Pallas Upper

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Pallas Upper, from 13 m² to 175,495 m² (17.55 ha, 43.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Pallas Upper 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.

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  the demolition of elements of the existing dwelling and the provision of a new single storey extension to the north of the existing dwelling, internal and external alterations and refurbishment works to the existing dwelling and a new tertiary treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660700

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TN034-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a NNE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. Originally an oval-shaped area (diam. 35m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.9m) with no clear entrance feature visible. Field fences intersect the bank at S, NW and NNE. 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

• TN034-086001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a low natural hillock on the NE-facing slope of a river valley overlooking the nearby Clodiagh River. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a small castle out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 90). Walter Butler of Noddstowne is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A small rectangular tower house surviving two storeys high (ext. dims. 6.55m NE-SW; 8.6m SE-NW; wall T 1.7m) built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with base-batter. Only the SE wall survives with partial remains of NE and SW walls and no evidence of the NW wall. The main doorway into the ground floor at the SE end of the NE wall is now destroyed. The ground floor was lit by a simple slit ope in centre of the SE wall. The barrel vault over the ground floor has collapsed. No other features are visible. The natural hillock has been scarped at NE to form an enclosing bailey (TN034-086002-) with a shallow fosse delimiting the area at SW where the natural slope of ground offers no natural protection. 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

• TN034-086002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a low natural hillock on the NE-facing slope of a river valley overlooking the nearby Clodiagh River. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a small castle out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 90). Walter Butler of Noddstowne is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A small rectangular tower house (TN034-086001) surviving two storeys high built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with base-batter. Only the SE wall survives with partial remains of NE and SW walls and no evidence of the NW wall. The natural hillock has been scarped at NE (H 2.7m) to form an enclosing bailey (diam. 40m SE-NW; 24m NE-SW) with a shallow fosse delimiting the area at SW where the natural slope of ground offers no natural protection. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN034-087 Moated site
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. Depicted on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map as a roughly rectangular enclosure with rounded W end. A semicircular arc of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; H 1m) survives as a field boundary from W through N to NE. 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

• TN034-088001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the NE-facing slope of an E-W ridge in an upland area with a nearby ringfort (TN034-089) to the S. A raised circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1-2m) mainly reduced to a scarp with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at NE. A small bullaun stone (1984) is embedded in the bank beside the entrance. There are the possible wall-footings of a circular hut site (diam. 4.5m) in the NE sector of the interior beside the entrance. 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

• TN034-088002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A small bullaun stone (diam. 0.26m; D 0.11m) embedded in the bank of a ringfort (TN034-088001) beside the entrance in the NE quadrant. 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

• TN034-116 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on a NE-facing slope in upland terrain, with an old stream course to NW and a field drain and bank immediately to E. A crescent-shaped mound (dims. 16.1m N-S; 10.4m E-W; H 0.76m) with a very wet, marshy area indicating a possible trough in the E sector. The mound is composed of very dark soil immediately below the sod, with friable stones and charcoal. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house built c.1820, with later timber porch. Hipped artificial slate roof having brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered limestone walls with smooth render plinth. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Glazed timber porch with gabled fish-scale slate roof, glazed sides with round-headed windows and timber panelled door with carved sidelights and over-light. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings having pitched slate roofs and rubble stone walls, with square-headed openings to most and with segmental carriage arches to northernmost. Cast-iron gate with render square piers with ball finials to garden boundary and wrought iron gates with square-plan stone piers to yard entrance.

• Pallas Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge over Clodiagh River, built c.1800, with V-cut-waters to west elevation. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar voussoirs to arches.

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 Pallas Upper, 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 Pallas Upper.

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

Name

Pallas Upper · An Phailís Uachtarach

Area

1,485,299 m² (148.53 ha, 367.03 acres)

Civil parish

Glenkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Upper

Electoral division

Gortkelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

594 people lived in 198 households in the Gortkelly electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolcormack, Coolderry, Finnahy, Gortnahalla, Paddock, Pallas Lower, Rathcardan

Placenames

Pallas Upper 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.