Castlelake

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelake, from 526 m² to 414,703 m² (41.47 ha, 102.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Castlelake 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.

• 6 Oct 2022Conditional

  extensions to existing dwelling and construction of an outbuilding as well as permission to construct a new waste treatment system and associated works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22592

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

• TS060-078 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved, undulating pasture, on an E-facing slope of a ridge. Remains of oval area (dims. 34m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by scarp SE-NE (Wth 1.2-1.4m; H 0.1-0.12m) and levelled into natural slope NE-SE. Fosse (overall Wth 4.1m; basal Wth 0.9m; D 0.15m) NE-SE. Fosse (overall Wth 3.2m; basal Wth 1m; D 0.05m) is barely traceable SE-SW and NW-NE. Monument has been cut into hillslope to W, where interior of monument is lower than exterior ground level. Interior grass covered and uneven. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-116 Settlement cluster
  Description

  The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes 'Ballytarsny-Mckeorish', as, 'There is on the s[ai]d lands an old castle a thatcht house with a Bawne about it & severall Cottages' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 241). This area has been equated with the modern townland of Castlelake. In 1640 the land was owned by 'Edward Boyton of Cashell Aderman. Irish Papist' and the Civil Survey goes on to state, 'The s[ai]d Edward Boyton p[ro]prietor by purchasse from the Lord of Dunboyne long before the Rebellion' (ibid.). The mention of several cottages suggests that there was a small settlement associated with the castle (TS060-116001-). The precise location of this settlement is unknown, however, as the River Suir flows N of the tower house, with a stream and marshy land to the E, it is likely that the settlement was to the S-SW. There is a field system (TS060-116004-) c. 100m S of the tower house which may be related to the settlement. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 July 2014

• TS060-116001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In gently undulating terrain, the River Suir flows NE-SW c. 150m to the N. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 'There is on the sd lands an old castle a thatcht house with a Bawne about it' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 241). In 1640 the townland was known as 'Ballytarsny-Mckeorish' and the proprietor was 'Edward Boyton of Cashell Alderman. Irish Papist' (ibid.). The tower house (ext. dims. 12.85m N-S including N projection L 2.25m; 8.4m E-W; wall T 1.9m) is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with a low base-batter (H 0.5m) and is incorporated into an inhabited building which is depicted on the 1st (1840-41) ed. OS 6-inch map as a distillery. The tower house, at least three-storeys high, forms the SE angle of this multi-period building and projects S of the front façade of the former distiller's house. It appears to have an irregular plan, there is a projection (L 6.7m; D 1m) on the W side (3.9m from the SW angle) and other projection on the N side (L 5.65m; D 2.25m) where the E wall is flush with the main E wall. The original entrance appears to have been at the S end of the W projection and there is evidence of a entrance lobby with a guard chamber to the S and a spiral stairs in the NW angle. The ground floor was entered from a doorway in the lobby. There is a small underground chamber, similar to a souterrain, under the lobby wall near the S wall of the tower house. Though the tower house has been refenestrated and has a modern external render and roof, it still retains some of its original features, including a vaulted roof over the ground floor and at second-floor level there is a round-headed doorway and single-light window, both with punch tooling. According to White (1892, 54) the Castle was named 'Castle Leake' after a clergyman, Matthew Leake, who lived here in the early 18th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-116002 Bawn
  Description

  In gently undulating terrain, the River Suir flows NE-SW c. 150m to the N. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 'There is on the sd lands an old castle a thatcht house with a Bawne about it' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 241). The 1640 the townland was known as 'Ballytarsny-Mckeorish' and the proprietor was 'Edward Boyton of Cashell Alderman. Irish Papist' (ibid.). This bawn is associated with a tower house (TS060-0116001-) which is incorporated into an 18th-century house which has an associated distillery complex. The present high stone wall appears to be contemporary with the house and distillery complex. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS060-116004 Field system
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in gently undulating terrain overlooking the River Suir, in pasture. Possibly associated with Castlelake tower house (TS060-116001-) c. 150m to the NE and settlement (TS060-116----). Ballynahinch tower house (TS060-059001-) is across the river c. 400m to the NW. A large sub-rectangular enclosure (diam. 85m N-S; 30.7m E-W) defined by an earthen and stone bank (Wth 1.8m crest; 3.5-5.2m base; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.17-0.5m). The S end has been truncated by a farm roadway running E-W along the N side of the field boundary which runs E-W at the S end of the enclosure. The enclosure tapers towards the S to 24m E-W. Currently the enclosure N of the roadway is divided into two paddocks. Further earthen banks are evident in the field S of the farm roadway extending S from the enclosure, though not forming any clear pattern. At least two banks are clearly aligned N-S, falling with the natural slope, one of which may be an earlier field boundary as it appears in roughly the same location as a line of trees on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. See attached: TS060-116004- OS Ortho, viewed 8 March 2021 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 July 2014

• TS060-129 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture (clover sward), on a gentle W-facing slope. Good views all around. No visible surface trace. Identified as two curvilinear cropmarks on aerial photographs (ASIAP (33) 23-29). There is a break of slope (Wth 8m; H 0.65m) defined by scarp which may correspond to western curvilinear feature seen on aerial photographs. There is a very slight definition of a scarp (Wth 5m; H 0.3m) NW-N in the area of the eastern curvilinear feature. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Building misc, 1790–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan two-storey former distillery manager's house, built c.1805, with three-bay front and west elevations and incorporating two-bay three-storey former distillery building to east end with slight return to west and having later cast-iron balcony and stairs additions. Hipped and lean-to single-storey modern extensions to rear. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Camber-arched openings throughout with brick voussoirs, house part having square-headed cast-iron quarry glazed windows with limestone sills and timber panelled door having quarry glazed overlight. Eight-bay three-storey possible distillery building to east with rendered rubble stone walls and remains of half-hipped roof. Roughly dressed limestone piers with cast-iron double-leaf gate. Rubble limestone and sandstone boundary walls to site.

• Rock View, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Elaborate quadrant entrance gateway, built c.1805, comprising square-profile ashlar limestone piers with plinths, copings and hemispherical tops flanking vehicular and pedestrian gates, latter flanked by ashlar limestone walling, and with curving ashlar limestone walls terminating in similar piers. Cast-iron double-leaf central gates and decorative cast-iron pedestrian gates. Two mature trees symmetrically planted to front line of gateway.

• Rock View, house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1805, having two-bay end elevations and full-height return to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, set into round-headed niches to ground floor, with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening having elaborate cobweb fanlight and timber panelled door with carved timber pilasters and cornice. Splayed limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron railings to sweep walls and to basement area to front of house. Triangular-plan outbuilding attached to courtyard wall, having lean-to slate roof and rubble limestone walls with pointed arch doorway. Slightly-projecting elliptical-arched carriage entrance to yard having cut limestone voussoirs and inscribed date stone 1804. Elaborate limestone gateway to main road entrance.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castlelake · Baile Tarsna Mhic Fheorais

Area

1,476,072 m² (147.61 ha, 364.75 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel Rural electoral division: 3,083 people in 1,039 households; 62% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinamona, Ballynahinch, Camus, Farranamanagh, Knockroe, Knockroe, Mantlehill Little

Placenames

Castlelake 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.