Ardmayle

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardmayle, from 261 m² to 222,192 m² (22.22 ha, 54.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 May 2026N/a

  1) the demolition of a single storey component to the rear elevation of dwelling and also the demolition of a single storey porch to the front elevation. 2) the construction of a two storey extension to the rear elevation of single storey dwelling and the construction of a single storey extension to the side of dwelling to form part of an annex / granny flat, new single storey porch will also be constructed to the front elevation of the dwelling. 3) there will be various alterations and improvement works to the interior layout, exterior facades and roof structures to the dwelling. 4) the installation of a certified wastewater treatment system and a percolation area, to all appropriate standards, the existing wastewater treatment system will be decommissioned and removed from the site. 5) the construction of a driveway, parking areas, footpaths, soak-pits, patio and hard landscaping areas - the landscaping of the site consisting of new lawn areas, planting beds, hedging, trees and shrubbery and all associated site works. 6) change of use of a single storey outbuilding to habitable accommodation (annex /granny flat) and refurbishment of same. Note: The refurbished outbuilding, extension to the side of the dwelling and a portion of the remodelled dwelling will form the new annex / granny flat

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660504

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

• TS052-034 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  On the E bank of the River Suir. According to the Annals of the Four Masters Ardmayle was destroyed in 1581 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 88). However, it appears to have recovered from this attack as White (1892, 6-7) refers to an instance in 1641 when 'a Captain Peisley, marching to Ardmayle killed there seven or eight poor men and women, whom he found standing abroad in the street near their own doors, inoffensively'. Within Ardmayle settlement there are the remains of an enclosure (TS052-034001-) known as Forte Edward which has been converted into a landscape feature in the 19th century with a summerhouse (TS052-34002-) built on the E side of the mound utilising 17th-century architecural fragments (TS052-034003-) from Ardmayle castle which is a 17th-century fortified house (TS052-034011-) at the W end of Ardmayle village and possibly medieval fabric from the church (TS052-034005-) and graveyard (TS052-034006-) located to the SE of the mound. A motte and bailey (TS052-034004-) is located to the N of the church and graveyard which contains two medieval floriated graveslabs (TS052-034007-/TS052-034008-). To the E of the church and graveyard there is a medieval tower house (TS052-034009-) with earthworks (TS052-034010-) in the fields to the E and S of the tower house and to the N of the church and N of the motte and bailey. There is a bawn (TS052-034012-) associated with the fortified house. The precise location and extent of the medieval settlement associated at Ardmayle is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034001 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture on a low, natural rise in a low-lying landscape. Roughly circular area (overall diam. 44m) defined by a bank (Wth crest 3m; Wth at base 4.5m; int. H 0.6m; Ext. H 1.4m-2.05m) with evidence of a external stone revettment, at the base of this revettment there is a slightly sloping berm (Wth 2.4m; H 1.2m) which is enclosed around the base of the monument by a retaining rubble stone wall (H 0.7m) which is appears to be a landscaping feature. The wall is best preserved S-WNW and is lower and partially collapsed into surrounding field WNW-S. The wall seems to be part of a counter revetment S-WNW. The interior is generally level and obscured by overgrowth of bushes. There is a folly (TS052-034002-) in the interior in the E quadrant which has incorporated some architectural fragments (TS052-034003-) while other fragments had been incorporated into the lower revettment wall in the W quadrant and have tumbled downslope from it. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034002 Designed landscape - folly
  Description

