Killenure

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killenure, from 148 m² to 92,123 m² (9.21 ha, 22.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Nov 2022Conditional

  a single-storey extension to existing community centre for universal access welfare facilities and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260613

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockavilla National School, Dundrum 000649

Recorded monuments

• TS052-053 Mound
  Description

  On flat poorly drained grassland with good views in all directions. Hollow depression (diam. 30m N-S; D 0.4m) with low rise (diam. 13m N-S) in centre of hollow may represent the remains of a levelled mound. No monument is indicated in this area on the first (1840) ed. OS six inch map and indicated as a small mound with attached enclosure to E on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS052-057 House - fortified house
  Description

  In grassland on top of a low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'one demolished castle irrepairable & one thatcht house' and 'Charles Dwyer of Cullyneur Irish Papist' is listed as proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 91). Impressive well-preserved remains of an early 17th-century rectangular four-storey high three-bay fortifed house with circular flanking towers at each angle built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. No base-batter visible. House entered through pointed doorway in centre of N wall which gives access to the ground floor, all floors were wooden carried on wall offsets. The N and S walls of the central block (ext. dims. 7.45m N-S; 12.9m E-W; wall T 1.05m) are twin gable fronted with crenellated circular towers (int. diam. 3.8m; wall T 1.05m) on all four angles. The towers which are three storeys high contain the private chambers of the castle dwellers and are accessed at each floor level from the main central block. Evidence of fireplaces at upper floor levels in each angle tower. No evidence for any garderobe. Large pointed archway inserted into the centre of the W and E walls in the 19th century. During same period the SE angle tower was converted into a residence with the insertion of sash windows. 18th-century house added onto NE angle of castle with NE tower incorporated into the 18th-century house. Fireplaces at ground floor and first-floor level in N wall off centre to W and in S wall off centre to W. Chimney stack on top of gable on S wall located off centre to E acts as a dummy stack which serves no fireplace but maintains the symmetery of the S face of the castle. Fireplace at second-floor level off centre to N in W wall and joggled fireplace in centre of E wall at first-floor level. Gun loops visible on ground, first and second floor levels on all four angle towers but none on the main rectangular block. String course on external face of castle at ground and upper floor levels acts as a decorative feature of the castle, large water spouts protrude from S face at second-floor level. Ground floor windows on S and N walls are narrow single-light round-headed windows, with large transomed windows of single, twin and triple lights with hood-mouldings for the upper storeys. The gable fronted third storey has a single light in both gables while the large triple-light transomed windows are kept for the second floor which appears to have been the main floor of the castle. At first-floor level there are twin-light transomed windows. Tall rectangular chimney stacks rise high above the wall-walk of the angle towers while all six gables on the N, E, S and W facades are surmounted by tall stacks, two on the N and S walls and one on the E and W walls. Eight chimney stacks still visible, may originally have had ten tall chimney stacks rising high above the roof line of the fortified house. Only four gables survive and eight chimney stacks, may originally have ten stacks rising above the roof line of the castle. Water spouts directly over second-floor level still visible on the N and S facades. 18th-century two-storey house to E of fortified house may be built around the remains of the 17th-century thatched house mentioned in the Civil Survey. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 October 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1806, with three-bay nave, transepts with porch to west side of northern, and having flat-roofed shallow chancel projection. Porch additions, 1917, to gable-front and south transept, and flat-roofed sacristy addition, c. 1970 to east. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings and having cross finials to gables. Rendered bellcote to gable-front. Dry dashed walls with smooth rendered plinth. Rock-faced limestone walls to south transept and entrance porches, latter having moulded limestone string course and cut stone plinth. Round-headed window openings having rendered surrounds, stained glass and stone sills. Triple-lancet window to chancel. Simple tracery to west window. Entrance porch has steps and round-headed openings with chamfered cut limestone surrounds, alternate cut and rock-faced limestone voussoirs to doorway with keystone with dated keystone '1917', and having hood-mouldings and cut limestone sills to flanking windows with trefoil roundels above. Double-leaf timber battened doors to entrance and south porch, latter with hood-moulding, and timber battened door to north porch. Timber battened door to south transept. Timber backdrop to altar with arcade-effect panels separated by pilasters. Galleries to nave and transepts with timber arcade-effect rails with fluted pilasters. Carved limestone baptismal font. Tarmacadamed area around church with rock-faced boundary walls with cast metal railings and gates.

• Killenure Castle, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey country house, comprising T-plan five-bay block, c. 1770, with central pedimented breakfront and rear return, with four-bay block built to south-west, c. 1800, to give overall L-plan. Two-storey pitched addition to north gable, with single-storey lean-to extension to rear and having catslide addition to rear of later block. Early seventeenth-century fortified house located to west. Hipped slate roof, half-hipped to north gable of early block, with lead flashing, rendered chimneystacks with round and square terracotta pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, some three-over-six pane to rear, with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening to later block having double-leaf timber panelled door with paned overlight, fronted by open hipped slate canopy supported on timber posts, with tooled limestone steps. Fortified house has round-plan corner towers and three-bay four-storey gable-fronted façade, triple-gabled rear elevation, rubble limestone walls, dressed limestone string courses, loops to towers and ground floor of main facades, upper floors of latter having square-headed one-and mullioned two-light and three-light windows, some blocked, to main facades with chamfered limestone surrounds and label-mouldings. Pointed-arch doorways to front and rear walls, and flight of external steps up to north-west tower. Conical slate roof to north-eastern tower, rubble limestone chimneystacks and dripstones. Some later square-headed window openings to south-east tower, with red brick surrounds, one having carved timber traceried casement windows. Lofted stable and coach house to rear of house with half-hipped slate roofs and rendered rubble limestone walls and having square- and segmental-headed openings. Three-bay single-storey gate-lodge with hipped slate roof and rendered walls and entrance gates with dressed limestone piers to vehicluar and pedestrian entrances with wrought-iron gates and flanking rubble limestone walls.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Killenure.

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

Name

Killenure · Cúil an Iúir

Area

1,428,716 m² (142.87 ha, 353.04 acres)

Civil parish

Oughterleague, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Lower

Electoral division

Oughterleague, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oughterleague electoral division: 575 people in 189 households; 81% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarrane, Ballymore, Cappamurragh, Clonaspoe, Knockavilla, Lisloran

Placenames

Killenure 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.