Knocklofty Demesne

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocklofty Demesne, from 35 m² to 292,620 m² (29.26 ha, 72.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knocklofty Demesne 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.

• 25 Jan 2023N/a

  the widening of an existing agricultural entrance onto L3502-1 and alteration to the entrance comprising the construction of wing walls and entrance piers

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360049

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  (1) a new agricultural entrance onto L3502-1 and associated site boundary works (2) the widening of an existing agricultural entrance onto L3502-1 and alteration to the entrance comprising the construction of wing walls and entrance piers.

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260561

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  a storey and a half residence, vehicular entrance and septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601307

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS082-063002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Craig and Garner (1975, 90) describe Knocklofty as 'extremely complex, being rebuilt and added to at different periods. The original house appears to have been a narrow, seven-bay, three-story block with end stacks. This still rises in the centre, but was rebuilt in the early 19th century to hold a two-storey library and the main staircase. This part of the house is rendered and has a blocking course. The wings that flank the house are largely late-18th century'. Bence-Jones (1988, 179) dates the house to the 18th century as does The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage which gives a date of c. 1790 for the original house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 February 2014

• TS082-077 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of Guggy Hill in undulating terrain, under tillage. The westernmost of two conjoined enclosures. It is not depicted on the 1st (1840) OS 6-inch map but is on the 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular raised area (diam. c. 32m) in an area of woodland in Knocklofty Demesne, with field boundaries to the E and W. The woodland has subsequently been cleared, the field boundary to the E removed and the enclosure levelled with no visible trace above ground. In an aerial photograph (OS 8758; no date), it appears as a cropmark with a conjoined circular enclosure (TS082-077001-) of slightly smaller dimension attached to the E quadrant. The field boundary to the W is still intact with a farm roadway now running along the E side of the boundary up to the summit of the hill. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 February 2014

• TS082-077001 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of Guggy Hill in undulating terrain, under tillage. The easternmost of two conjoined enclosures. It is not depicted on the 1st (1840) or subsequent 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch maps. In an aerial photograph (OS 8758; no date), it appears as a roughly circular cropmark (diam. c. 30m) with a conjoined circular enclosure (TS082-077----) attached to the W quadrant. There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 February 2014

• TS082-097001 Pit
  Description

  On a gradual SE-facing slope of a hill in undulating terrain, under tillage - beet. Circular cropmark (diam. c. 20m) identified on an aerial photograph (ASIAP (28) 29-30), which appears as a macula or dark green area, possibly indicating a pit. There is no visible trace above ground. A similar cropmark (TS082-097002-) was identified in the field to the S, c. 100m to the SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 February 2014

• TS082-108 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 56m) identified as a cropmark on Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) by Jean-Charles Caillère. The monument is defined by an inner and outer fosse, c. 4m apart, evident from SSE-W-N. See attached photograph: TS082-108----_01 Image © Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former mill complex, built c.1880, comprising U-plan range of buildings to south-west and range to north-east, now converted to apartments. South-most building is L-plan two-storey with two-bay shorter part and three-bay longer with widely-spaced bays. Hipped slate roof with cut sandstone bellcote having stepped elevation, carved moulded coping and string course and clock to base below round-headed bell opening. Coursed rubble limestone walls. Square-headed timber casement and replacement uPVC windows in segmental arched openings with red brick voussoirs and limestone sills. Square-headed replacement uPVC doors in segmental-arched openings with brick voussoirs. North-west range comprises two-storey blocks, north-eastern slightly lower than south-western, with pitched slate roofs and roughly-coursed rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins. Square-headed window and door openings with brick voussoirs, some doorways blocked, with timber battened doors and replacement uPVC windows. Chimneystack to south-west corner of south-west part, having rubble limestone base with dressed quoins and tapering stepped profile brick flue with cut limestone copings. Easternmost block comprises two-storey south-eastern block with six-bay first and seven-bay ground floors and single-storey north-eastern part having central gable-fronted formerly carriage throughway, flanked by eight-bay, formerly nine-bay part possibly four former workers' houses, to north-east end and arcade of six round arches, five now blocked and having windows. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins and having dressed piers between arches. Square-headed windows with replacement six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to south and square-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber doors. Square-headed windows and segmental-headed doorways to north-eastern part, with brick surrounds and cut limestone sills, having replacement uPVC windows and doors. Former throughway and other arched openings have brick arches over dressed limestone piers and having slightly recessed brick infill with segmental-arched replacement uPVC windows. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, to south-east, having hipped return to rear flanked by recent lean-to extensions. Hipped slate roof with lead flashing, rendered eaves course and rendered central chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls, with render quoins to front elevation and square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with spoked timber fanlight, with limestone steps.

