Manselstown
Townland in the civil parish of Moyne, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Mhoinséil
- Area
- 145.9 ha
- 360 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 4,066 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Manselstown, from 29 m² to 679,427 m² (67.94 ha, 167.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Manselstown 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
28 Jan 2022Conditional
to build an agricultural storage building over an existing silage base and carry out all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2269
24 Nov 2021N/a
to build an agricultural storage building over an existing silage base and carry out all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211705
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 Manselstown.
Recorded monuments
- TN042-009 Moated site
Description
Situated just below the summit of a low hill on a NW-facing slope. A raised square-shaped area (dims. 26m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.5m) and wide outer fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.2-0.8m) with possible causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at W. 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
- TN042-074 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
The Drish River flows c. 100m to the N, in tillage. A large oval enclosure (overall dims. c. 90m N-S; c. 75m E-W), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Bing), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Field boundaries immediately N and W of the enclosure were levelled between June 2018 and April 2020. Another field boundary runs roughly N-S along the E side of the monument. A ringfort (TN042-014----) lies c. 160m to the NW on the opposite side of the river. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Manselstown.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Manselstown.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Manselstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Manselstown · Baile Mhoinséil
- Area
- 1,458,696 m² (145.87 ha, 360.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eliogarty
- Electoral division
- Longfordpass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Longfordpass electoral division: 326 people in 108 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boolabeha, Clooncleagh, Kilmakill, Noard, Piercetown, Shanballyduff
- Placenames
- Manselstown 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.