Toor

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 154 m² to 283,522 m² (28.35 ha, 70.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Toor 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.

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  storage area, utility room, front porch, domestic garage as constructed, location of entrance to site, front boundary wall, change to site boundaries, location of existing septic tank . Permission for de-commission of existing septic tank and the installation of a waste water treatment system and percolation

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560927

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  (i) extensions & alterations to dwelling, (ii) demolition of a domestic garage that was located to side of dwelling, (iii) demolition of a shed/store that was located to rear of dwelling, (iv) closing up of an entrance from the public road, (v) modifications of the 2nd entrance which is now the only entrance from the public road and (iv) new domestic garage along with all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360466

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  the following: revised site layout including adjustment of location of the house and garage, rear lobby to dwelling house and full planning permission for adjustment of front boundary to improve sight lines and all ancillary works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600689

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 Toor.

Recorded monuments

• TS066-058 Enclosure
  Description

  In wet pasture, on a slightly raised area; lots of drainage channels evident. Sub-rectangular area (dims. 23m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by scarp (Wth 1.25m; H 0.5m), which is less defined NE-E. Fosse (overall Wth 4.6m; basal Wth 2m; D 0.35m) NW-E-S is choked with grass and occasional rushes. Drainage channel (long-axis ENE-WSW) enters fosse at ESE. Interior has a gentle E-facing slope with an uneven surface. Monument truncated by drainage ditch (Wth 2m) and townland boundary (double ditch) across WSW-sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-060 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In wet pasture; frequent rushes. Circular area (dims. 21m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.95m). Causewayed entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Fosse (basal Wth 3.3m; overall Wth 7.4m; D 0.25m) S-N-ENE and ESE-SSE; fosse is best defined SW-NW. Interior is generally level and contains two ring-barrows (TS066-60001- and TS066-60002-) in NW-sector and one ditch-barrow (TS066-60003-) in E-sector. Shroughnagowneen stream to immediate S. Mound (TS066-061) is c. 275m to ENE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-060001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Within enclosure (TS066-060----), off-centre to W, c. 3m to E of scarp. An adjacent ring-barrow (TS066-060002-) is located to the NE. A circular area (diam. 5m) defined by a fosse (basal Wth 0.4m; overall Wth 1.55m; D 0.25m) SSE-W-N and remains of levelled scarp (Wth 0.8m; H 0.1m) NE-E-SSE. The interior is grass covered and level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-060002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Within enclosure (TS066-060----), off-centre to N. An adjacent ring-barrow (TS066-060001-) is located to the SW. A circular area (diam. 6m) defined by a fosse (Wth 1.65m; D 0.15m) NNE-S-NW and low outer bank (Wth 1.95m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.05m) visible in the NE quadrant and ESE-S-SSW. Only the scarp (Wth 1.15m; H 0.2m) of the interior is evident in the N quadrant which is c. 2m to SW of the enclosing monument. The interior is grass covered and has a gentle S-facing slope. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-060003 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Within enclosure (TS066-060----), on edge of scarp at E. A circular area (dims. 3m N-S; 3.5m E-W) defined by a shallow fosse (Wth 1.35m; D 0.1m) SE-W-N and scarp which is shared by the enclosing enclosure at E. The definition of the monument is obscured at NE and ESE due to dense vegetation. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS066-230 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On the N bank of a now dry meandering stream, in low-lying wet pasture. A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 14m), defined by a fosse and what appears to be an outer bank, visible on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 18 November 2018), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There are a lot of barrows in the general vicinity, including a large barrow (TS066-057----) c. 170m to the WNW and a ditch barrow (TS066-057001-) c. 200m to the W. See attached: TS066-230----_01 Google Earth satellite image (imagery date, 18 November 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toor.

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 Toor, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toor · An Tuar

Area

1,108,832 m² (110.88 ha, 274 acres)

Civil parish

Bruis, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Bruis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

333 people lived in 116 households in the Bruis electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagleragh, Ballynahow, Bruis, Rathkea, Shronell, Shronell Beg

Placenames

Toor 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.