Doughkill

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doughkill, from 139 m² to 364,876 m² (36.49 ha, 90.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Doughkill 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.

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new single storey Fitness Centre incorporating changing rooms, additional car parking spaces and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2570

• 25 Feb 2025Conditional

  the following development which is in the original curtilage of a Protected Structure (Record of Protected Structures No.TRPS526, Postbox, within the Tipperary County Development Plan 2022 – 2028). The establishment of a new community park which will consist of: a) a new pedestrian bridge and partial removal of stone wall to facilitate bridge access to the park; b) new park entrance with paving, stone walls, steel arches and community notice board; c) a nature based play space incorporating site furniture, play elements, grass mounds and planted areas; d) a new gravel car park area; e) a pedestrian gravel pathway throughout the site; f) external lighting between carpark and park entrance; g) a bio-retention swale; h) tree planting, planting, landscaping throughout the site and any ancillary site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560141

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  the construction of an underground slurry storage tank and yard area, with associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560074

• 22 Sept 2023Refused

  (1) The construction of 7 no. wind turbines and associated hardstand areas with the following parameters a) total tip height range of 179.5m – 185m, b) rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) hub height range of 103.5m to 110.5m; (2) 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation which will be constructed in the townland of Faddan Beg consisting of a single storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, battery energy storage system, security fencing, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and all ancillary works and equipment; (3) All works (within County Tipperary) associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid, via the provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow, Co. Offaly; (4) Provision of 10 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the underground electrical cabling route; (5) reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; (6) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed wind farm substation; (7) 1 no. meteorological mast with a height of 107m above ground and associated foundation and hard-standing area; (8) upgrade of existing tracks and roads and the provision of new site access roads; (9) all works associated with the provision of a new permanent site entrance off the L5040 local road; (10) provision of 5 no. new access and egress points along the L5041 local road in the townlands of Cloncorig, Faddan More and Coolderry; (11) Provision of 4 no. peat repository areas and 3 no. spoil repository areas; (12) 2 no. temporary construction compounds with temporary site offices and staff facilities; (13) Accommodation works along the public road network along the N52 national secondary road in the townland of Ballyloughnane to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal sized loads; (14) Site Drainage; (15) Tree Felling; (16) Operational stage site signage; and, (17) all associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus. - Works within the curtilage of Protected Structures RPS Ref. TRPS336 (Ballyloughnane Bridge) and RPS Ref. TRPS519 (Croghan Bridge)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360763

• 24 Aug 2018Conditional

  construction of a walkway at the club grounds. The walkway will be lit with LED lights on 4m poles. Car park lighting will be part of this development.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601048

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 Doughkill.

Recorded monuments

• TN005-030001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a gentle sloping hill with rough marshy land to the N and pasture to the S. Described in the OS Letters as a small square structure (24ft x 24ft (7.3m x 7.3m); wall T 4ft 4in (1.3m)) built with hammer-dressed limestone, the walls of which stand 14ft (4.2m) high. A small round tower (int. diam. 6ft 2in (1.9m)) with a conical cap was attached to the SE corner standing to a height of 17ft (5.2m) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 79). The castle was demolished during a road widening scheme in 1973 (FitzPatrick 1985, vol. 2, 80). No visible remains 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

• TN008-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside with limited views in all directions. Wheeler (OPW 1955) described the site as a circular ringfort (int. diam. 50m) enclosed by an earthen bank (H 1m) with no external fosse visible. The site was destroyed during a land reclamation scheme in the late 1950s. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, ATC 74) shows clear outline of a large circular ringfort. 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

• TN008-007 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with limited views in all directions. An aerial photograph (CUCAP, ATC 73) shows the faint outline of a mound with an internal fosse and an external bank. This is probably the site of a ring-barrow. 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

• Carrig House, miller's house, 1650–1700 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1675, with four-bay rear return. Two northern bays of return in ruin. Hipped slate roof to front block, pitched to return. Rendered stone and brick chimneystacks, one projecting from rear of front block, one on west wall of return. Rendered limestone walls with large squared limestone quoins to return. Upper floors of west wall of return have large round-headed window openings of c.1790 appearance, now blocked to inhabited part which has varying sizes of openings with square-headed and round-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Basement windows of return have square heads with voussoirs. Yard of two-storey outbuildings, one with bellcote, to southeast entered through carriage archway. Extensive remains of corn and saw mill buildings to west of house.

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 5 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1590 (ZIP).

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

Name

Doughkill · Dúchoill

Area

771,140 m² (77.11 ha, 190.55 acres)

Civil parish

Loughkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Clohaskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clohaskin electoral division: 249 people in 89 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghgar, Ballykinash, Caherhoereigh, Cronekill, Faddan Beg, Lacka, Pallas

Placenames

Doughkill 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.