Landsdown

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Landsdown, from 122 m² to 125,380 m² (12.54 ha, 30.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Landsdown 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.

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  1. ) existing main house (371 sq.m) reconfiguration of rooms on all three levels including moving kitchen to entrance level, new bathrooms on basement and entrance levels, existing 1990's extension to have a new window, new rooflight and enlarged gable window with new access to a new terrace (10 sq.m), 2.) existing outbuilding (158 sq.m) change of use to two storey, two bedroom dwelling (140 sq.m), partial demolition of ancillary building (12 sq.m), 3) new timber clad storage shed of (80 sq.m) adjacent to existing vehicular entrance, New waste treatment system and associated percolation area - protected structures TRPS 610 and TRPS 611

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24197

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  hobby room and external patio to the rear of the property along with all ancillary works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460618

• 8 Mar 2024Refused

  to renovate existing dilapidated house including: reroofing, alterations, energy efficiency, rear extension, improvements to existing road entrance, decommissioning and replacement of existing wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 2445

• 21 Feb 2024N/a

  renovation of existing dilapidated house including: reroofing, alterations, energy efficiency, rear extension, improvements to existing road entrance, decommissioning and replacement of existing wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 2429

• 16 Feb 2024N/a

  renovation of existing dilapidated house including: reroofing, alterations, energy efficiency, rear extension, improvements to existing road entrance, decommissioning and replacement of existing wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary works

  Outline permission · Tipperary County Council, 2427

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 Landsdown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Landsdown.

Architectural heritage

• Landsdown House, country house, 1775–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over half-basement, dated 1779. Steep hipped roof with central valley, rendered chimneystacks and carved cornice. Slate-hung front façade with diamond-cut panels flanking first floor windows bearing date and initials, rendered elsewhere, with cut limestone quoins. Central bay has grouped openings comprising tall round-headed window to first floor and entrance doorway to ground, both flanked by detached side-lights. Venetian-style also to first floor of south gable. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor, nine-over-six to ground, with limestone sills,continuous to first floor central bay. Entrance doorcase with carved limestone surround and segmental pediment with scroll consoles, having square-headed opening with timber panelled door, approached by flight of limestone steps with cut limestone sweep walls. Courtyard of outbuildings to northeast.

• Landsdown House, gate lodge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1780, with gabled central breakfront. Hipped artificial slate roof with brick chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber double casement two-pane windows to front and timber sliding sash two-over-two pane window to south gable, with stone sills. Entrance flanked by cut limestone Doric distyle in antis portico with pediment. Cut limestone piers with carved caps and having ornate cast-iron gates to road.

• Landsdown House, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant gateway to Landsdown House, erected c.1840, comprising square-plan cut limestone piers with plinths and caps, and plinth walls all having decorative cast-iron gates and railings and limestone wheel guards.

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 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 Landsdown.

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

Name

Landsdown · An Leathsheisreach

Area

577,208 m² (57.72 ha, 142.63 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownarra, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingeer, Ballywilliam, Castletown, Cooneen, Lisheenbrien, Shesharoe

Placenames

Landsdown 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.