Cassestown

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cassestown, from 13 m² to 552,045 m² (55.2 ha, 136.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Cassestown 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.

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  completion of partially constructed 15.3km long 38kV overhead electricity line from Thurles electricity substation to the Borrisoleigh electricity substation as permitted under TCC Reg 08/511136 which comprises an overhead line supported by a total of 116 structures - as this permission has expired, permission is sought for works not yet completed, namely 1) works to 38 no. structures to (subject to final detailed design) erect replacement wooden poleset structures or alter existing structures, 2) stringing of conductor along approx. 7 km of the overhead line, and 3) all ancillary works related to the project

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21638

• 15 Apr 2021N/a

  completion of partially constructed 15.3km long 38kV overhead electricity line from Thurles electricity substation to the Borrisoleigh electricity substation as permitted under TCC Reg 08/511136 which comprises an overhead line supported by a total of 116 structures - as this permission has expired, permission is sought for works not yet completed, namely 1) works to 38 no. structures to (subject to final detailed design|) erect replacement wooden poleset structures or alter existing structures, 2) stringing of conductor along approx. 7 km of the overhead line, and 3) all ancillary works related to the project

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21502

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  new single storey extension to north, south, east and west of existing single storey dwelling, raising height of front boundary wall, new treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20847

• 24 Jul 2020N/a

  single storey extension to north, south, east and west of existing single storey dwelling, raising height of front boundary wall, new treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20812

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with garage, entrance, effluent treatment system together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600784

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 Cassestown.

Recorded monuments

• TN041-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on a gradual SE-facing slope in rough meadow. A field boundary to the NW has been removed and the area (immediately NW of the ringfort) is used as a yard for old machinery. A roughly circular area (diam. 32.8m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 2.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.53m) which has been truncated and flattened. There is no bank at SE which may be the site of original entrance on the downslope side of the site and there is no visible evidence of an outer fosse. The interior, which slopes to the SE, is quite disturbed. 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

• The Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with recessed two-phase two-bay addition to west end and recessed two-bay addition to east end. Hipped straw thatch roof, with rendered chimneystack, half-hipped straw thatch roof to west end of west addition, and pitched slate roof to east addition. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having stone sills and moulded render surrounds. Timber battened door and half-door.

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 5 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 Cassestown.

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

Name

Cassestown · Baile an Chasaigh

Area

2,053,356 m² (205.34 ha, 507.4 acres)

Civil parish

Rahelty, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Thurles Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Thurles Rural electoral division: 2,365 people in 851 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athnid More, Farranreigh, Furze, Knockanacunna, Laghtagalla, Loughlahan, Rathcriddoge, Rossestown

Placenames

Cassestown 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.