Castlequarter

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 39 m² to 184,669 m² (18.47 ha, 45.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  a shed as constructed

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660431

• 15 May 2025Conditional

  alterations & renovations to house with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560422

• 29 Sept 2024Conditional

  a) existing single storey extension (to side Southwest elevation) as constructed. b) Planning Permission for alterations to existing single storey detached dwelling, including removal of existing rear extension. c) New single storey extensions to Northwest/Northeast/Southeast Elevations of existing dwelling. d) All associated site works/adjustments and ancillary services

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460832

• 16 May 2023Conditional

  1. change of use of existing building storage depot to residential dwelling house & 2. modification to front elevation

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360321

• 2 Sept 2022N/a

  placement of a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for the acceptance of residual and food waste and a pay-to-use portable compactor for mixed dry recyclables (this activity requires the developers to possess a waste certificate of registration)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22541

• 5 Jul 2022N/a

  a pay-to-use portable waste compactor for the acceptance of residual and food waste and a pay-to-use portable compactor for mixed dry recyclables (this activity requires the developers to possess a waste certificate of registration)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22455

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  a) renovation of existing roof including improved air-tightness and insulation, b) removal of existing suspended ceilings and replacement with new ceilings, c) replacement of existing lightening conductors and d) associated ancillary site works. (St Josephs church is recorded as protected structure reference S385)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22137

• 25 Feb 2021Conditional

  the provision of a multi-use games area including associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21232

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 Castlequarter.

Recorded monuments

• TN022-029 Mound
  Description

  Situated atop high ground with good views in all directions. Well preserved site consisting of a natural hillock the base of which has been scarped (base diam. 21m N-S ; H 0.5m) and now enclosed by trees and bushes growing around the base of the hill. Evidence of an enclosing earth and stone bank (Wth 1.2m ; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) around base of mound/hill at E only with loose ruuble piled on top of bank, elsewhere the mound is defined by a scarp. Interior of monument follows natural contour of hillock, no evidence of a fully enclosing feature and not depicted as an antiquity on the latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Could be a natural hillock which was re-used as a burial mound formed by the scarping of the base of the hilock and this would account for the rising ground inside the scarp. Described by Cunningham (1987, 148) as a motte-like fortification a a hill-top immediately to the SW of Toomevara village. Depicted as area of tree plantation on first edition OS 6-inch map, possibly a natural feature which has no archaeological features or could be a natural hillock which has been re-used as a burial mound. 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

• TN022-070 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Toomevara is described as 'the sd manor of Tome ye priviledge of a Court Leete & a Court Barron, a Fayre twice a yeare, & a markett every Tuesday' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 213). No earthworks visible at ground level in or around the modern village. 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

