Killusty North

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killusty North, from 25 m² to 988,078 m² (98.81 ha, 244.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  my as constructed domestic garage, vehicular entrance and associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21306

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
• Natural Heritage Area: Slievenamon Bog NHA 002388

Recorded monuments

• TS070-106001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On the NW side of a farm courtyard. A 1ate 17th-century house (TS070-101002-) adjoins the SW gable of the tower house. There are good views in all directions. The Civil Survey (1654-6) records that 'Kyllosty' 'hath on itt a Castle, an Oarchard & Garden' and that 'James Brittin of Kyllosky Irish Papist' was proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 171). A rectangular three-storey with attic tower house (dims. 10m NE-SW; 8.5m NW-SE; wall T 1.4m) with a circular stair turret (int. diam. 2.15m; wall T 0.8m) projecting from the W angle. It is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with some sandstone and there is a slight, gradual base-batter (H 2.2-2.7m; Wth 0.15-0.2m). Some patches of harling survive on the exterior. A crack runs up the centre of the SE wall. The windows, with one exception, are all flat-headed and chamfered externally with punch-tooling within drafted margins. On the upper floors of the main block, the two-light windows, where they survive, have external hood-mouldings. The stair turret is lit by single-light windows and has a number of gun-loops. There is a projecting stone course at the top of the turret. All floors throughout were wooden, carried on corbels and were entered via pointed doorways from the spiral stairs. The ground floor was entered through a doorway (Wth c. 1m) in the SW wall. This cut limestone doorway, only the upper surround and embrasure of which are now evident, is blocked up. It may have continued in use when the 17th-century house was built onto this wall, providing access from one building to the other. The main ground floor chamber (dims. 7.9m NE-SW; 5.74m NW-SE) was lit by two windows, a broken out and blocked up window in the NW wall and an elliptical-headed loop in the SE wall. At some stage, probably in the 18th or 19th century, a fireplace was inserted into the NW embrasure, the excavated flue feeding into the fireplace at first-floor level. There is a large opening in the SE wall which was probably broken out to provide access from the yard. A 1909 sketch shows a modern door in this position (OPW files). The first-floor was lit by at least three windows, possibly four. Only the flat-headed single-light window at the N end of the NW wall is intact, the others, in the centre of the NE wall, at either end of the SE wall and possibly at the S end of the SW wall are all broken out or blocked up to varying degrees. There was fireplace, largely broken out, in the centre of the SE wall. At the W end of the NW wall, entered via a flat-headed doorway, there is a small garderobe chamber (L 2.05m; Wth 0.59m) which was lit by a flat-headed loop. The second floor was lit by five windows, four of these, at the N end of the NW wall, centrally placed in the NE and SW wall and at the E end of the SE wall, were probably two-light windows, though only the latter is relatively intact. There is a small broken-out single-light window at the S end of the SE wall. There is a large well-cut fireplace centrally placed in the NW wall, with a flat polished limestone chamfered lintel and chamfered jambs; the W jamb has an unusual elaborately carved chamber stop. There is no original fireplace in the SE wall at this level but a small 18th or 19th-century fireplace with brick surround has been inserted into the flue of the first-floor fireplace. The third floor was lit by four windows, a two-light window in the centre of the NE wall and single-light windows at the N end of the NW wall, E end of the SE wall and S end of the SW wall. A second embrasure in the SW wall is possibly for a gun-loop. The lower courses of the attic level survive, indicating that there was a single-light window in the NE and SW gable and possibly also a gun-loop at the W end of the latter gable. Each wall of the main block was surmounted by a gable, flush with the exterior, which occupied the centre of the wall but did not continue to the angles. A 1909 sketch shows a cut limestone chimney on the NW gable and the base of a chimney on the SE gable (OPW files), neither of which survive. There was a bartizan at the E angle, of which only the corbels supports and part of the base survive. On the SE wall, near the S angle there are two large drainage spouts projecting out, c. 0.6m apart, each with a separate hole in the masonry c. 0.15m above. On the NW wall there is a single drainage spout near the N angle. The tops of the walls have been capped with cement. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• TS070-106002 House - 17th century
  Description

  Built onto the SW gable of a tower house (TS070-106001-), on the NW side of a farm courtyard. This is a four-bay, two-storey house (dims. 13.25m NE-SW; 6.9m NW-SE; wall T 0.87-92m) with a chimney (D 0.74m; Wth 2.2m), now blocked up, projecting from the rear wall and a large projecting chimney (D 2.33m; Wth 2.55m) 1.4m from the S angle, also blocked internally, in the SW gable. The latter chimney appears to have been extended at the base, it has a large opening to the SW suggesting it may have served a building adjoining the SW gable of the house. On the 25-inch OS map a building is shown extending from the SW gable and another from the rear of the house. A one storey outbuilding currently occupies the W end of the SW gable. It is possible, given the very large size of the gable chimney, that originally the house extended further to the SW. The roof line is slightly lower than the gable, Craig and Garner (1975, 87) suggest that this may indicate that the roof was once thatched. Internally the house is divided into three rooms on the ground floor (D 5.52m), one room leading to another, with a wooden stairs rising in the S angle. The wall thickness and projecting chimneys suggest a late 17th-century date for this house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 December 2012

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, church/chapel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built 1883, with five-bay nave elevations, two-bay transepts, sacristy to south-east and having porches to east end of main elevations. Pitched slate roofs with decorative ridge cresting, cut limestone bellcote to gable-front and having cast-iron crosses to all gables. Hipped roof with cut limestone chimneystack to sacristy. Snecked rock-faced limestone walls with chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surrounds to opening and having buttresses to corners of gable-front. Station in canopied projection over entrance in gable-front and supported on sculpted corbel. Pointed arch window openings having cast-iron lattice glazing. Main entrance has pointed chamfered carved limestone surround with hood-moulding and double-leaf timber battened door with ornate strap hinges. Quatrefoil aperture with hood moulding to apex of gable-front. Timber diagonally-battened double-leaf door to west porch, set into shouldered opening with roundel to tympanum, all set into pointed opening, with steps. Interior comprising timber scissor brace roof structure, two arch pointed arcade to transepts having carved round limestone columns, sculpted marble reredos to apse and stained glass windows to transepts. Small carved timber gallery over porch to entrance end. Square-profile limestone piers to front of church with cut-stone cap and decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates and roughly-dressed limestone plinths having cast-iron railings. Square-profile limestone piers with gabled caps to graveyard, having double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates with snecked limestone walls terminated by a second pair of limestone piers.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Killusty North.

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

Name

Killusty North · Cill Osta Thuaidh

Area

2,973,396 m² (297.34 ha, 734.74 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltinan, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Kiltinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltinan electoral division: 299 people in 116 households; 80% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclera, Clare More, Killurney, Killusty South, Moanbarron, Tullow, Walshsbog

Placenames

Killusty North 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.