Kilfithmone

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilfithmone, from 1,400 m² to 185,856 m² (18.59 ha, 45.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilfithmone 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.

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  a dormer extension to the rear of existing dwelling and a garden / storage shed and all other associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561346

• 12 Feb 2020Conditional

  traditional dormer style house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20118

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 Kilfithmone.

Recorded monuments

• TN034-020 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on high ground in an upland area with extensive views; nearby church and graveyard (TN034-107001-) to SE. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'castle irrepaireably demolished and the stump of a castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 73). James Lord Baron of Dunboyne is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The poorly preserved remains of small square tower house (int. dims. 5.95m N-S; 5.92m E-W; wall T 1.7m) constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. The W wall (L 9m; H 3) is the best preserved with partial remains of the N and S walls and only wall-footings of the E wall. The base of the doorway is visible in the centre of the E wall with the base of a garderobe chute in the S wall. There are possible wall-footings of an angle tower at the SE corner of the tower house. 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

• TN034-107 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. In 1318 the community of the town of Fythmothan and Burgageferne owed 3.6s. 8d for an escape and in 1338 the Burgesses of Fethmothan render 2 marks and 22d in time of peace (Bradley 1985, 57). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to Kilfithmone as an 'ancient Mannor haveing ye prvilege of a court leet and Court baron by pattent from the Crowne as wee are informed' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 73). There are no earthworks visible at ground level in association with this settlement. 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

• TN034-107001 Church
  Description

  Situated within the medieval borough of Kilfithmone (TN034-107) on a low hillock in an upland area with a nearby tower house (TN034-020) to the NW. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 284). A nineteenth-century C of I church and graveyard (TN034-0107002) containing nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones. No evidence of earlier church or headstones. According to the OS Letters the old church was demolished prior to the erection of the present church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 191). 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

• TN034-107002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated within the medieval borough of Kilfithmone (TN034-107) on a low hillock in an upland area with a nearby tower house (TN034-020) to the NW. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 284). A nineteenth-century C of I church and graveyard containing nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones. No evidence of earlier church (TN034-107001) or headstones. According to the OS Letters the old church was demolished prior to the erection of the present church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 191). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Kilfithmone Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1821. Comprising three-bay side elevation to nave, with two-stage stepped tower having castellations to west and lean-to vestry to northeast. Pitched artificial slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls with snecked masonry quoins to tower base and snecked masonry walls to upper level of tower. Pointed-arch openings with dressed stone surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows and with stained glass to east window. Sheet metal main door and timber battened vestry door with steps. Retaining interior features. Graveyard around church, with square dressed stone gate piers and wrought-iron gates to 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Kilfithmone.

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

Name

Kilfithmone · Cill Fhia Múin

Area

563,017 m² (56.3 ha, 139.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfithmone, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Borrisoleigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Borrisoleigh electoral division: 1,257 people in 487 households; 73% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonismullen, Coolgort, Fishmoyne, Gortalough, Kilfithmone, Killoskehan

Placenames

Kilfithmone 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.