Bawn
Townland in the civil parish of Nenagh, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Bábhún
- Area
- 58.7 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,607 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 33 m² to 102,113 m² (10.21 ha, 25.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bawn 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
11 Aug 2026N/a
the construction of a new dwelling, a new garage, a new vehicular entrance with a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660781
15 Jul 2025Conditional
an extension to existing domestic garage to include fuel storage area, plant room, garage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560678
3 Jul 2025N/a
for a domestic garage and fuel store including all associated site works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560637
16 May 2024Conditional
1. domestic storage shed, 2. front boundary wall and entrance, as constructed along with all ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460372
29 Apr 2022Conditional
a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and driveway along with all ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260196
13 Apr 2021N/a
Domestic garage to the rear of the House at the back of the garden
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21488
26 Mar 2021N/a
domestic garage to rear of house
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21386
22 Jan 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and driveway along with all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2167
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 Bawn.
Recorded monuments
- TN020-090 Earthwork
Description
Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Depicted as a small irregular-shaped earthwork, possibly indicated as a quarry face on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map, not indicated on subsequent editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 16 January 2012
- TN020-094 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside. Described in the OS Namebooks (c. 1840) as a place for burying stillborn children. No visible remains at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawn.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1388 (ZIP).
- 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 Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Bawn · An Bábhún
- Area
- 586,915 m² (58.69 ha, 145.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Nenagh Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Nenagh Rural electoral division: 1,980 people in 694 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawn, Benedin, Downamona, Fawnlough, Lahesseragh
- Placenames
- Bawn 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.