Archerstown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Archerstown, from 437 m² to 1,362,418 m² (136.24 ha, 336.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Archerstown 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.

• 2 Jan 2026Conditional

  a revised dwelling house design (Permission was previously granted ref 24268). The revised design will involve single storey extensions to existing single storey dwelling house to the front, to the rear and to the side of the building. Also to carry out alterations to the existing front elevation of the dwelling and for alterations to the eastern site boundary, site layout plan and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 261

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  1) demolition of part of an existing single storey dwelling house, 2) an extension to the side of the remaining dwelling with part in single storey and part in two storey construction, 3) a single storey porch at the rear of the existing dwelling and 4) carry out all associated works including alterations to the layout and elevations of the remaining part of the existing house and extending the site boundaries slightly to accommodate the proposed extension

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24268

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  a) the construction of a new dwelling house and access road; b) the use of an existing entrance; c) the construction of a secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter with all associated siteworks. This proposed development is within the curtilage of a protected structure ref no: TRPS482

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460955

• 6 Nov 2024N/a

  1) to demolish a part of an existing single storey dwelling house, 2) to build an extension to the side of the remaining dwelling with part in single storey and part in two storey construction, 3) to build a single storey porch at the rear of the existing dwelling and 4) to carry out all associated works including extending the site boundaries slightly to accommodate the proposed extension

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460943

• 10 Aug 2024Conditional

  an extension to the rear of dwelling consisting of a open plan kitchen/dining area and utility room etc, a store to the side of dwelling and a garden shed/store to the rear of site with all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460662

• 11 Jul 2024N/a

  open plan kitchen/diner, small single toilet and sink

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 24157

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  extension of existing dwelling house and PERMISSION for relocation of septic tank and percolation area and carry out all associated works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211861

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  extension to rear of dwelling, roof light, septic tank with percolation area, shed and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201592

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, treatment system, entrance, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601418

• 12 Dec 2019N/a

  construct a new dwelling house, treatment system, entrance, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601389

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 Archerstown.

Recorded monuments

• TN041-067 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in low, marshy terrain on the E bank of the Poulaneigh River. On 1st (1843) ed. OS 6-inch map the mill is indicated as being a flour mill. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'a Mill in repaire' in Archerstown (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 54). There is no visible trace of a mill building at this site. According to a local source the mill was levelled c. 15 years ago (c. 1981). However the millrace, which ran through the site, still survives. A lot of rubble has been dumped in the area where the mill was located, presumably to create a platform for a new building. This is possibly the location of the mill referred to in the seventeenth century. 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

• TN041-072001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated in flat terrain in pasture. A house (TN041-072003-) and farmyard are situated immediately W of the tower house. A flat-headed single-light window with hood-moulding, probably from the tower house, has been inserted at the S end of the E face of the house at first-floor level, probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. There are other fragments of window jambs in the grounds in front of the house. Only the E half of the tower house remains, the E wall (L c. 8m), the E end of the N wall and a stair tower at the S end of the E wall survive up to three storeys high. It is likely that the tower house was at least one storey higher originally. Formerly there was a vault over the ground floor and over the second floor. It is built of limestone rubble with weathered, horizontally laid, cut limestone quoins and a slight base-batter (Wth 0.2; H 0.9m) on the E face. A labourer's cottage has been built up against the external N face and its roof line partially obscures the first floor. Another building abuts the N end of the E wall. At ground-floor level there is a blocked embrasure with splayed ingoings at the N end of the E wall. Externally in the E wall at ground-floor level there is a narrow loop with crude limestone surrounds (H 0.72m; Wth 0.9m; H above ground level 1.76m). At first-floor level a cusped ogee-headed window, with a wide internal splay, is at the N end of the E wall. Also at first-floor level there is a round musket-hole at the E end of the N wall, above this, at second-floor level, there is a small loop. The S face of the stair tower has been modified at ground-floor level where there is evidence of two blocked openings, one above the other. The W face of the stair tower does not survive, though there are fragmentary remains of the wall return up to second-floor level. The W wall was rebuilt at ground level with an accompanying N wall built to form a small shed and a buttress, probably early in the twentieth century, as evidenced by a date of 1907 inscribed in the mortar of the buttress. The original entrance doorway to the tower house has been inserted into this rebuilt W wall. This pointed doorway (Wth 1.13m; H 1.85m) is rebated externally, including the threshold and has punch tooling and drafted margins. A blocked hole in the N jamb of the doorway may have been a yett-hole. A well, now covered with a man-hole, lies 2m W of the reinserted doorway, and is said to be the original well of the tower house, though it is probably partially on the original line of the S wall of the tower house. The second floor rested on a wooden floor supported by corbels and had a vaulted roof - the remains of the spring are visible on the N wall. At the N and S end of the E wall of the main chamber at second-floor level there are two poorly preserved relieving arches. The stair tower would have been lit by a window in the S wall and one in the E wall at first-floor level. A jamb is all that remains of a doorway which provided access from the stairs to the first-floor chamber and to the second-floor chamber. No remains of the stairs survive, which suggests they were wooden. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to a bawn (TN041-072002-) and 'James Archer of Archardstowne Esqr. Irish Papist' is listed as proprietor (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 54). Possible keying stones for the bawn wall project out from the external E face of the tower house above the roofline of the abutting building. 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

