Foxfort
Foxfort is a townland in the civil parish of Templeneiry, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Ráth Rua.
- Area
- 175.9 ha
- 435 acres
- Land parcels
- 52
- registered freehold, median 13,399 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Foxfort, from 26 m² to 261,891 m² (26.19 ha, 64.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Foxfort 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
16 Aug 2024Conditional
extend and renovate existing dwelling and to replace existing Septic Tank with new waste water treatment system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460676
11 Apr 2023Conditional
a dungsted. Planning permission is also required for the construction of an indoor horse riding arena including all associated site development works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2396
27 Jul 2022Conditional
a detached domestic storage shed and including all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22490
9 May 2018Conditional
to extend an existing dwelling in conjunction with minor elevational amendments to existing elevations to accommodate the proposed extension and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600580
29 Sept 2017Conditional
demolition of existing fire damaged dwellinghouse, entrance to dwelling, pedestrian entrance, entrance to farmyard, seven sheds, cow house, haybarn with cattle crush and for Permission to de-commission existing septic tank and for permission to construct new dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601077
13 Jan 2017Conditional
demolition of existing milking parlour, dairy plant room holding yard and straw bedded cattle house ,permission to construct a milking parlour, dairy, plant room office, roofed holding yard, two no. open holding yards, slatted slurry tank, concrete cowpath, feed storage bin and carry out associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600015
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 Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
- TS067-133 Enclosure
Description
In pasture. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 56m N-S; c. 50m E-W) identified on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 16 December 2016) by Jean-Charles Caillère. A field boundary running NNW-SSE kinks out to run along the edge of the E quadrant. See attached photograph: TS067-133----_01 Image ©2019 CNEW/Airbus: Google Earth Pro satellite imagery (16 December 2016) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 December 2019
- TS074-005 Enclosure
Description
On a low NW-SE ridge in reclaimed pastureland. The surrounding fields were quite wet before reclaimation. Field boundaries to the W of the enclosure have been removed. The Aherlow river runs c. 100m to the SW. The monument was levelled in the 1980s but is still visible as a roughly square enclosure (diam. 26m NE-SW; 29.3m NW-SE) defined by a broad, flattened bank (Wth c. 10m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.37-0.88m). The interior slopes slightly to the SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Foxfort.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Foxfort, about 1 in 5 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 Foxfort.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Foxfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Foxfort · An Ráth Rua
- Area
- 1,759,434 m² (175.94 ha, 434.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeneiry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Bansha, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 868 people lived in 336 households in the Bansha electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Bansha West, Booleen, Clashoquirk, Lisnagaul, Montanavoe, Pollagh, Rathdermot
- Placenames
- Foxfort 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.