Kilbarron

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilbarron, from 265 m² to 99,852 m² (9.99 ha, 24.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kilbarron 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.

• 17 Dec 2019Conditional

  (1) living room extension to rear of dwelling, extension to front elevation and roof windows as constructed (2) domestic garage extension and Permission to (3) reinstate site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601412

• 12 Dec 2019N/a

  (1) living room extension to rear of dwelling, extension to front elevation and roof windows as constructed (2) domestic garage extension and Permission to (3) reinstate site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601387

• 27 Nov 2019N/a

  (1) Living room extension to rear of dwelling, extension to front elevation and roof windows as constructed (2) Domestic garage extension (3) retain/reinstate site boundaries and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601316

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 Kilbarron.

Recorded monuments

• TN009-002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  A natural spring well located to the W of Kilbarron Church (TN009-003). The well is rectangular (dims. 1.4m x 1.5m; D 0.3m) and is enclosed by a drystone wall except at NW where the road runs past the well. No votive offerings visible. 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

• TN009-003001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the shores of Lough Derg to the W. Kilbarron well (TN009-002----) lies 117m to the NW. The castle (TN009-001001-) and bawn (TN009-001002-) of Castletown stands 780m to the NNW. Ballycolliton Castle (TN009-042---) stands 2.8km to the SSE. The church and townland in the diocese of Killaloe, are named after Bairrfhionn [fair headed], a sixth century saint, whose feast-day falls on the 21st of May. According to local tradition 'Kilbarron Abbey' was built on the site of a monastery founded by St. Bairrfhionn, but 'Dr. Gleeson had found no historical evidence of a monastery here' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 365). In 1302 the medieval parish church of 'Kilbarrayn' (Kilbarron) with vicarage was valued at 3 marks per annum in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 302). In 1463, a papal letter mentions the presence of Thomas O’Cormacan parish vicar of ‘Cyllwarayn’ [Kilbarron] (Cal. papal letters 1463, 176). In 1501, a papal letter was sent 'To the prior of the monastery, usually governed by a prior, of Fons vivus, Lora [Lorrha], d[iocese]. Killaloe, and Cormac Oheyga, canon of the church of Emly, and the official of Killaloe'. This letter was a 'mandate in favour of Edmund Okynayth [O'Kennedy], cleric, d. Killaloe (who, as he asserts, notwithstanding a defect of birth as the son of a priest and an unmarried woman, has been marked with clerical character, otherwise however duly). The pope has learned that the perpetual vicarage of the parish church of Cyllbarrayn [Kilbarron], d. Killaloe, is vacant at present and has been vacant for so long that by the Lateran statutes its collation has lawfully devolved on the apostolic see, although Aulanus Okennedy, who bears himself as a cleric, has detained it without canonical title, for more than a year, but short of a three-year period, as he still does. He hereby commands that the above three (or two or one of them), if, having summoned Aulanus and others concerned, they find the vicarage, whose annual value does not exceed 14 marks sterling, to be vacant (howsoever etc.), shall collate and assign it, with all rights and appurtenances, to Edmund, inducting him etc., having removed Aulanus and any other unlawful detainer and causing Edmund (or his proctor) to be admitted to the vicarage and its fruits etc., rights and obventions to be delivered to him' (Cal. papal letters 19 March 1501). In 1615 the Royal Visitation of the Diocese of Killaloe recorded the following details about the Rectory of Kilbarron; 'Rectoria de Kilborrin. Impropriata ad monasterium de Owney. Sr Edmund Walsh. Ecclesia et cancella in ruin. Vicaria ibidem Geraldus Fitzgerald in arte Buccalaureus. Decanus inservit. Valoris 5 libri' (Murphy and Ormond 1914, 220). From these details we see that the fabric of the church and chancel are described as being in a ruinous condition. The impropriation of the rectory belongs to the Cistercian Abbey of Owney [Abington, Co. Limerick LI014-014002-]. The rectory is under the lay patronage of Sir Edmund Walsh of Abington who died in 1618. The vicar of Kilbarron is Gerald Fitzgerald, and the value of the vicarage is worth £5. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Tipperary recorded the following details about Kilbarron parish and its patronage; 'The sd Parish lying and being in the Barrony of Lower Ormond. The rectory thereof being parcell of Commandery of Anny in the County of Lymericke and two thirds of the tythes both great and smale of the sd parish many yeares sithence were granted to the Earle of Corke by Letters Pattents from the Crowne (as wee are informed) and the viccarage being one third a viccarage collative by the Bishop of Killaloe. The Tythes both great and smale of ye sd Parish was worth in 1640 £30. Two p[ar]ts thereof being impropriat and the other third p[ar]t belonging to the Viccar. In the sd Parish of Kilbarrane is one plantation acre & a halfe of Gleabland belonging to the Viccarage valued in the yeare 1640 at 6 s[hillings]. The sd acre & a halfe of gleabland being a little distant from the Church of Kilbarane on the south side, situated, lying and being in the fower pl[owlan]ds of Castletowne, and is fenced round with a ditch It is at pr[e]sent wast' (Simington 1934, 305-6). Church ruins depicted on the 1654 Down Survey map of Killbarron parish (NLI MS 721). Medieval parish church ruins described in 1840 as follows; 'This Parish is called in Irish Cill Barráin, which signifies the Church of St. Barron. See Kilbarron Parish in the Co. of Donegal near Ballyshannon. The old Church of this Parish is situated on low ground about twenty perches from the east bank of the Shannon. It had nave and choir and a square tower at the west end, but this tower is now destroyed except a fragment of the height of the side walls. The nave measures on the inside thirty four feet six inches [10.5m] in length and twenty four feet [7.3m] in breadth and the choir twenty nine feet [8.8m] in length and twenty one feet eight inches [6.6m]in breadth. The east window is disfigured on the inside but in tolerable preservation on the outside, where it is pointed and constructed of cut limestone and measures five feet one inch [1.55m] in height and seven inches [0.17m] in width. At the distance of five feet seven inches [1.7m] from the east gable the south wall contained a small window which is now totally disfigured on the inside and nearly so on the outside, its east side and the stone in which its pointed top was (is) formed only remaining; it was constructed of cut limestone and it can be ascertained from what remains that it was three feet ten inches [1.16m] in height and ten inches [0.25m] in width. The choir arch was pointed and constructed of cut, limestone, but its southern half is-now totally disfigured; it was eleven feet [3.35m] in height, but its width cannot now be easily determined. At the distance of five feet [1.5m] from the middle gable, the south wall of the nave contains a rectangular window measuring on the inside five feet [1.5m] in height and two feet five inches [0.73m] in width, but it is entirely disfigured on the outside. It is constructed of hammered limestone on the inside. At the distance of seven feet eight inches [2.33m] from this there is, on the same wall, another window of similar form and dimensions on the inside, but its form cannot be seen on the outside as it is filled and entirely covered with the roots and leaves of strong luxuriant ivy. It is constructed of brown sand stone chiselled, but the stones are displaced by the roots of the ivy. The north wall has another window placed at the distance of five feet [1.5m] from the middle gable; it is rectangular on the inside where it measures six feet two inches [1.88m] in height and two feet four inches [0.7m] in width and round topped on the outside, where it is three feet, five and a half inches [1.05m] in height and six and a half inches [0.15m] in width. The tower at the west end is nine feet four inches [2.85m] by twenty four feet [7.3m]. Its first floor rested on a stone arch which is now nearly destroyed but no idea can be formed of its original height from what remains. This tower communicates with the nave of the Church by a pointed doorway, measuring five feet seven inches [1.7m] in height and three feet five inches [1.04m] in width. The doorway of the nave must have been on the north wall near the west end, where there is now a breach. The sidewalls of this Church are three feet thick [0.9m] and about twelve feet [3.65m] high and built of lime stones of a good size (now quarried) cemented with lime and sand mortar. There is a large graveyard now much in use attached to this Church' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 21-2). Church ruins described in 1943 as the; ‘Ruin consists of choir 30 feet [9.15m] x 21 feet [6.4m] approx. and nave 33’ [10m] x 24 feet [7.3m] approx. At west end is base of a rectangular tow

