Mobarnan

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mobarnan, from 1,889 m² to 425,533 m² (42.55 ha, 105.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Mobarnan 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.

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, driveway and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2179

• 21 Jan 2021N/a

  a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance, driveway and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2154

• 30 May 2019Conditional

  to retain an existing vehicular entrance and roadside boundary and associated site works at his property

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600585

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 Mobarnan.

Recorded monuments

• TS061-107 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular depression (diam. c. 30m) defined by low bank (overall Wth 6.9m; Wth at top 2m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.35m) around S-arc and scarp (Wth 4m; D 1.3m) SW-NE. Upper margins of scarp are enclosed by rough ungrazed area of tall grasses and bushes. Interior is (D 1.3m) below present ground level and is poorly drained. A sketch plan and sections drawn in 1954 depict a monument enclosed by a bank (OS Field Memorandums). Monument (TS061-108----) is c. 90m to the SE and has a similarly depressed interior. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-108 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on a gentle NW-facing slope. Roughly circular depression (diam c. 10m; D >2m) enclosed by bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.3m). Interior is very deep especially in E-half, indicating a natural swallow hole. The monument is depicted on the 2nd (1952-54) ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area (map diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a bank and a sketch plan and sections drawn in 1954 there is no evidence of an internal depression (OS Field Memorandums). Enclosure (TS061-107----) is c. 90m to the NW and has a similar depression . Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-110 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level area of forestry. Oval area (dims. 28m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by earthen bank (overall Wth 6.55m; Wth at top 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.4m) SW-SE and reduced to scarp (Wth 4.3m; H 1.1m) SE-SW; fosse (overall Wth 6.8m; basal Wth 1.2m; D 1.4m); outer bank (overall Wth 5.05m; Wth at top 1m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1.4m) is slightly lower where breached at NW and outer fosse (overall Wth 3.95m; basal Wth 1.25m; D 0.95m). Both fosses have evidence of re-cutting for drainage purposes. Broad, shallow fosse-like feature (overall Wth 9m; basal Wth 3m; D 0.25m) around perimeter of interior, which is best preserved SW-NW. Interior rises up from inner edge of fosse to the centre which is densely overgrown. Ringfort (TS061-111----) is c. 170m to SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-111 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In generally clear, level are of woodland. Circular area (dims. 27m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by earthen bank (overall Wth 8m; Wth at top 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m). Fosse (overall Wth 5.8m; basal Wth 1.3m; D 0.3m) seen SW-SE and obscured by overgrowth SE-SW. Interior is level; Drain (max. Wth 3m; Dth 0.15m) pierces bank at SW, truncates S-sector and exits breached bank at SE. Ringfort (TS061-110----) is c. 170m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS062-072 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a slight rise in relatively flat terrain within a landscaped demesne. The Clashawley River flows c. 100m to the W and a stream flows c. 135m to the SE. A ringfort (TS062-073----) lies c. 300m to the NE and two other ringforts (TS061-110----; TS061-111----) lie c. 380m to the WNW and 500m to the WSW respectively. The Ormond Deeds (COD vol. 4, 269) refer to ‘Dermot mc Conoghor McTeig of Mobernan’ witnessing a land grant in June 1544. In the Augustinian abbey (TS070-040004-) in Fethard there is a wall monument (TS070-040068-) dated 1635 to Richard and Catherine Wale, which states that Catherine was the daughter of Mathew Carran of Mobarnane. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 1640 Mobarnan ‘hath on it a small Castle wantinge repair’ and the proprietor was ‘Teig Carran of Mobarnan Irish Papist’ (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 201). The present Mobernan House is a multi-period building with three main phases, a probable tower house (int. dims. 6.3m N-S), a late 17th/early 18th-century house (int. dims. 6.3m N-S; 15.01m E-W) and an early 19th-century house (ext. dims. 7.7m N-S; 23.4m E-W) built onto the S façade of the latter. The late 17th/early 18th-century house incorporates the remains of a tower house at its eastern end, reusing the N (T 1.08m), E (Wth 1.08m; Wth at base 1.27m) and S walls (T 1.08m). The W wall of the tower house does not survive. From the wall thicknesses it can be established that the E wall survives up to second-floor level, that only 3.3m of the N wall running from the NE angle survives up to first-floor level and that the S wall is only evident at ground-floor level. The late 17th/early 18th-century house has wall thicknesses of 0.8m for the N wall and 0.9m for the S wall. The house also has a low basement (L 8.5m E-W) under the western end. The fact that it does not continue for the full length of the house suggests that it stopped short of the area occupied by the tower house. The external N wall of the tower house has a high, gradual base-batter (H c. 5-6m; Wth 0.3m). Unusually this base-batter continues around the W end of the later attached house and its W gable, intended perhaps to create an external symmetry between the old and new build. There is a chamfered mullion fragment incorporated in the wall of the basement. Several stones incorporated in buildings around the adjacent yard have tooling consistent with medieval masonry. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 June 2015

