# Castleholding, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Gabháltas an Chaisleáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 371,340 m² (37.13 ha, 91.76 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,428 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Roscrea, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/roscrea.md - Barony: Ikerrin - Electoral division: Roscrea, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46860 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 210748 - Centre: latitude 52.959098, longitude -7.790182 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castleholding, from 34 m² to 83,638 m² (8.36 ha, 20.67 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 573000: 83,638 m² (8.36 ha, 20.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/573000.md - Parcel 559286: 64,193 m² (6.42 ha, 15.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/559286.md - Parcel 5352697: 41,474 m² (4.15 ha, 10.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5352697.md - Parcel 576537: 30,343 m² (3.03 ha, 7.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/576537.md - Parcel 525841: 29,409 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/525841.md - Parcel 556705: 14,946 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556705.md - Parcel 5367394: 8,603 m² (0.86 ha, 2.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367394.md - Parcel 532148: 8,156 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/532148.md - Parcel 503653: 7,830 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/503653.md - Parcel 575825: 7,633 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/575825.md - Parcel 522615: 6,516 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/522615.md - Parcel 575267: 5,074 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/575267.md - Parcel 531315: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/531315.md - Parcel 523219: 1,950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/523219.md - Parcel 5156678: 1,439 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5156678.md - Parcel 4939856: 1,416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4939856.md - Parcel 511998: 1,333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/511998.md - Parcel 575956: 1,319 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/575956.md - Parcel 576818: 1,177 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/576818.md - Parcel 518516: 823 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/518516.md - Parcel 515371: 793 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/515371.md - Parcel 4941391: 727 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941391.md - Parcel 5489007: 671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489007.md - Parcel 513833: 651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/513833.md - Parcel 527438: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/527438.md - Parcel 4941390: 277 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4941390.md - Parcel 551108: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/551108.md - Parcel 3693504: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693504.md - Parcel 514192: 47 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/514192.md - Parcel 3693505: 34 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3693505.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 21 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - C6 Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 16 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - P5 Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural'): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - R1 New Residential (New/proposed residential): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - M1 Regeneration (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - G5 Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 - S5 Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses): Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.tipperarycoco.ie/planning-and-building/local-area-plan-consultation/roscrea-local-area-plan-2023-2029 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 17 Sept 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560915: Conditional. Permission. new entrance in place of previous blocked up entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560915/0 - 3 Jul 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560634: Conditional. Permission. development for 2 detached bungalows, new shared entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560634/0 - 24 Jun 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560599: N/a. Permission. development for 2 detached bungalows, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560599/0 - 10 Mar 2022, Tipperary County Council 22204: Conditional. Permission. erect 276.72 m2 or 50.4 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the roof of building, with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/22204/0 - 12 Jun 2019, Tipperary County Council 19600646: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19600646/0 - 7 Mar 2019, Tipperary County Council 19600199: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19600199/0 - 17 Jan 2019, Tipperary County Council 19600029: Conditional. Retention. extension to existing house. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/19600029/0 - 8 Mar 2018, Tipperary County Council 18600285: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/18600285/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Castleholding. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castleholding. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Roscrea Railway Station, signal box, 1890–1900, Regional interest, registry number 22303003, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22303003. 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, registry number 22303004, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22303004. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1746.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castleholding.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castleholding.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castleholding.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Castleholding with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ashbury: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ashbury.md - Benamore: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/benamore.md - Demesne: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/demesne.md - Glentara: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/glentara.md - Townparks: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/townparks-213107.md - Whitepark: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/whitepark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/castleholding - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/castleholding