Castlejohn

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlejohn, from 300 m² to 155,637 m² (15.56 ha, 38.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlejohn 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.

• 17 May 2023Conditional

  construction of a bungalow, garage, entrance, wastewater system, borehole, soakpits and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360326

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  to erect slatted cubicle shed and retention permission to retain indefinitely loose shed, silage pit and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601031

• 24 Jul 2018N/a

  to erect slatted cubicle shed and permission to retain indefinitely loose shed, silage pit.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600934

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

Recorded monuments

• TS072-004001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On level ground and currently in a farmyard with a 19th-century farmhouse immediately to the W, surrounded by gently undulating pastureland, with a large pond c. 40m to the S. The Ormond Deeds (vol. 6, 13) of 1584 note that this was part of the lands of 'James Tobyn, of Killahe'. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) on the lands of Castlejohn there stood 'a castle' which in 1640 was under the proprietorship of 'James Tobyn of Killaghy Esqr. Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 142). This tower house (int. dims. 5.2m N-S; 6.97m E-W) is built with sandstone rubble, roughly coursed, with a base-batter (H 2.1m; Wth 0.3m). Only the modified ground floor, the first floor beneath a pointed vault and the NW angle of the second floor survive. The original entrance is no longer in situ but it appears to have been at the N end of the E wall which is now much modified. The original pointed doorway (H 1.8m; Wth 1.08m) has been re-used as a doorway into a farmbuilding c. 10m to the SW, has a yett-hole at the apex and is constructed largely of limestone with external double chamfer and punch tooling within drafted margins. A mural stairs, currently inaccessible but visible from the outside, rises in the E wall from its N end. The doorway into the ground floor was presumably at the N end of the E wall but no trace of it survives, though there is a later recess (H 1.15m; Wth 0.75m; D 0.6m) in this area. The ground floor, currently used as a storage shed, is much altered and the floor level possibly raised. A doorway has been inserted in the SW angle and a possibly original embrasure (Wth 1.23m) has been modified to become a doorway (H 1.96m) or has been inserted at the E end of the N wall. There is also an area of blocking near the NE angle on the N wall which may be repair. Though now all blocked, the ground floor appears to have been lit by a number of windows as evidenced by two splayed embrasures with crude segmental heads, one towards the W end of the S wall and one at the W end of the N wall, both with blocked outer openings. A wide, straight-sided segmental-headed embrasure at the S end of the E wall may also have contained a window opening. Roughly centrally placed in the W wall at ground level there is a flat-headed recess which appears to be a later insert. There is a wall cupboard at the N end of the W wall. Though no internal floor supports survive, there appears to have been a second floor under the vault as there is a blocked window within a large, centrally-placed, splayed segmental-headed embrasure at this level in the W wall. Though the floor above the vault is largely destroyed, there are the remains of a splayed embrasure at the W end of the N wall (surviving L c. 2m). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 30 September 2014

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1880–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1900, with banded shaft, having finial and fluting to cap and neck, and curved pumping arm, set up on concrete platform with concrete surround wall and accessed by concrete steps. Cast-iron wall-mounted post box, c. 1940, with P&T emblem in back wall of surround.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with gable-fronted windbreak with slightly-lower outbuilding attached to south-west end. House is lobby-entry plan. Pitched slate roof with eaves course, red brick chimneystack, terracotta ridge tiles and having rooflights. Scalloped timber bargeboards to windbreak. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth to front, smooth rendered to north gable and limewash to rear wall. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane and two-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to front, with painted sills. Casement windows to north gable and casement and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear wall. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding opposite house, with pitched slate roofs, smooth rendered walls and timber battened fittings to square-headed doorways and window. Metal gates set to rendered piers to front of site.

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 Castlejohn, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlejohn · Caisleán Sheáin

Area

1,476,172 m² (147.62 ha, 364.77 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Newtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

410 people lived in 160 households in the Newtown electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Clashnasmut, Coolarkin, Kiltrassy (Co. Kilkenny), Knockroe (Co. Kilkenny), Tiroe

Placenames

Castlejohn 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.