Aghsmear
Aghsmear is a townland in the civil parish of Corbally, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Áth na Sméar.
- Area
- 187.9 ha
- 464 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 10,684 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aghsmear, from 183 m² to 301,539 m² (30.15 ha, 74.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aghsmear 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Aug 2026Conditional
construction of a part two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660764
17 Jul 2026Conditional
1. a new cow cubicle shed with loose housing, to adjoin an existing milking parlour and animal accommodation area. 2. a new slatted shed for cattle, also with a loose housing area, together with feed passage and underground concrete waste storage and with all associated site works. 3. Retention permission for a silage base with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660702
25 Aug 2025Conditional
a slatted cattle house with underground slurry accommodation and ancillary concrete yard
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25171
7 Jul 2025Conditional
a manure pit and permission to construct a slatted suckler house with underground slurry storage, creep area, ancillary concrete and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25132
21 Mar 2024Conditional
a vehicular entrace onto cul de sac roadway with modifications to achieve sightlines with all ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460
23 Feb 2023Conditional
changes to the original planning permission reference 2260152 (in reference to condition number 2 regarding the entrance) to include; Form new entrance onto Cul-de-sac & block-up existing entrance to the west of the new entrance all with ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360117
1 Apr 2022Conditional
a single storey conservatory and bedroom wing to the rear of the dwelling, construction of a lean-to glass house to the side of the bedroom wing and formation of a vehicular entrance onto cul-de-sac roadway all with ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260152
23 Nov 2018Conditional
(1) a new bovine cubicle shed, (2) a new covered slatted standing area, (3) a new dairy and milking parlour, all with concrete underground waste/soiled water storage facilities and all other associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601388
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Aghsmear House 002060
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Aghsmear.
Architectural heritage
- Aghsmear House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1820, with single-bay front porch and extensions to north. Hipped slate roof with timber brackets to eaves and having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed timber sash windows, round-headed to rear for stairs, with stone sills. Pointed-arch and ogee-arch window openings to porch having trefoil-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, doubled to front. Glazed timber door with trefoil-headed over-light, with flight of steps. Sandstone rubble walls with integral carriage arch to courtyard. Outbuildings with pitched slate roofs to site. Sandstone rubble walls having wrought-iron gates to north of site and cast-iron piers and railings to main entrance.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Aghsmear, 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 Aghsmear.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aghsmear with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Aghsmear · Áth na Sméar
- Area
- 1,879,421 m² (187.94 ha, 464.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Corbally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Rathnaveoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 269 people lived in 88 households in the Rathnaveoge electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygorteen, Boolabaun, Camlin, Glenbeha, Lismakin
- Placenames
- Aghsmear 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.