Blakefield

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Blakefield, from 68 m² to 135,600 m² (13.56 ha, 33.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Apr 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new graveyard and entrance, adjacent to St Josephs Church and Graveyard, including boundary wall, internal surfaced areas, enabling works and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660298

• 8 Oct 2025Conditional

  a stand alone prefabricated garden lounge and all associated site works and PERMISSION FOR the construction of a community garden with a proposed polytunnel, stand alone prefabricated storage container, chicken coop, pond, bored well and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561009

• 23 Sept 2025N/a

  of a stand alone prefabricated garden lounge and all associated site works and PERMISSION for construction of a community garden with a polytunnel, stand alone prefabricated storage container and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560952

• 6 Jan 2021Conditional

  the extension and renovation of existing residence, to include the removal of the existing roof and the addition of a new 1st floor over part of the existing dwelling, the incorporation of a single car garage into part of the existing dwelling structure, new single storey extension, kitchen/living/dining/patio and carport west of the existing dwelling structure, upgrading to a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, adjustment to the existing site entrance and drive plus all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 214

• 18 Dec 2020N/a

  extend and renovate current residence plus all ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201545

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 Blakefield.

Recorded monuments

• TN028-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with nearby ringfort (TN028-015) to the NE. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.7m; int. H 0.4m) with entrance gap (Wth 3m) at W. No visible trace of a fosse. 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

• TN028-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region. A circular area (diam. 18m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1m) destroyed at NE with an entrance gap (Wth 3.5m) at SW. No visible trace of a fosse. 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 Blakefield.

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 Blakefield, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Blakefield · An Dromainn

Area

2,137,285 m² (213.73 ha, 528.13 acres)

Civil parish

Aghnameadle, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Aghnameadle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 102 households in the Aghnameadle electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Ballinveny, Coologe, Gortagarry, Killoskehan, Stook

Placenames

Blakefield 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.