• TN009-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the shores of Lough Derg to the W. Kilbarron church listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a 'church and chancell in ruin' (Murphy and Ormond 1914, 220). In the centre of a rectangular graveyard (approx. dims. 46m N-S; 72m E-W) are the ruins of a nave and chancel church (TN009-003001) built with roughly coursed sandstone and limestone rubble with an angle buttress at the NE. Graveyard contains 18th and 19th century headstones. Graveyard boundary wall was first built in 1868 when the Board of Guardians, of Borrisokane Union, acting as a Burial Board, proposed 'Enclosing the Burial Grounds of Cloghprior and Kilbarron. A day will shortly be fixed, duly published, when a Committee of Board, together with their Clerk, will meet the Ratepayers at the aforesaid Burial Grounds for the purpose of ascertaining what is required to fence them, By Order James A. Ralph, Clerk to Burial Board, 9th November, 1868' (Nenagh Guardian 11/11/1868). In 1880 Kilbarron Church ruins and graveyard was vested by the Church of Ireland to Burial Board of Borrisokane Workhouse Union. The head of a single-light ogee-headed window from the medieval church has been reused as a headstone in S quadrant of graveyard. Visit https://skfb.ly/ovWKp to see 3D model of 18th century headstone from Kilbarron graveyard. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 12 July 2022

