Cabragh

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cabragh, from 36 m² to 337,798 m² (33.78 ha, 83.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cabragh 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.

• 21 Oct 2019Conditional

  the construction and operation of solar PV arrays mounted on metal frames on a 37.6ha site, inclusive of an electrical substation compound, up to 10 inverter units, a temporary construction area and ancillary facilities, (inclusive of gross floor space of proposed works up to 248 sq.m). The planning application is accompanied by an environmental report and Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601159

• 7 Dec 2018N/a

  the construction and operation of solar PV arrays mounted on metal frames on a 37.6ha site, inclusive of an electrical substation compound, up to 10 inverter units, a temporary construction area and ancillary facilities, (inclusive of gross floor space of proposed works up to 248 sq.m). The planning application is accompanied by an environmental report and Natura Impact Statement

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601446

• 2 Aug 2018Conditional

  (a) the construction of a pathway including a section of boardwalk and (b) the erection of six 6ft by 3 ft information signs. The site of proposed developments is located within a Special Area of Conservation and an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report has been completed and submitted with the application.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600968

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cabragh Wetlands 001934

Recorded monuments

• TN047-015 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in fairly level ground. The land drops slightly to the River Suir flood plain, the river being c. 100m NW of the tower house. Depicted as Cabra Castle on Rocque's Map of Thurles 1775. A roughly square tower house (ext. dims. 6.76m NE-SW; 6.2m NW-SE; wall T 1.2m) which has been much altered and the stone work repointed. It was built of roughly coursed, crudely cut limestone blocks with base-batter (H 1.2m; max. Wth 0.4m) on all sides except NW. The quoins at the E corner are nineteenth-century insertions, crudely hammered. A doorway, with evidence of a wooden lintel, (Wth 1.09m) inserted in the E end of the NE wall, gives access to a small barrel-vaulted chamber at ground-floor level. There is no surviving wicker centring. The original doorway (Wth 0.8m) at the N end of the NE wall gives access to a passage with an alcove, a doorway to the ground-floor chamber to the SW and a mural stair straight ahead which rises up the NW wall before turning SE. The main doorway has been altered. It is flat-headed with a wooden lintel and has a chamfered spud-stone, formerly a section of mullion. There is a triangular hole in the roof of the passage immediately inside this door and its function is unclear. The NW wall has two blocked doorways, one at first-floor level at the N end and the other, flat-headed with cut stone surrounds crudely punch dressed, is at the top of the stairs at first-floor level near the W end. Although the base-batter does not extend around the NW side there is no visible evidence of a building extending out there. On the SW face a flat-headed window lights the top of the stairs at first-floor level and a slight ope lights the first-floor chamber. The mural stairs are narrow (Wth 0.6m). The first-floor chamber has a barrel-vaulted stone roof - both roof and walls are covered with lime plaster. It is lit by three single lights and there is a wall cupboard in the N end of the NW wall. The tower house only survives to first-floor level, anything above this has been neatly knocked off leaving an even level. According to the OS Letters the N wall was completely destroyed 'the staircase ascends now on the outside of the structure' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 192-3). This would suggest that the two doorways were inserted in a later rebuild. The letters also mention 'the corner over the stairs is battered; some remains of a watch tower of circular form are on the corner' (ibid.). There may have been a bartizan at the NW angle. There is a length of wall (L 22.2m; T 0.45-0.5m) 20.6m N of the tower house which may be the remains of a bawn (TN047-015001-). It is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble (H 2.5m with coping adding approx. 0.2m). The coping, which appears to have been at least partly built of brick, has been cemented over. This wall appears to run into a later house at its NE end - there is no evidence of a wall beyond this. At the NW end there is a foundation stone which seems to indicate a return, suggesting that the wall ran up to the NW wall of the tower house, meeting it roughly off-centre. On the SE face of the possible bawn wall there is a base-batter (H 1.3m H; Wth 0.23m). Two large buttresses support the wall on the NW face which is bulging out quite badly. 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

• TN047-015001 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise in fairly level ground. The land drops slightly to the River Suir flood plain, the river being c. 100m NW of the tower house (TN047-015001). Depicted as Cabra Castle (TN047-015) on Rocque's Map of Thurles 1775. A roughly square tower house which has been much altered and the stone work repointed. It was built of roughly coursed, crudely cut limestone blocks with base-batter on all sides except NW. The tower house only survives to first-floor level, anything above this has been neatly knocked off leaving an even level. According to the OS Letters the N wall was completely destroyed 'the staircase ascends now on the outside of the structure' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 192-3). This would suggest that the two doorways were inserted in a later rebuild. The letters also mention 'the corner over the stairs is battered; some remains of a watch tower of circular form are on the corner' (ibid.). There may have been a bartizan at the NW angle. There is a length of wall (L 22.2m; T 0.45-0.5m) 20.6m N of the tower house which may be the remains of a bawn. It is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble (H 2.5m with coping adding approx. 0.2m). The coping, which appears to have been at least partly built of brick, has been cemented over. This wall appears to run into a later house at its NE end - there is no evidence of a wall beyond this. At the NW end there is a foundation stone which seems to indicate a return, suggesting that the wall ran up to the NW wall of the tower house, meeting it roughly off-centre. On the SE face of the possible bawn wall there is a base-batter (H 1.3m H; Wth 0.23m). Two large buttresses support the wall on the NW face which is bulging out quite badly. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN047-125 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of possible conjoined enclosures (diam. c. 40m) bisected by farm road visible on OSi Aerial Premium orthoimage taken 2013. Faint traces of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/04/2020. See attached image taken from OSi aerial premium orthophoto dated 2013 and Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/04/2020 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 16 February 2022

Architectural heritage

• Cabragh Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone bridge over the River Suir, built c.1820. Rubble walls with dressed stone voussoirs to arches, separated by dressed stone pilasters with string course over. Semi-circular dressed stone cutwaters and substructure to piers. Rubble stone parapet.

• Bridge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch limestone railway bridge, built c.1880, now disused. Rusticated stonework to voussoirs, walling and parapet and with string course above arches. Stonework to intrados laid in diagonal pattern.

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

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

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

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.

No address of the register names Cabragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Cabragh · An Chabrach

Area

2,242,833 m² (224.28 ha, 554.22 acres)

Civil parish

Fertiana, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Holycross, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Holycross electoral division: 1,437 people in 534 households; 83% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarrane, Cloghmartin, Commons, Fertiana, Galbertstown Lower, Lisnagonoge, Turtulla

Placenames

Cabragh 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.