• TS062-072001 House - 17th century
  Description

  On a slight rise in relatively flat terrain within a landscaped demesne. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 1640 Mobarnan ‘hath on it a small Castle wantinge repair’ and the proprietor was ‘Teig Carran of Mobarnan Irish Papist’ (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 201). The present Mobernan House is a multi-period building with three main phases, a tower house (TS062-072----), a late 17th/early 18th-century house (int. dims. 6.3m N-S; 15.01m E-W) and an early 19th-century house (ext. dims. 7.7m N-S; 23.4m E-W) built onto the S façade of the latter. The late 17th/early 18th-century house incorporates the remains of a tower house (int. dims. 6.3m N-S) at its eastern end, reusing the N (T 1.08m), E (Wth 1.08m; Wth at base 1.27m) and S walls (T 1.08m). The W wall of the tower house does not survive. The late 17th/early 18th-century house is a five-bay, three-storey house (wall T 0.8m N wall; 0.9m S wall) with gable ended chimneys. It has a low basement (L 8.5m E-W) under the western end. The fact that it does not continue for the full length of the house suggests that it stopped short of the area occupied by the tower house. The external N wall of the tower house has a high, gradual base-batter (H c. 5-6m; Wth 0.3m). Unusually this base-batter continues around the W end of the later attached house and its W gable, intended perhaps to create an external symmetry between the old and new build. There is a projecting stair return in the centre of the N wall. The house originally had a steeper pitched roof. It is likely that when the 19th-century front was added, an extra storey was added onto the older house with a shallower roof to match that on the 19th-century house. Another lower projection was subsequently added onto the N face of the projecting stair return. The original leasehold for Mobarnan House dates to 1683 (pers. comm. Richard and Sandra Craik-White, 8 June 2015). A ex-situ date stone (Wth 0.42m; H 0.31m), inserted into a later building immediately E of the 19th-century house, bears the inscription, ‘Mathew Jacob Esqr 1734’. This suggests that the house incorporating the tower house was either built in 1734 or that it dates to the late 17th-century and was significantly modified in 1734. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 June 2015

• TS062-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a natural rise in fairly level terrain in pasture which is wet and rushy E of monument. Bivallate ringfort (diam. c. 70m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.9-7.9m; int. H 0.34-0.6m; ext. H 1.85-2.07); partially waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.8-3.3m; D 0.5m); berm (Wth 8.2-10m) and outer bank (Wth 4-4.3m; int. H 0.11-0.56; ext. H 1.05-1.7m). Outer bank is reduced to scarp from E-SE-S. In the S and W quadrants the interior slopes down to the bank to form a shallow internal fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.23m). N section of interior is divided E-W by a post and wire fence with a rough farm track running along S side of fence. Interior heavily overgrown with scrub, thorn bushes and brambles. Bank is of earthen construction. Ringfort is unusual in having a berm between the fosse and outer bank. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS062-161 Enclosure
  Description

  On the edge of a natural terrace which drops to the W. A stream flows roughly N-S c. 100m to the W, in pasture. A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 46m), defined by a scarp and a wide external fosse, identified on satellite imagery (DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2005-2012, Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2022). A relict field boundary, running NNW-SSE along the external edge of the fosse in the NE section, is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. There is a ringfort (TS062-075----) c. 130m to the SE. See attached satellite imagery: TS062-161----_01 DigitalGlobe, imagery date 2005-2012 TS062-161----_02 Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2022 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 March 2023

Architectural heritage

• Mobarnan House, country house, 1450–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached country house, comprising five-bay two-storey front block built c.1820, with shallow single-bay breakfront, and five-bay three-storey earlier block to rear built 1734. Earlier block has probable medieval tower house within eastern half, and lower single-bay three-storey central pedimented projection with two-storey pitched slate roof addition to front of same, and having L-plan multiple-bay two-storey addition to northwest with pitched artificial slate roof. Later block has skirt slate roof with wide overhanging sheeted eaves, rendered moulded eaves course and eaves plat-band, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Earlier has hipped slate roof, formerly pitched and steeper, with rendered eaves course, eaves plat-band and rendered chimneystacks with panel detailing. Pebbledashed walls to both blocks, having quoin plat-bands and cut limestone plinth to later block. Square-headed window openings throughout, with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor of later block and six-over-six pane to lower floors of earlier block, with three-over-six pane to second floor of same and round-headed six-over-six pane to upper part of pedimented projection, all with tooled cut limestone sills. Segmental-headed doorway to front of later block, with replacement glazed timber door set into cut limestone doorcase and flanked by paned sidelights, all recessed from face of elevation and having advanced fluted Doric columns and plain pilasters supporting entablature bearing wreath motifs, carved cornice and decorative fanlight having render surround, approached by flight of cement rendered steps to entrance. Yards to east side of house, accessed through dressed limestone elliptical archway with two-storey outbuildings having pitched slate roofs and rendered walls, some with segmental and round-arched carriage entrances. One group is L-plan and another has building with bell-cote to gable end. Rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed limestone piers and cast-iron gates. Extensive gardens to rear of house.

• Knockbrit Constabulary Barrack, barracks, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former constabulary barracks, built c. 1880, now disused. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks, overhanging eaves and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, barred to gound floor, with timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows and cut limestone sills. Square-headed door openings to front and rear elevations with timber battened doors and having paned overlight to front.

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 Mobarnan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mobarnan · Maigh Bearnáin

Area

2,173,013 m² (217.3 ha, 536.96 acres)

Civil parish

Magorban, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvadin, Curraghscarteen, Curraghtarsna, Kilconnell, Knockbrit, Magorban, Woodhouse

Placenames

Mobarnan 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.