Benamore
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Bheannach Mhór
- Area
- 73.6 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 103
- registered freehold, median 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- C6
- Employment
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Benamore, from 23 m² to 78,461 m² (7.85 ha, 19.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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
- C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 45 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, 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
9 Jul 2026N/a
new detached refrigerated storage container to be installed to be used for deer management larder, a new 2000 litre storage tank to be installed on site to accommodated new storage container and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2690
23 Jun 2026N/a
a proposed new detached refrigerate storage container to be installed and used for deer management larder and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2676
19 Mar 2026Conditional
the following: 1) retention permission to retain a storage warehouse extension to the side of the previously approved existing retail warehouse building, 2) retention permission to retain existing pedestrian access located at the front corner of the site, 3) retention permission to retain a 1st floor storage mezzanine floor within the existing previously approved retail warehouse, 4) planning PERMISSION for alterations to the existing elevations to the building, 5) planning permission to revise and extend the site boundaries and construct a new commercial deliveries entrance and ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660245
19 Mar 2026N/a
Re: Application to Tipperary County Council for the following: 1. Retention permission to retain a storage warehouse extension to the side of the previously approved existing retail warehouse building. 2. Retention permission to retain existing pedestrian access located at the front corner of the site. 3. Retention permission to retain a 1st floor storage mezzanine floor within the existing previously approved retail warehouse. 4. PLANNING PERMISSION for alterations to the existing elevations to the building. 5. PLANNING PERMISSION to revise and extend the site boundaries and construct a new commercial deliveries entrance and ancillary works
Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2660178
5 Oct 2025Conditional
alterations to previously granted permission reference 2560129 including conversion of existing shed which was to be demolished into part of the proposed extension and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560996
23 Jun 2025Conditional
the construction of a single storey office and storage cabin unit to rear of the existing bed & breakfast business
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560593
21 May 2025Conditional
development for 2 number warehousing units with parking facilities and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560451
21 Feb 2025Conditional
a new extension to existing dwelling, to move an existing entrance, to demolish an existing shed and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560129
23 Oct 2023Conditional
portal frame building for the storage, cleaning, reconditioning and recycling of IBC's and drums, storage yards, water collection and recycling tanks, site fencing, landscaping, solar panels, office and welfare facilities, parking and all associated site works - this application consists of a development for an activity for which a Waste Licence is required from the Environmental Protection Agency
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360848
12 Oct 2023N/a
construction of Portal frame building for the storage, cleaning, reconditioning and recycling of IBC's and drums, storage yards, water collection and recycling tanks, site fencing, landscaping, solar panels, office and welfare facilities, parking and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360814
12 Sept 2022Conditional
a 36m high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure with headframe raised on a 1.2 m concrete plinth, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed with a 2.4 metre palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new entrance and access track
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22557
30 Aug 2022N/a
a 36 meter high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure with headframe raised on a 1.2m concrete plinth, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 meter high palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22539
26 Apr 2022Conditional
4 no. retail warehouse units, car parking, entrance and ancillary works
Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260188
28 Oct 2021Conditional
a change of use from current office use to light industrial use with associated offices to the existing detached outbuilding (Annex 2) and provision of an electric compressor to the front left of the property, which will be housed within a sound proofed enclosure. This (Annex 2) building is to the rear of Birchgrove House (recorded protected structure REF S94). No material changes to the existing building are proposed either internally or externally
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211584
5 Dec 2019Conditional
change of use of an existing Light Industrial Unit to a Veterinary Practice consisting of the new sub-division of the floor plan into office, storage, reception, cattery, kennels and surgery room and large animal area, replacing the existing single sheet cladding, alterations to the North, South, East and West Elevations by the installation of windows and doors and partial removal of existing parapet (North Elevation) and a part relocation of existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601359
25 Nov 2019N/a
to change the use of an existing Light Industrial Unit to a Veterinary Practice consisting of the new sub-division of the floor plan into office, storage, reception, cattery, kennels and surgery room and large animal area, replacing the existing single sheet cladding, alterations to the North, South, East and West elevations by the installation of windows and doors and partial removal of existing parapet (North Elevation) and a part relocation of existing entrance
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601310
15 Jan 2018Conditional
the demolition of an existing single storey porch to the west of the existing dwelling and the construction of a two storey extension to both the west and the east, two proposed rooflights to the east, an additional window and rooflight to the south with additional door and window opes to the north, replacing windows and doors throughout and internal modifications including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600022
26 Jan 2017Conditional
existing alterations to car showroom, workshop, stores and two commercial units and all ancillary works previously granted planning permission under planning reference 06511566 and permission for construction of additional escape doors and external stairs
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600050
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 Benamore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Benamore.
Architectural heritage
- Benamore House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1800, with two-storey return to east end. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Carved limestone doorcase with open-bed pediment, pilasters and cornice and having timber panelled door with plain fanlight and flanked by one-over-one pane timber sash sidelights with stone sills and approached by flight of stone steps. Ruinous rubble limestone outbuildings to rear. Cast-iron gates to road entrance between replacement piers with carved limestone caps. Gateway to west of house has wrought-iron gate and cast-iron turnstile.
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_1746 (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
- Benamore, Roscrea7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Benamore · An Bheannach Mhór
- Area
- 735,787 m² (73.58 ha, 181.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Roscrea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roscrea electoral division: 6,606 people in 2,431 households; 60% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashbury, Birchgrove, Castleholding, Corville, Demesne, Derryvale, Glebe, Verdanthill
- Placenames
- Benamore 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.