Inane
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Eidhneán
- Area
- 204.6 ha
- 506 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,483 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inane, from 271 m² to 181,559 m² (18.16 ha, 44.86 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 Inane 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
18 Sept 2025Conditional
1) a loose bovine animal accommodation shed, 2) a new silage slab with walls, 3) RETENTION PERMISSION for existing roof on collecting yard and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560933
2 Sept 2025N/a
1) a loose bovine animal accommodation shed, 2) a new silage slab with walls, 3) RETENTION PERMISSION for existing roof on collecting yard and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560857
15 Jun 2025Conditional
an extension to existing dry sow house, new staff facilities including canteen, toilets, showers, office, wood pellet silo and PERMISSION for new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560557
29 Aug 2023N/a
wood pellet storage silo and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360676
9 Feb 2022N/a
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DRY SOW HOUSE, NEW STAFF FACILITIES INCLUDING CANTEEN, TOILETS, SHOWERS, OFFICE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260053
1 Feb 2021N/a
to demolish existing derelict structure, form new entrance onto private avenue, erect 3 no. camping pods and 1 no. bin store/bike shed, formation of parking area, installation of a new effluent treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2196
16 Jun 2020Conditional
1. a new slatted, loose and cubicle bovine animal accommodation shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works and 2. a new silage slab with associated storage tank
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20600
4 Jun 2020N/a
1. A new slatted, loose and cubicle bovine animal accommodation shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works.2. A new silage slab with associated storage tank
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20551
27 May 2020N/a
(1) New slatted, loose and cubicle bovine animal accommodation shed with slatted waste storage and all associated site works and (2) A new silage slab with associated storage tank
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20516
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Inane.
Recorded monuments
- TN017-001001 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated in a low-lying area at the base of a steep hill which lies to the NW. A covered, circular well (Wth 1.7m; H 2.2m) of keyhole plan with the entrance (L 2m; Wth 0.76m) at SE. A wall (Wth 0.35m) encloses five steps which lead down to the entrance. The well is built of sandstone with crude cement mortar. Three iron bars support a crude stone 'lintel' consisting of stones set on edge. The well is c. 1m above external ground level and has an external cement cap smoothed over a corbelled roof. 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
- TN017-002 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Possible bivallate ringfort located on the E-facing slope of a low hillock on undulating land, under tillage. Indicated on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure consisting of a double ring, but not indicated on subsequent 1901-5 ed. The site has been levelled and but may have been located on a natural scarp in the field which provides a level area (diam. c. 40m) and appears to have a slight hint of a bank at N. Cropmark of bivallate ringort (TN017-089----) 180m to NE. See attached google earth photographs taken 10/07/2018 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 29 May 2019
- TN017-003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope, just off the crest of a hill in undulating terrain, under pasture. Marked on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map as a large irregular enclosure (diam. c. 58m) within woodland and may have been a small field which was planted with trees. Not shown on the 1901-5 ed. Not visible at ground level. 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
- TN017-089 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Cropmark of bivallate D-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) with straight side at W visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of bivalate ringfort (TN017-002----) 180m to SW. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 10/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 May 2019
Architectural heritage
- Inane House, country house, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached seven-bay two-storey house, built c.1825, with slightly advanced gabled end bays flanking arcaded central bays and with earlier nine-bay two-storey dwelling to west, c.1730. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks, decorative eaves course with carved basal corbels. Smooth rendered and lined-and-ruled rendered walls, having decorative croix pommées and shields to front elevation and cut stone plinths. Double trefoil-headed leaded one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows in square-headed openings with label-mouldings, cut limestone sills, and with render panels below to first floor. Narrower four-over-four pane timber sash windows to rear block. Pseudo four-centred arches separated by panelled pilasters to arcade. Decorative traceried windows throughout, with decorative spandrels to square-headed openings. Segmental-headed timber panelled double-leaf door in limestone doorcase flanked by pseudo four-center-arch windows.
- Inane House, country house, 1710–1750 · Regional interest
Description
Nine-bay two-storey house built c.1730 to north of later house. Slated roof, half-hipped to south end and gabled to north. Rendered and cut-stone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls. Narrow square-headed openings throughout. Timber margined casement windows to southernmost bay and timber sliding sash windows with exposed boxes elsewhere, all with cut-stone sills. Replacement glazed timber door.
- Inane House, stables, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Stable blocks, added 1826, forming southwest and northwest ranges of courtyard, with later extensions to house to south. Seven-bay two-storey ranges of former stables, having slightly advanced pedimented bay to each, with pseudo four-centred carriage arches. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with limestone string course and plinth. Double trefoil-headed traceried timber sliding sash windows in square-headed openings with limestone sills and circular metal pivoted windows to first floor, and casement windows to ground floor, all with lattice glazing. Square-headed door openings glazed timber doors with traceried overlights. Cut limestone lantern to northwest range. Rendered fountain to centre of courtyard. Further outbuildings to north. Sandstone demesne wall to site boundary.
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 10 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 Inane.
- 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 Inane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Inane · Eidhneán
- Area
- 2,045,970 m² (204.6 ha, 505.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Roscrea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roscrea electoral division: 6,606 people in 2,431 households; 60% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakill, Ballystanly (Co. Offaly), Borris, Carrick, Cloncracken, Pintown
- Placenames
- Inane 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.