Abbeville

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbeville, from 64 m² to 363,260 m² (36.33 ha, 89.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Abbeville 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.

• 1 Sept 2017Conditional

  construction of single storey kitchen/control room to east elevation, construction of single storey sun room to south elevation, convert door to window on north elevation, install solar panels, construction of reduced size garage from planning reference 03511219 and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600965

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: Kilcarren-Firville Bog SAC 000647
• Natural Heritage Area: Arragh More Bog NHA 000640
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilcarren-Firville Bog 000647

Recorded monuments

• TN004-022001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  National Monument No. 378. A well-preserved four-storey tower (ext. dims. 10.3m E-W; 11.45m N-S; wall T 2.1m) and a large irregular-shaped bawn (TN004-022002-) situated on natural rock outcrop in low undulating countryside. There is a watermill (TN004-022006-) immediately S of the bawn, a deserted settlement (TN004-022004-) S of this and a later seventeenth and eighteenth-century house (TN004-022005-) built onto the E wall of the bawn. An O'Kennedy stronghold (Smyth 1985, 118) of sixteenth-century date which belonged to Brian Ua Cinneide Fionn, Chieftain of Ormond who died in 1588 (Harbison 1970, 230). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old ruined castle & bawne of Leackeene the walls onely standing an orchard and garden' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 315). Donogh Kenedy is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The bawn is entered through a large round-arched gateway with punch-dressed limestone jambs at the centre of the S wall. The wall returns inside the gateway indicate evidence of a possible destroyed gatehouse. There is a second entrance to the bawn consisting of a two-centred doorway at the S end of the W wall. The presence of two punch-dressed hanging-eyes indicates a swing type door of two parts. A paved walkway leads from the doorway in a westerly direction for a distance of approx. 3m. There is evidence of a destroyed machicolation which was carried on five double corbels off-centre to the S along the W wall. Wall-footings of a small circular tower protrude from the face of the S wall of the bawn to the W of the main gateway. A large wall niche at the N end of the W wall and a gun loop and slop-stone at the W end of the N wall provide evidence for an internal lean-to structure in the NW angle of the bawn. Rather than facilitating the removal of waste the slop-stone carried water into the structure. The main tower is entered from a two-centred doorway on the S wall with a murder-hole in the form of a horizontal slit over-hanging the external face of the door and a destroyed machicolation directly above at wall-walk level. The lobby is protected by a murder-hole and gives access to a mural chamber along the W end of the S wall, mural stairs in SE angle and the main chamber to the N. The ground floor has a large wall niche with a blocked-up window at the N end of the W wall with a similar large niche on the E wall. The first floor, which has a wooden floor carried on corbels, is accessed from a two-centred door in the NE angle. A large well-preserved fireplace with joggled voussoirs lies off-centre to the S along the W wall. There is a vaulted loft or entresol above the first floor which is accessed from a mural passage in the N wall. A two-centred door in the SW angle gives access to a mural chamber in the S wall which leads to an L-shaped chamber in the SE angle. Spiral stairs in the NE angle give access to the second-floor main hall. The lobby near the stairs at this second-floor level is protected by a murder-hole accessed from the third floor. The N wall of the second floor hall has a fine traceried window and two-centred arcading with a poorly preserved carved head in relief. Access to the garderobes at first and second-floor level is in the NW angle. The stairs which give access to the third floor, the crenellated battlement levels and the wall-walk with fine crow-stepped gables, are accessed from the window embrasure of the second-floor hall. The gables are typical of the architectural style of the sixteenth century (Greysmith 1994, 40). A tall rectangular chimney stack protrudes at battlement level at the S end of the W wall. The windows consist of single-light ogee heads and simple round and rectangular slit opes with angle loops visible. The third floor was probably lit by two dormer windows, the timber supports of which are still visible beside the wall-plate corbels. Diagonally opposite bartizans occupy the NW and SE angles at wall-walk 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

