Sopwell

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sopwell, from 52 m² to 701,008 m² (70.1 ha, 173.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Sopwell 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.

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  renovation and extension to existing dwelling and new domestic garage and permission to retain first floor extension to rear of dwelling and velux windows to front

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24297

• 18 Nov 2024Conditional

  the refurbishment and alteration to the Old Schoolhouse into a single family, two bedroom home including the demolition of a modern poorly built single storey rear extension, repair and renewal of slate roof and existing barge boards and rainwater goods, the glazed enclosure of the existing open porch to the front, modification of two high-level rear window openings by dropping their cill level to the ground level in order to provide two doors onto a rear terrace, levelling of internal floors, crack repairs, new internal breathable insulation to all external walls, thermal upgrade works to internal timber floors and refurbishment of existing floors, restoration of existing timber casement windows and doors, repair works to existing tiled roof and chimneys, installation of secondary glazing to the inner side of retained historic windows, renewal of building services installation of photovoltaic panels on the rear slope of the main roof, the refurbishment and repair of both east and west outbuildings to the rear, alteration of the existing side vehicular entrance, the provision of a graveled car parking area, installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system, landscaping and sundry other minor works, this is a Protected Structure (RPS Ref. No. S367)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460990

• 11 Nov 2024N/a

  the refurbishment and alteration to the Old Schoolhouse into a single family, two bedroom home including the demolition of a modern poorly built single storey rear extension, repair and renewal of slate roof and existing barge boards and rainwater goods, the glazed enclosure of the existing open porch to the front, modification of two high-level rear window openings by dropping their cill level to the ground level in order to provide two doors onto a rear terrace, levelling of internal floors, crack repairs, new internal breathable insulation to all external walls, thermal upgrade works to internal timber floors and refurbishment of existing floors, restoration of existing timber casement windows and doors, repair works to existing tiled roof and chimneys, installation of secondary glazing to the inner side of retained historic windows, renewal of building services installation of photovoltaic panels on the rear slope of the main roof, the refurbishment and repair of both east and west outbuildings to the rear, alteration of the existing side vehicular entrance, the provision of a graveled car parking area, installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system, landscaping and sundry other minor works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460966

• 30 Apr 2024Conditional

  a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance, access roadway and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460328

• 14 Jun 2023Conditional

  alterations and additions to the historic dwelling known as the ‘Old Schoolhouse’, a protected structure consisting of demolition of modern extension to rear, single-storey rear extensions integrating existing outbuilding and glazed enclosure to existing open porch, subdivision of smaller rooms to create 2 no. bedrooms and 2 no. bathrooms and a new mezzanine in the former schoolroom, alteration of 2 no. rear windows as doors, 2 no. new openings to outbuilding and removal of non-historic garage doorway, new roof light and 8 no. photovoltaic panels to rear slope of roof, refurbishment of existing structures, fitting of secondary glazing to historic windows, full renewal of building services, construction of separate garden room structure to rear with WC, adaptation of existing vehicular entrance, landscaping works and new proprietary wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360404

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  a new shed for agricultural storage purposes

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23118

• 12 Dec 2017Conditional

  as-built standalone furniture manufacturing building, as built storage building, demountable office building, single storey spray building, use of portion of existing yard as open storage, together with all associated site works. Permission for upgrade of existing wastewater treatment facility to cater for the development referenced above

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17601366

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: Scohaboy (Sopwell) Bog SAC 002206
• Natural Heritage Area: Scohaboy Bog NHA 000937

Recorded monuments

• TN010-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on slightly elevated flat pasture with good views. The barely discernible outline of a large circular-shaped area (diam. 50m E-W) enclosed by a low bank visible only from NE to E, elsewhere defined by a scarp with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m). 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

• TN010-015 Castle - ringwork
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A raised subcircular platform (diam. 31m N-S; H 2m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank visible at SE only, elsewhere reduced to a scarp with a wide flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 5.6m). No entrance feature visible. 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

• TN010-016001 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views and nearby fortified house (TN010-017001) to the E. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, AVN 74) shows the outline of three circular enclosures. A linear feature (TN010-016002) c. 74m long extends c. N-S for c. 20m before turning NW-SE to run between the two northernmost enclosures. Not visible at ground level. 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

• TN010-016002 Linear earthwork
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views and nearby fortified house (TN010-017001) to the E. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, AVN 74) shows the outline of three circular enclosures (TN010-016001). A linear feature (TN010-016002) c. 74m long extends c. N-S for c. 20m before turning NW-SE to run between the two northernmost enclosures. Not visible at ground level. 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

