Killahara

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killahara, from 23 m² to 215,641 m² (21.56 ha, 53.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Killahara 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.

• 5 Sept 2024Conditional

  an eco glamping site which shall consist of 3no. eco lodge cabins, 1no. eco spa lodge cabin containing 2 separate living accommodations, outdoor sheltered communal area, entrance, car parking area, new effluent treatment system together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460738

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  the demolition of a 43sqm single storey extension to rear, construction of a new 66sqm single storey extension to rear and associated alterations to existing single storey dwelling, change of use of 40sqm agricultural shed to home office and domestic store room, new treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460225

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new 6 span A-roofed slatted shed complete with underground effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23138

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  new two storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with effluent treatment system, site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211890

• 16 Dec 2021N/a

  new two storey dwelling, garage, septic tank with effluent treatment system, site entrance and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211834

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 Killahara.

Recorded monuments

• TN035-067 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby enclosure (TN035-068) to the SE. Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. 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

• TN035-068 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of protruding rock outcrop in undulating countryside with nearby earthwork site (TN035-067) to the NW. A heavily overgrown circular area enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank. Impossible to examine site due to dense cover of vegetation. 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

• TN035-070 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock in undulating countryside with a nearby tower house (TN034-071) to the S. Outlined on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. 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

• TN035-071 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop with an enclosure site (TN035-070----) to the N. A well-preserved four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 12.08m NW-SE; 9.66m NE-SW; wall T 2.4m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble and alternating hammer dressed quoins with slight base-batter. The main entrance, consisting of a two-centred chamfered and rebated doorway in the NW wall, gives access to a lobby protected by an overhead murder-hole and a cross-loop in the SE wall. There is a guardroom in the W angle off the lobby and to the N of the lobby is an antechamber from which the spiral stair in the N angle and the ground-floor chamber is reached. The ground floor is lit by a single-light elliptical-headed window in the SE wall with twin-light elliptical windows set into segmental-arched embrasures with wicker centring in the SW and NE walls. Wooden floors were carried on joists supported on a wall-plate carried on corbels on all levels except the third floor which rests on top of the barrel vault over the second floor. Fenestration consists of single and twin-light elliptical-headed windows and twin-light ogee-headed windows. At first-floor level there is a flat-headed fireplace with joggled voussoirs on the SW wall and a garderobe in the E angle accessed off the E splay of a window embrasure in the NE wall. The murder-hole is accessed from a first-floor chamber while smaller rooms over the lobby orientated on a NE-SW axis are accessed off the spiral stairs. A mural passage in the NE wall leads to a garderobe in the E angle at third-floor level accessed off the spiral stairs. The third floor has been greatly modified in the nineteenth century as evidenced by bricked-up opes and brick-arched windows. The wall-walk is reached from mural stairs in the NW wall which are accessed off the N splay of a window embrasure in the NW wall. There is a secret mural chamber in the NE wall at the N end at third-floor level. Also at third floor level is a blocked-up keyhole gun loop in the SE wall. A garderobe chute exits at the base of the SE wall off-centre to the E. A combination of stone dressing, consisting of fine pecking with drafted margins, together with architectural features suggest a late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century date for this 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

• TN035-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low N-S ridge in undulating countryside with good views to the S. A circular area (diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1-1.5m) and an outer fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.6m) best preserved at NW. No clear entrance feature visible. Evidence of mortared wall-footings protrudes from the top of the bank at NE. A limekiln was inserted into the fosse at NW in the nineteenth century. 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

• TN035-073 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on a low E-facing slope in undulating countryside. Depicted as a small circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. 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

• TN041-003 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in a reclaimed field on a break in an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland with the field boundaries to the W and S of the former site removed. The site appears as a circular cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1973 (GSIAP, S 464/3). 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint Michael's, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c.1830, with three-bay nave, chancel to east, and having entrance porches, gabled to southwest and lean-to to northeast corners. Now in use as house. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof having limestone eaves course, dormer windows and rendered chimney additions and with bellcote to west gable. Snecked roughly-dressed limestone walls with dressed limestone base batter, quoins, copings, dressings to bellcote and chamfered surrounds to openings. Lancet windows, tripled to gables with quatrefoil light over west and cinquefoil over east, double-lights to nave with cast-iron lattice glazing. Pointed-arch opening to south porch, having timber battened door with strap hinges and shouldered-arch opening with replacement door to north, both with limestone steps. Recent doorway inserted in west gable. Graveyard to site. Dressed limestone gate piers with cast-iron railings to front rubble limestone boundary.

• Killahara House, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with recent hipped extension to west and uPVC conservatory to front. Hipped artificial slate roof with dressed limestone chimneystacks and with gablet and plat-bands to west elevation. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Doorway obscured by recent uPVC conservatory. Rubble limestone boundary walls and cast-iron piers and gates to site.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1870, with banded cylindrical shaft, fluted neck, fluted spout with ram's head bucket grip, fluted cap with pointed finial and cow's tail pumping handle. Set in rubble limestone walled enclosure.

• School, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey school house, built c.1880, with lean-to three-bay single-storey porch to north elevation. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs having brick chimneystacks and rooflight. Rendered walls with limestone plaque over doorway. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and two-over-two to addition, with tripartite casements to southeast and northeast elevations, with stone sills. Timber battened door. Dressed limestone piers and rubble limestone boundary walls to site with wrought-iron gate.

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 Killahara.

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.

• Killahara, Thurles5 sales

Name

Killahara · Coill Eachra

Area

3,312,542 m² (331.25 ha, 818.55 acres)

Civil parish

Loughmoe West, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrush electoral division: 556 people in 184 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybristy, Dovea Lower, Kilkillahara, Kilrush, Lewagh Beg, Lisheenataggart, Mullaunbrack

Placenames

Killahara 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.