  In improved pasture on a low, natural rise in a low-lying landscape. Built into the interior of an enclosure (TS052-034001-) and abutting the E bank. A well-coursed rubble masonry structure, sub-rectangular in plan with a curvilinear rear. The opening (Wth 2.18m; D 2.0; H 2.07m) at E has a shallow vaulted ceiling with voussoir camber arch. Three lintelled recesses in the rear wall may be put-log holes. There is a brick kerb (H 0.75m; Wth 0.22m; D 0.1m) across the base of the opening. A plain-run moulded cornice forms the coping stones to E and short return to N and S sides. The remains of external render are evident. These and other architectural fragments (TS052-034003-) are possibly reused from the fortified house (TS052-034011-). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  There are a number of architectural fragments incorporated into the masonry of a folly (TS052-034002-) on the E bank of 'Forte Edward' enclosure (TS052-034001-) and others which were incorporated into the retaining wall in the W quadrant of this enclosure and have fallen out and are strewn about the external ground level. The folly incorporates a cut limestonestone window surround (H 0.47m; Wth 0.2m) which is set vertically above the keystone of the folly. The top of the folly is surmounted by a moulded cornice (H 0.17m), visible at the NE and SE angles, which may have come from the fortified house (TS052-034011-). The fragments on the ground at the N quadrant include three chamfered limestone mullion/transom pieces (L 0.37m; Wth 0.23m; D 0.11m; chamfer Wth 9cm; visible L 0.6m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.2m; chamfer Wth 9m; L 0.27m; Wth 0.17m) and two cut limestone blocks (0.53m x 0.25m; D 0.25m), one with a chamfered edge (0.34m x 0.27m; D 0.18m; chamfer Wth 0.08m). The window surrounds appear to be from the fortified house which is located c. 200m to the W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034004 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  At the edge of a N-facing slope overlooking a flat plain with very good views in all directions, except to S which is obscured by rising ground. Motte and bailey situated in a pasture field which has been badly poached by cattle and which was quarried in the 1950s, with quarry holes immediately W of the motte and E of the bailey and upcast from the quarry adjacent to the monument. In 1207 Walter de Lacey was granted the cantred of Eóganacht Caisil (Ardmayle) and c. 1225 when Richard de Burgh married Walter's daughter Egidia, Richard received the cantred with the castle, presumably the motte, of Ardmayle (Cahill 1982 - from CDI Nos. 1268, 363 and 743). Steep-sided, high motte (H 8.65m) with an oval summit (dims. top 8m N-S; 10.8m E-W; base c. 40m) with slightly concave surface. A mature tree had been growing on the top of the motte in the 1980s and is since gone, if uprooted this could have been responsible for the slight depression on the summit. Another tree has since been planted NE of centre, protected from cattle by a metal surround. Also on the summit are a flag-pole and a statue of Our Blessed Lady with a statue of the keeling St. Bernadette c. 1m below, on the slope. The S quadrant has a slight lip (Wth 0.9m; H above int. 0.25m) with a high stone content, possibly indicating a wall. This slight lip is visible around the circumference of the summit to a lesser degree, emphasized by the concave interior. The base of the motte is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3.6m; D 1.56m above outer bank) from SE-N-NE and outer bank (Wth crest 2.7m; base 7.1m; ext. H 0.8m) from SE-S-SW and from NW to N and by a U-shaped bailey from NE-E-SE is divided from the bailey by a broad, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 1.45m below bank of bailey). In the W quad. there is mounded-up upcast from a quarry 3m from the edge of the outer edge of the fosse around the motte. There is also a short length of bank, out of line with the enclosing bank of the motte, running roughly N-S but more westerly than the enclosing bank which does not survive at this point, which though very compact and bank-like, may also be the result of adjacent quarry activity. The U-shaped bailey (diam. 42.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) has a relatively flat interior, surrounded by an earthen bank, most pronounced in the N and E quadrants (Wth crest 6.1m; base 14.2m; int. H 1.08; ext. H 5.2m) where the bank is broad and stoney and falls very steeply to the exterior. Low bank along W side (Wth crest 2m; base 4.6m; int. H 0.7m) largely reduced to scarp with stone protruding from top edge of scarp. In the SSW quadrant of the bailey the bank flattens out, this may be the remains of an original ramped entrance or may be result of damage to the monument. East of this possible ramp the bank of the bailey reduces in external height to 1.1m with an external berm (Wth c. 12m) and evidence of a short length of outer bank (Wth crest 2m; base 6.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext .H 1.8m) which again maybe associated with an original entrance arrangement or may be due to later disturbance. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 24/1956).

