Kilscobin
Kilscobin is a townland in the civil parish of St. Patricksrock, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Cill Scuaibín.
Parcel 5633022
- Area
- 281 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Kilscobin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 47.6 ha
- 118 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 17,336 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilscobin, from 42 m² to 395,561 m² (39.56 ha, 97.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilscobin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Aug 2026N/a
RED III development - construction of a solar photovoltaic (PV) energy development with a total site area of 151 hectares. The proposed development includes for the erection of solar panels on ground-mounted galvanised steel frames, 17 no. transformer units, a permanent operations compound, inverters, underground cabling and ducting, security fencing, pole mounted closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, upgrade of 5 no. existing site entrances, construction of 1 no. new site entrance, internal site access tracks, landscaping, 1 no. temporary construction compound, 4 no. satellite compounds, temporary laydown areas and all associated development works. The operational lifespan of the solar PV development will be 40 years. The proposed development will incorporate a grid connection which will be subject to a separate planning application at a later date. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660834
31 Oct 2025N/a
RED III development of a solar photovoltaic (PV) energy development (renewable energy development) with a total site area of 151 hectares. The proposed development includes for the erection of solar panels on ground-mounted galvanised steel frames, 17 no. transformer units, a permanent operations compound, inverters, underground cabling and ducting, security fencing, pole mounted closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, upgrade of 5 no. existing site entrances, construction of 1 no. new site entrance, internal site access tracks, landscaping, 1 no. temporary construction compound, 4 no. satellite compounds, temporary laydown areas and all associated development works. The operational lifespan of the solar PV development will be 40 years. The proposed development will incorporate a grid connection which will be subject to a separate planning application at a later date. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561099
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Kilscobin.
Recorded monuments
- TS061-032 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 12m) defined by low, well formed bank (overall Wth 2m; Wth at top 0.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.15m) which survives intermittently between nine evenly spaced beech trees. Gap (Wth 5m) at WSW may suggest a tenth tree. Fosse (overall Wth 1.85m; basal Wth 1m; D 0.35m). Interior has an even surface and is same height as exterior ground level. Trackway c. 3m to N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS061-033 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture, with forestry to E and tillage to S, N and W. Sub-oval area (dims. 54m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by remains of scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.3m) SW-NE and levelled NE-SW. Fosse (overall Wth 6.7m; basal Wth 2.75m; D 0.3m) WSW-NE. Monument defined by trackway (long axis N-S) to E and field boundary SE-NE. Interior is generally level and poached by cattle. Gentle C-shaped depression (dims. 9m N-S; 8m E-W) open to E, is within centre. 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 Kilscobin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilscobin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilscobin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Kilscobin · Cill Scuaibín
- Area
- 476,229 m² (47.62 ha, 117.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Patricksrock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Cashel Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,083 people lived in 1,039 households in the Cashel Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- George's-Land, Hughes'-Lot East, Rathordan
- Placenames
- Kilscobin 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.