Stephenstown
Stephenstown is a townland in the civil parish of St. Johnbaptist, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile an Steafánaigh.
Parcel 538533
- Area
- 2,962 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 272 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Stephenstown
Planning applications on this parcel
15 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of: (i) milking parlour with plant room, dairy, office, storage, flow channel, crush, meal bin, water tank and collecting yard, slatted tank, (ii) cubicle shed over existing slatted tank with slatted tank and all associated site works. Demolition of existing slatted shed roof is also required
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660121
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 74.8 ha
- 185 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,076 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stephenstown, from 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 362,826 m² (36.28 ha, 89.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Stephenstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Feb 2026Conditional
the construction of: (i) milking parlour with plant room, dairy, office, storage, flow channel, crush, meal bin, water tank and collecting yard, slatted tank, (ii) cubicle shed over existing slatted tank with slatted tank and all associated site works. Demolition of existing slatted shed roof is also required
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660121
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Stephenstown.
Recorded monuments
- TS061-123 Ringfort - rath
Description
In farmyard, on upper edge of an E-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 22m E-W; 21m N-S) defined by bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m; Wth at top 1.75m; total Wth 4.9m) SE-NW which is stone faced on exterior and is reduced to a steep scarp (Wth 1.8m; H 2.3m) NE-SE. Monument truncated by farmyard NW-NE. Fosse (basal Wth 1.5m; overall Wth 3.85m; Dth 0.45m) SE-NW is waterlogged W-NW and is feint (Wth c. 3m; D c. 0.1m) NE-SE. Interior is generally level and has been raised on its E-side to compensate for hillslope. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS069-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture, abutting field boundary to S. Circular area (diam. 31m) defined by low earthen bank (Wth 7.3m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.75m), reduced to scarp NW-N-NE. External fosse (basal Wth 1.5m; top Wth 7.2m; D 0.45m) visible, except where waterlogged NW-N-ESE. Interior has slight tilt downslope to NNE. Field boundary respects monument ESE-S-SW. Ringfort (TS069-014----) is c. 140m to ENE. 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 Stephenstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Stephenstown, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Stephenstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Stephenstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Stephenstown · Baile an Steafánaigh
- Area
- 747,565 m² (74.76 ha, 184.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Magorban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 717 people lived in 242 households in the Magorban electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycomisk, Ballyduagh, Bullockpark, Glennaslaud, Lyonstown, Railstown, Stephenstownbeg
- Placenames
- Stephenstown 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.