Maginstown

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maginstown, from 1,787 m² to 833,152 m² (83.32 ha, 205.88 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 Maginstown 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.

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  renovation of existing building to create two new upstairs offices, a kitchenette, a water closet and multipurpose room

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25250

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  to extend the infill of the existing quarry to include filling the neighbouring garden, and, eliminating the 5 metre buffer zone previously conditioned in planning file reference 17600498 including all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20963

• 4 May 2017Conditional

  filling of existing quarry and to re instate to levels including all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600498

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 Maginstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-012 House - 17th century
  Description

  On broad, flat crest of hill. Farmyard located to N of house and windmill (TS076-012001-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'an old Thatcht house with a ruined Wind Mill' on the land of 'Edmond Mocler of Maganstowne Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 213). A house (dims. 17.8m E-W; 6.9m N-S; S wall T 0.65m) formerly thatched, now slated, is still inhabited and runs E-W, with windmill incorporated in E end of house. The house has been raised in height by c. 1m, giving a new ground to eaves height of 3.5m. Front, S facade, consists of 4 bays. The front door is the second opening from E, however, it has an internally splaying embrasure which suggests that it may have been a window subsequently converted into a doorway. Internally the house is one room deep and divided into four rooms with a window in the back wall of each room, though the window in the rear wall of the present hall has been blocked up. The sill of this window is much cruder than the cut and reamed sills of the other windows. There is a blocked up doorway in the W gable. Each room is accessed from the next via a doorway at the S end of the partition walls. In the E room there is a doorway at the E end of the rear wall which gives access to a small room, formerly a pantry, now a bathroom. In the E gable, N end there is a doorway which now leads to a hallway giving access to the extension which projects northward from this hallway and also giving access to the windmill, on S side of hallway. There is a fireplace in the E gable, on S end. The house has a rough pebble dash render, however, the W gable is only partially rendered and reveals a randomly coursed rubble built wall. Some brick is evident in the upper portion of this gable, where the gable was heightened. According to owners when the roof was re-slated approx. two years ago the old timber were found to be in good condition and were left, also there were traces of thatch. It is probable that this is the thatched house referred to in the Civil Survey. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-012001 Windmill
  Description

  On broad, flat crest of hill. Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'an old Thatcht house with a ruined Wind Mill' on the land of 'Edmond Mocler of Maganstowne Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 213). This windmill stands two storeys high at the E end of a single storey house which appears to be the 'Thatcht house' (TS076-012----) mentioned above. The windmill (int. ground floor dims. 1.41m N-S; 1.24m E-W; N wall T 0.86m; S wall T 1.3m) is access in N from within the hall of a new, early-mid 20th century, extension, at right angles to the old house, it is presently a store room. There is a window in the S wall at ground-floor level. The first floor is accessed from the stairs in the new extension. It is presently used as bedroom with a window on the S and E sides. The windmill is presently roofed by a continuous roof from the 20th century extension. Sides are slightly battered. Interrupted eaves course at angles of roof. Windmill would originally have been three or four storeys high. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-015 Settlement cluster
  Description

  On SE-facing slope in undulating terrain, under pasture, just off crest of hill. This settlement is depicted on the Down Survey map with church (TS076-015001-), a castle (TS076-015002-) and a mill (TS076-012002-). It is mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as belonging to 'Edmond Mocler pprietor of the sayd land by Conveyance from his Father. The sd lands hath on it an old small Castle ruined & an old Thatcht house with a ruined Wind Mill' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 213). The house (TS076-012001-) and mill have been identified c. 300m NW of the church and castle. The townland name suggests this was a settlement and the earthworks depicted on the 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map are probably associated with this settlement. These earthworks occupy the field surrounding the church (TS075-015001-) and castle (TS075-015002-) and the field immediately W of these also has earthworks. Portion of one earthwork (dims. 41.3m N-S) is indicated on the 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map, located 20m S of the castle. The E side of this earthwork is well defined and a length of S side (L 30.2m) with remains of walling for the last 4m towards W end, beyond this there is no clear trace. The W side is defined by scarp (H 1.1m over 3.1m); a slight external fosse (Wth 1.6m) and an external bank (Wth 2.1m crest; 2.9m base; H above fosse 0.27m; H above ext. 0.4m), though the W side has been quarried into along the edge. There is no evidence of the W side of the bank. Other earthworks are evident on an aerial photograph (CUCAP 20 July 1968 AVS 63). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 22 September 2014

