Templemichael

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemichael, from 794 m² to 191,988 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 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 Templemichael 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.

• 1 May 2024N/a

  for installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2485

• 3 Apr 2024N/a

  installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2469

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  a single-storey dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 21929

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Special Protection Area: Blackwater Estuary SPA 004028
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary 000072

Recorded monuments

• WA037-013001 Church
  Description

  Located on a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluene of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. This is the parish church of Templemichael within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by masnory walls. The church was in ruins by the 18th century (Smith 1746, 44) and was replaced by a C of I church in the late 18th/early 19th century which is now ruinous. No evidence of an older structure is visible. St Michael’s Well, a natural spring which was venerated in the late 19th century (OS Name Books), is c. 110m to the SW. A tower house (WA037-014001-) is adjacent immediately to the E of the graveyard. (Power1898a, 209) Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-013002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. The parish church of Templemichael (WA037-013001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by masnory walls. A tower house (WA037-014001-) is adjacent immediately to the E of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-013003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located on the W side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River, and c. 110m SW of the site of Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-). This is a natural spring (diam. c. 1.5m) flowing off to the W, which was venerated in the late 19th century (OS Name Books; Power1898a, 209). Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-013004 Building
  Description

  There is a stone-built building (int. dims. 12.85m E-W; 5.2m N-S) of one storey with an attic attached to the E of the tower house (WA037-014001-) just to the E of Templemichael church (WA037-013001-). This was the rectory of Templemichael (O'Connel Redmond 1918-19, 95) and it has a single dividing wall. This building also incorporated the ground floor of the tower house and re-built its doorway. At the ground floor the S stone wall (T 0.65m) has two doorways and a large window. There is a single doorway in the N wall and a window in the E wall. There are two internal doorways at the ground floor, and there is a doorway in the dividing wall at the attic level. It is probably 18th century in date. O’Connell-Redmond, G. (1918-19) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24-25, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 01 March 2012

• WA037-014001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located on the E side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. This is a Fitzgerald tower house that was probably built in the 16th century, and two lords of Decies died there, Gerald Fitzgerald of Dromana (WA029-021001-) in 1553, and his grandson, Gerald of Dromana in 1598. Templemichael was owned by the widow of Garret Fitzgerald in 1640 (Simington 1942, 21). It was apparently attacked by Cromwell in 1649 (O’Connell Redmond 1918, 94-5). It is a rectangular tower (ext. dims. 12.05m E-W; 10.4m N-S) of five floors with E-W barrel vaults over the first and third floors. Only the E and S walls survive complete with a base-batter and cut-stone quoins. A rebuilt lintelled entrance towards the N end of the E wall leads to a N-S passage protected by a guardroom with an E-W barrel vault to the N, and what are probably two murder-holes. The ground floor chamber (int. dims. 5.7m E-W; 4.75m N-S) has one slit window in the S wall, and a destroyed chamber in the W wall. The entrance passage leads to a newel stairs at the SE angle and a secondary entrance in the S wall. The stairs rise to the first floor under an E-W vault, entered through a pointed doorway. This floor has mural chambers in the E and W walls, that in the E wall entered from the stairs through a lintelled doorway. The E chamber has a window with a seat in the E wall an a corner light, probably with blocked gun-loops at the NE angle, but its N-S barrel vault is largely destroyed. There is a cross-loop, a stirrup-loop and slop stone in the stairs to the second floor, which is inaccessible, but it has mural chambers in the E and S walls, the latter with three lights, one plain, one ogee-headed, and a corner light with two two gun-loops. This chamber is vaulted, but that in the E wall is not. The third floor under an E-W vault is entered through a pointed doorway from the stairs, and has mural chambers in the E and S walls, each chamber having a barrel vault. The chamber in the E wall is entered by a lintelled doorway from the stairs. The fourth floor has no ante-chambers, but each surviving wall has a two-light, ogee-headed window. The parapet does not suvive. A garderobe chute exits the W wall at the S end, but the fireplaces must have been in the N or W walls. There is a stone-built building (int. dims. 12.85m E-W; 5.2m N-S) of one storey with an attic attached to the E of the tower house. This was the rectory of Templemichael (O'Connel Redmond 1918-19, 95) and it has a single dividing wall. This building also incorporated the ground floor of the tower house and re-built its doorway. At the ground floor the S stone wall (T 0.65m) has two doorways and a large window. There is a single doorway in the N wall and a window in the E wall. There are two internal doorways at the ground floor, and there is a doorway in the dividing wall in the attic. It is probably 18th century in date. Just 4m NE of the tower house is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.1m; int. diam. 3.1m; H 3.7m over the bawn; ext. H 6.7m), entered through a rebuilt doorway at SW. Only one level survives with a wall recess and three embrasure, two with plain lights, the other blocked. Walls extending to the W and S may have formed the bawn wall, but they are not bonded to the tower. Daniel Grose illustrates the tower house and corner tower accurately from the 1830s (Stalley 1991, 51-3). Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-) is immediately adjacent to the W. O’Connell-Redmond, G. (1918-19) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24-25, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. O’Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. Stalley, R. (1991) Daniel Grosse (c. 1776-1838): the antiquities pf Ireland. The Irish Architectural Archive. Dublin. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

