Mortlestown

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mortlestown, from 1,359 m² to 286,402 m² (28.64 ha, 70.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Mortlestown 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.

• 13 Jul 2026Conditional

  (i) Extension to Milking Facilities, (ii) Calving Pens, (iii) 2 No Calf Houses and (iv) dry store and associated works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660678

• 29 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460925

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460491

• 1 Nov 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360879

• 15 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2134

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system and entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201211

• 4 Jan 2019Conditional

  dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600007

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 Mortlestown.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-027001 Church
  Description

  Roughly centrally placed in a irregularly shaped graveyard (TS076-027003-), on an E-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. As depicted on the 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map, only the S wall survives (L c. 20m; max. H 0.6m) above ground level, heavily overgrown with grass, and there is no evidence of returns. On the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map the church appears quite intact. It is described in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 122-3) as measuring 'sixty three feet seven inches in length [19.4m] by twenty one feet seven inches in breadth [6.6m] inside. The walls are entire; the sidewalls are sixteen feet high [4.8m] and two feet seven inches [0.8m] thick. There is still remaining on the west gable a belfry and a window of quadrangular form and masonwork inside; it is narrow outside, where it is constructed of chiselled limestone and is curvilineally pointed at top. On south wall eighteen feet [5.48m] from west gable, there is placed a pointed doorway of chiselled limestone, which is seven feet four inches [2.2m] in height by three feet nine inches [1.1m] in breadth; and near the east gable a window, quadrangular and constructed of masonwork inside and built (pointed and ) of chiselled limestone outside. Near it to the west there is a breach at the ground on the wall running through it to some height. There are two small windows placed beside each other, or rather one window divided into two compartments by masonwork, on the east gable. The whole window is quadrangular inside, where it is constructed of masonwork. Two flag stones are placed across at top, on which rests a segmental arch filled up with masonwork, itself being a similar work. On the outside the two small windows, or compartments of the one, are pointed and constructed of chiselled limestone. On the north sidewall near west gable there is a large breach where there was a doorway opposite the doorway on the south one'. However, according to Power (1908, 34) the 'church ruin which survived till a few years since was vandalically demolished by the late parish priest of Cahir'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-027002 Graveslab
  Description

  Within Mortlestown Graveyard (TS076-027003-). According to a reference on file in Tipperary South Riding County Museum 'This site is a graveyard with remains of a medieval church within a sub-circular enclosure...has 17th century graveslabs'. While the graveyard was under lush grass at time of inspection no 17th-century graveslabs were noted. All the visible headstones are of 18th-century date. It is likely that the graveslabs noted were in fact headstones dating from the 1700s which were erroneously described as being of 17th-century date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-027003 Graveyard
  Description

  Church (TS076-027001-) roughly centrally placed in a irregularly shaped graveyard (dims. Approx. 50m N-S; 52m E-W), on an E facing slope in gently undulating terrain with pasture surround the graveyard. Graveyard under lush grass at time of inspection. All visible headstones are of 18th-century date and are placed to S of the church, with only one exception to E of church. Along external N face of the surviving wall architectural fragments have been placed, all limestone. These consist of chamfered jambs from doors or windows and the curving headstones of a doorway, with chamfered edge; broken ogee-head of window with plain chamfer. Rubble has been dumped at E end of this wall and the whole is grass-covered obscuring the original wall width. Internal wall face of S wall survives up to two courses high. Incorporated in the inner face of the W gate pier at the entrance to the graveyard is a chamfered jamb, no doubt from the church. The enclosing stone wall is surmounted and largely obscured by thorn bushes. 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 Mortlestown.

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 Mortlestown, 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 Mortlestown.

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

Name

Mortlestown · Baile an Mhoirtéalaigh

Area

1,311,629 m² (131.16 ha, 324.11 acres)

Civil parish

Mortlestown, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannamore, Castlecoyne, Keylong, Knocknaboha, Mortlestown Little, Rathard, Shortcastle

Placenames

Mortlestown 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.