• TS052-034005 Church
  Description

  On level ground on a W-facing slope in undulating terrain. Of the medieval church the W tower (dims. 7.27m N-S excluding base-batter; 5.93m E-W excluding base-batter) survives, attached to the W end of a C of I church (L 16.22m x Wth 8.17m) built in 1815 (Crotty 2003, 114). According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 86) 'A little eastward of the new Church there remain about two feet [0.6m] in height of the east, north, and south walls of an old building twenty seven and a half feet [c. 8.4m] in breadth; its length cannot be determined as the west wall has entirely disappeared, as have also the west end of the north and south walls. There is a breach or chasm, about the middle of the portion of the south wall remaining, where the doorway seems to have been placed. These walls, which are about three and a half feet [1m] in thickness, might be judged to be those of the old Church, but for their great distance from the tower'. Of this building, which is possibly the chancel of the medieval church, the E wall survives as a low, grass-covered wall (L 15.4m; Wth crest 0.9; Wth at base 1.55m; H above int. 0.7m; H above ext. 0.5m) which runs E-W from the N side of the E wall of the later church. Opposite, and 8.4m S of, this grass-covered wall, and roughly aligned with the S wall of the later church, there is a grass-covered mound which may be a burial or remnants of a wall (Wth crest 0.7m; Wth at base 1.8m; H 0.2-0.5m). The tower is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a base-batter (H 1.55m; Wth 0.5m). There is a buttress at the E end of the N wall of the tower with a slight base-batter and a similar one at the E end of the S wall of the tower. Two hood-mouldings with ivy-leaf terminals have been incorporated into the upper portion of the S buttress. At ground level in the N face, a 19th-century doorway carved in a medieval style has been inserted. The barrel-vaulted ground floor (int. dims. 4.38m N-S; 4.43m E-W) is lit by a loop in the S wall within a deep-splayed embrasure. A large flat-headed window has been inserted into the W face. There are two unusual vent holes (D 1.1m; H 0.18m; Wth 0.15-0.2m) at an angle in the wall thickness at ground-floor level (H c. 1.1m above internal floor level) which exit externally just above the base-batter, one at the S end of the W wall and the other towards the E end of the S wall. The first floor is accessed via an inserted wooden stairs in the SW angle. It is lit by flat-headed single-light windows in the N, S and W walls. A wooden stairs, rising along the W wall, gives access to the second floor which has a modern wooden floor supported on offsets on the N and S walls. There is only one window at second-floor level, an ogee-headed single-light in the S wall. There is an inserted chimney flue in the N wall along the E side which continues from first-floor level. The modern floor at third-floor level appears to be resting on an inserted offset in the E and W walls. The offset has a very crude stone-cladded appearance and the inserted floor is at a higher level than the original as it cuts across the existing windows. The third floor is lit by seven windows, two in the N, E and W walls and one in the S wall. All the windows at this level are ogee-headed, some plain, some with hollow spandrels and others with decorated spandrels. One of the windows in the N wall is a two-light window. Both internally and externally the windows and embrasures show evidence of reconstruction. The tower is surmounted by a parapet which was rebuilt in the 19th century with crow-stepped gables and a turret on the NE angle. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034006 Graveyard
  Description

  On a W-facing slope in undulating terrain. A large, roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 82m NE-SW; 116m NW-SW) with a church (TS052-035005-) in the western portion. The headstones are largely S and E of the church and are mostly of 18th and 19th century date. There are simple stone gravemarkers towards the SW wall of the graveyard. The graveyard has been extended out to the road to the SE and this extension has become the main burial place for burials from the 1940s onwards. The graveyard is enclosed by a stone wall and is entered from a gate in the SE wall. There is a graveslab (TS052-034006-) in the graveyard 8.9m E of the N side of the E gable of the modern C of I church. There are a number of architectural fragments in the graveyard. These include a window sill (L 1.01m; Wth 0.405m; D 0.22m) of late 17th/early 18th-century date, located 15m S of the S wall of the church (TS052-034005-), resting on the plinth of a burial plot. It is a limestone sill sloping both internally and externally (D 0.14m) with lines of punch tooling running along the width of the sill. The central flat plane is 0.35m wide. The edge of the sill is reamed, though not necessarily machine cut. A limestone corbel (H 0.28m above ground; Wth 0.22m; D 0.19m) 20m from the SE angle of the church, is embedded in the ground and has been reused as a gravemarker. It has a rounded profile and is roughly dressed. Another limestone corbel (H 0.52m above ground; Wth 0.36m; D 0.15m) SE of the church is also embedded in the ground and has been reused as a gravemarker. It has a rounded profile and the functioning end (L 0.15m) is roughly dressed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034007 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the tower of Ardmayle church (TS052-034005-). A tapering limestone slab (Wth at top 0.3m; Wth at base 0.23m; L 1.03m; T 0.13-0.9m narrowing towards the base). Decorated with an incised four arm fleur-de-lys cross, with a central floral motif, within a double incised circle, a shaft of four incised lines which tapers towards the base. The base consists of a smaller version of the same four arm fleur-de-lys cross, except with a central boss, and within a single incised circle. An incised line runs horzontally across the slab above the base cross on either side of the shaft and another less well-preserved line runs across the slab directly beneath the head cross. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034008 Graveslab
  Description

