Thurlesbeg

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thurlesbeg, from 140 m² to 470,471 m² (47.05 ha, 116.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Thurlesbeg 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.

• 13 Apr 2026N/a

  23 no. dwelling houses comprising 16 no. Type A - two storey four bedroom semi detached, 2 No. Type B – two storey three bedroom semi detached, 1 No. Type C1 – two storey four bedroom detached, 2 No. Type C2 – two storey four bedroom detached, 1 No. Type E1 – four bedroom two storey detached, 1 No. Type E2 – four bedroom two storey detached. The 2 No. detached dwellings, Type E1 and Type E2, are to be located along the R660 road each with separate vehicular access off this road to each dwelling. The proposed development includes vehicular connection through the existing Longfield Park estate entrance, connection to existing services, the completion of public open space, and all associated infrastructure works. This development forms the proposed completion of an unfinished permitted development under Planning Ref. No. 04/1574

  Permission, 23 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2660314

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  the construction of a cattle underpass, slatted effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560197

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  completion of 5 no single storey dwellings which have been constructed to roof level, connections to existing services, site entrances and all associated siteworks

  Retention, 5 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2461106

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  a) an extension to the house, b) the domestic sheds and associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460611

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  the erection of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system, driveway, new entrance including modification to existing entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460101

• 25 Aug 2023Refused

  51 no. dwellings consisting of 20 no. detached, 28 no. semi detached and 3 no. duplex apartments, a creche development with separate site entrance, main service road, main site entrance to include all associated site development works

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 23227

• 4 Nov 2021Unconditional

  51 no. dwellings consisting of 20 no. detached, 28 no. semi detached and 3 no. duplex apartments, a creche development with separate site entrance, main service road, main site entrance to include all associated site development works under clause B 42 (1A)(a)(V)

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 211610

• 11 Apr 2017Conditional

  1. Permission to retain an extension to the northern end view of his dwelling and 2. Permission to retain a gable window to the attic on the southern end view of his dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600373

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 Thurlesbeg.

