Baptistgrange

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baptistgrange, from 38 m² to 589,607 m² (58.96 ha, 145.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Baptistgrange 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.

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, a site specific wastewater treatment system and all associated site works (outline permission reference 2561121)

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660488

• 15 May 2026N/a

  a single storey dwelling house , vehicular entrance , a site specific Wastewater Treatment System and all associated site works

  Permission consequent · Tipperary County Council, 2660444

• 7 Nov 2025Conditional

  a single storey dwelling house, vehicular entrance, a site specific wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561121

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  the demolition of an existing single-storey dwelling and construct a new 1.5-storey dwelling, upgrade septic tank and percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560669

• 11 Jul 2023Conditional

  a shed to side and front of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360505

• 4 Oct 2022Conditional

  single storey extension to rear, single storey porch to front, elevational changes, landscaping and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260534

• 2 Nov 2017Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601206

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 Baptistgrange.

Recorded monuments

• TS070-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In generally level pasture. Roughly circular area (map diam. 30m) defined by earthen and stone bank (Wth 10.75m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 2.2m) reduced to scarp in places is obscured by overgrowth except at SE. Wide intervening fosse (Wth 10.7m; D 1.35) is denuded in places especially at SE. Outer bank (Wth 8.95m; int. H 1.85m; ext. H 0.5m). Breach (Wth 4m) in inner scarp and breach (Wth 6m) in outer bank at SSE may indicate a causewayed entrance. Limekiln abuts outer bank at NNW and bank either side is disturbed. No visible surface trace of outer fosse which is depicted on latest edition OS 6-inch map NNW-NE. Cropmark of an outer enclosing element is identified by aerial photography (ASIAP (37) 3, 4, 8 & 12, August 1996). Enclosures (TS070-129001-) and (TS070-129002-) c. 150m to SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-129001 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. No visible trace at ground level. Identified on aerial photograph (ASIAP (37) 4, 5, 8 and 12, 3.08.1996) as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 33m). Field boundary to E removed. Rectangular enclosure (TS070-029002-) c. 50m to E and enclosure (TS070-100----) c. 160m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-129002 Moated site
  Description

  In level pasture. Remains of rectangular area (dims. 37m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by trace of levelled bank (Wth 10m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m). Incorporated into the rest of the field as pasture. Field boundary to W removed. Identified by aerial photograph (ASIAP (37) 4, 5, 8 and 12, 3.08.1996) as a rectangular cropmark (long-axis NE-SW). Enclosure (TS070-100----) c. 46m to NE and circular enclosure (TS070-129001-) c. 50m to W. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-008 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Baptistgrange, formerly called Achafad, was an important grange of St. John the Baptist's Dublin, an Augustinian Hospitallers/Fratres Cruciferi foundation (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 208-09, 212, 216). Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries the grange was leased, in 1541, to the countess of Ormond (ibid.). The deserted settlement is situated on a natural ridge which runs E-W, NW of the church (TS077-008001-) and graveyard (TS077-008007-), with a steep drop on the N side and a more gentle decline to W. There is no visible trace of any enclosing element on top edge of ridge which is all under lush pasture. The W side forms a very straight edge. The S side consists of a steep slope to the base of the ridge, with areas of exposed outcrop. The top of the ridge and towards the E edge is very flat. There is a long quarry running E-W towards the S edge. There is also a circular quarry. The E edge of the ridge slopes gently down. No visible trace of any earthworks, subtle features may be disguised by lush grass. Area S of graveyard wall seems to be the area of most activity. In adjacent farmyard, inserted in the door jamb of one of the outbuildings, there is in a sandstone chamfered window jamb with a glazing bar hole. According to Barry (1977, 166) the motte at Baptistgrange (TS077-011----) was located on the N bank of the River Moyle, at Allbert Bridge and was completely destroyed in the 1850s. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-008001 Church
  Description