  In Ardmayle graveyard (TS052-034006-) 8.9m E of the N side of the E gable of the modern C of I church. A tapering limestone slab (Wth at top 0.54m; Wth at base 0.46m; visible length 1.16m; T 0.13-0.2m), standing upright in the ground, the top corner of the sinister side is broken off. Decorated with a seven arm fleur-de-lys cross with double incised lines which continues to form the shaft of the cross, the head is within a double incised circle (diam. 0.54m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034011 House - fortified house
  Description

  On a platform on a break of a W-facing slope within a large bawn (TS052-034012-). The River Suir flows NE-SW 50m to the NW, in undulating pastureland. An earthwork 'Forte Edward' (TS052-034001-) is clearly visible c. 200m to the ESE. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes this as 'a faire Mancon[i]n house with severall other small Cabbins, an oarchard & Garden' which in 1640 was under the proprietorship of 'Theobald Butler of Ardmayle Esqr. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 245). According to the OS Letters the house was given to Col. Coote after the 1641 Rising (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 87). A three storey over basement fortified house with attic level, composed of limestone roughly coursed rubble with good survival of external harling. Only the N wall (ext. L 18.5m; T 1.1m) and the N end of the E (ext. L 6m; T 1.1m) and W (ext. L 7m; T 1.45m) walls survive. The W wall (H c. 5.6m; Wth c. 0.4m) and NW angle has a base-batter which does not continue along the N or E wall. The fenestration is very regular, with four flat-headed windows, all chamfered externally, at each each level in the N wall. The basement windows are single-lights with glazing-bar slots and bar-holes, the ground-floor windows are broken out and the masonry beneath robbed out. The windows at first, second and attic level are all, largely intact, three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Only the N side of the window embrasures in the gable walls at each floor level survive. There is some evidence of internal plaster in the NW angle at first and second-floor level and around the fireplace in the E wall. The basement has been built up almost to ground-floor level and has a fireplace in the NE angle. Put-logs for the timber floor at ground level are evident in the W wall and one in the E wall. At ground-floor level there is a fireplace in the E wall, the lintel, now gone, was supported on two limestone corbels. Put-logs for a timber floor at first-floor level are in the E and W wall with three larger beam-holes in the N wall. The first floor has a fireplace in the NE angle. The window embrasures at this level continue to the floor. The floor supports at second-floor level are slightly different in that there are tall narrow timber slots in the W wall, while the E wall has the more usual small squarish holes. At attic/dormer level the parapet is supported on a double corbel course of well-cut limestone corbels. There are shot-hole embrasures in recess in the parapet, also a recess between the E and E of centre window but no evidence of a shot-hole embrasure. Some of the coping stones at parapet level survive indicating the gables over the windows at attic level. There are water spouts between each window, at sill level, all three are broken off. Near the apex of the E gable there is a projecting square-sectioned, limestone string-course at the base of a rectangular chimney stack. The stack is surmounted by off-set chimneys with another projecting string-course at the base of the off-set chimneys. The coping stones of the roof are well-preserved on the N side of the gable, running down to a poorly preserved NW angle machicolation with shot-holes at attic level. The machicolation rested on two pyramidal corbels on each wall and an angle corbel which has broken off, a water spout projects out at the base of the machicolaton. There is a similar but well-preseved machicolation on the NE angle at attic level with a water spout projecting from the E exit. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-034012 Bawn
  Description