• Glen View, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, having two-storey return to rear. Hipped slate roof, catslide over return, with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows throughout, tripartite to ground floor front, all with painted raised reveals and painted sills. Square-headed entrance doorway with replacement glazed timber door with painted raised surround. Single-storey outbuilding to south-east end with pitched slate roof. Ornate cast-iron railings and pedetrian gate to front of site, with rubble limestone plinth walls having cut limestone copings.

• Knocklofty House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Knocklofty House, erected c. 1780, and comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian gateways. Ashlar limestone gate piers with carved moulded caps and plinths, rebates with scroll details and having carved lions' heads with crowns to frieze all faces of piers, and coats of arms in medallion below to front faces only. Decorative copper and glass lights to caps. Square-headed pedestrian entrances set into cut limestone walling having cut stone copings and moulded plinths to jambs. Cast-iron gates, double-leaf to vehicular gates. Gates flanked by convex random rubble walling.

• Knocklofty House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay split level gate lodge, built c. 1820, having single-storey front elevation and two-storey rear, with recent two-storey extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with lead flashing, central red brick chimneystack and overhanging eaves. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls with dressed quoins. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with red brick surrounds and limestone sills, set in segmental-headed recesses to front elevation, with red brick surrounds. Square-headed timber battened door with red brick surround set in segmental-headed recess with red brick surround. Garden to front with cast-iron fence and having pointed arch opening in rubble limestone boundary wall to west having red brick surround. Limestone entrance gateway and cast-iron gates adjacent to gate lodge.

• Knocklofty House, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Shallow quadrant entrance gateway to Knocklofty House, erected c.1880, comprising cast-iron railings on brick plinth wall with cut limestone copings and set to ashlar limestone piers with limestone wheel guards, plinths and having carved coping to western pier, both piers having decorative wrought-iron lamps. Centre of gateway now missing and possibly removed to form gateway on opposite, north, side of public road. Detached double-pile three-bay single-storey lodge to south side of gates, having hipped slate roof with lead flashing, red brick chimneystacks with decorative detailing and overhanging eaves. Painted pebbledashed walls with elliptical-headed window openings with timber double casement windows with raised red brick surrounds and painted limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door with raised red brick surround. Shallow quadrant gateway on opposite side of road comprises piers, railings and plinth walls of similar detailing to southern gateway, but with cast-iron piers having cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gates flanked by pedestrian gates.

• Knocklofty Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch humpback bridge over River Suir, built c. 1800, with higher segmental middle arch flanked by lower depressed arches. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with cut-stone voussoirs and cut stone V-shaped cut-waters to both elevations, having cut stone impost course. Soffits have been gunnited with cement. Concrete capping to parapets.

• Knocklofty House, folly, 1825–1832 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-stage folly or turret, extant 1832, on an octagonal plan. Creeper- or ivy-covered red brick Flemish bond octagonal dome. Lime rendered or roughcast rubble stone walls with red brick header bond stepped stringcourse supporting red brick chamfered battlements. Pointed-arch door opening below blind oculus with overgrown threshold, and concealed red brick block-and-start surround with no fittings surviving. Pointed-arch blind window openings below blind oculi with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing lime rendered or roughcast infill. Set on an elevated site.