• TN010-017001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views. An early seventeenth-century Z-plan fortified house, four storeys high, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The ground plan consists of two diagonally opposed rectangular towers, the SE tower (15.66m SE-NW; 9.58m NE-SW: wall T 1.44m) containing the main living area, with the NW tower (5.2m SE-NW; 6.85m NE-SW) containing a stone stairs with unusual stone banister which is still intact. At wall-walk level there are five tall rectangular chimney stacks with funnel-shaped caps, one at each gable end, one on the SW wall and two more on the NE wall. There is a bartizan at wall-walk level on the N and S angles. The main entrance is located on the SW wall and consists of a round-arched doorway with rebated jambs and is protected externally by a machicolation at wall-walk level and internally by a murder-hole. Also at wall-walk level there are a series of drain-holes and drip-stones. The windows consist of flat-headed single and twin lights with hood-mouldings over. There is an interesting crossloop at first-floor level on the SW wall with a large circular-shaped gun port directly above at first-floor level. Internally the building has been heavily modified in the nineteenth century by the insertion of a series of barrel-vaulted roofs between ground and first-floor level. The original stone stairs has been replaced by a wooden stairs along with two flat-headed doorways at the rear of the house in the NE wall. No original fireplaces or architectural features are visible inside. A possibly original bawn wall (TN010-017002-) is located to the SW of the fortified house with nineteenth-century outhouses attached to the internal face. According to Craig (1982, 129) this was an O'Connor house, with a datestone of 1601 - the location of this datestone is unknown. 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

• TN010-017002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with extensive views. An early seventeenth-century Z-plan fortified house (TN010-017001), four storeys high, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. A possiblE original bawn wall is located to the SW of the fortified house with nineteenth-century outhouses attached to the internal face. According to Craig (1982, 129) this was an O'Connor house, with a datestone of 1601 - the location of this datestone is unknown. 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

• TN011-005 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated in tillage on the highest area in the field. Depicted as a semi-circular shaped platform-type earthwork on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map that was intersected on its W side by a roadway running N-S. Not depicted on any subsequent edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. 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: 10 January 2012

• TN011-037 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture within Sopwell Hall demesne. There is no indication of any landscape feature at this location on the 1st (c. 1840) or subsequent revision of the 6-inch OS map. An oval enclosure (dims. c. 42m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a bank is visible on satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 16 December 2016), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached Google Earth image (16 December 2016) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 April 2020

Architectural heritage

• Sopwell Hall, country house, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1745. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to walls, with cut-stone cornice and eaves platband. Cut-stone block architraves to all windows on ground and first floors of front and east side elevations. Timber sliding sash windows, four-over-four pane to upper floors, two-over-two pane to basement at rear. Segmental-headed windows to basement of front elevation. Timber panelled front door having round-headed block architrave with plain fanlight. Cut-stone doorcase with pilasters to double-leaf panelled door in south elevation. Flight of limestone steps up to main entrance and balustrade to basement level added in 1860s.

• Sopwell Hall, outbuilding, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two yards of single and two-storey outbuildings, built c.1870, enclosed by high stone walls located north-west of the main house at Sopwell Hall. Hipped slate roofs having cut-stone chimneystacks. Exposed squared limestone walls having cut stone quoins, cornices, sills and surrounds to openings. Small-pane timber windows having top opening ten-over-fifteen pane casements. Timber battened doors. Limestone carriage arch having ball finials and flanked by niches, leading to eastern yard, with limestone piers to gateway at north side and to western yard. Eastern yard has multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding with carriage arch and six-bay outbuilding with two-storey centre bays. Western yard has single-storey L-plan outbuilding with advanced and higher centre blocks with segmental-headed carriage arches and flanked by lower two-bay blocks. Three-bay two-storey building to north-west corner of walled garden, having pitched slate roof with chimneystack.

• Sopwell Hall, steward's house, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former steward's house with advanced gabled end bay and hipped porch, built c.1875, having single-storey annex to southwest. Pitched slate roofs having cut-stone chimneystack and ceramic ridge tiles. Squared limestone walls, rendered in parts. Timber mullioned and transomed casement windows, one dormer. Timber panelled door in shouldered-arch opening. Stone outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs and bellcote.

• Sopwell Hall, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with attic, built c.1865. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with dressed limestone chimneystack. Coursed limestone rubble walls, snecked to front and having dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed openings with limestone label-mouldings. Replacement timber windows with cut limestone sills. Replacement timber battened door with paned overlight, set in square-headed opening with limestone label-moulding.

• Sopwell Hall, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1865, with pedimented entrance portico in antis. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having cut limestone portico, quoins and plinth. Segmental-headed openings, paired to gables, with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and moulded limestone surrounds with brackets beneath sills. Timber panelled door with overlight, set in square-headed opening inside portico, latter with fluted Doric columns. Ornamental cast-iron piers and gate flanked by rectangular limestone piers with cast-and-wrought-iron gates and railings; cast-iron railings, cut limestone piers and rendered quadrant walls..

• Sopwell National School, school, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey school with attic, built 1826, with façade comprising gabled projections flanking castellated cut limestone arcade of four-centred arches. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roof with render chimneystack, cast-iron rainwater goods and ornamental timber bargeboards with cast-iron finials to projecting gables. Roughcast render walls with quatrefoil motif to the gables and stone shield with name to arcade. Square-headed openings with mullioned-and-transomed latticed cast-iron windows having limestone sills. Timber battened doors set in square-headed openings. Limestone boundary wall to garden to front of building, with cast-iron letter box with royal insignia of Edward VII.

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 Sopwell, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Sopwell, Cloughjordan5 sales

Name

Sopwell · Coill na Lathach

Area

4,493,338 m² (449.33 ha, 1,110.33 acres)

Civil parish

Uskane, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

579 people lived in 215 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylina West, Ballynavin, Behamore (Smith), Boston, Creeragh, Derreen, Druminure, Drumnamahaneisland, Killurane, Lismaline, Loughaun

Placenames

Sopwell 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.