Modeshil (Ayre)

147 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Modeshil (Ayre), from 53 m² to 319,510 m² (31.95 ha, 78.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Modeshil (Ayre) 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.

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  the development of a geomembrane lined effluent storage lagoon with geomembrane lined cover with surrounding security fencing and associated concrete aprons, and all associated works on the land

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25252

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of cattle underpass, effluent storage tank, access roads and cow roadways and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560841

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of cattle underpass, effluent storage tank, access roads and cow roadways and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560833

• 25 Aug 2025N/a

  the construction of cattle underpass, effluent storage tank, access roads and cow roadways and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560827

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  the calf house, PLANNING PERMISSION for proposed building incorporating cattle area with slatted tank, lie back area, feeding area & dry store area in part of proposed building and all associated works on the land

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25115

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460892

• 4 Oct 2024N/a

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, borehole, soakpits and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460847

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  two entrance gates from the existing public road to my lands, including all necessary site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460085

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  alterations to existing dwelling house, namely (a) demolition of old barn, storeroom, shed, sunroom and canopy over front door, (b) the raising of part of the roof to the main section of the house to match existing roof and the conversion of the barn / outhouse to a kitchen / dining / living, with 3 no velux to roof, (c) installation of new energy efficient windows / doors and for planning permission to complete the works, including all necessary site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360754

• 30 Apr 2021N/a

  construction of a new cattle underpass and all associated works to the L2401-0

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21605

• 7 Apr 2021N/a

  construction of a new cattle underpass and all associated works to the L2401-0

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21453

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  domestic garage as constructed, including site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21408

• 16 Mar 2021N/a

  domestic garage as constructed, including site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21325

• 28 Jan 2021Conditional

  a new slatted unit for the housing of cattle and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2188

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  existing stable and all associated site development works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600527

• 25 Jul 2018N/a

  the erection of cattle housing including underground slatted slurry storage tanks and ancillary concrete works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600945

• 13 Jul 2018N/a

  the erection of cattle housing including underground slatted slurry storage tanks and ancillary concrete works on my lands

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600896

• 10 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600883

• 11 Jun 2018N/a

  cattle housing including underground slatted slurry storage tanks and ancillary concrete

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600744

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  erection of a loose house, soiled water tank and ancillary concrete works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600717

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kyleadohir Wood Nature Reserve 000405

Recorded monuments

• TS063-023 Settlement cluster
  Description

  In pasture, on an elevated area, just above a 300ft contour. A church and graveyard (TS063-023001- and TS063-023002-) and tower/fortified house (TS063-023003-) form the central point of this settlement cluster. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6), upon the sayd lands is a thacht house with a chimny and 12 cabins without any imp[ro]vement'. James Tobyn of Killaghey Esqr. and Pierce Butler of Callin Esqr. were landowners of Modeshil (Ayre) (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 125). The Down Survey depicts a church and 3 dwellings, one each to E, S and SW. The houses which formed the settlement of Modeshill are not visible at ground level in the vicinity of the church and graveyard. Though the precise location for the medieval settlement at Modeshil is unknown, it is most likely to have centred on the medieval church and graveyard. However, the extent of the settlement is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 27 July 2015

• TS063-023001 Church
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low rise, within the graveyard (TS063-023002-) and settlement of Modeshill (TS063-023----). Modeshill tower house (TS063-023003-) is located 25m to the W. This rectangular church (dims. 27.4m E-W; 6.6m N-S) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble (wall T varies from 0.83m at E gable; 1.2m at W gable; 0.8m at N and 0.9m at S). The walls are densely ivy clad both internally and externally. The church has a round-headed doorway towards the W end of the S wall, which is chamfered externally with diagonal stops and has a draw-bar hole and receiver internally. According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 73) there were two doorways, ‘the one on the north side was at the distance of sixteen feet [4.87m] from the west gable, but this is now reduced to a formless breach in the wall’. Whether there was a doorway in the N wall is unclear as the breach has been crudely filled with masonry and is now also obscured by ivy. The N wall has a breach (Wth 3.25m) at the W gable and where the doorway may have been located there is rubble in the interior and the wall (for a length of 7-8m) is lower (H . 1.4m) at this point than the remaining upstanding wall (H c. 2.7m). There is a flat-headed window at the E end of the N wall. The apex of the E gable has fallen and forms a pile in the interior below the sill of the E window. The lower jambs and sill of a formerly glazed two-light E window with external chamfer remain in situ, though the head, which has been described as ‘quadrangular’ or flat-headed in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 72), is missing. The S wall (H 2.7m) has a flat-headed window (Wth 1.17m) at the E end and a similar window E of centre, there is also a much smaller flat-headed window near the W gable. The W gable survives to full height (c. 10m) surmounted by a bellcote which contained two bell openings, though only the northern one survives. The internal face of the W gable appears to have been rebuilt as it is not keyed into the S wall (the NW angle is obscured by ivy). There is a small, flat-headed window in the gable. The interior is scattered with modern headstones and low, uninscribed grave-markers. A rectangular structure (dims. 10m E-W; c. 6m N-S) adjoins the church, off-centre to E on the N side. It is defined by the remains of a low, sod-covered wall (Wth at top 0.5m; total Wth 1.75m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.3m) with a sunken interior. According to local tradition this is a famine burial plot. The earliest headstone, Cody 1770, is within the church, indicating that church was probably roofless and ruined by the mid-1700s at the latest. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 17 April 2012

