Barrettstown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barrettstown, from 2,122 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 486,374 m² (48.64 ha, 120.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Barrettstown 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.

• 1 Dec 2025Conditional

  (i) the demolition of existing parts of the existing dwelling, (ii) the construction of a new extension to the existing dwelling including a new roof to the existing dwelling, (iii) a new waste water treatment system, (iv) new entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561237

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 Barrettstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS070-035 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  On gradual NE-facing slope in gently undulating terrain. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as having 'a small castle wanting repaire & few cabbins' under the proprietorship of Nicholas Everard of Fethard in 1640 though 'possest in 1640 by Thomas Henes of Fethard Burgess at ye rent of £20 p anum by lease whereof twenty five yeares is unexpired' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 208). Aerial photographs taken in 1966 (CUCAP APG 52), 1968 (CUCAP AVS 54), 1969 (CUCAP AYO 70) and 1971 (CUCAP BGK 65) show a complex of earthworks extending c. 400m beyond Barrettstown tower house (TS070-035001-) to S and W. These plots and trackways are the remains of settlement likely to be associated with the tower house which dates from the 15th/16th century. Since 1971 these earthworks have been levelled and are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-035001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a gradual NE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture, with a small limestone quarry located 33m NE of tower house. Stone walls run up to the NE and SE corners, with a post and wire fence to W. In 1593 Thomas Mac Donnogh Ro O'Carran was attainted on high treason and his castle and land in Barretstown granted to George Sherlock who sold it shortly after to Ormond for £80 (COD VI, 53). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 'The sd lands hath on it a small castle wanting repaire' which in 1640 was under the ownership of Nicholas Everard of Fethard (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 208). This four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 10m NE-SW; 7.44m NW-SE) is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with base-batter (H 3m; Wth 0.3m) and dressed quoins. The battlement level does not survive. A garderobe chute exits 1.43m above ext. ground level in the NE wall. The tower house is entered through a pointed doorway, originally protected by a yett, at the S end of the SW wall, leading into a small lobby area defended by a cross-loop opposite the doorway. A doorway to the NE leads to a second lobby with another doorway to NW giving access to the spiral stairs in the SW angle and a doorway to NE giving access to the main ground-floor chamber. There was a series of vertical mural chambers above the lobby area, each formerly resting on a wooden floor. The first and third-floor mural chambers were entered from the spiral stair. The first-floor mural chamber was lit by a window in the SW wall, the second-floor chamber by an angle-loop in the S angle and a window in the SW wall, and the third-floor chamber by a window in the SE wall. The third-floor chamber has a vaulted roof with good wicker-centring. The main ground-floor chamber is lit by single windows in the NW, NE and SE walls. The NE window is broken out, the other windows are round-headed single lights, and wall cupboards are at the NE end of the NW and SE walls. The first floor is entered through a pointed window from the spiral stairs. It was lit by single windows in the NW and NE wall, both broken out and blocked up, and had a large fireplace in the SE wall which was modified with stone and brick infill to create a smaller fireplace and separate flue to the E. This flue appears to continue below the fireplace level, though there are no traces of an inserted fireplace at ground-floor level. At the S end of this wall there is a small wall cupboard. The first floor was carried on wooden beams supported on two corbels on the NE and SW walls, with corresponding beam-holes for the wall plate. The second floor is entered from the spiral stairs. It is lit by a flat-headed single-light window in the NW wall and an ogee-headed single-light window in the NE wall. There is a large, flat-lintelled fireplace in the SE wall, with some stone and brick infill on the S side to narrow the its width, and a wall cupboard at the S end of the SE wall. A flat-headed doorway in the SW wall accesses the mural chamber above the lobby. The second-floor was carried on wooden beams in similar fashion to the first-floor chamber. Above the second floor there is a loft space which was entered from the floor below. The loft had a wooden floor and is roofed with a pointed vault. The spiral stairs between ground and second-floor level has been broken out, remaining intact from the second floor up but inaccessible. Above the vault the third-floor was lit by a window in each wall, those in the SE and NW faces broken out, but that in the SW face an ogee-headed single light, the NE window a two-light, cusped ogee-headed window. 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. 26/1934).

• TS070-035003 Moated site
  Description

  On relatively flat ground in gently undulating terrain, under pasture, immediately W of barn and stables. Aerial photographs taken in 1966 (CUCAP APG 52), 1968 (CUCAP AVS 54), 1969 (CUCAP AYO 70) and 1971 (CUCAP BGK 65) shows a rectangular enclosure with a partially waterlogged fosse c. 400m W of Barrettstown tower house (TS070-035001-) and is part of a complex of earthworks (TS070-035----) which may be associated with the tower house. to S and W. Since 1971 this enclosure has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope, in SE corner of field. Oval area (dims. 37m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 4m; H 1.4m) except where a low denuded bank is preserved (Wth 10.75m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.3m) N-NNE-E. Scarp (Arc c. 9m) eroded by sheep at W. External fosse (basal Wth 3m; total Wth 8.75m; D 0.75m) narrows to E and S where it is truncated by field boundaries (long-axis E-W to S and long-axis NW-SE to E). Fosse waterlogged SE-SSW. Probable causewayed entrance (Wth c. 5m) at SSW. Interior in grass and tends downslope to S with prevalent slope. According to Cahill (1982) there is a possible souterrain in the NE quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-038 Enclosure
  Description

  On flat ground with stream running along W and SW sectors of enclosure, in area of scrubby woodland. Stream has been canalised to form a deep channel. Enclosure has been quarried into and is in a much denuded condition with a lot of scrub in the interior. Rectangular enclosure (diam. c. 31m NE-SW; c. 42m NW-SE) defined by a bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.83m; ext. H 1.1m); fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.7m) in NE-SE sectors, otherwise defined by scarp (H 0.57m), though the NW side and SE side have been quarried into removing the edge of the enclosure as well as much of the interior. 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 Barrettstown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Barrettstown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Barrettstown · Baile an Bhairéadaigh

Area

1,512,804 m² (151.28 ha, 373.82 acres)

Civil parish

Barrettsgrange, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Peppardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barrettsgrange, Brodeen, Colman (Hennessy), Garraun, Madamsland, Redcity

Placenames

Barrettstown 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.