Masterstown
Masterstown is a townland in the civil parish of Relickmurry and Athassel, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile na Máistreach.
- Area
- 214.3 ha
- 530 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 47,002 m² (4.7 ha, 11.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Masterstown, from 1,005 m² to 266,521 m² (26.65 ha, 65.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Masterstown 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
9 May 2024Conditional
the construction of a new house, entrance, domestic garage and waste water treatment system with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460351
11 Aug 2021Conditional
demolition of existing milking parlour and collecting yard and for full planning permission for construction of a milking parlour, animal handling/drafting area, chemical store, office, collecting yard, two slatted slurry tanks, dairy wash tank, loose house, covered feed yard, meal bin and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211180
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
- TS068-096 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (dims. c. 36m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (int. Wth c. 2.0m; ext. Wth c. 4.0m; int. H c. 0.45m; ext. H c. 1.6m) covered in occasional thorn trees, mostly on southern half of bank. Some rabbit burrows in exterior of bank. Interior level and totally covered in thick clumps of nettles. Church (TS068-103----) located c. 190m to NE; Enclosure (TS068-103001-) located c. 120m to NE and another (TS068-103002-) located c. 130m to ENE; Enclosure (TS068-095----) located c. 580m to NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-103 Church
Description
On level ground in gently undulating terrain, surrounded by tillage. The church (diams. Overall 20m E-W; 7.75m N-S; wall T 0.85m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. A length of the S wall (L 8m) survives to a height of 3m above ext., while the W gable survives to a height of 1.15m above ext. towards the NW corner but is reduced to two courses high towards the S. A portion of the E gable survives towards the S end, two courses high (H 0.46m). The SE angle is robbed out. The N wall is not evident but the lower courses may survive under the dense overgrowth of grass and nettles. The interior of the church is built up with rubble and is heavily overgrown with grass and nettles. On satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified by Jean-Charles Caillère, there is a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (TS068-103004-) consisting of two curvilinear cropmark enclosures, one immediately surrounding the church and an outer roughly D-shaped enclosure which extends S and W of the inner enclosure. Three other enclosures, also visible as cropmarks, are in the immediate vicinity, TS068-152---- c. 50m to the NE, TS068-103002- c. 50m to the S and TS068-103001- c. 10m to the W. See attached photograph: TS068-103----_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 30 June 2021
- TS068-103001 Enclosure
Description
In level arable land, recently sown. No visible surface trace. Visible on aerial photos (GSI 16.4.1974, S. 632 and S.660/59) as cropmark defining circular area (dims. 32m N-S; c. 28m E-W) with existing field boundary forming a tangent to W. Field boundaries shown on 1905 OS 6-inch map to S and SE removed. Enclosure (TS068-096----) c. 120m to SW, church (TS068-103----) c. 100m to ENE, enclosure (TS068-103002-) c. 50m to SE and field system (TS068-103003-) c. 40m to N at closest point. See attached photograph: TS068-103001-_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-103002 Enclosure
Description
In level arable land, recently sown. Slight visible surface trace of oval area (dims. 40m N-S; c. 45m E-W) to S of linear feature (long-axis c. E-W) with slight curvature (part of field system TS068-103003-). Visible on aerial photographs (GSI S. 632 and S.660/59, 16.4.1974) as circular area of similar dimensions, adjoining field system (TS068-103003-) to N. Field boundaries shown on 1905 OS 6-inch map to S and E removed. Enclosure (TS068-096----) c. 130m to WSW, church (TS068-103----) c. 130m to N, enclosure (TS068-103001-) c. 50m to NW. See attached photograph: TS068-103002-_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-103003 Field system
Description
In level arable land, recently sown. Slight visible surface trace of two linear depressions, (L c. 90m) extending (long-axis c. E-W) with slight curvature, c. 55m to N and c. 75m to S of church (TS068-103----). Visible on aerial photographs (GSI S. 632 and S.660/59, 16.4.1974) as sub-rectangular area (dims. 140m N-S; c. 150m E-W) defined as a slightly curvilinear cropmark to N (Chord c. 85m), E (Chord c. 95m) and S (Chord c. 90m) and existing field boundary (long-axis N-S) to W. Another curvilinear cropmark is noted c. 18m to S of northern cropmark and is congruent to it. Church (TS068-103----) is off-centre to N within, enclosure (TS068-103001-) is within to W and enclosure (TS068-103002-) adjoins exterior to S. See attached photograph: TS068-103003-_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-103004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
On level ground in gently undulating terrain, in tillage. On satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified by Jean-Charles Caillère, there is a possible ecclesiastical enclosure consisting of two curvilinear cropmark enclosures, one (diam. c. 55m) immediately surrounding a medieval church (TS068-103----) and an outer roughly D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 80m N-S; c. 110m E-W) which extends S and W of the inner enclosure. Three other enclosures, also visible as cropmarks, are in the immediate vicinity, TS068-152---- c. 50m to the NE, TS068-103002- c. 50m to the S and TS068-103001- c. 10m to the W. See attached photograph: TS068-103004-_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 5 July 2021
- TS068-106 Enclosure
Description
In SE corner of broadleaf nursery, on level ground. Not seen as area obscured by tall mound of earth associated with broadleaf nursery. Stream skirts area of monument to E and S. Earthen and mature tree field boundary flanks stream and has same characteristics further to N and to W and does not form part of the monument. Moated site (TS068-109----) c. 140m to S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-120 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. No visible surface trace. Identified as a circular cropmark on aerial photograph (GSI S.631/3, 16.4.1974). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS068-152 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 40m) visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Masterstown church (TS068-103---) and associated enclosure (TS068-103004-) are located c. 50m to the SW and enclosures TS068-103001- and TS068-103002- are located c. 140m to the WSW and c. 130m to the SW respectively. See attached photograph: TS068-152----_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) TS068-152----_02 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) with neighbouring monuments indicated. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 June 2021
- TS068-153 Enclosure
Description
A roughly oval enclosure (dims. c. 30m N-S; c. 40m E-W) visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a slight kink in the E-W townland boundary at this point, where it runs along the N perimeter of the monument. See attached photograph: TS068-153----_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 June 2021
Architectural heritage
- House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey vernacular house, built c.1840, of lobby-entry plan, with central flat-roofed windbreak and having single-bay single-storey lean-to to rear. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed openings with four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Square-headed timber panelled door having overlight and sidelights. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to front, rear and east, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and roughcast render over rubble limestone walls, with mainly square-headed openings, some with timber fittings. Range east of house has triangular-headed carriage arches. Two-bay single-storey possible former house to north-east of house, with brick chimneystack and limestone door surround. Roughcast rendered piers to yard and houses gates with rendered caps having wrought-iron gates and roughcast rendered boundary walls with rendered coping and plinth course.
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 Masterstown, 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 Masterstown.
- 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 Masterstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Masterstown · Baile na Máistreach
- Area
- 2,143,114 m² (214.31 ha, 529.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Relickmurry and Athassel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Ballycarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 346 people lived in 117 households in the Ballycarron electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrycloney, Drangan Beg, Garrandee, Garranlea, Hymenstown, Knockgraffon
- Placenames
- Masterstown 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.