Ardsallagh
Ardsallagh is a townland in the civil parish of Rathcool, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Ard Saileach.
- Area
- 61.3 ha
- 152 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 15,641 m² (1.56 ha, 3.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardsallagh, from 1,154 m² to 247,584 m² (24.76 ha, 61.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ardsallagh 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
18 Sept 2025N/a
(a) Deconstruction of the main road entrance gates, piers, railings and walls (partial) for access during construction of works to main house as per planning permission Ref. 2560002 (b) Reconstruction of gates, piers, railings and walls post completion of said works incorporating a new configuration to accommodate safer vehicular access. The building is a Protected Structure (Ref. No. S082)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560934
2 Jan 2025Conditional
(a) demolition of mid 20th century 2-storey extension on north facade & single storey extensions on west facade of the two-storey with attic over basement dwelling (main house), conservatory ruins on south facade and courtyard outbuildings. (b) construction of a new single storey extension & glass link to the west (rear) and a new single storey extension to the north (side) of main house. (c) works to the main house including works to facades on all elevations including removal of existing cementitious render & full lime re-render, refurbishment of the limestone front door surround, cills, minor repairs & refurbishment of entrance railings, refurbishment of existing doors & windows to include slimline double glazing. The building will be altered internally on all levels including modifications to existing partition walls, provision of new lightweight internal stud partitions, partial opening up of existing external walls to rear, 3no. new window opes & repositioning of the stairwell windows on north facade, new staircase between basement and ground floor, lowering of windows & french doors to rear study, 3no. new conservation rooflights & the enlargement of 3no. existing rooflights, alterations to existing doors and windows; general restoration work including the repair of existing ceilings & plasterwork, (d) landscaping works (e) a new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter and all ancillary and associated site development works. The building is a Protected Structure (Ref. No. S082)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560002
19 Dec 2024N/a
(a) demolition of mid-20th century 2-storey extension on north facade & single storey extensions on west facade of the two-storey with attic over basement dwelling (main house), conservatory ruins on south facade and courtyard outbuildings (b) construction of a new single storey extension & glass link to the west (rear) and a new single storey extension to the north (side) of main house (c) works to the main house including works to facades on all elevations including removal of existing cementitious render & full lime re-render, refurbishment of the limestone front door surround, cills, minor repairs & refurbishment of entrance railings, refurbishment of existing doors & windows to include slimline double glazing. The building will be altered internally on all levels including modifications to existing partition walls, provision of new lightweight internal stud partitions, partial opening up of existing external walls to rear, 3no. new window opens & repositioning of the stairwell windows on north facade, new staircase between basement and ground floor, lowering of windows & French doors to rear study, 3no. new conservation roof lights & the enlargement of 3no. existing roof lights, alterations to existing doors and windows; general restoration work including the repair of existing ceilings & plasterwork (d) landscaping works (e) all ancillary and associated site development works including drainage & services. The building is a Protected Structure (Ref. No. S082)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461125
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 Ardsallagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardsallagh.
Architectural heritage
- Ardsallagh House, farmyard complex, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuildings to rear of country house, built c. 1780 and set around cobbled yard and entered through segmental-arched carriageway having coping with slated covering. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls, having rubble stone buttresses to west range with sloping slate coverings. Square-headed openings throughout, with timber sliding sash windows, mainly six-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane and eight-over-four pane to first floor, with limestone sills. Square-headed openings, some with timber battened doors, others with glazed timber doors, and mainly blocked up segmental-arched carriage openings with brick voussoirs and having windows inserted. Outbuilding to south having lean-to slate roof and square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and timber doors, all set into shallow segmental and elliptical-headed recesses.
- Ardsallagh House, country house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey with attic over half-basement country house, built c. 1780, having canted end bays to front elevation. L-plan three-bay two-storey addition to north end of rear, two-storey with attic central return to rear of main block, flanked by single-bay two-storey returns projecting further to give E-plan to main block. Further single-storey with attic return to north return of main block. Pitched slate roofs throughout except for hipped roof to L-plan addition, hipped slate roofs to canted bays, with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls, having rendered plinth course to front façade. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane first floor of façade, six-over-six pane elsewhere, all with limestone sills. Round-headed window over entrance flanked by separate sidelights, all with continuous limestone sill. Twelve-over-eight pane window to middle return of main block. Panelled shuttering to interior of windows. Entrance has panelled timber door with ornate cobweb fanlight flanked by carved Doric engaged columns on limestone plinths supporting open-bed pediment and flanked by sidelights with limestone sills over sandstone plinth walls. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron railings. Round-headed doorcase to northern return of main block, having timber panelled door flanked by panelled pilasters, with moulded entablature and archivolt with keystone and having ornate cobweb fanlight. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to east having lower recessed single-bay wings and flat-roofed extension to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, painted rendered walls and having square-headed openings with timber casement windows, tripartite to main block and single to wings, having lattice glazing and limestone sills. Four-pane timber casement windows to side and rear elevations. Entrance to east wing having square-headed opening with replacement glazed timber door. Square-profile ashlar limestone piers with moulded caps having double-leaf cast-iron gates with spearhead points. Roughcast rendered piers with spearhead-pointed cast-iron railings terminating in second pair of similar piers.
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 Ardsallagh, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardsallagh.
- 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 Ardsallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ardsallagh · Ard Saileach
- Area
- 613,450 m² (61.35 ha, 151.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcool, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Ardsallagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvadin, Coolmoyne (Fennell), Derryluskan
- Placenames
- Ardsallagh 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.