  On an E-facing slope, in undulating terrain, surrounded by pasture. The church is located in the NW corner of the graveyard (TS077-008007-). Formerly known as Achadfada or Achafad, this was an important grange of St. John the Baptist, Dublin (Power 1938, 60; Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 216). The church (ext. dims. 6.58m N-S; 20.3m E-W) is constructed of limestone rubble, randomly coursed (wall T 0.98m), with roughly cut limestone quoins and a slight basal plinth at the W gable. The interior was divided into a nave and chancel by three, open, round-headed arches, probably a rood screen, now collapsed (Power 1938, 59-60, Pl.3). The chancel was lit by a central window in the E gable and a single-light window at the E end of the N and S wall. The only intact window, which is in the S wall, has a trefoil head. At the E end of the S wall of the chancel there are the remains of an aumbry, but only the W surrounds survive. A corbel, possibly functioning as a statue support, projects out from the E gable. There is a pointed aumbry at the E end of the S wall of the nave with a circular piscina, described in the OS Letters as 'a holy water font' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 143). There is a probable doorway at the W end of the S wall, where masonry has collapsed. According to the OS Letters (ibid., 142), two stones with carved human heads projected from the W face of the wall above the central chancel arch, 'These and other stones which project at the same height from the walls in other parts of the nave, supported a gallery'. A displaced stone within the church interior appears from its shape to be a coping stone and it has a carved human head on the sloping surface of the coping. The OS Letters also mention a framed recess (eight feet [2.4m] in height and width and about eighteen inches [0.45m] in depth) over the W side of the central arch of the rood screen, probably for the rood itself. Two sandstone capitals with stiff leaf foliage (TS083-019102-; TS083-019103-) and a carved stone (TS083-019106-) with roll mouldings, each with a fillet moulding, all dating from the latter half of the 13th century, were formerly part of the chancel arch and are now stored in South Tipperary County Museum. There was a large, circular, baptismal font (TS077-008003-) in the nave (Power 1938, 59) which is now missing. According to local information there is an inscribed stone above the E window, though this was not visible at time of inspection. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 February 2015

• TS077-008002 Graveslab
  Description

  Embedded upright in the ground 1.3m E of the E gable of the medieval church of Baptistgrange (TS077-008001-). A tapering sandstone conglomerate graveslab (H above ground 1.12m; Wth at top 0.55m; Wth at base where visible 0.49m; T 0.23m) with small quartz inclusions. It faces W and is as described by Crawford (1912, 243), a 'slab 3ft. 3in. [c.1m] long, with an incised cross potent of three lines, in a single-line frame'. Maher (1997, 54) erroneously thought the slab was inverted, however, the head, though much worn, is visible as a three-armed potent cross. Within the incised rectangular terminal of each arm there is an inner rectangular depression. The cross-shaft consists of two incised lines. The cross base is buried below ground level. There are 4 deep horizontal score marks on the upper S side of the slab and 2-3 shallower ones. There is no visible inscription. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 06 November 2013

• TS077-008004 Graveslab
  Description

  A graveslab 'outside of the E. gable' of the medieval church of Baptistgrange (TS077-008001-) is described in the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland (Vigors 1891, vol.1, 487) as having the following latin inscription: RICHARD' ARCHBALD ALS STAPLETON ET KATHERINA VYN EJUS UXOR ME FIERI FECERNT ANNO DNI 1600'. It is not the same graveslab (TS077-008002-) as that identified by Maher (1997, 54) which bears no visible inscription and is stylistically earlier than 1600 in date. There is no visible trace of the 1600 graveslab but it is likely to be in the vicinity of the E gable, possibly under the sod. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 12 December 2014