Recorded monuments

• TS052-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on a SE-facing slope of an E-W ridge overlooking Arglo river 50m to the S. A raised circular area (int. diam 62m N-S; 69m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.2m; base Wth 4.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1-4m at S) reduced to a scarp from SE through S to SW with a possible entrance gap (Wth 4.4m ) which has been widened. There is a livestock gap (Wth 5m) in the bank at NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-037 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland atop high ground in upland area with good extensive views in all directions. No surface remains visible of monument which is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map as a partial enclosure (approx. diam. 50m N-S) surviving from S through W to N only and not indicated on any other sides, field boundary intersected S end of enclosure on an E-W axis, is not indicated on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument probably levelled totally between 1840 and 1953-4 ed. OS 6-inch maps. Impressive hilltop siting sets this monument apart from other enclosures and ringforts in the area, may have been a hilltop enclosure. Cahill describes the monument as being levelled with a cottage built on the levelled monument (Cahill 1982, vol. 2) however, the cottage appears to have been built close to the enclosure with its present boundary intersecting the N side of the levelled monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-038 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  In grassland on top of a high rise of ground on SE facing slope with good views in all directions. Overgrown but impressive monument consisting of a raised circular area (int. diam. approx. 40m E-W) enclosed by a high, steep-sided earth and stone bank (base Wth 6m; top Wth 1.8m; ext. H 1-5m; int. H 0.5-1m), fosse (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 8m; ext. D 1m) and wide flat-topped earth and stone bank (base Wth 7m; top Wth 5m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.7-1m) with causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at SE. Impressive but overgrown monument making detailed examination impossible. Scooped out interior with gently sloping inner face and steep-sided external face of enclosing bank. Outer face of bank is at its highest at N where it is very defensive and very steep which providing the monument with a very defensive element. The defensive nature of monument would suggest it is a ringwork. Modern road intersects fosse destroying outer bank at E on a N-S axis. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on slight SE-facing slope in upland area with good views in all directions. Ringfort (TS053-040----) 300m to NNE. Barely visible remains of a levelled ringfort of which only the E half remains (approx. diam. 22m NNE-SSW; 9m E-W) visible as low semi-circular rise of ground defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and bisected by a field boundary running on a NNE-SSW axis. No visible remains of levelled ringfort on W half of bisecting field boundary. Depicted on first ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure which was intersected by four field boundaries which ran up to its perimeter at N, SSE, SSW and W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in upland area with good views in all directions. Levelled ringfort possible (TS053-039----) 300m to SSW. Impressive ringfort consisting of a circular area (int. diam. 36m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.3m; base Wth 3m; ext. H 1-2.5m; int. H 0.3-0.9m) , fosse (top Wth 5m; base Wth 2.5m; ext. D 1m) and wide flat-topped outer bank (top Wth 3-5m; base Wth 6.5m; ext. H 0.3-0.7m) which is more like a berm rather than a bank with possible entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at E. The outer bank is more like a landscape feature rather than an archaelogical feature, close proximity of ringfort to Thurlesbeg House immediately to S, monument may have been landscaped by constructing a berm around the monument or by remodelling the outer bank and widening its top to form a berm going around the ringfort. Outer bank and fosse damaged from NE through E to SE, elsewhere it is well preserved. Gap in bank at SSW, possibly just a livestock gap (Wth 2m). Ringfort may have been re-used as a tree-ring by the occupants of Thurlesbeg house in the 19th century. Thurlesbeg House not depicted on the first (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map but is shown on the 2nd (1953-4) ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland on just off summit of hillock on a E-facing slope in undulating area with good views in all directions. Slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.7m; base Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1-2.6m) and outer fosse (base Wth 2m; top Wth 6m; ext. D 0.3m) visible from W through S to E only not visible elsewhere. Possible entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. Large deep pit (L 20m x Wth 8m; D 3m) dug in adjoining field to NE of ringfort. Gaps in bank (Wth 2m) at SW and N (Wth 2m) both appear to be livestock gaps. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-054 House - fortified house
  Description

  In flat unreclaimed grassland with good views in all directions, stream 60m to N and ringfort (TS053-055----) 270m to NE. Land to W and E of fortified house has been reclaimed and reseeded with grass, however, land to N and NNE has been left unreclaimed and is in rough grassland. Mr Fulwar resided in this fortified house in the 17th century, the son of Archbishop Fulwar who died in 1667 (White 1892, 8). In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Redmond Magrath was listed as proprietor in 1640 and the property was described as including a 'Castle & a Bawne with a Dozen Cabbins and a pleasant seat' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 224). Described in the OS letters as following 'Its south wall remains to a height of about thirty feet [9.8m] high, but even the foundations of the other walls are not traceable so that the extent of the building cannot be ascertained. The wall is built of limestone and five feet six inches in thickness [1.6m]' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 119 (314)). Mill stream indicated on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, now filled in, provided water for moat around castle on N and E sides. This mill stream fed a Corn mill and mill pond 360m to NW of castle. The stream may be contemporary with the fortified house and there may have been an earlier mill located on the wet marshy land to N and E of fortified house. Poorly preserved fortified house consists of a rectangular block (ext. dims. 8.5m N-S;16m E-W; wall T 1.7m) with circular corner-towers (ext. diam. 3m) at NE and NW angles only of which only the S and SE angle survives two storeys high. The circular corner towers survive 1.2m high and N wall survives approx. 1.8m high and all of the collapsed rubble is resting on top of this fortified house. No access to interior of fortiified house due to collapsed rubble. At the SW angle of the fortified house are the grass-covered wall-footings (H 0.3m) of a bawn wall (TS053-054001-) which ran out southwards from SW angle of fortified house and then returned westwards for a distance before turning northwards where it ran onto a moat (base Wth 4m; top Wth 5.7m; ext. D 0.5m) which is visible along the N and E sides of the fortified house only. Causeway entrance across moat to N of fortified house along N side of moat (Wth 3m). S wall of fortified house constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with no base-batter visible while there is a base-batter on the N wall. Double-splayed window survives in centre of S wall. At first-floor level there was mural chamber (Wth 0.6m) in the SE angle accessed from mural stairs (Wth 0.6m) in S wall. Large single chamfered and rebated limestone jamb from either a large doorway or gateway is visible in the courtyard to W of the fortified house. This has the appearance of a late medieval jambstone from a gateway into a bawn or from the main doorway into the fortified house. Ground plan of rectangular block with two corner towers on N wall suggests that this may have been a plantation castle of 17th-century date with bawn wall and an enclosing outer moat. Good evidence of external wall facing on E face of bawn where it meets the NW angle of the fortified house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-054001 Bawn
  Description

