Minorstown

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Minorstown, from 2,745 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres) to 632,703 m² (63.27 ha, 156.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Minorstown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Minorstown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Minorstown.

Recorded monuments

• TS078-049 House - 17th century
  Description

  On level ground in gently undulating terrain. House described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'house coverred with thatch being the sd Piers Butlers Mansion house', Piers Butler 'of Mynerstowne gent Irish Papist', is listed as being the proprietor in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 278). This may have been the house in the centre of Minorstown depicted on the 1st (1843) and current (1901-05) eds. of the OS 6-inch map. The house had been levelled by 1977 when an aerial photograph (GSI S.790/1) shows the house is gone. A farmyard with two large barns and a shed now occupies the site and a roadway has been built to connect this farmyard with a new house to the S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS078-059 Enclosure
  Description

  On gradual N-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, under tillage. Enclosure (diam. c. 60m) identified as a roughly circular cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1977 (GSI S.790/1) and again in 1996 (ASIAP (27) 23-8). The enclosure is not visible at ground level. Three conjoined enclosures (TS078-059001-; TS078-059002-; TS078-059003-) visible on ASI aerial photographs as cropmarks were located immediately to SW and SSW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS078-059001 Enclosure
  Description

  On summit of broad, gently undulating hill, in rolling terrain, under tillage. The largest (diam. c. 35-40m) and most southwesterly of three circular conjoined enclosures, with smaller enclosure (TS078-059002-) to NE and another enclosure (TS078-059003-) to the E. Identified as cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1996 (ASIAP (27) 26, 28). No visible trace at ground level. Located c. 30m SW of enclosure (TS78-059----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS078-059002 Enclosure
  Description

  On summit of broad, gently undulating hill, in rolling terrain, under tillage. The smallest (diam. c. 25m) and most northerly of three circular conjoined enclosures, with enclosure (TS078-059001-) to SW and another enclosure (TS078-059003-) to the SE. Identified as cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1996 (ASIAP (27) 26, 28). No visible trace at ground level. Located c. 5m SW of enclosure (TS78-059----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS078-059003 Enclosure
  Description

  On summit of broad, gently undulating hill, in rolling terrain, under tillage. Enclosure (diam. c. 30m), the most easterly of three circular conjoined enclosures, with larger enclosure (TS078-059001-) to W and smaller enclosure (TS078-059003-) to the NW. Identified as cropmark on an aerial photograph taken in 1996 (ASIAP (27) 26, 28). No visible trace at ground level. Located c. 10m SW of enclosure (TS78-059----). 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 Minorstown.

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

At the centre of the townland of Minorstown, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Minorstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Minorstown · Baile an Mhionúraigh

Area

953,269 m² (95.33 ha, 235.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilsheelan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa East

Electoral division

Kilsheelan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydine, Ballynaraha, Clashanisky, Greensland, Lisbalting, Mauganstown, Seskin

Placenames

Minorstown 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.