Cloghonan

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghonan, from 561 m² to 361,574 m² (36.16 ha, 89.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  1) erection of steel columns with attached lights to existing sports pitches and 2) all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560431

• 12 May 2025N/a

  1) Erection of steel columns with attached lights to existing sports pitches 2) All associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560400

• 30 Jun 2021Conditional

  extension to the front of existing garage

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21945

• 8 Jun 2021Unconditional

  a dormer dwellinghouse, road entrance, septic tank and percolation area to EPA Guidelines 2009 and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 21825

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  retention of domestic storage shed to the rear of property

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 201150

• 19 Jan 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing rear outbuilding, construction of side extension and alterations to existing dwelling, new sewerage treatment system and all ancillary works. The proposed works are within the curtilage of a protected structure, reference S479

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600041

• 22 Sept 2017Conditional

  1) The Retention of an agricultural roadway as constructed, 2) Permission for the construction of an agricultural roadway, 3) Permission for an agricultural entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601045

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 Cloghonan.

Recorded monuments

• TN027-098002 Enclosure
  Description

  A small enclosure identified on an aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSIAP, R 119/120) in the E half of Knockadiggeen hillfort (TN027-098001). Not visible at ground level. The ground is very hillocky with tufts of grass, gorse etc. impeding detection of this site. 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

• TN027-137 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a NNW-SSE ridge at the base of the S slope of Knockadiggeen, in pasture. Indicated on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map as a small, circular enclosure but not marked on the 1904 ed. which implies it was levelled by the turn of the nineteenth century. 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

• TN027-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a break in a SE-facing slope of Knockadiggeen Hill, in pasture. Although levelled, the outline of a circular area (diam. 38m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.45m) is indicated by differential grass growth. A slight suggestion of an outer bank upslope to the NW may be the remains of a field boundary which is depicted on the 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map abutting the NW quadrant of the site. Another field boundary skirted the edge of the SW quadrant. 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

• TN027-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the SW-facing slope of a steep hill in pasture with trackway possibly crossing the site. The site was inspected in 1955 and described as an 'earthen ring-fort (diam. 36m N-S; 33m E-W) with a bank and external ditch situated on a S-facing slope of a low hill. Bank almost 6'[1.8m] high from interior on N side: 4'[1.2m] high from ditch [Wth 4.5m] bottom' (OPW files, 6.10.1955). No visible trace of site 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

• TN027-144 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a very gentle SE-facing slope in rolling pastureland. The site was formerly in woodland, as depicted on the current OS 6-inch map, and is now in pasture. The much-denuded remains of a curving bank are visible at NW and SE.The site was inspected in 1955 and described as a circular area (diam. 36m E-W) enclosed by an 'earthen bank 6'[1.8m] high from ditch bottom at E side, where it is best preserved: 2'6"[0.84m] above inner ground level, with external ditch. At S a piece of the bank has been replaced by a dry-stone wall, adjoining the road. A low bank in the field to W appears to be nothing but bank round garden or cottage' (OPW files, 6.10.1955). 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

• TN027-145 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope in rolling pastureland. Depicted on the latest ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure, the site is now levelled with no visible trace at groung level. It was described in 1955 as a circular area (diam. 28.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; H 1.5m) with slight traces of an external ditch (OPW files, 6.10.1955). 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

• TN027-146 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on level ground in gently rolling pastureland. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'castle partly repaired at the Common Wealthes charge' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 230). Several landowners are listed as proprietors, including 'Daniell Kenedy of Ballintotta[,]Dermod Kenedy of Shanballyard[,]Richard Butler of Kylcash Esqr All Irish Papists' (ibid.). According to Bence-Jones (1988, 74) the tower incorporates part of the original Clohonan or Cloghanane Castle which was granted to John Otway 1665 and later renamed Castle Otway. A late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century tower house (int. dims. 10.75m NE-SW; 13.9m NW-SE; wall T 1.15m-1.2m) which has been incorporated into an eighteenth-century house and rebuilt in the nineteenth century. There is a doorway in the NE face with later stairs to the NE descending to basement of the eighteenth-century house. The N jamb with chamfered edge has dressing typical of the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century. Original flat-headed single lights with gun loops on either side are in the W end of the NW wall and the E end of the NE wall. A single-light in the NE wall had a wooden lintel below voussoirs composed of slender slabs. This light is blocked up as it is facing into a room in the eighteenth-century house. There is a wall cupboard on the NW wall in the W corner. A window in the NW wall has traces of a wooden shutter with iron hinges. No base-batter evident on external face. 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

• TN027-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope in rolling terrain. A slight curving rise in a ploughed field represents the former site, with the interior a darker colour (diam. c. 30m N-S; c. 32m NE-SW). A slight dip at N indicates a possible external fosse. The site was described in 1955 as an earthen ringfort (diam. 27m/90ft E-W), enclosed by a bank (Wth 3m/10f/), a fosse (Wth 3.6m/12ft; D 1.2m/4ft) an an outer bank (Wth 1.8m/6ft) only visible on the S and W sides. Site overgrown with bracken. (OPW files, 2.10.1955). 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