• TN004-022002 Bawn
  Description

  A well-preserved four-storey tower (TN004-022001) and a large irregular-shaped bawn (int. dims. 58.7m N-S; 59m E-W; T 1.05m) situated on natural rock outcrop in low undulating countryside. There is a watermill (TN004-022006) immediately S of the bawn, a deserted settlement (TN004-022004) S of this and a later seventeenth and eighteenth-century house (TN004-022005) built onto the E wall of the bawn. An O'Kennedy stronghold (Smyth 1985, 118) of sixteenth-century date which belonged to Brian Ua Cinneide Fionn, Chieftain of Ormond who died in 1588 (Harbison 1970, 230). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old ruined castle & bawne of Leackeene the walls onely standing an orchard and garden' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 315). Donogh Kenedy is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The bawn is entered through a large round-arched gateway with punch-dressed limestone jambs at the centre of the S wall. The wall returns inside the gateway indicate evidence of a possible destroyed gatehouse. There is a second entrance to the bawn consisting of a two-centred doorway at the S end of the W wall. The presence of two punch-dressed hanging-eyes indicates a swing type door of two parts. A paved walkway leads from the doorway in a westerly direction for a distance of approx. 3m. There is evidence of a destroyed machicolation which was carried on five double corbels off-centre to the S along the W wall. Wall-footings of a small circular tower protrude from the face of the S wall of the bawn to the W of the main gateway. A large wall niche at the N end of the W wall and a gun loop and slop-stone at the W end of the N wall provide evidence for an internal lean-to structure in the NW angle of the bawn. Rather than facilitating the removal of waste the slop-stone carried water into the structure acting as a storage faciltiy for rainwater. 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

• TN004-022004 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of rock outcrop in undulating countryside with nearby tower house (TN004-022001) to the N. There are no visible remains of deserted settlement due to the presence of several quarry holes in the area. Poorly preserved linear earthworks to the N of the tower house may be the remains of deserted settlement. Aerial photographs show up several earthworks in fields to South of Castle (GSI M. 449/8; CUCAP ALL 24; CUCAP AVN 78; CUCAP AVQ 58). 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

• TN004-022005 House - 17th century
  Description

  The poorly preserved remains of a seventeenth-century two-storey gable-ended house (int. dims. 9m N-S; 4.2m E-W; T 1.2m) located on the external face of the NW angle of the bawn wall surrounding Lackeen tower house (TN004-022001) with an early to mid-eighteenth-century house attached to the E. Originally the seventeenth-century house consisted of a simple rectangular plan orientated on a N-S axis with a protruding gable-ended rectangular chimney stack on the N gable. The original fireplace consisted of a large wooden lintel with the cut-stone voussoirs of a relieving arch directly over. The wooden floor is carried on large beams extending E-W across the house inserted into beam-holes with smaller N-S beams traversing the larger beams. Later eighteenth-century additions to the N, E and W walls now obscure the original ground plan. The early to mid-eighteenth-century five-bay house is two storeys high with gable-ended chimneys and has a simple flat-headed doorcase and light above. 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

• TN004-022006 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Located immediately S of Lackeen Castle (TN004-022001) and seventeenth-century house (TN004-022005) and N of Piperstown deserted village (TN004-022004) which probably dates to the late sixteenth/seventeenth century. The Civil Survey describes 'a mill standing on a little brooke running through the sd lands' of Lackeen (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 315). A rectangular building (int. dims. 5.5m x 8.8m), one storey high with attic, aligned roughly N-S with a millrace running E-W past the N gable. It is composed of limestone rubble - the lower portion is well coursed while the upper portion is randomly coursed - the walls are 0.6m T. All the opes in the building have wooden lintels. There is a flat-headed opening (Wth 1m) at ground level in the centre of the N gable which probably accommodated the mill-wheel. On either side of this there is a rectangular recess (Wth 0.4m x H 0.5m) 0.5m above internal ground level. There is an offset in the N gable 1.6m above the internal ground level; a centrally placed flat-headed window lights this upper area. In the S gable there is a central flat-headed doorway with a small window above in the apex of the gable. At the W end of the S gable there is a fireplace (Wth 0.75m) with a crude stone lintel. At the E end of the S gable, 0.76m from the E wall, there is a small recess at ground level into which a low stone wall appears to have been keyed; only some of the foundation stones survive. This feature extends N-S and is extant for a distance of 2.8m. The N end of the E wall has largely collapsed and in the S end there is a small window (Wth 0.45m x H 0.3m) 1.6m above internal 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

• TN004-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural rise of ground in low-lying undulating countryside. A poorly preserved ringfort with a silage pit in the NE sector and a spoil heap in the NW sector. The present remains consist of a large circular area (approx. diam. 50m) enclosed by a well-preserved earthen bank (ext. H 2m) and external fosse with two directly opposite gaps at N and S. These gaps are the remains of a laneway to the nearby big house which traversed the ringfort on a N-S axis as shown on the 1843 ed. OS 6-inch map. The site was inaccessible at the time of visit due to poor underfoot conditions. 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