• TS076-015001 Church
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in undulating terrain, under pasture, just off the crest of a hill, with a castle (TS076-015002-) located c. 50m downslope to S and earthworks (TS076-015----) in the surrounding field. The church is indicated at this location on the 17th-century Down Survey map. According to the OS Letters this was 'called by some of the people a “Church” by others an “Abbey” or “Monastery”' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 84). The church (int. dims. 7.4m N-S; 10.5m E-W; N and S wall T 0.76m) is aligned E-W and built of limestone rubble, randomly coursed, with a residential tower at its W end (int. dims. 7.4m N-S; 2.77m E-W; W and N wall T 0.81m) surviving to a height of two storeys carried on wooden floors. The coping stones of the church survive on the N side of the E wall of the tower, which rose above this probably by at least another storey. Only the E wall of the church and the E (L 7.4m) and W wall (L 5.2m) of tower survive. The E wall of the church survives to a good height and contains a central single-light window which is obscured by ivy but, according to OS Letters, was pointed. Foundations of the S wall of the church are visible, as is the return at the N end of the E wall. The tower was entered through a doorway at the S end of the E wall, but only two jambs survive. The ground floor was lit by a window in the E wall and defended by a horizontal gun-loop in the same wall. The first floor was lit by a single-light window in the W wall, with a wall-cupboard to the N and a fireplace to the S. The N and S walls of the tower have collapsed. However, according to the OS Letters 'on its south side near the top, there is a narrow, round headed window, and on the west side also there are two small and narrow quadrangular windows' (ibid. 84). There is no visible graveyard and according to the OS Letters 'there is no interment made here at present' (ibid. 84). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 22 September 2014

• TS076-015002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a gradual SE-facing slope, in gently undulating pastureland. The castle is on a low rise (dims. 10.2m E-W) which falls to the N and E, rise probably created by collapsed masonry. Church (TS076-015001-) located c. 50m upslope to N. Earthworks (TS076-015----) in surrounding field. Castle depicted on the 17th-century Down Survey map. Also mentioned in Civil Survey (1654-6), proprietor 'Edmond Mocler of Maganstowne Irish Papist' and 'The sd lands hath on it an old small Castle ruined' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 213) and it is also referred to as 'Magonstowne a stump of a Castle' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 158). Castle (int. dims. 2.45m N-S) built of limestone rubble, randomly coursed and is in a very ruinous state. Only N (L 4.45m; T 1.85m) and S wall (L 5m; H 5.5m) partially survive, including NE and SE angle, though quoins are missing. External face of S wall projects 2.26m above external ground level, the wall above this rests on a projecting corbel course (D 0.22m). Inner wall face in N wall suggests two phases in wall construction, possibly contemporary. Wall abutts and runs parallel with S face of S wall. Some collapsed stone between two remaining walls. Hawthorn bush growing at base of internal S wall. According to the OS Letters as well as the N and S walls surviving there were 'a few stones (adjoining the north wall) which appear to be those of a western wall' and 'On the northern part of the western side there are two cut stones and lying beside them another cut stone, which (stones) appear to have been those of the north side of an entrance or doorway...On the north wall appears the eastern side of a window which widened inside...At the distance of about thirty four yards north west of the above, appear the traces of the foundation of some building, perhaps belonging to the castle' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 85). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Maginstown.

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 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 Maginstown.

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

Name

Maginstown · Baile an Mhágúnaigh

Area

1,925,581 m² (192.56 ha, 475.82 acres)

Civil parish

Mora, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Graigue, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graigue electoral division: 155 people in 48 households; 89% of households own their home; 11% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinattin Lower, Ballinattin Upper, Ballyclerahan, Mocklerstown, Shanballyard

Placenames

Maginstown 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.