Castlelough
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Caisleán an Locha
- Area
- 248.4 ha
- 614 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 6,116 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlelough, from 9 m² to 495,556 m² (49.56 ha, 122.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlelough 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 May 2026N/a
a new dwelling house, site entrance, garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660395
22 Aug 2023Conditional
revised site boundaries complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development and PERMISSION to refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23224
4 Aug 2023N/a
revised site boundaries complete with all ancillary site works associated with the development and PERMISSION to refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23210
26 Jul 2023N/a
refurbish and extend existing dwelling house by adding a two-bedroom extension to the east side, an extended dining area to the west side and an extended kitchen area to the front south side, a new flat roof canopy over front entrance and a new flat roofed covered outside space to the rear north side as well as a box dormer window to attic playroom and velux to attic storage space, Permission also to relocate solar panels and replace all the windows in the existing dwelling and remove the existing pergola
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23203
3 May 2022N/a
erection of new dwelling, sewerage treatment unit, percolation area, entrance, garage and ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22328
28 Jun 2019Conditional
an effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600718
4 May 2018Conditional
dwelling extensions, removal of existing shed, new septic tank, percolation area and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600562
6 Apr 2018Conditional
to 1. Build a slatted cubicle house combining a silage wall alongside existing silage pit. 2. Alter existing farm roadway along with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600421
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- TN013-004 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Situated on the crest of a rise in undulating terrain, with Castlelough House 450m to the N and the shoreline of Lough Derg 130m to the W. Depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch. The map depiction and the close proximity to Castlelough House would suggest that this was a tree-ring. Not visible at ground level. 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: 16 January 2012
- TN013-015 House - indeterminate date
Description
An early eighteenth-century house, built c. 1720 which is depicted on two early to mid-eighteenth-century estate maps as a two-storey building with five bays, a central door with three dormer windows, a hipped roof with a chimney at either end of the roof and a possible wing on either side. The present building has a Victorian front built on c. 1860. The old part of the house is of double pile construction. The stairs is beautifully carved, reminiscent of Damer House, Roscrea and like Damer House the balustrades go directly onto the step. In the basement there are corner corbel supports in two separate rooms, but their function is unclear. In a 'cottage' in the yard a coin dating to c. 1690 was found behind the fire mantle. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'castle of Castleloghy and oppossitt to the castle standeth a thatcht Tennemt' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 153). 'Donogh O Bryen of Bellanaha Esqr Irish Papist' is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid., 152). 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
- TN019-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking a stream to the S. A circular area (diam. 32m N-S) enclosed by a tree-lined earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; ext. H 1.3m) with a wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m). No entrance feature visible. The depiction on the OS 6-inch map along with the presence of trees on the bank suggest the use of this site as a tree-ring. It may originally have been a ringfort. 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
- Castlelough, country house, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey two-pile country house, of various dates. Front block, built c.1820, has canted bay windows flanking open projecting flat-roof porch. Earlier rear block of c.1720, is four-bay and three-storey with dormer attic and has single and two-storey additions to rear. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and with moulded render parapet except to rear elevation of rear block. Rendered walls, with cut limestone quoins and plinth to front block. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, with cut-stone sills. Later block has one-over-one pane windows and earlier block has exposed sash boxes with wide variety of small-pane window, including horizontally-sliding timber sash windows to ground floor, some double sash windows and narrow single lights to west elevation. Brackets and render cornices to bay windows and with render surrounds to all other windows of front block. Tripartite window over porch has render pilasters, frieze, cornice and brackets to mullions. Canted bay window to west gable of front block. Square-headed opening with replacement timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Yard of outbuildings to northwest with stone belfry, pitched, hipped and half-hipped artificial slate roofs, rendered and rubble stone walls and with square-headed and segmental-arch openings having timber sash and casement windows.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlelough.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Castlelough, Portroe6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Castlelough · Caisleán an Locha
- Area
- 2,483,527 m² (248.35 ha, 613.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballywilliam, Castletown, Coole, Lackaroe
- Placenames
- Castlelough 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.