  In flat unreclaimed grassland with good views in all directions, stream 60m to N and ringfort (TS053-055----) 270m to NE. Land to W and E of fortified house has been reclaimed and reseeded with grass, however, land to N and NNE has been left unreclaimed and is in rough grassland. The son of Archbishop Fulwar, who died in 1667, resided in the fortified house in the 17th century (White 1892, 8). In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Redmond Magrath was listed as proprietor in 1640 and the property was described as including a 'Castle & a Bawne with a Dozen Cabbins and a pleasant seat' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 224). At the SW angle of the fortified house (TS053-054----) are the grass-covered wall-footings (H 0.3m) of a bawn wall (Wall T 0.8m; max. int. dims. 38m N-S; 49m E-W) which ran out southwards for c. 14m and then returned westwards for a distance of 49m before turning northwards where it ran onto a moat (base Wth 4m; top Wth 5.7m; ext. D 0.5m) which is visible along the N and E sides of the fortified house only. This moat may have ran along the outside of the bawn wall on the N and E sides and may have been fed by mill stream at SE as indicated on first ed. OS 6-inch map. Causeway entrance across moat to N of fortified house along N side of moat (Wth 3m). Good evidence of external wall-facing on E face of bawn where it meets the NW angle of the fortified house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland atop natural rise of ground overlooking stream and wet marshy unreclaimed land to S and E and grassland at N and W. Fortified house and bawn (TS053-054----/TS053-054001-) 270m to SW. Ringfort consists of a raised circular area (int. diam. 32m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by a bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m-2.5m) and outer fosse (top Wth 10m; base Wth 4m; ext. D 0.8m) visible from NW through N to NE only, with possible entrance gap (Wth 7m) at SW. Large silage pit (D 2.4m; dims.11m N-S X 12m E-W) dug into external face of scarp and platform of ringfort in SE quadrant of ringfort. Silage pit recorded by Cahill in 1982. External height of scarp nearly twice as steep on S side as it is on the N side. No evidence of fosse on S side of ringfort. Ringfort raised out much higher on S side which overlooks the wet marshy river and its floodplains and is not as high above the surrounding grassland at N and W sides. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland atop low flat rise of ground with good views in all directions overlooking Arglo River to N. Unreclaimed wet marshy land to N, land to E in tillage and in grassland elsewhere. Ringfort (TS053-057----) 160m to E. Ringfort consists of a raised circular area (int. diam. 23m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.7m; base Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m; int. H 0.2m) mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1m) and traces of an outer fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.2m) visible at E and S only. Possible widened entrance gap (Wth 6m) at SE and livestock gap (Wth 4.5m) in bank at NW. Bank best preserved from NW to N elsewhere reduced to a scarp, over grazing of cattle on ringfort has caused considerable damage to the surface of the monument and the external face of the bank especially at SE and E. 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 Thurlesbeg.

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

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 low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Thurlesbeg · Durlas Beag

Area

4,109,910 m² (410.99 ha, 1,015.58 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patricksrock, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Nodstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

622 people lived in 209 households in the Nodstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmayle East, Ballypadeen, Ballysheehan, Castlemoyle North, Castlemoyle South, Clonmore North, Deansgrove, Farranavarra, Freaghduff, Gortmakellis, Sruhane, Synone

Placenames

Thurlesbeg 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.