Powerstown

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Powerstown, from 84 m² to 286,559 m² (28.66 ha, 70.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  as-constructed 3 no. domestic sheds, glasshouse and pergola, including all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560352

• 21 Feb 2024Conditional

  change of use of attached garage to a playroom (as granted under planning permission P.3 10191) and PERMISSION to construct a dining / living room extension to the side, a bedroom extension to the rear and a porch extension to the front of the existing dwelling, along with modifications to the windows and external wall finish and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460112

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  construction of a new single storey entry porch to the front elevation of the existing single storey dwelling, alterations to elevations and associated site boundary and site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20533

• 24 Jan 2020Conditional

  construction of a single-storey extension to the south of existing school to comprise 3 no. mainstream classrooms with ancillary facilities, 3 no. resource rooms, assisted user WC, storage area, plant room and entrance canopy. Alterations to existing school to accommodate new extension. Retention Permission is sought for existing prefab to south west of new extension for the duration of construction works. All associated site boundary and site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2057

• 20 Apr 2018Conditional

  to demolish existing open school shed and construct a general purpose building with mezzanine floor over portion of the building and flat roof connection to the existing school together with all associated site works and services

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600489

• 16 Mar 2018Conditional

  to retain 2 no. prefabricated classrooms with toilets and associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600328

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  alterations and extension to an existing pedestrian access to the school grounds

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601063

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 Powerstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS077-087001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On ground sloping gently to the NE, in a farmyard with an unoccupied farmhouse to W and range of farm buildings on NE and SE side. The Calendar of Ormond Deeds states that by a bond dated 23rd April 1575 William Power of Powerstown transferred the freehold of Powerstown, Derrinlaur, Tickencor, Powersland and Cnockluchta, to the Earl of Ormond for £300 (COD V, 265). In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Alexander Power, late of Tickincor, Co. Waterford is listed as the proprietor and 'uppon the said lands stands a ruinous castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 286). This rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 6.7m NE-SW; 10.1m NW-SE), approx. three storeys high, is composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with a slight base-batter on the SE wall and a high, gradual base-batter on the NW wall (Wth c.0.35m; H 2.3m). The ground, first floor and lower part of the second floor survive, though in a very poor condition. The tower house has a thick pebble-dash external render with a smoother render underneath, and cut limestone quoins in the N and S angles. The E angle and the E end of the NE face is obscured by ivy. A doorway has been inserted in the N and E ends of the NE wall at ground level. There is a bad crack down the centre of the SE wall which forks to the E, the wall being in a precarious state. The SW wall (H 3.18m) only survives to the base of first-floor level. The S end of this wall is bulging out badly and masonry has collapsed. The tower house is divided into two ground floor chambers, both accessed from the exterior. The NW chamber (int. dims. 5.13m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE) is entered through a broken-out doorway with a large stone lintel at ground-floor level. The chamber is roofed by a stone vault, the central section of which has good evidence of wicker-centring in lime plaster which only partially survives. There is a clear break in the vault between the NE and SW end where the original vault collapsed and a new section was built. There is a blocked ope in the SE wall, above which a crack has formed. This chamber is lit by an ogee-headed and a flat-headed single-light window in the NW and SW wall respectively. There is also a broken out ope in a pointed recess and a wall-cupboard in the SW wall. Masonry at the S end of the SE wall has collapsed and fallen inwards. There are two straight joints in the N end of the NW wall which appear to be a blocked feature (Wth 0.8m). The SE chamber (int. dims. 4.6m NE-SW; 2.66m NW-SW) is entered through a doorway which was broken through the thickness of the wall. In the SE wall there is a blocked-up embrasure and a bad crack in the centre of the wall with masonry bulging internally. The centre of the NW wall is broken out and blocked up. On the NE wall there is a blocked-up recess immediately N of the doorway which continues down to floor level. There is a stair well at the E angle, three broken steps projecting from the E end of the NE wall are all that remains of the stairs. At second-floor level, in the SE wall, there is a blocked embrasure which splays internally. The wall above this has largely collapsed. A possible bawn wall (TS077-087002-), now pebble-dashed, runs NE for a distance of 1.8m from the N end of the NE wall and joins up with the two-storey farmhouse. Another wall runs SE from the E end of the SE wall, but it is not bonded into the tower house. Another wall, also not bonded, is built up against the S end of the SE face. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-087002 Bawn
  Description

  On ground sloping gently to NE in a farmyard with an unoccupied farmhouse to W and range of farm buildings on NE and SE side. Rectangular tower house (TS077-087001-) with remains of a possible bawn wall (H 2m), now pebble-dashed with concrete cap, runs NE for a distance of 1.8m from the N end of the NE wall of tower house and joins up with a two-storey farmhouse. Lyons (1938, 153-4) refers to an rectangular earthwork which originally enclosed the tower house which was in the N corner. According to Lyons the only part surviving is the S angle with a length of the SE and SW side, this area was densely overgrown at time of inspection making examination impossible. In the OS Letters there is some reference to the bawn wall which was 'still seen at Mr. Kennedy's house where a part of the castle is still preserved being used in the walls of a dairyhouse' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 147). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-125 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 37m NE-SW; c. 46m NW-SE) identified by Jean-Charles Caillère as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Google Earth, 14 July 2019). See attached: TS077-125----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 14 July 2019 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 September 2020

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, dated 1810, having two-bay nave, single-bay transepts and three-bay east end having single-bay chancel with two-bay sacristy behind, and extensions added 1992 comprising catslide roofs to north-east re-entrant corner and octagonal-plan belltower with lantern to west, entrance, end. Pitched artificial slate roofs, hipped to belltower. Pebbledashed walls, render cross to bell tower, and limestone plaque dated 1993. Round-headed window openings with stained glass windows, with lower timber casement windows to sacristy and vertical ribbon windows to tower. Timber battened double-leaf doors to tower. Segmental-arched door opening to west end of nave with dressed limestone surround and dropped keystone dated 1810, having half-glazed timber battened double-leaf doors. Interior has timber king-post truss roof, gallery to entrance end, marble altar furniture and side altar. Graveyard to site. Painted square-profile piers, wrought-iron double-leaf gates, and rendered and rubble stone walls to site boundary.

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 Powerstown, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Powerstown · Baile an Phaoraigh

Area

539,389 m² (53.94 ha, 133.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgrant, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Clonmel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,750 people lived in 2,019 households in the Clonmel Rural electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvaughan, Doon, Mylerstown, Rathloose, Redmondstown

Placenames

Powerstown 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.