Loughnafina

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughnafina, from 4 m² to 24,495 m² (2.45 ha, 6.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 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 Loughnafina 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 2023Refused

  change of use from licensed premises, known as Brian Boru lounge to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360485

• 1 Mar 2023Refused

  the change of use from licensed premises, known as Brian Boru lounge at 49 Main Street, Cashel, to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360135

• 28 Feb 2023N/a

  change of use from licensed premises, to bookmakers to include internal alterations, extension to rear, external signage and associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360132

• 16 Nov 2017Conditional

  a) Internal alterations to include relocation of kitchen to ground floor. b) Change of use at first floor from offices and kitchen to guest accommodation. c) Temporary permission (5 years) for 06 no. sleeping pods to rear at first floor level. d) Construction of new fire escape stairs. e) Associated site development works.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601261

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  retention for 1)house position as constructed,2) extension to existing domestic storage shed,3)existing garden shed. Also permission for 4)construction of extensions to dwelling including a link to the existing domestic storage shed and including all necessary amendments and elevation amendments and refurbishment works,5)to change the use of the existing domestic storage shed to residential use to form part of the overall extended dwelling,6) to close up the existing vehicular entrance and to construct a new vehicular entrance and roadside boundary wall and 7)all other site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600749

• 25 Apr 2017N/a

  (a) demolition of existing shed to rear and construction of new two storey storage shed extension in proximity to the Cashel Town Walls, (b) associated site development works. "Cashel Town Walls" is a protected structure ref. no.07 in the Cashel and Environs Development Plan 2009-2015.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600427

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 Loughnafina.

Recorded monuments

• TS061-025032 Building
  Description

  From April 1998 to January 1999 a new storm and foul network of pipes was laid in and around parts of the town of Cashel (Henry 2000, 190). A licence was held to monitor all ground disturbance works in association with this scheme (ibid.). The area included a narrow lane which extends in a westerly direction away from the walled town and at right angles to the W of Camus Road (ibid. 191). In addition to the medieval deposits and cobbled surfaces a substantial wall (L 7m; average H 0.5m) was uncovered in section(ibid.). Though of medieval date, the wall was pre-dated by organic deposits and surfaces. It was not possible to determine the function of the wall though it has been suggested by the excavator that it is possibly the wall of a large extra-mural building (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 31 July 2014

• TS061-147 Mound
  Description

  During monitoring works on the Cashel Sewerage Scheme (Henry 2000, 200-201) a mound was uncovered, c. 0.3m below present ground level, approximately half a mile outside the town of Cashel. It is located within the N portion of a possible circular enclosure (TS061-183----). The mound had been greatly truncated at its western side by a large number of interconnecting and overlying pits and cuts. Some of these were filled with gravel and stone. Within a pocket of gravel a well-preserved zoomorphic penannular brooch was uncovered. To the eastern edge of the mound was a well-preserved metalled surface which may have extended around the entire mound, but, owing to the limited width of the excavation it was not possible to establish its extent. Also due to the disturbed nature of the ground in the vicinity of the mound there was no possibility of establishing if there had been an enclosing fosse or bank. No date or function was obtained for the mound which was constructed with redeposited builder clay and was built off the natural subsoils. (Henry 2000, 200-201). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 August 2014

• TS061-183 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently rolling terrain, c. 300m SE of the town of Cashel, c. 500m E of the Rock of Cashel and c. 200m N of Hore Abbey. Identified during the section of monitoring works on the Cashel Sewerage Scheme which ran parallel to and S of the Loughnafina/Horeabbey townland boundary (Henry 1998, unpublished report. The NW portion (chord 58m; max. Wth c. 17m) of the enclosure (total diam. c. 60m) is visible as a shallow fosse (Wth c. 1m) and an external bank (Wth 3m; H 0.3m) (ibid. 36). A mound (TS061-147----) was uncovered in the NE quadrant (ibid.). The enclosure is transected by a townland boundary wall running NE-SW, with the enclosure not visible at ground level SE of the boundary. The lack of visibility of the SE portion of the monument, both on the ground and on satellite imagery, is probably due to the extensive infilling to raise the level of the field for agricultural activity (ibid.). During excavation a V-shaped fosse (Wth 1.75m: D 0.85m), probably of the enclosure, was identified (ibid. 33). There were no finds to provide any date for the enclosure, however, it pre-dates the 13th/14th century as it was sealed with deposits which contained artifacts of this date (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 29 January 2021