• TN022-070002 Religious house - Augustinian friars
  Description

  Augustinian priory Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with church ruins (TN022-070001-) 70m to the N and R.C. Chapel immediately to S. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A cross-inscribed slab (TN022-070004-), now lost, was recovered from the vicinity of the abbey (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). The priory was a daughter-house of Monaincha (TN018-001001-) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) and appears to have been strongly associated with the ruling O'Meara dynasty. In 1450 the warden pleaded that, on account of poverty, the value being under 16 marks he and his convent could not be decently maintained, nor repair the cloister and other buildings, most of which had been burnt down during wars (ibid., 195). Donogh O'Meara was building a castle here in 1541 (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). In 1597 Miler mac Grath was granted the 'site, circuit and precint of the late priory of Thome' with a 'butt of a ruined castle with certain ruined chambers thatched' (ibid., 133). At the dissolution the property of the priory of Toomevara is listed as 'one castle, wall and other buildings on the site' (Gleeson and Leask 1938, 213). The present remains consist of a long rectangular building (int. dims. 6.4m N-S; 21m E-W approx.; wall T 1.15m) of which the E end is destroyed, built with roughly coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with base-batter visible. The main doorway located off-centre to the W on the S wall, consists of a pointed limestone doorway with hood-moulding of fifteenth/sixteenth-century date. The inner arch of the doorway is set into a block of protruding masonry like an inner porch which projects into the church. The E end of the S wall appears to be a later insertion and there is evidence of an original doorway blocked up by later masonry to the E of the present doorway. The N wall has a possible destroyed doorway off-centre to the W and there is an ivy-clad window at the W end. The W gable has a destroyed window also covered in ivy with a bellcote surmounting the apex. In the centre of the N wall is a single-light sandstone window with moulded jambs and floral decorated spandrels, the head of which is obscured by ivy. A seventeenth-century wall plaque (TN022-070005-) sits off-centre to the E on the inner face of the S wall. The Latin inscription on the limestone plaque is provided by Gleeson (1982, 469), who also gives the translation as 'While the renowned offspring of O'Meara reposes in this tomb. To whom O Traveller happily open Heaven by thy prayer. To William. To Ellen Bourke open heaven. By the merits of his blood he made possible that path. He snatched thrones from earth. Let this marble be a witness to thee O reader, 1664 henceforth from Evil'. Architectural fragments from the church are inserted as possible headstones in the surrounding graveyard. There is a possible cloister area to the N of the abbey and the poorly preserved remains of a rectangular building (TN022-070001-) also to the N may be part of the abbey complex. A late fifteenth-century effigial tomb (TN022-070006-) described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 94, 96, 231) lies outside the S wall at the E end of the church. The early medieval abbey was probably rebuilt and converted into a parish church in the late medieval period. To see a 3D model of the S doorway, visit; https://skfb.ly/oxJsA To see a 3D model of the N window, visit; https://skfb.ly/oxNSo 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 September 2022

• TN022-070005 Memorial stone
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with a possible church ruins (TN022-070001-) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A seventeenth-century wall plaque sits off-centre to the E on the inner face of the S wall. The Latin inscription on the limestone plaque is provided by Gleeson (1982, 469), who also gives the translation as 'While the renowned offspring of O'Meara reposes in this tomb. To whom O Traveller happily open Heaven by thy prayer. To William. To Ellen Bourke open heaven. By the merits of his blood he made possible that path. He snatched thrones from earth. Let this marble be a witness to thee O reader, 1664 henceforth from Evil'. Architectural fragments from the priory are inserted as possible headstones in the surrounding graveyard. To see a 3D model of this memorial plaque, visit; https://skfb.ly/oxJsK Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN022-070006 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with a possible church ruins (TN022-070001-) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A late fifteenth-century effigial tomb (dims. L 1.33m; top Wth 0.54m; base Wth 0.54m; T 0.17m) described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 94, 96, 231) lies outside the S wall at the E end of the Augustinian priory. Described by Gleeson as 'Outside the N wall is a 15th cent. Stone slab showing an ecclesiastic and inscribed in raised letters now partly erased. The name 'Joannes O'Meara' can be read' (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN022-070007 Font
  Description

  Sandstone octagonal shaped font (diam. 0.28m; H 0.32m) with each panel decorated with an incised quatrefoil pattern. This font is located in the SE corner of the graveyard to the E of the Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-). Beside the font are the remains of one section of an octagonal shaped column and base belonging to the font. The font has been taken inside the R.C Church where it has been erected close to the altar of the church Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 12 September 2022

Architectural heritage

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Fresstanding T-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built c.1815, having chamfered re-entrant corners and three-bay nave elevations. Pitched artificial slate roofs. Pebble-dashed and rendered walls. Pointed-arch windows to nave with Y-tracery and double timber sliding sash windows, margined one-over-one pane to re-entrant corners, four-over-six pane elsewhere, with coloured glass. Stained glass to windows in entrance gable and west wall. Timber double-leaf battened doors with stained-glass over-lights. Reredos has stepped plan and consists of advanced columns with pilasters to wall, with composite capitals and supporting entablature. Entrance end has gallery with carved timber rail and supported on Ionic columns with entablature. Graveyard to site. Cast-iron gates and railings having brick plinth and brick piers and walls to site.

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 Castlequarter, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin

Area

510,647 m² (51.06 ha, 126.18 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnameadle, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Latteragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

690 people lived in 275 households in the Latteragh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baynanagh, Bunacum, Clonalea, Cloon, Coolkereen, Garrane

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.