• TS077-008005 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'an old broken stump of a Castle with an old broken Bawne and that at St. John babtistsgrange' which were in the possession of Patrick Nettervill, son of Lord Viscount Nettervill, proprietor by lease from the Crown (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 193). In the 16th century Baptistgrange, also known as Athforth or Athfath, is described as having a fortilage or castle, with a hall, etc. 51 acres and 12 cottages, leased in 1541 to the countess of Ormond at £4 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 216). On E facing slope on a slight natural rise in undulating pasture and tillage, c. 6m S of Baptistgrange church (TS077-008001-), with earthworks (TS077-008----) to E and NE. Castle consists of a length of walling running N-S, composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed. Possible angle at SW. Straight joint at S end of wall, masonry has collapsed to E and W of this joint. W face of walling intact. E face collapsed out. Average height 0.8m. To the W of this wall there is another wall face (limestone), 3.45m from the E section of walling which rises to a max. height of 1.74m. Built on top of this is a modern stone wall (Wth 0.74m). It is running parallel to the wall section. The W side of this wall (Wth 1.5m) acts as a revetment for a build-up of earth. Lump of collapsed masonry (L 4m, Wth 1.3m wide, H c. 1.1m lying on its side) lies 7m E of surviving length of wall. The OS Letters recorded the remains of the castle as consisting of 'a stone arch running north and south, and measuring sixteen feet six inches [5m] in length by nine feet eight inches [c.3m] in breadth, being eight and a half feet [2.6m] in height. At southwest corner the arch is broken down. A portion of the east wall of the castle, twenty feet [6m] in height and four feet nine inches [1.44] in thickness, remains at southeast angle...There is a clump of the wall broken off, lying at the east side of the arch' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 143). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 10 December 2014

• TS077-008007 Graveyard
  Description

  On an E-facing slope, in undulating terrain, surrounding pastureland. A church (TS077-008001-) is located in the NW corner of a pentagonal graveyard (max. dims. 33m N-S; 43m E-W). A stone boundary wall runs up to the W gable. There are 18th and 19th-century gravestones in the graveyard. There is an upstanding medieval graveslab (TS077-008002-) at the E gable of the church, externally and another graveslab (TS077-008004-), dating to 1600, also probably outside the E gable, though it is no longer visible. The graveyard wall runs over circular earth and stone bank. The W sector of which is in the graveyard and the S sector outside it, with a fosse on the N side. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 12 December 2014

• TS077-011 Castle - motte
  Description

  On top of NNW-SSE running ridge, with sharp drop to Moyle river valley below. Quarry immediately S and limekiln at base of slope to SW. Field under grass and is wet and marshy at base of slope. Only the NW sector of the monument is indicated on both the 1st (1840) and 2nd (1906) eds. OS 6-inch map. The monument was truncated by the Fethard to Clonmel road along its E quadrant and further damaged by a quarry which removed the SW quadrant. There is nothing visible at ground level. The ridge adjacent to the quarry forms a roughly circular platform which slopes to SW and this was probably the location of the monument. According to Barry (1977, 166) this was the location of the motte of Baptistgrange which was totally removed in the 1850s. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-114001 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a level area, on upper edge of an E-facing slope. Identified by aerial photography (ASIAP (37) 6, 7, 11) as a sub-circular cropmark conjoined to enclosure (TS077-114002-) to S. The remains of a sub-circular area (dims. 26m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by levelled scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.5m) NW-N-E and SW-W-NW (Wth 3m; H 0.2m) and the remains of a fosse (basal Wth 1.5m; overall Wth 5.2m; D 0.15m) NW-N-NE which is also traceable (Wth 4.5m; D 0.1m) SW-W-NW. The monument is defined by a field boundary (Wth at top 0.45m; total Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.85m), which may incorporate a bank and fosse-like depression (basal Wth 1.2m; overall Wth 3.75m; D 0.15m) in the N quadrant. The field boundary to the W has been removed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS077-114002 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a level area, on upper edge of an E-facing slope. Identified by aerial photography (Ref. ASIAP (37) 6, 7, 10, 11) as a sub-circular cropmark conjoined to enclosure (TS077-114001-) to N. The remains of a shallow, semi-circular depression defined by the remains of a levelled bank which is barely traceable c. SW-W-NW. The monument has been levelled off downslope NW-E-SW and the field boundary to the W has been removed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baptistgrange.

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).

• Baptistgrange, Lisronagh5 sales

Name

Baptistgrange · Gráinseach Eoin Baiste

Area

1,851,771 m² (185.18 ha, 457.58 acres)

Civil parish

Baptistgrange, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Colman, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygambon, Clonacody, Lisronagh, Rathkenty, Shanbally, Sladagh

Placenames

Baptistgrange on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.