# Islands, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lismalin, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Na hOileáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,389,840 m² (138.98 ha, 343.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,775 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Lismalin, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/lismalin.md - Barony: Slievardagh - Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 767 people lived in 273 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/48429 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 211810 - Centre: latitude 52.552109, longitude -7.517348 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Islands, from 78 m² to 805,520 m² (80.55 ha, 199.05 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 542667: 805,520 m² (80.55 ha, 199.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/542667.md - Parcel 556888: 537,003 m² (53.7 ha, 132.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556888.md - Parcel 557399: 21,457 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/557399.md - Parcel 572470: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/572470.md - Parcel 497468: 3,736 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/497468.md - Parcel 501395: 3,349 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/501395.md - Parcel 546986: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/546986.md - Parcel 496342: 2,423 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/496342.md - Parcel 552803: 1,775 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/552803.md - Parcel 557255: 1,223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/557255.md - Parcel 522510: 1,178 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/522510.md - Parcel 534794: 883 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/534794.md - Parcel 533239: 835 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/533239.md - Parcel 578927: 290 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/578927.md - Parcel 549815: 191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/549815.md - Parcel 523680: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/523680.md - Parcel 534793: 78 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/534793.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Islands in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 22 Dec 2021, Tipperary County Council 211875: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construct a new dormer type dwelling to replace existing derelict dwelling, for secondary wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/211875/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TS055-066: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS055-066----. In flat reclaimed grassland in upland region with good views in all directions. No surface remains visible of circular enclosure identified on aerial photographs (CUCAP 1970, BDR 56). Large hollow depression located immediately N of the cropmark, similar to enclosure possible (TS055-069----) c. 1km to SE which has a natural depression located close to the cropmark. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - TS055-069: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTS055-069----. In flat reclaimed grassland in upland region with good views in all directions, with river running alongside N side of field. No surface remains visible of circular cropmark identified on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDR 57, 15 July 1970) though there is a natural depression close to the possible enclosure. Other cropmarks in field appear to be associated with drainage of the field rather than archaeological. Similar enclosure possible (TS055-066----) c. 1km to NW has a depression located close to the cropmark. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Islands Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 22205519, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TS®no=22205519. Triple-arch hump-back road bridge over King's River, erected c. 1820. Rubble limestone walls with cut limestone voussoirs to segmental arches and limestone capping stones to parapet walls. V-shaped limestone cutwaters to upstream elevation and rectangular-profile projections with concrete additions to downstream. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Islands, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Islands. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/islands.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/islands.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/islands.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Islands with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydonnell: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballydonnell.md - Fanningsbog: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/fanningsbog.md - Gragaugh: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gragaugh.md - Modeshil (Sankey): https://everytownland.com/tipperary/modeshil-sankey.md - Mohober: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mohober.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/islands - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/islands