Castleholding

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleholding, from 34 m² to 83,638 m² (8.36 ha, 20.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Regeneration (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  new entrance in place of previous blocked up entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560915

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  development for 2 detached bungalows, new shared entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560634

• 24 Jun 2025N/a

  development for 2 detached bungalows, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560599

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  erect 276.72 m2 or 50.4 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the roof of building, with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22204

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  change of use for the acceptance and temporary storage of waste cooking oils (in closed receptacles), prior to its removal offsite for recovery; and retention permission for changes to the truck turning area, car parking and concrete apron. An Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive Screening for Appropriate Assessment report has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Subsequent to planning a certificate of registration will be sought from Tipperary County Council Environment Section

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600646

• 7 Mar 2019N/a

  change of use for the acceptance and temporary storage of waste cooking oils (in closed receptacles), prior to its removal offsite for recovery. An Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive Screening for Appropriate Assessment Report has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Subsequent to planning a certificate of registration will be sought from Tipperary County Council Environment Section

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600199

• 17 Jan 2019Conditional

  extension to existing house

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600029

• 8 Mar 2018N/a

  change of use planning permission for the acceptance and temporary storage of waste cooking oils (in closed receptacles), prior to their removal offsite for recovery. An Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive Screening for Appropriate Assessment report has been prepared in respect of the proposed development. Subsequent to planning a certificate of registration will be sought from Tipperary County Council Environment Section

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600285

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 Castleholding.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castleholding.

Architectural heritage

• Roscrea Railway Station, signal box, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey signal box, built c.1895. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and carved timber finials and bargeboards. Red brick and timber-clad walls with stone plinth. Segmental-arch openings to ground floor with timber windows and concrete sills. Square-headed continuous timber window to first floor.

• Roscrea Railway Station, railway station, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached ten-bay single-storey railway station, built c.1870, with projecting open entrance bay to front elevation, two-bay single-storey recessed extension to northeast end, gable-fronted two-bay two-storey stationmaster's house to southwest end, and two-bay single-storey outbuilding to northeast. Pitched slate and flat roofs with ashlar limestone chimneystacks and lean-to canopy to main entrance. Coursed snecked sandstone walls. Segmental-arch openings with block-and-start surrounds in front façade and round-headed openings to platform elevation. Stone sills and timber sliding sash windows throughout, margined and with archivolts to platform elevation. Glazed timber door with fanlight to stationmaster's house, and open entrances through building leading to platform. Waiting room along inside of platform elevation has stone flag floor, moulded ceiling cornice and arcading to rear wall.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

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.

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

Name

Castleholding · Gabháltas an Chaisleáin

Area

371,340 m² (37.13 ha, 91.76 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, Benamore, Demesne, Glentara, Townparks, Whitepark

Placenames

Castleholding 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.