• TN027-148 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on level ground with ridge falling off to SW, in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. A stream, now underground, on the S side of road, possibly formed the W boundary of the site or was adjacent to it. 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

• TN027-149001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a flat, level area, relatively low-lying, under pasture. The OS Letters refer to 'the indistinct ruin of another old castle situated in the southeast corner of an earthen fort. It is said that this is the castle from which the townland was called Cloch Othanain, “the Rock of Othanan” '(O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 190). The site was levelled c. 20-30 years ago and a bungalow built directly S of the SE quadrant. The landowner remembers a heap of stones in the centre of the ringfort (TN027-149002-) when he was a boy which may have been the remains of a castle. 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

• TN027-149002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a flat, level area, relatively low-lying, under pasture. The site was levelled c. 20-30 years ago and a bungalow built directly S of the SE quadrant. The landowner remembers a heap of stones in the centre when he was a boy which may have been the remains of a castle (TN027-149001); the stones are now gone. Present remains consist of a roughly circular area (diam. 32.7m N-S; 36.4m E-W) defined by a very denuded bank (Wth 8m; int. H 0.36m; ext. H 0.21m), outer fosse (Wth 5.6m; D 0.29m) and outer bank (Wth c. 7m), particularly clear in the E half of the site and at W. The OS Letters refer to 'the indistinct ruin of another old castle situated in the southeast corner of an earthen fort. It is said that this is the castle from which the Townland was called Cloch Othanain, the Rock of Othanan, but I think that the real Clock Othanain is the castle which forms a part of the modern Castle Otway' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 190). 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

• TN033-032 Church
  Description

  Situated in Templederry S of present R.C. church. Site mentioned in OS Name Books as 'site of old R.C. chapel' (O'Donovan c.1840, Unpublished). Plaque on stone wall reads: Father John Kenyon's Chapel House. This is the house in which Fr. John Kenyon P.P. lived. He was a leading figure in the Young Ireland movement and a close friend of John Mitchel and John Martin. He died here on 21 March 1869 and is buried in the main aisle of the parish church. The plaque is on the W facing wall, running N-S. The chapel appears to have been a late eighteenth-century structure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Castle Otway, country house, 1575–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey country house over half-basement with three-bay pedimented breakfront, built c.1750, and having four and five-storey medieval towerhouse rebuilt in nineteenth-century with three-storey elevations, with turret, to rear. Now in ruins. Roofless, with rendered brick chimneystacks to house and multiple offset limestone stack to towerhouse. Castellations, machicolations and corbel tables to towerhouse. Roughly-dressed limestone walls, slate-hung to rear and southwest gable, with brick eaves course and ashlar quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings with limestone voussoirs and sills. Pointed-arch openings, some blocked, with ashlar limestone voussoirs and keystones and limestone sills to tower. Square-headed opening to entrance with carved limestone engaged Doric columns, entablature and pediment. Remains of limestone steps leading to entrance. Castellated walls with alternating round and rectangular openings having integral carriage-arch and with castellated mock gatehouse to southwest. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to south-east.

• Castle Otway, gate lodge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-bay two-storey gate lodge, built c.1840, with recessed single-storey bay to west with lean-to porch, and having octagonal tower to south elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with fish-scale details and rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with quatrefoil motif to east gable. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills, having render label-mouldings and with loops to tower. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Roughly-dressed masonry to tower.

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Catholic church, built 1877, with four-bay nave, double transepts with shallow limestone porches to north sides, lower canted apse to south and recent flat-roofed sacristy to southeast corner. Pitched slate roofs with ashlar limestone bellcote, ornate cast-iron ridge cresting and wrought-iron cross finials. Roughly-dressed snecked limestone gable front having cut limestone dressings, quoins, plat-bands and rough block-and-start window surrounds. Roughly-dressed sandstone walls elsewhere, having diagonal cut limestone stepped buttresses, diagonal to gable front and transepts. Double lancet windows with round openings above, with roughly-dressed limestone voussoirs, rose window to gable-front with quatrefoil windows around central multi-foil window, all within pointed arch panel, having stained glass. Pointed-arch main opening with timber battened double-leaf door with ornate strap hinges, and with trefoil motif in carved tympanum. Elaborately-carved pointed-arch doorway to east transept with hood-moulding, stone cross finial and timber battened double-leaf door. Sculpted reredos to interior. Cast-iron gates, piers and railings with rendered boundary wall to site.

• Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey presbytery, built c.1880, three-bay with projecting porch to front and two-bay elsewhere. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with render plat-band. Ionic pilasters and cornice to porch. Paired round-headed openings to front elevation and porch, square-headed elsewhere, with replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Rendered boundary wall and square-plan piers with round caps to road entrance.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Cloghonan.

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

Name

Cloghonan · Cloch Fhóthannáin

Area

1,992,755 m² (199.28 ha, 492.42 acres)

Civil parish

Templederry, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Kilnaneave, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnaneave electoral division: 474 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghinch, Falleeny, Gorteenavalla, Knockadigeen, Loughane Lower, Loughane Upper, Middleplough, Shanballyard

Placenames

Cloghonan 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.