Blackfort

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blackfort, from 1,228 m² to 406,288 m² (40.63 ha, 100.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Blackfort 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.

• 26 Feb 2026N/a

  the construction of a part-two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, access roadway, detached stable building comprising 3 no. horse stables, 1no. tack room, a concrete dung stead, associated underground soiled water storage tank, and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660173

• 6 Jun 2024Conditional

  a new extension to the side of an existing farm building for the housing of livestock including a new internal underground slatted slurry storage tank, completed with associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460456

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 Blackfort.

Recorded monuments

• TN014-014 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  Situated on crest of hill. 'Turret' is a square, gazebo-type feature (L 5.7m) composed of roughly coursed rubble limestone. Entrance in E wall at ground floor level. Ground floor lit by narrow, single-light windows with splayed ingoings centrally placed in N, S and W walls. Small put-logs survive in E wall to support a wooden floor. First floor has rectangular window opes in centre of N, S and E walls, the W wall is mostly destroyed at this level. No roof survives. Brick infill used to block bottom of N and S window opes. Alcove on either side of ope in E wall. Some internal plaster survives. The crest of hill on which this building stands is flat, with some small quarry hollows. There are low remains of very denuded stone wall (W c.2m) E of the 'turret', roughly level with interior and falls off downslope. There is a lot of outcrop protruding all around the site, not forming any defineable line. Just off the crest there is a slight lip formed of loose stones on N side (H c.1.2m). S side of hill is overgrown with gorse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN014-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in flat pastureland in the grounds of Lisduff House. A raised circular area (diam. 32.3m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.17m) and a deep, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.53m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 3.6m) at NE. There have been recent attempts to build up a causeway in the W sector with small stones and earth. A large number of deciduous trees - beech, horse-chestnut and ash, grow on the bank. The site may have been reused as a tree-ring. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 198/1954).

• TN014-076 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Situated in flat pastureland. An early eighteenth-century two-storey over basement, five-bay house (ext. dims. 15.7m x 8.78m; wall T 0.85m) with three-bay breakfront and gable-ended chimney stacks. The central doorway, with steps leading up to it, has a lugged architrave with Corinthian pilasters and scroll pediment. It is similar in style to Damer House, Roscrea (TN012-010009) and is divided into three internally with the stairs occupying the central section. The staircase was replaced in the 1920s. There is a T-projection at the rear but it is unclear if this is original. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Lisduff, house, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1720, with three-bay central breakfront and two-bay two-storey return to rear with canted oriel window. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with square-headed openings having stone sills and mainly replacement uPVC windows, with three-over-three pane timber sliding sash to basement and mainly two-over-two pane timber sash to northeast return. Square-headed timber sash windows to return and oriel window, the latter supported on brackets. Flight of carved limestone steps to carved limestone doorcase to front entrance with lugged and shouldered architrave to opening flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters with vegetal frieze and with cornice and scrolled pediment above with rosettes. Yard of single-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to rear of house.

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 Blackfort, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Blackfort · An Lios Dubh

Area

993,985 m² (99.4 ha, 245.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killodiernan, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Knigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

797 people lived in 279 households in the Knigh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Killadangan, Killard, Knigh, Lodge

Placenames

Blackfort 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.