Dovea Upper

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dovea Upper, from 2,036 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 276,497 m² (27.65 ha, 68.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Dovea Upper 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.

• 15 May 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance and access lane, septic tank, wastewater treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600509

• 19 Oct 2017Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area together with alterations to existing entrance to become a combined domestic and agricultural entrance and carry out all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601151

• 27 Sept 2017N/a

  construction of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area together with alterations to existing entrance to become a combined domestic and agricultural entrance and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601067

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 Dovea Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TN035-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock in undulating countryside. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 27m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1-2m) which is truncated by a field fence at W on a N-S axis. No fosse or entrance feature visible. 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

• TN035-092 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified as an irregular-shaped roughly rectangular enclosure (Dims. c. 51m NW-SE; c. 34m NE-SW) on satellite imagery (Tailte Éireann, 2011-2013 Digital Globe; Google Earth, imagery date 5 October 2022). It is possibly associated with a circular enclosure (TN035-065----), with an oval outer enclosure, which lies c. 11m to the SE.    Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dovea 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Dovea Upper, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dovea Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Dovea Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Dovea Upper · An Dubhfhéith Uachtarach

Area

1,613,561 m² (161.36 ha, 398.72 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

556 people lived in 184 households in the Kilrush electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballypatrick, Bouladuff, Dovea Lower, Liscreagh

Placenames

Dovea 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.