Hymenstown

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Hymenstown, from 254 m² to 228,110 m² (22.81 ha, 56.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Hymenstown 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.

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  a) changes to the elevations of the house and b) changes to the front elevation of the shed and Planning Permission to c) extend existing domestic garage to include a home office, home gym and a domestic storage area

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561176

• 30 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and for the demolition of the existing shed along with any necessary ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24125

• 23 May 2024N/a

  the construction of an extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house and to demolish the existing shed along with any necessary ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24120

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dweling house, site entrance and septic tank system including all assoicated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2363

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of a replacement milking parlour building with meal bin and all associated site works. Demolition of existing milking parlour required.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211245

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 Hymenstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS068-076 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Slightly raised (H 0.3m) circular area (dims. c. 24m N-S; c. 24m E-W) defined by slightly visible trace of fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.05m) S-W-N. Traces of field boundary (long axis E-W) at S of monument. Enclosure (TS068-076----) located c. 420m to WNW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-078 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Roughly oval area (dims. c. 47m N-S; c. 39m E-W) defined by earthen bank (Wth c. 8.5m; int. H c. 0.9m; ext. H c. 1.4m) NE-S-W-NW. Bank gone and modified to N. Possible entrance (Wth c. 5m) at SSE. Breach in bank at ENE (Wth c. 2m). External fosse (Wth c. 6.5m; D c. 0.45m) SSW-W. Bank covered in whitethorn with some ash. Interior clear of vegetation, except N side where there are lots of briars. Enclosure (TS068-095----) located c. 300m to SSW; Ringfort (TS068-080----) located c. 530m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-095 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pasture, with drain/stream flanking S-side. Circular area (dims. c. 33m N-S; c. 34m E-W) defined by earthen scarp (Wth c. 4m; H c. 1.5m); inner fosse (Wth c. 9.25m; D c. 1.5m) in which stream enters from SE and exits at SW; inner bank (Wth c. 9.25m; int. H 1.3m; ext H c. 0.7m); outer fosse (Wth c. 5.75m; D 1.1m) and outer bank (Wth c. 6.25m; int. H c. 1.1m; ext. H c. 0.3m). Interior level with numerous badger sets within. Enclosure (TS068-078----) located c. 360m to NNE; Enclosure (TS068-096----) located c. 580m to SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Hymenstown, house, 1740–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1760, having full-height two-storey with attic and basement return to rear, two-storey lean-to to north end of rear and single-storey lean-to to south. Possibly incorporating fabric of an earlier building. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding abuts to south. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with moulded limestone eaves course. Square-headed openings, with one-over-one timber pane sliding sash windows to upper floors of front façade having raised render surrounds with keystones and cut limestone sills, with internal decoratively panelled timber shutters to windows. Timber casement windows to return. Square-headed entrance opening having glazed double-leaf panelled timber doors in carved limestone surround with block motifs, fluted consoles, carved double keystone and entablature. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having rendered walls terminating in square-plan plinths with panelled render detail. Outbuildings to north, with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls with square-headed openings. North outbuilding is three-bay, formerly two-storey, having timber fittings to windows. South outbuilding is five-bay stables with timber battened half-doors. Square-profile roughcast render over limestone piers having carved caps with ball finials and cast-iron gate. Roughcast render over coursed rubble limestone masonry boundary walls.

• Hymenstown House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1860, having bay window to east end of façade and two-bay two-storey extension to west gable. Hipped slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to façade of main block, with limestone sills. Bay window comprising six-over-nine pane window flanked by four-over-six pane windows, with moulded heads to windows, moulded pilasters between windows bearing on carved limestone corbels which are part of continuous limestone sill. Barred windows to basement. Segmental-headed entrance opening with decorative spoked fanlight and timber panelled double-leaf door having carved consoles, panelled pilasters and paned flanking three-quarter sidelights. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Roughcast rendered boundary walls to west having pointed arch opening with timber battened door.

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 Hymenstown, 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 Hymenstown.

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

Name

Hymenstown · Baile Thoimín

Area

2,017,400 m² (201.74 ha, 498.51 acres)

Civil parish

Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballycarron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

346 people lived in 117 households in the Ballycarron electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boytonrath, Derrycloney, Garranlea, Lagganstown Lower, Masterstown

Placenames

Hymenstown 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.