• TN004-027 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. All that remains is the barely discernible outline of a circular enclosure (diam. 40m E-W) which shows up clearly on aerial photographs (CUCAP, ATA 45). There is a quarry in the SW sector. The enclosure may be part of a nineteenth-centure drainage complex which occupies the entire field and is associated with the nearby big house. 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

• TN004-046 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated on S side of stream on partially reclaimed grassland. Lackeen Castle (TN004-022001-) 290m to NW and Site of Piperstown Village (TN004-022004-) and Gortapheepra Deer Park 40m to SW. Horseshoe shaped mound of burnt material with open terminals facing S towards the stream, slight evidence of an external ditch at base of mound on N side. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by James Heenan and David Broderick. Date of upload: 3 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Lackeen House, house, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1730, attached to ruinous two-storey seventeenth-century house with heavy chimneystack to north gable, and with single-storey lean-to structures to rear. Pitched slate roof having rendered gable-end chimneystacks and ceramic ridge tiles. Rendered walls to eighteenth-century structure, with exposed coursed rubble limestone walls to earlier block. Two-over-two pane and one six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to main block having limestone sills. Timber panelled front door retains overlight with geometric glazing. Single-storey rubble limestone outbuilding to south having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Situated outside bawn wall of tower house to southwest.

• Abbeville House, house, 1670–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-period house, comprising three-bay three-storey block of c.1820, having single-bay single-storey flanking wing walls to east and west, and with possibly late seventeenth-century three-bay three-storey return to rear. Loose datestone inscribed '1773' might date a reordered front block. Glazed, possibly recent, porch to front. Slate roofs, hipped with overhanging eaves with moulded cut-stone eaves course to main block, pitched and with cut-stone eaves course to return. Rendered chimneystacks, one projecting from south gable and with cut-stone chimneystack to rear wall of main block. Ruled-and-lined rendered main block and roughcast lime rendered to return. Single-storey wing walls have exposed stonework with round-headed opening, now blocked, to each. Timber sliding sash windows throughout with stone sills, six-over-six pane flanking four-over-four pane windows to ground and first floors, two-over-two pane flanked by three-over-three pane windows to second floor and six-over-six pane to earlier return. Double round-headed traceried windows to central bay of front elevation, square-headed elsewhere and tripartite with engaged colonettes to end bays of front elevation. Timber panelled and geometrically-glazed front door in segmental-headed opening flanked by engaged clustered columns with elaborate cobweb fanlight above. Datestone '1773' on property. Substantial ranges of limestone outbuildings to south-east having pitched slate roofs and enclosed by high stone boundary walls. One range has cut-stone voussoirs to openings and segmental and depressed-arch carriage arches. Entrance gateway has spearheaded cast-iron gates between dressed stone piers with moulded cut-stone and domed caps.

• Somerset House, house, 1870–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1875, with slightly lower two-storey over basement return. Gabled breakfront to central bay. Ground floor advanced at west end, matched by verandah with cut limestone steps and supported by carved timber posts and brackets to eastern bay and with advanced flat-roof central porch bay with cut stone balcony over with decorative cast-iron work, all with continuous brackets to eaves. House incorporates fabric of earlier house. Single-storey over basement canted bay to north gable. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves on carved timber brackets, with rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth. Heraldic date plaque over porch depicting pelican feeding blood to her young. Mainly one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, two-over-two pane to basement, with panels under ground floor and with segmental-headed margined sash window lighting stair to rear elevation. Timber panelled front door accessed under verandah and recessed doorway accessed by steps to rear. Two-storey and lofted single-storey outbuildings to rear with roughly coursed rubble walls and hipped slate roofs, with brick surrounds to openings, stone sills and timber battened doors and brick chimneys. Quadrant gateway with rendered piers and cast-iron gates.

• RIC barracks, 1800–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey RIC barracks, built c.1815, having recent two-bay two-storey addition to rear. Now in use as public house. Hipped slate roof having ceramic ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Exposed coursed rubble limestone walls. Flat-arch openings to front elevation, having cut-stone voussoirs and sills. Narrow slit windows to side elevations. Replacement timber windows and doors.

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 Abbeville, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Abbeville · Baile an Phíopaire

Area

3,826,228 m² (382.62 ha, 945.48 acres)

Civil parish

Lorrha, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Lorrha East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

301 people lived in 117 households in the Lorrha East electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashpark, Cullagh, Curraghglass, Derrybreen, Kilgask, Lissagadda, Lissernane, Roden

Placenames

Abbeville 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.