Cathaganstown
Townland in the civil parish of Killenaule, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Chatagánaigh
- Area
- 209.7 ha
- 518 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 8,471 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cathaganstown, from 121 m² to 327,157 m² (32.72 ha, 80.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Cathaganstown 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
11 Sept 2025Conditional
a single storey extension to existing dwelling house, consisting of two bedrooms, bathroom and entrance porch, carry out internal alterations and associated site works on our lands
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25193
27 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460405
29 May 2023Conditional
1) the demolition of an existing dwelling house, 2) the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, 3) a new site entrance and driveway, 4) the installation of a secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter, 5) and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23143
8 May 2023N/a
demolition of an existing dwelling house and planning permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, new site entrance and driveway, install secondary wastewater treatment system and tertiary filter and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23124
19 Nov 2021Conditional
construct a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, treatment system, percolation area and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211690
12 Jun 2018Conditional
to build a dormer residence, detached garage, recessed vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system/percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600749
20 Nov 2017Conditional
New single storey ground & first floor level extensions to existing dwelling, Alterations to existing dwelling, New wastewater treatment system to replace existing septic tank & all associated site works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601269
6 Jun 2017Conditional
1.existing domestic garage,2.extension onto rear of existing dwelling which includes a rear hallway and living room and 3.extension on to first floor of existing dwelling which includes a study room and storage room
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600637
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cathaganstown.
Recorded monuments
- TS054-046 Enclosure
Description
In poorly drained unimproved grassland in upland area with good views in all directions, with ravine immediately to N of site and ringfort (TS054-045----) 150m to W. Enclosure not visible at ground level. Very similar in location to nearby ringfort with ravine running immediately past the N edge of monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS054-049 Castle - unclassified
Description
On flat ground in upland region with good views in all directions. Two-storey farmhouse constructed from rubble of levelled castle on site of where castle was located. Castle not visible at ground level, nor is any fabric of castle visible in walls of farmhouse. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS054-072 Ringfort - rath
Description
In grassland on SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views to S and W with higher ground to N and E. Circular area (int. diam. 23m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.2m; base Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1m) reduced to a scarp from E through S to W with remains of an outer fosse (base Wth 1.5m; top Wth 2.5m; ext. D 0.3m) only visible on the upslope at N. No visible remains of bank or fosse on the downslope. Interior is well preserved and tree-lined bank has suffered damage from cattle poaching especially on the upslope at N. Cattle gap (Wth 2m) in bank at N, no entrance feature visible, field boundary intersects outer face of bank at NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cathaganstown.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Cathaganstown.
- 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
No address of the register names Cathaganstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Cathaganstown · Baile an Chatagánaigh
- Area
- 2,096,632 m² (209.66 ha, 518.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killenaule, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Cooleagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cooleagh electoral division: 582 people in 210 households; 82% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Buffanagh, Graystown, Knockanglass, Lismortagh, Rathmooley
- Placenames
- Cathaganstown 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.