Lehinch

116 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lehinch, from 191 m² to 613,748 m² (61.37 ha, 151.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Lehinch 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.

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  (a) the construction of a 2 bay extension with related signage to the existing garage and showroom (Previously permitted under Planning Ref No: 07/510824 and (b) all landscaping, boundary treatments and associated external site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25129

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: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011

Recorded monuments

• TN003-001001 House - fortified house
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise of ground on the floodplains of the River Shannon which is located to the NW. The present Ireton's Castle was depicted as 'Derry Castle' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and the Civil Survey refers to this site as DerrymcEgan castle (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 317). On the 1840 edition, Ireton's Castle was marked at a different location near to Belle Isle House where a nineteenth-century windmill (TN004-015----) survives today. It is possible that the windmill was built on the site of Ireton's Castle some time in the nineteenth century. However, it is also possible that there may have been only one castle at the present location (i.e. on OS 3) and that it may have been refortified or rebuilt by Ireton around 1650 (Gleeson 1915, 316). The name of the castle may have then changed from Derry Castle to Ireton's Castle. A seventeenth-century, three-storey, Z-plan fortified house, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. It consists of a central rectangular block (int. dims. 7.5m E-W x 6.3m N-S; wall T 1.6m) with spear-shaped angle towers at NE and SW angles. The bawn wall (TN003-001002-) runs off the NE angle tower and returns onto the NW angle of the building with nineteenth-century farmhouses built against the bawn wall. The fortified house is accessed from a round-arched rebated doorway, dressed with slight faint reaming across its surface, off-centre to the N on the W wall with a two-storey fore-building (Wall T 0.75m; int. dims. 3.9m x 4m) built up against the W face of the building. It is unclear if this fore-building is contemporary or a later addition to the fortified house. The doorway, which is protected inside by an overhead murder-hole, gives access to the ground-floor chamber from which the two angle towers are accessed. All floors in the building were wooden and were carried in the thickness of the wall. All the chambers in the angle towers are accessed off the main rectangular block. There are fireplaces at first and second-floor level in the NE angle of the main chamber with a fine rectangular chimney stack protruding from the NE angle of the building. The NE and SW angle towers have gun loops at first and second-floor levels. An interesting feature of the angle towers is that they were built in two phases consisting of a triangular projecting tower two storeys high built onto a three-storey high circular angle tower giving the tower its distinctive pear-shaped appearance. The triangular projection is accessed from a flat-headed doorway at second-floor level from the circular angle tower in both angles. The building has the appearance of a fortified house with star-shaped artillery fort style angle towers. At wall-walk level there are bartizans on the NE and SW angle towers supported on fine cut-stone corbels. Between the corbels of the bartizan there are large drip-stones protruding from the face of the wall. The interior walls of the building are obscured by the dense cover of ivy. The angle towers with their triangular external appearance are similar to the angle towers at Kilcolgan fortified house, Co. Offaly, which had a datestone of 1649 over its destroyed entrance (O'Brien and Sweetman 1997, 157-8). According to Gleeson (1915, 316) the castle was built around 1650 by Ireton during the Cromwellian period. 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

• TN003-001002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on a low natural rise of ground on the floodplains of the River Shannon which is located to the NW. The present Ireton's Castle was depicted as 'Derry Castle' on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and the Civil Survey refers to this site as DerrymcEgan castle (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 317). On the 1840 edition, Ireton's Castle was marked at a different location near to Belle Isle House where a nineteenth-century windmill (TN004-015) survives today. It is possible that the windmill was built on the site of Ireton's Castle some time in the nineteenth century. However, it is also possible that there may have been only one castle at the present location (i.e. on OS 3) and that it may have been refortified or rebuilt by Ireton around 1650 (Gleeson 1915, 316). The name of the castle may have then changed from Derry Castle to Ireton's Castle. A seventeenth-century, three-storey, Z-plan fortified house (TN003-001001), built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. It consists of a central rectangular block with pear-shaped angle towers at NE and SW angles. The bawn wall runs off the NE angle tower and returns onto the NW angle of the building with nineteenth-century farmhouses built against the bawn wall. The fortified house is accessed from a round-arched rebated doorway, dressed with slight faint reaming across its surface, off-centre to the N on the W wall with a two-storey fore-building (Wall T 0.75m; int. dims. 3.9m x 4m) built up against the W face of the building. It is unclear if this fore-building is contemporary or a later addition to the fortified 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

• TN004-015 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of ground with good views in all directions. On the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map the name 'Ireton's castle' is depicted where the present windmill is today. The windmill first appears on the 1905 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. There are no visible remains of a castle at ground level and there is no evidence of cut stone from a castle reused in the construction of the windmill. On the 1905 edition the cartographers used the name 'Ireton's castle' for the castle formerly known as 'Derry Castle' to the south-west (TN003-001001-). It is possible that the windmill was built on the site of Ireton's castle sometime after 1840. However, it is also possible that there may have been only one castle located to the south-west where Derry Castle (TN003-001001-) was marked and that it may have been refortified by Ireton. The name of the castle may have then changed from Derry Castle to Ireton's Castle. 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

• Belle Isle, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having five-bay two-storey house of c.1790 to rear with attic and basement, latter with pedimented three-bay breakfront. Single-storey over basement round bay to front and canted bay to south gable, of older block. Projecting porch with hipped slated roof to front of later block. Slate roofs, pitched to rear block and hipped to front, with rendered chimneystacks to rear block. Rendered walls with render quoins and lined-and-ruled render walls to basement storey below limestone string course and with moulded string course and cornice to round and canted bays. Square-headed window openings, round-headed to ground floor front and porch of entrance block, square-headed elsewhere. Lunette windows to pediment and upper gables of rear block. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and basement, with bipartite and tripartite casements elsewhere, all with limestone sills. Glazed panelled timber double-leaf door in recessed round-headed opening to later block. Lofted single-storey outbuildings to north having rendered walls. Quadrant gateway with roughcast walls and cast-iron gates with vehicular and pedestrian gateways with cut-stone copings, piers to vehicular entrance and block-and-start surrounds to pedestrian gates.

• Belle Isle, mill (wind), 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding circular-plan two-stage windmill, c.1780. Now ruinous. Rubble limestone walls with some render remaining. Narrow slit windows splayed to interior in upper floors. Opposed square-headed doorways to ground floor, missing their lintels. Part of stone spiral staircase retained to interior, although all other features and machinery have been lost.

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

At the centre of the townland of Lehinch, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1384 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lehinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Lehinch · An Leithinse

Area

3,170,542 m² (317.05 ha, 783.46 acres)

Civil parish

Lorrha, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Lorrha West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

321 people lived in 125 households in the Lorrha West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballyquirk, Portland

Placenames

Lehinch 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.