• Knocklofty House, country house, 1760–1920 · National interest
  Description

  Detached country house, comprising seven-bay three-storey central block, built c. 1790, having late eighteenth-century three-bay two-storey with attic wings projecting forwards to give U-plan house, wings having three-bay façades comprising two-bay gable-fronts with single-bay flat-roof further bay of c. 1800. Single-storey flat-roofed early nineteenth-century gallery along front of central block, linking wings and has central advanced three-bay porch with five flanking bays each side having alternate blind and windowed bays. South wing has multiple-bay two-storey block connecting to rear and single-storey blocks connecting to front at south-west. Rear elevation of central block is five-bay three-storey and flanked by advanced bays of wings, inner bays of c. 1910 curving to central block. Multiple-bay two-storey block to south end, south-most bay being pedimented. Further multiple-bay two-storey block runs at skew angle to this block, along top of River Suir escarpment. Two-storey canted-bay to north elevation of central block. Hipped slate roof to central block and to block to rear of south wing, slate dome to porch, and pitched slate roofs elsewhere, with lead flashing, rendered end chimneystacks with terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded sandstone copings to gable-fronts of wings with stepped ends having pedestals with ball finials and having open-topped pediments to apexes with carved busts of English monarchs. Front corners of flat-roofed bays to wings have eagles. Moulded sandstone cornices to central block, with cut sandstone parapets. Cut-stone copings to canted bay. Painted pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth, moulded sandstone string course to front and re-entrant elevations of wings. Cut sandstone pilasters to first floor of façade of wings, overlying string course and having fluted consoles beneath. Ashlar sandstone walls to gallery, with carved sandstone cornice and cut sandstone parapet, blind bays having carved wreaths, end bays and porch bays being flanked by pilasters with capitals and having antefixae to parapet, porch having panel and flanking finials and central bays having outer band of ashlar limestone. Timber sliding sash windows throughout with sandstone sills, square-headed six-over-six pane, except for ground floor front and south elevations. Ground floor of front and re-entrant elevations of wings have segmental-headed nine-over-six pane windows, gallery has six-over-nine pane windows, those of porch having segmental upper panes, and south and west elevations of south wing have nine-over-nine pane windows. Nine-pane casement windows to attic level of wings. Some six-over-three pane and one-over-one pane windows elsewhere to west elevation. Square-headed door opening with carved sandstone surround and timber panelled door. Square-headed door openings to rear and south elevation with timber and glazed doors with paned overlight, that to rear of central block having flight of cut limestone steps. Curved north-west corner of south wing has entablature over colonnade of limestone Tuscan columns and pilasters flanking doorway approached by cut limestone steps, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, door and windows having three-pane overlights. Forecourt to front of house, with small garden beyond. Garden terraces to rear falling to River Suir, accessed by flights of steps. Two-storey former servants quarters arranged around angled yard to south-west of house, accessed by gateway with dressed limestone piers with caps and plinths and having double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with lead flashing and rendered chimneystacks. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings with replacement windows and doors. Segmental-arched openings to south-west range, now blocked with elliptical-arched cut limestone surrounds and imposts, now blocked. Carved limestone entrance gate to garden comprising round-headed gateway with pilasters and moulded archivolt and imposts and decorative wrought-iron gate, set into square-headed opening with entablature and cornice over engaged Ionic columns, gateway being set into rubble stone wall. Single-storey former workers' houses to west, with pitched artificial slate roofs, brick bellcote having round-headed bell opening, rubble sandstone walls and red brick surrounds to square-headed windows and doors having replacement windows and timber panelled doors.

• Knocklofty Bridge, bridge, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch rubble limestone hump back road bridge over river, c.1770. Random rubble limestone walls with lime mortar, cut-stone triangular cut-waters to piers to south, and cut-stone coping to parapets. Series of three elliptical arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs, and squared rubble stone soffits having lime mortar, and traces of lime render over. Sited spanning River Suir with grass banks to river.

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 Knocklofty Demesne, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Knocklofty Demesne · Cnoc Lochta

Area

1,666,519 m² (166.65 ha, 411.81 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghmelan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Tullaghmelan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,116 people lived in 399 households in the Tullaghmelan electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brick, Coole, Deerpark, Kilmanahan (Co. Waterford), Kilnamack West (Co. Waterford), Moanmore, Monksgrange, Park, Roxborough

Placenames

Knocklofty Demesne 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.