Littlefield
Littlefield is a townland in the civil parish of Buolick, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Gort Beag.
- Area
- 73.1 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 4,385 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Littlefield, from 4,295 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres) to 178,014 m² (17.8 ha, 43.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Littlefield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Apr 2026Conditional
construction of (i) cubicle shed with underground slurry tanks (ii) milking parlour building with plant room, dairy, office, storage, flow channel, crush, meal bin, milk silo water tank and collecting yard and slatted tanks (iii) loose shed over existing silage slab (iv) walled silage slab and hardcore area and all associated site works. PERMISSION for retention of (i) roof over cubicle facility (ii) calf shed over existing silage slab and all associated site works is also required
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660303
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Littlefield.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Littlefield.
Architectural heritage
- Littlefield House, country house, 1700–1740 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey with former attic country house, built c. 1720, now ruined, with three-bay single-storey extension to rear. No roof, remains of stone chimneystacks to north gable. Unpainted rendered rubble limestone walls with entablature comprising architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Square-headed narrow window openings with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows, having moulded limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with carved limestone architrave with panelled pilasters, consoles and segmental pediment, having timber panelled door with remains of cobweb fanlight and flight of limestone steps. Extension has monopitch corrugated-iron roof, painted rendered walls and square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and half-glazed timber battened door. Remains of walled garden and outbuildings to site, one of latter with stepped limestone eaves course and elliptical carriage arch. Dressed limestone piers and cast-iron gates and rubble walls to site boundary.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Littlefield, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Littlefield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Littlefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Littlefield · An Gort Beag
- Area
- 731,310 m² (73.13 ha, 180.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Buolick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Buolick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 697 people lived in 261 households in the Buolick electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonamondra, Crab, Foilacamin, Gorteen Lower, Graigaman, Knockboy
- Placenames
- Littlefield 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.