 0.72m) runs E-W beneath the garderobe chamber and appears to have no windows though a small square hole, visible externally, appears to have served as an air vent. The second floor mural chamber is lit by two loops in the E wall both with slop-stone sills and there is a large wall cupboard at the W end of the N wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034010 Field system
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. Ardmayle church (TS052-035005-) and graveyard (TS052-035006-) are located c. 100m to W. There are a number of earthworks extending N, E and S of the tower house (TS052-034009-) in Ardmayle, however, these do not form any pattern of recognisable medieval settlement and possibly relate to later field boundaries and farming activities. An area c. 60m SE of the tower house appears to be a filled-in quarry (dims. c. 31m N-S; 28m E-W) with quite disturbed ground and mounds of what appear to be upcast. An earthen bank (Wth 0.75m) runs SE from this disturbed ground (L 55.2m) to form a roughly L-shaped arrangement with a bank (L 30.7m) running NE-SW. A raised trackway (H 0.32m above ground level), W of the tower house, runs inside the W field boundary wall running NE-SW, this appears to be a later farm trackway. Approximately 100m SW of the tower house there is an earthen bank running NW-SE which appears on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a field boundary. Approximately 20m NE of the tower house there is another area of disturbed ground which appears to be associated with a former water trough. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlemoyle 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlemoyle 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 Castlemoyle North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Castlemoyle North · An Caisleán Maol Thuaidh

Area

618,660 m² (61.87 ha, 152.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ardmayle, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardmayle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

665 people lived in 242 households in the Ardmayle electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmayle, Ardmayle East, Castlemoyle South, Clonmore North, Thurlesbeg

Placenames

Castlemoyle 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.