Foildarragh

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foildarragh, from 18 m² to 219,201 m² (21.92 ha, 54.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Foildarragh 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.

• 30 Jan 2026N/a

  the construction of an extension to clubhouse including all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660073

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

• TN039-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the level ground of a river valley with the Aughraria River to the S and the Bilboa River to the N. The site was identified on an aerial photograph (GSIAP, R 362/361). A large roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 63m N-S; 55m E-W) consisting of a raised interior surrounded by a wide fosse (Wth 4.5-6m) which is evident as lush grass growth. A field boundary which transected the W sector has been removed as have field boundaries to the N. The field has been reclaimed and the site has been levelled. A deep drainage ditch skirts the S limit of the site making the edge difficult to define. 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

• Anglesey Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch sandstone road bridge, built c.1800, over Aughvaria River, with U-plan cut-waters to south elevation. Dressed stone voussoirs to arches and snecked rubble walls, dressed below springing point, with rubble stone above brought to courses and separated from snecked stone parapet by dressed stone string course dressed stone capping.

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 Foildarragh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Foildarragh · Faill na Darach

Area

2,067,359 m² (206.74 ha, 510.86 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Abington, the unit of the census

Census 2022

640 people lived in 230 households in the Abington electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coonmore, Goulmore, Kilcommon, Knockshanbrittas, Laghile

Placenames

Foildarragh 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.