• TS063-023002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low rise. An irregularly shaped area (dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 38m N-S) defined by an 18th/19th century wall, with cement rendering on ithe inner face and with vertical coping visible in places, and an entrance gate at the SW. There is a level area where the church (TS063-023001-) is located off-centre to N. The graveyard is defined by steep scarp (Wth 4.3m; H 1.35m) c. E-S-SSW which is located c. 2.5m within the enclosing wall. Various 19th and 20th century headstones are concentrated S of the church, with occasional headstones to E, a few to N and a small concentration to W of church. A rectangular structure (dims. 10m E-W; c. 6m N-S) adjoins the church, off-centre to E on the N side. It is defined by the remains of a low, sod-covered wall (Wth at top 0.5m; total Wth 1.75m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 1.3m) with a sunken interior. According to local tradition this is a famine burial plot. The earliest headstone, Cody 1770, is located within church. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 17 April 2012

• TS063-023003 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Just W of the summit of a hill where bedrock is close to the surface, in pasture. A church (TS063-023001-) and graveyard (TS063-023002-) are located on the summit, 30m to the E. There are extensive views in all directions, except to the SE. An unusually long tower house (ext. dims. 16.2m N-S; 11.35m E-W; int. dims. 10.44m N-S; 6.16m E-W; wall T including base-batter 2.62-2.95m) constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed and orientated NE-SW. It is built directly onto bedrock and has a substantial base-batter (H 3m; Wth 0.35-0.4m), sections of which have been robbed. There is no mention of this castle in the Civil Survey (1654-56), though ‘James Tobyn of Killaghy Esqr. & Pierce Butler of Callin Esqr.’ are listed as the proprietors of ‘Moddesshell & Graig’ in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 125). The tower house, which is heavily ivy clad, survives to the base of first-floor level and much of the internal wall facing has been robbed out. The original entrance appears to have been towards the W end of the NW wall (5.3m from the W angle), though only the W side of the entrance survives indicating a lobby area (Wth 1.3m) within the thickness of the wall. The ground in this area is built up with rubble (H 0.5m) and the wall N of this is in poor condition, only surviving to ground-floor level. An opening (Wth 0.9m; H 1.83m) has been quarried out at the W end of this NW wall. The ground floor was lit by three flat-headed windows, those in the NE and SW wall are best preserved, though the broken-out window in the SE wall is the only one which retains voussoirs over the internal embrasure, the flat lintels over the external splayed embrasure also survive, as they do in all three windows. The inner embrasures, best preserved in the NE and SW windows, were straight sided. There are wall-cupboards (all c. 0.75m wide, high and deep, except at S end of SE wall which is L-shaped and 1.37m wide) at the N and E end of the NE wall, at the E and S end of the SE wall, at the S and W end of the SW wall and the remains of one at the N end of the NW wall. At the N end of the NW wall there is a breach through the wall. Little is visible at first-floor level which is obscured by ivy, though there is a possible broken-out window centrally placed in the SW wall. There is a garderobe chute (dims. 0.9m x 0.98m) at the E end of the SE wall which exits (Wth 0.75m; H 0.89m) at external ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 April 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic thatched house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to door and single-storey flat-roofed extension to north gable. Hipped reed thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Flat slate roof to windbreak. Wet dashed walls with chamfered corner to south gable, rendered to rear and north gable. Square-headed openings with replacement windows and door. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows to rear. Garden to front of house with rendered wall and cast-iron gate. Outbuilding to south with lean-to corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls.

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 Modeshil (Ayre), 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3424 (ZIP).

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 Modeshil (Ayre) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Modeshil (Ayre) · Maigh Dheisil (Ayre)

Area

4,175,330 m² (417.53 ha, 1,031.75 acres)

Civil parish

Modeshil, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Modeshil, the unit of the census

Census 2022

382 people lived in 130 households in the Modeshil electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybush (Co. Kilkenny), Ballylarkin (Co. Kilkenny), Fanningsbog, Graigue, Jamestown, Knockulty, Kyleadohir (Co. Kilkenny), Kyleaduhir, Moanmore Commons (Co. Kilkenny), Modeshil (Sankey), Physicianstown (Co. Kilkenny)

Placenames

Modeshil (Ayre) 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.