Ardobireen
Townland in the civil parish of Relickmurry and Athassel, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Ard an Bhirín
- Area
- 83.8 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 94
- registered freehold, median 1,527 m²
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardobireen, from 4 m² to 84,272 m² (8.43 ha, 20.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jan 2026Conditional
erection of a sensory room extension to the rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660034
15 Jan 2026N/a
to erect a sensory room extension to the rear of our existing dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660023
17 Sept 2025N/a
a single storey extension and alterations to existing school, additional staff car parking spaces, set-down area and including all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560920
19 May 2025N/a
development of a single storey extension and alterations to existing school including all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560438
17 May 2021N/a
the construction of new front and side extensions (55.8 sqm) and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21689
28 Feb 2020Conditional
the existing garage/store and Permission to (i) extend and make alterations to existing dwelling (including the demolition of the existing rear extension; (ii) relocate the existing entrance and (iii) construct a new effluent treatment system to replace the current septic tank system and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20190
5 Nov 2019Conditional
demolition of existing pre-fabricated building and to construct an extension (north/northeast)to include classroom with ensuites, 2 X learning support rooms, W.C./shower for assisted user, circulation space, new wastewater treatment system/percolation area and minor internal layout alterations to existing building and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601235
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardobireen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardobireen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardobireen.
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
- 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 Ardobireen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardobireen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ardobireen · Ard an Bhirín
- Area
- 838,262 m² (83.83 ha, 207.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Thomastown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Thomastown electoral division: 385 people in 146 households; 85% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaclogh, Ballinlina, Cahervillahowe, Knockatoor, Moanteen, Rathcloheen, Thomastown Demesne
- Placenames
- Ardobireen 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.