Castlecoyne

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecoyne, from 2,265 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 152,517 m² (15.25 ha, 37.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlecoyne 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 Castlecoyne 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 Castlecoyne.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-028001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On level ground in gently undulating terrain. A two-storey farmhouse has been built up against the W wall of the tower house. A stone farm building is built partially in the E end of the ground floor of the tower house and extends eastwards. A concrete farm building extends N of the tower house from its N wall. The Ormond Deeds of 1508 mentions 'Caslan Coyen' (Curtis 1935, vol. 3, 336). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the stump of a castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 323), 'Thomas Butler of Castle Coyne gent. Irish Papist'is listed as proprietor' (ibid.). According to the OS Letters, by 1840 the tower house had already been 'demolished above to the height of about twenty feet [6m] which at present remains of the west, north and south walls, the east one being entirely razed to the ground, and as appears, a part of the north one towards the east side. The thickness of the south wall at a doorway placed on it is four feet nine inches [1.42m]. This doorway was pointed and built of chiselled limestone and is at present twelve feet [3.65m] in height. The pointed top remains and the sides have been destroyed' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 123-4). The roof of the vault was grass covered and on it linens were laid for bleaching (ibid.). On the E side there was 'a thatched building not equal in height with the ruin, and which is used as a barn. At the west side is a thatched building too, which is a farmer's residence' (ibid.). The tower house now is in poor condition (ext. dims. 6.93m N-S; currently 13m E-W but originally longer; wall T 1.35m), only surviving up to the barrel-vault over the ground-floor loft. It was built of limestone rubble, randomly coursed, with well cut block and start quoins at the SW angle. The E end of the tower house is gone, and a large break has been knocked through the S wall from the ground floor up into the vault. The tower house was entered through a now broken out doorway at the W end of the S wall and led into a lobby area. All that remains is the drawbar-hole on the W side (D 1.55m). No windows survive at ground-floor level. There is a horizontal loop, chamfered externally, at the E end of the N wall, which has been crudely blocked. The loft was supported by a wooden floor carried on corbels in the N and S walls. At a higher level on the N wall there is a row of four corbels, all broken, which are probably a later insert. The loft was lit by a single-light window in the N wall. The partially destroyed mural stairs rose W of the doorway and turned in the SW angle to rise along the W wall (stair Wth 1m) and turned again in the NW angle to rise along the N wall. The ground-floor SW angle of the stairs is well-defended by three, now blocked, gun-loops in a niche, two splayed on either side of a centrally placed horizontal loop. The stairs at the NW angle is lit by a single loop in a splayed embrasure and, immediately below and slightly to the W of the window sill, there is a gun-loop with a semi-circular ope. A garderobe chute exits at the W end of the S wall, 0.85m above ext. ground level. The tower house has been utilised as an outbuilding, with a concrete plinth inserted inside in the N half, E of the gap in the S wall. Animal pens divided by concrete walls have been constructed on the plinth, up against the internal N wall. A raised concrete platform with concrete steps up to it is against the S interior wall, E of the gap in the S wall. A portion of the N wall towards the E end has been crudely broken through to give access to an adjoining N shed. A concrete cylindrical tank rests on a concrete wall immediately W of the gap in the S wall and on blocks in the SW angle of the stairs. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 23 September 2014

• TS076-028002 Bawn
  Description

  According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 124) some remains of bawn walls were still visible, c. 1840, to the S of the tower house. Though there are a number of stone walls surrounding the tower house and farm building, all appear to be associated with the later farm buildings. However, some walls were badly overgrown and may contain remains of the bawn. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-033 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat ground in gently undulating terrain, under grass. Large area (diam. 88m N-S; 94.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Wth 2.9m crest, 5.2m; H above int. 0.28m; H above fosse 1.46m); fosse (Wth 2.8m) and outer bank (Wth 4.9m crest, 8.7m base; H above fosse 3.05; H above ext. 1.4m). Outer bank is surmounted by scrub. Interior used as small field. NW quadrant is badly poached and has three feeding troughs, all upturned at time of visit and bank levelled. Massive outer bank in E quadrant, round-topped, external face is heavily overgrown. No visible external fosse, though grass growth is more lush at base of E bank. Internal bank is very low, only evident from E-SE and in SE, elsewhere edge is defined by scarp (Wth 5m; H 0.6m), fosse (Wth 7.6m) and outer bank (Wth 3.1m crest; 8.3m base; int. above fosse 1.62m; H above ext. 1m), except in NW quadrant where outer bank, fosse and inner bank have been levelled. S quadrant fosse is flat-bottomed (Wth 4m). NW quadrant has stone walling on internal face of outer bank, three courses exposed, smaller stonework at base course. Bank and fosse in W quadrant is depicted as levelled on 2nd (1901-05 ed. OS 6-inch map). Possibly location of entrance as there is no other break in defences. 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 Castlecoyne.

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 Castlecoyne, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlecoyne · Caisleán Choinn

Area

272,366 m² (27.24 ha, 67.3 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannamore, Mortlestown, Shortcastle

Placenames

Castlecoyne 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.