Clerkstown
Clerkstown is a townland in the civil parish of Lattin, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile na gCléireach.
- Area
- 0.7 ha
- 2 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Clerkstown, from 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres) to 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 3 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clerkstown 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
No planning application touches the townland of Clerkstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Clerkstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clerkstown.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Joseph's, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with lower L-plan two-storey return to rear and possibly recent canted-bay windows to front elevation. Half-hipped artificial slate roof with rendered eaves course and rendered and having rendered and red brick chimneystacks to return part of house. Exposed rubble limestone walls to front elevation revealing segmental brick relieving arches to bay windows and painted smooth rendered elsewhere. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Round-headed window to centre of first floor of front elevation. Segmental brick-arched door opening having timber panelled door with stained glass side-lights and fanlight. Outbuilding to rear of site with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls and flat-headed carriage entrances. Cast-iron gates set to rubble limestone piers and rendered sweep walls to front of site.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Clerkstown, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clerkstown.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Clerkstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Clerkstown · Baile na gCléireach
- Area
- 6,929 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lattin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Lattin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 529 people lived in 196 households in the Lattin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagleragh, Mooresfort
- Placenames
- Clerkstown 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.