Foilduff
Townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Fhaill Dubh
- Area
- 1,011.9 ha
- 2,500 acres
- Land parcels
- 66
- registered freehold, median 41,593 m² (4.16 ha, 10.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foilduff, from 67 m² to 1,026,935 m² (102.69 ha, 253.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Foilduff 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
12 Sept 2026N/a
the demolition of existing store shed and hayshed and the construction of cubicle shed with calving pens, calf housing and loose animal area along with underground slurry store and all ancillary works and facilities
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660894
31 Aug 2026N/a
the demolition of existing store shed and hayshed and the construction of cubicle shed with calving pens, calf housing and loose animal area along with underground slurry store and all ancillary works and facilities
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660846
17 Dec 2025Conditional
completion of an extension to the side of house, also for Permission to install a new pump chamber, stilling chamber and a new percolation area attached to the existing septic tank
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25253
16 Apr 2025N/a
the construction of an extension to the side of house and to install rooflights to the front of house
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2559
20 May 2024Conditional
an extension to house
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24114
16 Aug 2019Conditional
a conservatory to the front of the house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600900
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165
Recorded monuments
- TN032-014 Standing stone
Description
Situated on a level tract of ground at the base of Foilduff on the N side. A stone orientated E-W, rising slightly to the W, rectangular in plan (H 1.05m; max. dims. 0.53m x 0.3m). The W face has been split. The N and S faces are flat and the E face tapers towards the top. There is a slight hollow around the base of the standing stone caused by cattle erosion. 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foilduff.
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
- About 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Foilduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Foilduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Foilduff · An Fhaill Dubh
- Area
- 10,119,087 m² (1,011.91 ha, 2,500.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abington, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Abington, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Abington electoral division: 640 people in 230 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bauraglanna, Bealaclave, Bunkimalta, Curreeny Commons, Curryquin, Foilduff (Jackson), Knockfune, Lackabrack
- Placenames
- Foilduff 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.