Horeabbey

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Horeabbey, from 83 m² to 488,870 m² (48.89 ha, 120.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Horeabbey 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.

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  (i) the revised entrance location and site boundaries from that granted under Planning Reference no. 10/505; (ii) detached structure comprising of personal gym, home office & store, and (iii) detached storage shed

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561311

• 11 Dec 2024Conditional

  the existing dwelling house and to retain the detached domestic storage shed and including all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24282

• 24 May 2018Conditional

  the indefinite retention of as-constructed farm road way and permission to complete same and for permission to construct a new farm entrance

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600647

• 23 May 2018Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling and associated site entrance and boundaries, and for construction of a new replacement single storey dwelling with new site entrance, and all associated site development works including septic tank and effluent treatment modules and percolation area, and for construction of a new farm road to link with existing farm road

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600643

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 Horeabbey.

Recorded monuments

• TS061-024 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  In flat terrain with a stream running roughly E-W c. 50 N of the abbey building. The cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the nearly Rock of Cashel dominates the view to the NNE. This Cistercian Abbey, founded in 1272 from Mellifont, was the last Irish foundation of this order before the Reformation. The foundation was instigated by David McCarville, the archbishop of Cashel who reputedly wanted to replace the Benedictines of Cashel with the Cistercians (Ó Conbhuidhe 1999, 305). It was named the abbey of the Rock (de Rupe) (ibid.). The monastery was dissolved in 1540, however, the chancel remained in use as a parish church for a parish coterminous with the former lands of the abbey and was serviced by three of the former monks (Stalley 1987, 246). The lands were initially occupied by Edmund Heffernan (Ó Conbhuidhe 1999, 317). In 1561 the abbey and lands were granted to Sir Henry Radcliffe and were subsequently leased to James Butler, Earl of Ormond and Thomas Sinclair (ibid.; Grose 1791, vol. 2, 86). In 1640 the proprietor was Edward Boyton, an ‘Irish Papist’ and alderman of Cashel (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 227). A 13th-century Cistercian Abbey with 15th-century modifications including the addition of a crossing-tower, the supporting piers of which were built onto the 13th-century piers of the original transept. Following the Dissolution various parts of the monastery, including the nave, S transept and chapter house, were converted into private houses (Stalley 1987, 246). Much of this roofless abbey survives, including the abbey church with its N and S aisles and transepts, the sacristy, E range and chapter house, as well as wall-footings of the N and W range and cloister. The chancel was lit by three graduated lancets in the E wall and two opposing lancets in the N and S wall at the E end. In the 15th century the upper portion of all these windows were blocked up and smaller ogee-headed windows were inserted. There is an internal string course with fillet moulding, broken in places by the later windows insertions. A large E stone altar (H 0.91m; L 3.7m; D 1.14m) of rough rubble masonry rests on a chamfered plinth. In the S wall, from E to W there is a rebated pointed trefoil aumbry with credence, a double piscina within a double pointed trefoil niche with free-standing central support and credence, and a sedilia, mostly broken out. In the W wall are the remains of two triangular-headed tomb recesses, both having broken-out pointed canopies. A doorway has been inserted in the westernmost recess. Immediately to the E of the tomb recesses there are the remains of a two triangular plaster impressions. The crossing tower has very fine lierne rib-vaulting. There is a central bell-rope hole and one on either side to the N and S. There are mason’s marks on the carved stonework and a carved hanging shield with the Butler coat of arms on the NW pier. Both of the western crossing piers have square holes at springer level, opposite each other, which would have given support to a rood screen. The nave bears no evidence of a W doorway. The base-batter runs along the length of the gable, including the side aisles. The aisled nave has five pointed arches on either side. The piers are all rectangular in plan with chamfered cut-stone quoins. There are four quatrefoil clerestorey windows on the S wall, one between each arch, and a smaller one above the arch at the E end. Though much of the N wall does not survive, it appears to have had a similar arrangement. In the W end of the S aisle there are the remains of a lancet window, rebated and chamfered externally, only the lower jambs and sill survive. At the E end of the N aisle the lower jambs of a moulded sandstone doorway leading to the cloister survive. A doorway at the W end has a simple chamfered surround with a carved head on the chamfer. In the W gable of the nave there is a central lancet with three later two-light windows inserted, one above the other. Two other windows also inserted in this gable, together with inserted corbels, indicate that a later residential building, four-storeys high, occupied the W end of the nave. There are also the remains of an inserted fireplace at ground level. During the occupation of the abbey for residential use a cross-wall was inserted in the nave and some of the aisle arches were blocked up. Traces of doors, windows and off-sets to carry floors are evident in this later building phase. The transepts contained two formerly barrel-vaulted chapels, though only the N transept’s chapels survive together with its altars, piscinas and remains of E windows. The wall separating the chapels has a wall plaque, apparently inserted, bearing a shield with a chief indented with three vertical spearheads beneath the indents. In the N wall of the N transept there are the remains of a squinch which supported a mural stair giving access to the first-floor level above the side chapels. The S transept was lit by two tall lancets in the S gable with a quatrefoil at the apex and a lancet at the S end of the W wall. These lancets have been blocked and later windows inserted. A building at the NE angle of the E range, clearly added onto the existing range, has been interpreted by Power (1938, 6) as a possible rere-dorter or latrine, it has a square opening towards the base of the W wall but no channel or corresponding opening opposite. The position of the cloister and ranges are unusual in that it is the only Cistercian abbey in the county to have them to the N of the church. Only a very small portion of the two-phase cloister arcade survives. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 June 2015

• TS061-024001 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with the Cisterian abbey (TS061-024----) and immediately abutting the E and S of the abbey church, where it is enclosed on the W, S and E by a stone wall, the eastern boundary turning to meet the N wall of the chancel. The headstones are mainly of 20th-century date, though the earliest visible dates to 1800. There is a headstone, dated 1984, cemented against the external E gable of the chancel. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 23 July 2014

• TS061-024002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Embedded in the top of the wall of the chapter house of the Cistercian Abbey (TS061-024----), at the NW angle. A limestone boulder (dims. 0.77m x 0.59m; H 0.39m) with a very rough external surface except for one face which has been worked to form a punch dressed flat surface (Wth 0.56m). It has a large circular flat-bottomed basin (diam. 0.4m; D 0.26m) with a very smooth interior. There is no hole in the basin. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 June 2015

• TS061-024003 Earthwork
  Description

  On level ground NE and E of the Cistercian foundation Hore Abbey (TS061-024----) to the public road, in pasture. A geophysical survey was carried out in this large field, which is transected by an E-W stream, in 2014, as a result of which a number of small fields were identified, with a particularly high concentration of features in the area immediately NE of the abbey buildings (Gimson and Bonsall 2014, 14, fig.3). These features may be contemporary with the abbey but could also relate to the post-Dissolution occupation of the abbey. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Horeabbey.

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

Name

Horeabbey · An Mhainistir Liath

Area

1,536,833 m² (153.68 ha, 379.76 acres)

Civil parish

Horeabbey, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel Rural electoral division: 3,083 people in 1,039 households; 62% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashwell's-Lot, Ballinamona, Brittas, Deerpark, Farranamanagh, Loughnafina, Mountjudkin, St. Patricksrock

Placenames

Horeabbey 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.