Castlehiggins

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlehiggins, from 197 m² to 14,145 m² (1.41 ha, 3.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Castlehiggins 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 Sept 2024Conditional

  (i) stable building with effluent tank to replace existing stable building, (ii) access roadway and all associated site works and demolition of stable building also required

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460776

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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS070-050 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At W-edge of woodland, at base of W-facing slope. Roughly circular area (dims. 2m N-S; 1.7m E-W; D 0.2m) enclosed by stone kerbing (H 0.55m from base of well) N-ENE; earthen bank ENE-ESE; open (Wth 1.25m) to S; collapsed stone wall WSW-WNW and rubble stone wall (H 1.05m from base of well) WNW-N. Air bubbles from natural spring visible at E-side of well. Water flows S through open area and along recently re-cut drain (D 0.08m) flanking E-side of field boundary. Narrow water outlet to W, where enclosing wall has been breached, empties into fast flowing stream flanking W-side of field boundary. Natural rock outcropping to NE provides shelter. Enclosure (TS070-051----) located 440m to ESE. 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 Castlehiggins.

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 Castlehiggins, 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 Castlehiggins.

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

Name

Castlehiggins · Caisleán an Hugúnaigh

Area

46,146 m² (4.61 ha, 11.4 acres)

Civil parish

Fethard, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Peppardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crampscastle, Moan More

Placenames

Castlehiggins 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.