• TN009-003003 Mausoleum
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the shores of Lough Derg to the W. Kilbarron medieval church is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a 'church and chancell in ruin' (Murphy and Ormond 1914, 220). In centre of a rectangular graveyard (TN009-003002) are the ruins of the nave and chancel parish church (TN009-003001) built with roughly coursed sandstone and limestone rubble with an angle buttress at the NE. A seventeenth-century mausoleum built with some reused fabric of the medieval church stands in the NE angle of the chancel has a memorial slab on top with an inscription which reads 'GULIELLMUS CLEBURNE DE BALLICULLATAN ARMIGER OBVT VICESSIMO SECUNDO DIE MENSIS OCTOBRIS ANNO DOM 1684'. A memorial stone dated 1682 has been inserted into the W face of the 17th century mausoleum belonging to the Cleburne family of Ballycolliton Castle (TN009-042-----) located 2.9km to the SSE. O'Hart (1892, 113-15) recorded the following details about the Cleburne family of Ballycolliton; 'William Ciallmhar (or "Wise William") of St. John's Manor, co. Wexford (third son of Thomas, of Cliburne-Hall and Killerby, 14th Lord of the Manor of Cliburne), came into Ireland with his uncle, Sir Gerard Lowther, and settled in the "City of Kilkenny." He held the Manor of St. John, Enniscorthy, co. Wexford, of Sir Gerard Lowther (Lord Chief Justice of Ireland), which manor the said Gerard bequeathed to his nephew, Lowther Parsons. In 1677, he purchased from Capt. Solomon Cambie "the castles, towns and lands of Ballycollitan, the villadge and lands of Bunnadubber [Bunnabober] and of Killinboy or Knock, Ballycullatan; also that part of Annagh from the Castle of Annagh [TN009-036----] to the ditch of Kilbulloir [Kilbiller], together with all the profits and emoluments from the said castles, towns, villadges and lands," as by a Deed enrolled in the Public Record Office, Dublin, dated 20th July, 1677. William of Ballycollitan Castle, eldest son of "William the Wise," was born 14th September, 1642, died 22nd October, 1684. (Will proved, 5th February, 1684-5, Pub. Rec. Off. Dublin.) Though a firm believer in the "Divine right of Kings," he married the daughter of a Cromwellian officer, Elizabeth Cambie of Annagh Castle, county Tipperary, by whom he had one child, a daughter Elizabeth, born 22nd May, 1682, and died 4th June, 1682. Having no male issue, all his landed estate in Wexford and Tipperary passed to his nephew William, son of his brother Richard of Bunadubber, with the proviso that, "in default of heir's male of their bodies, all his property was to descend to the heirs general of the said William and Richard. In his will he directs that "my body shall be buried in the Church of Kilbarron, covering my grave with a plaine marble stone, ingraving thereon my name and coate of Armes. The inscription on the tomb-stone on the vault of Sir William Clebburne, as he is called, is (under a shield of his arms Argent 3 chevronels braced, a chief sable). William, son and heir of Richard of Bunadubber, succeeded to the "castles, towns, and lands of Ballycolitan, Bunnadubber, Knockballycolitan, and part of Annagh, in accordance with the will of his uncle William". There is an early eighteenth-century grave-slab in the SE angle of the chancel dated 1706 which is dedicated to a local priest Donatus O'Kennedy. Visit https://skfb.ly/ownGT to see a 3D model of the 1682 memorial stone. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 13 July 2022

• TN009-003004 Cross-slab
  Description

  Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the shores of Lough Derg to the W. Medieval parish church ruins of Kilbarron listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a 'church and chancell in ruin' (Murphy and Ormond 1914, 220). In centre of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (TN009-003002-) are the ruins of a nave and chancel church (TN009-003001-) built with roughly coursed sandstone and limestone rubble with an angle buttress at the NE. Cross-slab described by Gleeson (1951, 101) as follows; ‘Locally called "The Abbey” though there is now no historical evidence to support this tradition. There is a late Cross slab in the nave, standing up between two modern tombstones and this feature was missed by O'Donovan's Surveyor but may not have been there at that time’. A ring-headed cross with naive carving of the crucified Christ, the cross head has expanded terminals and a stepped base all of which is framed within an incised border visible on a tapering slab (H 1.6m; T 0.13m; Wth at top 0.61m; Wth at base 0.78m) of possible medieval date which stands against the E face of the chancel arch on the S side. A modern inscription to the Moran family has been carved across the face of this cross-slab. To see a 3D model of this cross-slab visit https://skfb.ly/ownYI Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 13 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Kilbarron, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilbarron.

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

Name

Kilbarron · Cill Bharráin

Area

439,274 m² (43.93 ha, 108.55 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Kilbarron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

646 people lived in 248 households in the Kilbarron electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Coolbaun, Glenbower, Kilbiller, Lahesseragh, Skehanagh

Placenames

Kilbarron 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.