Cloghprior

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghprior, from 2,007 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 497,626 m² (49.76 ha, 122.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloghprior 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.

• 19 Sept 2018Conditional

  the erection of agricultural structures to include 1) A cubicle shed with adjacent concrete aprons and underground effluent storage tank, including removal of existing stone building to facilitate proposed development. 2) The construction of extensions to the existing milking parlour and dairy, adjustments to yard facilities, including all associated works. The proposed development is located adjacent to recorded protected structure S120, Cloughprior House

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601132

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clareen Lough 000929

Recorded monuments

• TN009-047 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views in all directions. Marked as 'Cloghprior Castle' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. No visible evidence of any castle mentioned in the Civil Survey 1654-56 as a 'ruined castle the walls onely standing', (Simington 1934, Vol. 2, 341) in the area. The present Cloghprior House was built a few metres to the SE of the building marked as 'Cloghprior Castle' on the 1st. ed. OS 6-inch map. According to owner of Cloghprior House there is a local tradition of a castle next to the house (SMR file 1991). 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. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 July 2016

Architectural heritage

• Cloghprior House, house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1810, having recessed central bay to front façade, lower single-bay rear return and single-bay kitchen wing with attic to northwest corner. Hipped slate M-profile roof having central rendered chimneystacks, with pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack to northwest wing. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls having squared quoins and with brick to openings. Replacement aluminium windows in square-headed openings to façade, with timber casement and one tall round-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash to stairs, to rear. Replacement timber door and surround in segmental-headed opening with steps. Two stone outbuildings having pitched slate roofs retained to west. House may be built on site of medieval castle.

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 Cloghprior, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloghprior · Cloch an Phrióra

Area

1,085,055 m² (108.51 ha, 268.12 acres)

Civil parish

Cloghprior, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Cloghprior, the unit of the census

Census 2022

326 people lived in 107 households in the Cloghprior electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Frolick, Garranacleary, Knockanacartan, Parkboy, Priorpark, Prospect West, Shanavally

Placenames

Cloghprior 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.