• WA037-014002 Bawn
  Description

  Located on the E side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. Templemichael is a Fitzgerald tower house (WA037-014001-) that was probably built in the 16th century, but the only evidence of its bawn is a corner tower just 4m to the NE. This is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.1m; int. diam. 3.1m; H 3.7m over the bawn; ext. H 6.7m), entered through a rebuilt doorway at SW. Only one level survives with a wall recess and three embrasure, two with plain lights, the other blocked. Walls extending to the W and S may have formed the bawn wall, but they are not bonded to the tower. Daniel Grose illustrates the tower house and corner tower accurately from the 1830s (Stalley 1991, 51). Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-) is immediately adjacent to the W. Stalley, R. (1991) Daniel Grosse (c. 1776-1838): the antiquities pf Ireland. The Irish Architectural Archive. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

Architectural heritage

• Templemichael Church, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1823, built on site of earlier church, c.1620, with single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-stone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with cut-stone dressings including surrounds to gables forming ‘pediments’, cut-stone date stone/plaque, cut-stone courses to each stage to tower, roughcast advanced corner piers to top stage having slit-style apertures, and Irish battlemented parapet having cut-stone coping. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-stone sills, red brick chamfered reveals (originally concealed), cut-stone mullions and tracery forming paired lancet arrangement, and fittings now missing. Pointed-arch window opening to east with cut-stone sill, red brick chamfered reveals (originally concealed), cut-stone mullions and tracery forming tripartite lancet arrangement, and fittings now missing. Square-headed window openings to second stage to tower with cut-stone sills, and timber casement windows having diamond-leaded glazing. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-stone sills, timber mullions and tracery forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with chamfered reveals. Now blocked-up (exposed concrete block) retaining Gothic-style timber overpanel. Pointed-arch window opening to vestry with cut-stone sill, red brick dressings (originally concealed), and remains of timber fittings. Interior now in ruins. Set back from road in own grounds with part-overgrown grounds to site. (ii) Gateway, c.1825, to west comprising pair of rubble stone piers with cut-stone coping, wrought iron double gates having finials, and random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site.

• Templemichael Church, mausoleum, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-storey gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1876, with single-bay single-storey side elevations. Pitched (gable-fronted) cut-stone roof (ivy-clad) with cut-stone coping having cross finial to apex. Broken coursed tooled squared rubble stone walls with inscribed cut-limestone blocks, and cut-stone coat-of-arms to gable to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone lintel, and steel door. Pointed-arch window opening to rear (east) elevation with cut-stone sill, and pierced cast-iron fitting. Set back from road in grounds shared with Templemichael Church.

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 Templemichael, 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 high, 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 Templemichael.

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 Templemichael with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Templemichael · Teampall Mhichíl

Area

493,397 m² (49.34 ha, 121.92 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Templemichael, the unit of the census

Census 2022

465 people lived in 164 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydasoon, Ballyknock, Killea, Lackaroe, Newtown, Stael

Placenames

Templemichael 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.