Loughkent Lower

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughkent Lower, from 2,455 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 425,489 m² (42.55 ha, 105.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Loughkent Lower 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.

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  the 'as constructed' ancillary family accommodation (which differs from that granted under Planning Ref 22/574)

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460211

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  a loose shed with manure area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360178

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 Loughkent Lower.

Recorded monuments

• TS069-062 Church
  Description

  In gently undulating terrain surrounded to the N, E and S by pasture and by tillage across the road to the W. A tower house (TS069-063----) is visible 1.2km to the SSE. A large undivided church (ext. dims. 8m N–S; 23.24m E–W) of limestone rubble, roughly coursed located S of centre within an irregularly shaped graveyard (TS069-062001-). The church has been repaired and repointed. Where original quoins survive they are of cut limestone. The E gable (wall T 1.1m), which has a slight base-batter (H 3.3m; Wth 0.15m), survives up to a height of 4m, with a length of upstanding N (L 4m) and S wall (L 2.9m) running from the E gable. Only the lower courses of the remaining N wall (max. H 0.4m; wall T 0.9m) survive. The W gable survives up to a height of 2.78m. The W end of the S wall is 1.56m high for 3.9m and then only the lower courses survive to a height of 0.7m for a further 5.36m, to where there appears to have been a doorway. This doorway, E of centre in the S wall, is evidenced by a straight-sided terminal which appears original despite repair work. The E length of the wall beyond this does not survive. There is no evidence of a doorway in the N wall. From the surviving walls there is evidence of at least four windows. A flat-headed two-light window in the E gable, a flat-headed single-light widnow towards the E end of the N wall and one side of a splaying window embrasure towards the E end of the S wall and in the W gable. The E window has an external chamfer with a central band of punch tooling, a style which dates to the late 16th/early 17th century. The window or surrounding wall have been rebuilt as the external masonry bulges out below the window and the external N jambs are not flush with the external face. The wall above the window has been rebuilt and is supported on an iron grille while the S side of the internal embrasure has been rebuilt using a headstone dating to 1822, the latter repair work was noted by White (1892, 64). The ground level in the interior appears to be significantly raised. The flat lintel of a piscina is visble at the S side of the E gable, though only 0.1m of the opening is visible above the internal ground level. There is a flat-headed aumbry towards the E end of the N wall, the base of which is at present internal ground level. Architectural fragments in the NE corner of the interior iincluding two limestone jamb. Within the church there are a number of 18th, 19th and 20th-century headstones, the earliest dating to 1761. There are two possible bullaun stones (TS069-062002-; TS069-062003-) incorporated into the W wall of the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 September 2011

• TS069-062001 Graveyard
  Description

  In gently undulating terrain surrounded to the N, E and S by pasture and by tillage across the road to the W. An irregularly shaped graveyard (dims. 90m N–S; 57m E–W) with a medieval church (TS069-062----) located S of centre within the interior. The graveyard, which White (1892, 16) describes as being 'well enclosed', is defined by a stone wall (H 1.2m). The W wall of the graveyard appears to have been extended westward by 4m. The stone wall on the W side is of more recent construction than the wall enclosing the other sides and there is a low bank in the interior which runs parallel to the W wall which appears to be the grass-covered remains of an earlier wall. Within the graveyard the earliest headstones, dating to the 18th and 19th-century are within the church interior and clustered S of the church. There are two possible bullaun stones (TS069-062002-; TS069-062003-) incorporated into the W wall of the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 September 2011

• TS069-062002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Incorporated into the S side of the W graveyard (TS069-062001-) wall enclosing a medieval church (TS069-062----). The bullaun is at the S entrance into the graveyard. The conglomerate boulder (D 0.48m; Wth 0.33m) has been split vertically and has a circular hollow (diam. 0.21m; D 0.075m) on its upper surface. A small niche in the wall has been created above the hollow of the boulder. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 September 2011

• TS069-062003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Inserted in the top of the W wall (H 0.87m above ground level) of a graveyard (TS069-062001-), towards the S end, which is enclosing a medieval church (TS069-062----). A limestone boulder (dims. 0.48m x 0.2m x 0.27m) with two hollows. One hollow appears on the upper surface (diam. 0.12m; D 0.075m) and the other on the underside (diam. 0.12m; D 0.075m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 September 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Loughkent Lower.

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 Loughkent Lower, 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 Loughkent Lower.

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

Name

Loughkent Lower · Loch Ceann Íochtarach

Area

1,331,007 m² (133.1 ha, 328.9 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Knockgraffon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

778 people lived in 276 households in the Knockgraffon electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygerald East, Ballygerald West, Caddlestown, Graigue, Loughkent East, Newtown, Springfield, Tooloone, Woodinstown

Placenames

Loughkent Lower 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.