• TN041-072002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated in flat terrain in pasture. A house (TN041-072003) and farmyard are situated immediately W of the tower house (TN041-072001). A flat-headed single-light window with hood-moulding, probably from the tower house, has been inserted at the S end of the E face of the house at first-floor level, probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. There are other fragments of window jambs in the grounds in front of the house. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to a bawn and 'James Archer of Archardstowne Esqr. Irish Papist' is listed as proprietor (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 54). Possible keying stones for the bawn wall project out from the external E face of the tower house (TN041-072001) above the roofline of the abutting building. 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

• TN041-072003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated in flat terrain in pasture. A house and farmyard situated immediately W of a tower house (TN041-072001). According to the present owner, Oliver Langley, Archerstown House (ext. dims. c. 12.3m x 9.9m; walls 0.73-0.8m T) was originally two storeys higher. The Langleys have been in possession of Archerstown since the Cromwellian settlement. Fireplaces at the W end of the house, at ground-floor level are at an angle and back-to-back on either side of a partition wall. The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'a stone house, a bawne, a mill in repaire and a castle out of repaire' at Archerstown (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 54). James Archer is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). This seventeenth-century house is possibly incorporated into Archerstown House which according to Bence-Jones (1988, 7) is a 'two-storey, three-bay, high roofed Georgian house'. The E end of the house was rebuilt by the owner's grandfather. In the E gable of this addition/rebuild there is a single-light window chamfered externally with hood-moulding at first-floor 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

• TN041-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat ground in a deer-park with a river to the SE. A limekiln is depicted immediately N of site on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map. An oval area (diam. c. 33.5m N-S; 38m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m crest, int. H 0.73m; ext. H 1.55m) situated at the S end of the deer-park, the wall of which partially destroys the bank at S. The bank itself slopes gently to the interior but falls quite steeply to the exterior. In the NE quadrant it has been quarried into with upcast thrown into the site. A gap (Wth 2.6m) in the SE sector may be the original entrance feature. No visible trace of an external fosse. Approximately 5-6m NW of the site there is a subrectangular platform (diam. 20m) of unknown antiquity. There are other earthworks in the field N of the site including a rectangular enclosure (dims. 47m x 22m) aligned almost N-S 11m from the E wall of the deer-park. 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

Architectural heritage

• Archerstown House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1800, with lower two-storey slightly advanced single-bay two-storey addition to east end of front elevation and later lean-to two-storey extension to rear. Incorporating fabric of earlier structure. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, and having flat roof to addition. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to ground floor and addition, six-over-six pane to first floor of main block, nine-over-nine pane to ground and to addition, with stone sills. Gabled porch addition to front. Garden to front, with wrought-iron railings. Rendered outbuildings to east with pitched and lean-to slate roofs. Ruined medieval castle to site.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Archerstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Archerstown · Baile an Áirséaraigh

Area

1,951,883 m² (195.19 ha, 482.32 acres)

Civil parish

Rahelty, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Thurles Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Thurles Rural electoral division: 2,365 people in 851 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drish, Galbooly, Knockakilly, Kyle, Mullauns, Newbrook, Townagha, Turtulla

Placenames

Archerstown 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.