Goldenhills

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goldenhills, from 86 m² to 130,073 m² (13.01 ha, 32.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Goldenhills 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 Goldenhills 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 Goldenhills.

Recorded monuments

• TS060-069 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture. No visible surface trace. Depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 40m). Identified on aerial photograph (ASIAP (34) 21) as a circular cropmark [no date]. NGR location is within an oval depression (dims. 20m E-W; 13m N-S) defined by a scarp (max. Wth 9m; max. H 1.5m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-070001 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture on highest elevation of field, at terminus of broad ridge (long axis NW-SE). Oval area (dims. 28m E-W; 16m N-S) defined by levelled bank (overall Wth 3.7m; Wth at top 1.5m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m) WNW-NNW and reduced to scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.4m) NNW-WSW; levelled out WSW-WNW. Fosse (overall Wth 3.2m; basal Wth 1m; D 0.05m) traceable SE-NE. Interior has a gentle E-facing slope. Whitethorn hedge planted on scarp NNE-SW in recent years. Known locally as 'Whitesfort.' An enclosure (TS060-070002-) is c. 160m to NNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-070002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a very steep NE-facing slope, directly above a large pond, in pasture. An enclosure (TS060-070001-) is c. 160m to SSE.The enclosure faces a villa 'Golden Hills' with a Gothick courtyard attached. A circular area (diam. 13.5m N-S; 13.3m E-W) enclosed by a low, flat-topped bank (Wth at top 1.7m; Wth at base 2.9m; H above int. 0.2m; H above ext. 0.12) with a shallow dip at the base of the bank upslope to the SW which may be the remains of a fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.15m), and downslope is defined by scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.7m). The interior slopes steeply NNE with the natural fall of ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Golden Hills, house, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey house occupies south-east corner of courtyard, built c. 1930, with canted-bay windows flanking recessed entrance and having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed addition to west. Hipped slate main roof and sub-roofs to bay windows, with terracotta ridge crestings and rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with render string course and moulded render eaves course. Square-headed timber mullioned multi-paned casement windows. Doric-style columns to recessed entrance, with square-headed timber panelled door flanked by paned sidelights and having concrete limestone advance and steps.

• Golden Hills, farmyard complex, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached castellated courtyard, built c. 1810, now in ruins. Comprising four-centre arched gateway set centrally in south elevation of curtain wall, flanked by projecting two- and three-stage castellated towers and with outer wall of two-storey possible dwelling in east end of elevation and having battlemented gable of internal building to west end. Crenellated parapets with croix pommées throughout south elevation and having tall loops to upper wall to west of gateway and to side elevations of flanking towers. Heavy carved corbels support parapet of west tower. Towers have blocked windows splayed externally and four-centred arched doorway to west tower. Recessed panels over entrances, now missing their plaques. Heraldic plaques over gateway and to east tower, latter also having quatrefoil panel. Pseudo-machicolations to ends of west end gable and round-profile chimney to centre. Rubble limestone walling with remains of roughcast render. Square-headed window openings to possible dwelling elevation, now blocked up, having limestone lintels and with brick retaining arches to ground floor. Segmental-arched gateway to north wall of courtyard having slightly-pointed arched flanking doorways. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west corner of courtyard having half-hipped slate roof and rendered walls. Steel hay barn to north side of yard with corrugated-iron barrel roof. Outbuilding with lean-to corrugated-iron roof to south-west corner of yard. Remains of walled gardens and remains of gateway having rendered piers with crenellations and blank cross loops to south of courtyard. Later house, built c.1930, occupies south-east corner of courtyard.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Goldenhills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Goldenhills · Cnocáin an Ghabhailín

Area

434,599 m² (43.46 ha, 107.39 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Golden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Golden electoral division: 881 people in 314 households; 79% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlina, Ballygriffin, Ballygriffin, Springmount

Placenames

Goldenhills 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.