  On a platform on a break of a W-facing slope. The River Suir flows NE-SW 50m to the NW, in undulating pastureland. An earthwork 'Forte Edward' (TS052-034001-) is clearly visible c. 200m to the ESE. A large rectangular bawn (dims. c. 120m N-S; c. 50m E-W) of limestone rubble roughly coursed with a fortified house (TS052-034011-) roughly centrally placed in the interior (20.7m from the W side of the bawn and 14m from the E side of the bawn) on an earthen platform defined by scarp which runs E-W 31.2m N of the fortified house and curves southward 8.8m E of the house. The E wall (max. H 3.65m; T 0.8m) is the best preserved, towards the N end there is a entrance (Wth 2.92m) with piers that project internally (N pier Wth 0.98m; D 0.23m; S pier Wth 0.81m), though there is no draw-bar hole. On the S side of the entrance, in the interior, there is evidence of an internal structure (ext. dims. 6.55m N-S; wall T 0.64m), possibly a guard-house. The southern portion of the W wall (max. H c. 4m; T c. 1-1.4m) is the best preserved, with an entrance opposite the fortified house towards the river. The S side is broken out, the present gap is 4.2m wide, approximately a metre wider than the original entrance, as the draw-bar hole (Wth 0.16m; H 0.17m) on the N side is 3.15m deep. S of this by 15.7m and approx. 18m from the SW angle, there are internal steps, broken out, in the thickness of the wall probably giving access to a wall-walk. At the S end of the W wall there is evidence of later buildings built up against the external face of the wall, with inserted fireplaces and chimney flues. Only 4.5m of the W wall survives N of the entrance, ending in an internally splaying embrasure, probably for a gun-loop. Sections of the S wall survive, including the SW angle but the NW angle is gone and a modern wall (L 8.5m) runs along the line of the eastern end of the S wall. A length (17.5m) of the western end of the N wall survives, elsewhere a modern wall has been built on the line of the eastern half of this bawn wall and the NW and NE angles do not survive. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twelve-bay three-storey former mill, built c. 1800, with shopfront to east end of ground floor and two single-storey lean-to extensions to rear. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, redbrick chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed limestone eaves course and copings. Rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins. Segmental-headed window openings, alternately blocked, with red brick dressings, one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to east end and metal casements to west. Segmental-headed opening in ground floor now window. Shopfront to ground floor comprising central door flanked by display windows with smooth render fascia and surrounds to openings.

• Forte Edward, country house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over half-basement house, built c. 1830, with full-height bowed return and two-storey flat-roofed addition to rear, and single-storey pitched extension to east gable. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledashed walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows with tooled limestone sills. Some timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to rear, including round-headed window to bow. Segmental-headed door opening with decorative spoked fanlight to replacement uPVC door and having tooled limestone steps over area supported on dressed limestone arch, withdecorative cast-iron railings.

• Saint John's Church (Ardmayle), church/chapel, 1400–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built 1814-15, with three-bay nave, four-storey medieval entrance tower to west and with vestry to north. Closed 1972, now lecture room and part-time church. Pitched slate roof with stone coping and cross finials to gables, and having crenellations to tower and vestry and turret to tower. Rubble limestone walls, having base batter to tower. Stepped corner buttresses to north-east and south-east corners of tower and having re-used medieval carved stone to south buttress and commemorative plaque to vestry. Pointed-arch openings with timber tracery to two-light windows in vestry and south wall of nave, three-light to east window, square-headed with label-moulding to ground floor of tower, all with chamfered tooled limestone surrounds and hood-mouldings. North elevation of nave blank. Loops and square and ogee-headed single and paired lights to upper floors of tower. Square-headed door opening having a chamfered limestone surround under hood-moulding with replacement door to vestry. Pointed arch door opening with carved limestone doorcase with hood-moulding to tower with double-leaf timber battened door and limestone steps. Square-headed doorway with chamfered tooled limestone surround to vestry with label moulding. Rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed stone piers stiles and having wrought-iron entrance gates. Church stands in historic graveyard.

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Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ardmayle, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ardmayle · Ard Máil

Area

776,984 m² (77.7 ha, 192 acres)

Civil parish

Ardmayle, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardmayle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

665 people lived in 242 households in the Ardmayle electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmayle East, Ardmayle West, Castlemoyle North, Clonmore North, Longfield, Nodstown

Placenames

Ardmayle on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

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