Architectural heritage

• Lower Gate House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over half-basement, built c.1810, with semi-circular projections to end elevations giving house appearance of having bowed ends, and having single-bay single-storey lean-to extensions to rear. Sprocketed hipped slate roof to main block and conical to projections, with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render platband to eaves and plinth. Square-headed window openings throughout with limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows to front and end elevations. One-over-one pane windows to front elevation, tripartite to ground floor, with recessed render surrounds, and six-over-six-pane to south end elevation and replacement uPVC windows to half-basement and to rear. Round-headed door opening with moulded render surround approached by flight of rendered steps with cast-iron railings, having timber panelled door, carved timber doorcase with recessed panels and decorative cobweb fanlight above. Rubble limestone and rendered and concrete boundary walls with cut limestone piers having plinths and caps and cast-iron gates.

• Rock Abbey, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey with attic over half-basement house, built c.1780, with three-storey return and two-storey lean-to extension to rear and having pedimented breakfront with elaborate timber porch to front. Half-hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to rear slope of roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and dressed limestone copings. Dressed limestone pediment to breakfront. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and having plat-band to eaves. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows throughout with limestone sills and render reveals, square-headed except for round-headed window in breakfront, latter with paned fanlight. Segmental-headed door opening with render surround, timber panelled door and simple spoked fanlight. Flat-roofed timber porch to front of doorway with limestone steps and having open ends and enclosed centre. Carved timber cornice supported on fluted timber columns to front corners and fluted timber pilasters to centre flanking half-glazed half-timber-panelled openings, with similar pilasters to wall of house. Outbuildings to site with pitched slate roofs and rendered walls. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site with dressed limestone coping and entrance gates comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances, latter with dressed limestone lintels and with rubble limestone piers having dressed limestone caps and cast-iron gates.

• Scoil Chormaic, school, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey national school, built 1940, with central gabled breakfront and having recent flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with terracotta ridge capping and dressed sandstone eaves course. Dressed limestone coping to breakfront with carved limestone cross finial. Roughcast rendered walls with English bond red brick walls below windows to front elevation with dressed limestone plinth. Breakfront has dressed limestone plat-band, carved limestone brackets and recessed oval panel with render surround and mosaic ceramic plaque. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Former square-headed opening to rear, now blocked, with carved limestone cornice and brackets above. Rendered and red brick wall to front boundary with cast-iron railings.

• Scoil Chormaic, house, 1760–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former house, built c.1780, with attic accommodation and having three-storey part three-bay and part five-bay rear elevation with central bowed stairs return. Front remodelled c.1870. Slightly recessed and slightly lower two-bay two-storey addition to east end with two-bay three-storey return and single-bay single-storey lean-to extension. Limestone portico to front elevation. House formerly in use as monastery, now school. Slate roofs throughout, pitched to main block and addition, hipped to return and conical to bow, with red brick chimneystacks. Cast-iron roof-lights, dressed limestone eaves course, terracotta ridge capping and dressed limestone copings to main block. Roughcast rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins to main block and render quoins to addition and dressed limestone sill courses to front elevation of both blocks. Square-headed window openings, having moulded limestone surrounds to front elevation, with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed window opening to first floor of rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to front with timber panelled door approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings and having portico comprising rendered columns and engaged columns with carved limestone banding supporting rendered block with square-headed openings having fixed timber windows, dressed limestone cornice with religious statue above. Inserted square-headed door opening to lowest level of bow, having Diocletian window over with cut limestone sill and spoked glazing. Rendered and snecked dressed limestone boundary walls with cast-iron railings and gates.

• Scoil Chormaic, school, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay single-storey school, dated 1937, with slightly higher articulated entrance bay and having two-bay double-height hipped-roofed return and single-storey flat-roofed extensions to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge capping. Dressed limestone cornice with carved limestone cross finial to entrance bay. Roughcast rendered walls with English bond red brick walls, having render plinth and square-headed panels with chamfered render surrounds and cast-iron grilles below windows to front elevation. Entrance bay has projecting stepped-profile red brick jambs and having carved limestone date plaque. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with window over and limestone step. Brick and rendered boundary wall with cast-iron railings to front of site having cast-iron piers and gate.

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughnafina.

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

Name

Loughnafina · Loch na Faighne

Area

73,662 m² (7.37 ha, 18.2 acres)

Civil parish

St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Cashel Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cashel Urban electoral division: 2,652 people in 1,039 households; 47% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashwell's-Lot, Boherclogh, Cashel, Horeabbey, St. Patricksrock

Placenames

Loughnafina 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.