Chancellorstown Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Newchapel, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an tSeansailéara Uachtarach
- Area
- 127.6 ha
- 315 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 14,212 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- Environs
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Chancellorstown Upper, from 141 m² to 586,532 m² (58.65 ha, 144.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
- P5Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Clonmel and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Jun 2023Conditional
a 10 year planning permission for development at lands to the north of the N24 National Road in the townlands of Jamestown, Kilmolash Upper, and Rathkeevin County Tipperary. The development will consist of: - Construction and operation of a c. 60MW solar PV farm consisting of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames, with a maximum overall height of 2.6 metres; - Internal underground electrical cabling and ducting; - Up to 20 no. transformers; 2 no. temporary construction compounds; - Security fencing and cameras; - 2 no. new gated site entrances from the R687 local road; - New internal access tracks; - Site drainage; - Landscaping; - All ancillary works. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 40 years from the date of commissioning. A Natura Impact Statement accompanies the planning application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23172
6 Jan 2021Refused
erection of a dairy unit comprising slatted cubicle shed with underground effluent storage tanks, milking equipment, and bulk tank, dairy tank, two no. meal bins, three walled open silage pits and underground soiled water storage tank, meal storage shed, concrete yard, adjustments to existing entrance onto public road to provide required sightlines and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 212
17 Dec 2020N/a
erection of a dairy unit comprising slatted cubicle shed with underground effluent storage tanks, milking equipment, and bulk tank, three walled open silage pits and soiled water storage tank, meal storage shed, concrete yard and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201535
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 Chancellorstown Upper.
Recorded monuments
- TS076-054 Enclosure
Description
On gradual S-facing slope in undulating terrain, under grass. No visible trace of enclosure above ground. Monument depicted as roughly circular area on 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map with field boundary running E-W immediately S of S quadrant with deep ditch on N side of bank. Field boundary which ran E-W up to W quadrant and field boundary to E of enclosure have been removed. Ground is quite wet, springs on hill would have run down to this field. Enclosure was cleared approx. twelve years ago according to landowner. It was an area defined by a very low bank or scarp and overgrown with scrub. The field has been reclaimed and was formerly under tillage. 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 Chancellorstown Upper.
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 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 Chancellorstown Upper.
- 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 Chancellorstown Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Chancellorstown Upper · Baile an tSeansailéara Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,276,341 m² (127.63 ha, 315.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Newchapel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Inishlounaght, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inishlounaght electoral division: 3,489 people in 1,248 households; 77% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barn Demesne, Chancellorstown Lower, Cruboge, Drishoge, Jamestown, Mullaghnoney, Newchapel, Rahaniskey, Rathkeevin
- Placenames
- Chancellorstown Upper 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.