Mardyke
Townland in the civil parish of Graystown, barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Mhairdíog
- Area
- 46.9 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,881 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mardyke, from 1,496 m² to 200,475 m² (20.05 ha, 49.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Mardyke 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
3 Feb 2026Conditional
a dwelling house, entrance, garage, effluent treatment system together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2660078
20 Nov 2024Conditional
a change of the house type from that granted under planning permission reference number 21/790 & all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460995
31 May 2021Conditional
a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, bore well, install septic tank sewerage system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21790
31 May 2021Conditional
a dwelling, entrance, bore well, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21794
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 Mardyke.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mardyke.
Architectural heritage
- Mardyke Colliery, engine house, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding tapered round-plan stone chimney, built 1824, now disused. Coursed sandstone and limestone rubble masonry walling. Multiple-bay three-storey gable-fronted engine house to east, now roofless, having coursed sandstone and limestone rubble masonry walls with roughly dressed limestone quoins, square-headed openings to first and second floor and round-arched opening to ground floor having ashlar limestone voussoirs.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Mardyke.
- 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 Mardyke with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Mardyke · An Mhairdíog
- Area
- 468,545 m² (46.85 ha, 115.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Graystown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Crohane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Crohane electoral division: 282 people in 97 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinunty, Kilnahone, Knockabritta, Lickfinn, Monslatt
- Placenames
- Mardyke 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.