Castletown

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 742 m² to 475,771 m² (47.58 ha, 117.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Castletown 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.

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  a) extension of the existing limestone quarry and for continued use of the site entrance, access laneway, lagoons, plant and machinery and ancillary works. The extension area will be 0.869ha in lands directly north of the existing quarry, and b) secondary treatment system and a soil polishing filter 0.05ha in area in lands directly south west of the existing quarry. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared and will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461036

• 19 May 2023Refused

  extension of the existing limestone quarry and for continued use of the site entrance, access laneway, lagoons, plant and machinery and ancillary works. The extension area will be 0.869ha in lands directly north of the existing quarry. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared and will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360337

• 13 Feb 2020Conditional

  a 10 year planning permission for modifications to Condition No. 1 of previously granted planning permission Ref. No. 18/601296. The modifications comprise an outfall drain and associated pumping station and monitoring chambers to discharge surface water and treated waste water from the Biorefinery site through the townlands of Cooleeny and Derryfadda to the Drish River; a water supply pumphouse and associated site works including access road and security fencing in the townland of Derryville and a water supply pipeline from the pumphouse to the Biorefinery facility site. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will accompany the application. This application relates to development which comprises or is for the purpose of an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions Licence.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20129

• 17 Jan 2020Conditional

  construction of extensions and alterations to existing dwelling house with all associated site works including new entrance

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2026

• 12 Jan 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, domestic garage, entrance and waste water treatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600020

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 Castletown.

Recorded monuments

• TN036-032001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground on the W bank of the Black River in undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a castle out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 55). James Butler is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular, possibly late medieval building (ext. dims. 32.8m N-S; 19.2m E-W; wall T 1.4m) orientated on a N-S axis with a possible tower at the NE angle. The walls are constructed with coursed limestone rubble with base-batter visible at the NE angle. The E wall survives to first-floor level; the S wall and the S end of the W wall also survive, elsewhere the walls are destroyed. The only visible features are a destroyed opening in the centre of the E wall at first-floor level giving access to the possible tower at the N end of the E wall. On the external face at this point there is a curious stone facing projecting eastwards which contains a segmental-arched embrasure - this possibly belongs to the NE angle tower. There is no evidence of a bawn (TN036-032002-) attached to this building. 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

• TN036-032002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on an E-facing slope of rising ground on the W bank of the Black River in undulating countryside. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a castle out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 55). James Butler is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular, possibly late medieval building (TN036-032001) orientated on a N-S axis with a possible tower at the NE angle. The walls are constructed with coursed limestone rubble with base-batter visible at the NE angle. There is no evidence of a bawn attached to this building. 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

• TN036-044 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on the flat floodplains of the Black River with enclosure site (TN036-045) to the N. Not visible at ground level. Probably removed when the field boundary that intersected the site was removed during land improvement. 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

• TN036-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with nearby enclosure site (TN036-044) to the N. 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: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castletown.

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin

Area

2,962,652 m² (296.27 ha, 732.09 acres)

Civil parish

Moyne, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Longfordpass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Longfordpass electoral division: 326 people in 108 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolabeha, Cooleeny, Derryfadda, Inchirourke, Kilmakill, Longfordpass North

Placenames

Castletown 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.