Shortcastle

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shortcastle, from 2,753 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) to 173,910 m² (17.39 ha, 42.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Shortcastle 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.

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460925

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional

  the refurbishment of existing bungalow and to erect an extension at the rear of same together with all associated site works including the provision of a new septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2381

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 Shortcastle.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-026 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In flat terrain, on a limestone outcrop, with a two-storey farmhouse built onto the N end of the E side and a stone outbuilding built up against the S face. A quarry formerly opened up to the W face of the tower house has been backfilled. According to the Civil Survey 1654-6 the proprietor of Shortcastle in 1640 was 'Sir Richard Butler Baronett Irish Papist' and 'Upon the sd lands [stands] a stump of a Castle & noe Cabbins or other improvemt' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 322-3). The OS Letters of 1840 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 123) describe a limestone quarry at the northwest corner and 'near it is a lime kiln where the lime is burned with coal. Attached to the east wall is a thatched building, the small residence of a farmer and family'. The tower house (ext. dims. 10.6m N-S; 9.6m E-W; wall T 0.9m N wall, 2.2m S wall, 2.32m W wall) is constructed of limestone rubble, randomly coursed, with a base-batter (Wth 0.5m; H 2.8m) particularly evident on the N and E walls. The entrance is W of centre in the N wall, protected by a murder-hole, with the doorway removed and this whole section of wall rebuilt, probably in the 19th century. The doorway probably led into a lobby (Wth 1.75m N-S), possibly with a small guard room to the W. The S internal wall of the lobby at ground level has also been rebuilt and a flat-headed doorway inserted. Presumably a doorway gave access to a second lobby also protected by a large murder-hole. The dividing wall between the murder-holes probably rested on the now-missing doorway. An inner doorway led into a ground-floor chamber, evidenced by a drawbar-hole surviving on its E side. The lobby also provided access to a stairway. Despite the fact that the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 123) describe a stone stairs rising in the NE angle and 'winding along the east and south, west and north walls ascended to the top of the building, but are now destroyed', there is clear evidence of a broken out spiral stairs in the NE angle which rises to the first-floor level. The spiral stairs is lit by angle loops at ground and first-floor level. The ground-floor chamber (dims. 5.3m N-S; 5.44m E-W) was lit by two windows, one each in the W and E walls respectively, both broken out and with the wall rebuilt, though the embrasures survive. A probable wall cupboard at the W end of the S wall, evidenced by a flush wall on the W side, has been broken through to create a crude doorway at the rear, S side, of tower house. The W half of the ground-floor chamber has an internal lean-to shed which rests on a concrete block wall running N-S along the middle of the chamber, built on the modern concrete floor. The lean-to has an internal concrete block partition running E-W, with an entrance on either side. The roof doesn't rest directly on this wall, being supported by a timber support built into the N and S internal walls of the towerhouse. The first floor was entered through a doorway at the E end of the N wall of the chamber and was lit by three windows in the E, S and W walls, of which only the round-headed single-light window in the E wall survives. The first floor was supported on wooden beams. Also accessed from the spiral stairs at first-floor level was a mural chamber in the N wall, giving access to the murder-holes, lit by a single-light ogee-headed window in the N wall.The tower house does not survive above first-floor level. According to the landowner there is a chute in the thickness of the S wall, now blocked up, probably the garderobe chute. 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 Shortcastle.

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 Shortcastle, 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 Shortcastle.

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

Name

Shortcastle · An Caisleán Gearr

Area

273,026 m² (27.3 ha, 67.47 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannamore, Castlecoyne, Kedrah, Mortlestown, Mortlestown Little

Placenames

Shortcastle 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.