# Modreeny, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Modreeny, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Maigh Drithne. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,033,352 m² (103.34 ha, 255.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,497 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Modreeny, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/modreeny.md - Barony: Ormond Lower - Electoral division: Mertonhall, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 194 people lived in 66 households in the Mertonhall electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46048 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212466 - Centre: latitude 52.95318, longitude -8.068741 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Modreeny, from 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres) to 52,701 m² (5.27 ha, 13.02 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 524363: 52,701 m² (5.27 ha, 13.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/524363.md - Parcel 531299: 31,083 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/531299.md - Parcel 573461: 29,911 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/573461.md - Parcel 558043: 3,779 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/558043.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Modreeny in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Modreeny in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Modreeny. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN010-084: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084----. Situated on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside. In 1300 the township of Moydrifny contributed one mark towards the subsidy for the war in Scotland, this context suggests Modreeny was an incorporated settlement (Graham 1977, 18; Bradley 1985, 58). No earthworks visible at ground level in association with this settlement. Sites at Modreeny include a church and graveyard (TN010-084001/004) and a castle site (TN010-084002). Possible undulations in fields to E, S and W of church may have been site of medieval manor. 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 - TN010-084001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084001-. Situated within the medieval borough of Modreeny (TN010-084) on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with a nearby river to the N. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as 'chancell up, church down' (Murphy 1914, 220). Present remains consist of the poorly preserved church (ext. dims. 9.78m N-S; 4.6m E-W; wall T 0.95m) of which only the W gable and the W end of the N and S wall returns survive. A nineteenth-century C of I church has been built onto it and has destroyed the original E end of the medieval church. There are no architectural features visible on the medieval building. A bullaun stone (TN016-005), originally from this church is presently at St Michael and John's Roman Catholic church SE of Cloughjordan village. 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 - TN010-084002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084002-. Situated on flat pastureland with good views in all directions within the medieval borough of Modreeny (TN010-084----). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and bawne the walls onely standing, a decayed orchard and a garden plott wth som decaying inclosures and quicksetts & three thatcht houses' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 288). John Carroll is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The scattered and confused fallen masonry from a castle has been converted into a nineteenth-century rockery by the occupiers of Modreeny House located to the W. No architectural features visible. 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 - TN010-084003: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084003-. Situated on flat pastureland with good views in all directions within the medieval borough of Modreeny (TN010-084----). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and bawne the walls onely standing, a decayed orchard and a garden plott wth som decaying inclosures and quicksetts & three thatcht houses' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 288). John Carroll is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The scattered and confused fallen masonry from a castle (TN010-084002----) has been converted into a nineteenth-century rockery by the occupiers of Modreeny House located to the W. No architectural features visible. No clear evidence for any remains of bawn mentioned in the civil survey. 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 - TN010-084004: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084004-. Situated within the medieval borough of Modreeny (TN010-084) on a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with a nearby river to the N. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as 'chancell up, church down' (Murphy 1914, 220). Present remains consist of the poorly preserved church (TN010-084001) of which only the W gable and the W end of the N and S wall returns survive. A nineteenth-century C of I church has been built onto it and has destroyed the original E end of the medieval church. These two churches are located in the NE quadrant of a rooughly rectnagulr shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 67m N-S; 75m E-W). There are no architectural features visible on the medieval building. A bullaun stone (TN016-005), originally from this church is presently at St Michael and John's Roman Catholic church SE of Cloughjordan village. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 - TN010-084005: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-084005-. Originally from St. Keran's church, Modreeny (TN010-084001), this bullaun is presently at the front of St Michael and John's Roman Catholic church, situated to SE of Cloghjordan village (TN016-005). The bullaun rests on a plinth of reused late limestone blocks. It has been cemented onto this and the external wall of the church. The bullaun is of conglomerate stone. It has a central depression in a roughly circular boulder. The circular depression is 0.15m D, 0.4m x 0.36m W and the boulder itself is 0.36m H, 0.82m x c.0.72m W. - TN010-090: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-090----. Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Depicted as a lozenge-shaped enclosure with possible tree-ring in interior on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Not visible at ground level. Probably destroyed during land reclamation project in the late 1950s. 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 - TN010-118: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-118----. In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Another ring-ditch (TN010-119----), also visible as a cropmark, is located c. 15m to the SE. See attached imagery: TN010-118----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 July 2023 - TN010-119: Ring-ditch, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN010-119----. In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Another ring-ditch (TN010-118----), also visible as a cropmark, is located c. 15m to the NW. See attached imagery: TN010-119----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 July 2023 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Modreeny Church, church/chapel, 1825–1830, Regional interest, registry number 22401022, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401022. Freestanding single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, having three-stage bell tower to west end, three-bay side elevations to nave and vestry to northeast corner. Former chancel removed from east end and archway blocked up. Pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack and partly collapsed roof to vestry. Exposed snecked limestone walls having cut-stone quoins and barges and cut-stone diagonal buttresses, string course, battlements and finials to tower. Fifteen-over-fifteen pane timber sliding sash windows in lancet openings with cut-stone surrounds and hood-mouldings. Louvered lancet windows to tower and pointed segmental-headed ten-pane double-light to vestry. Cut-stone doorways, Tudor-arch to bell tower and segmental-arch to vestry, with timber battened doors. Remains of medieval church immediately to west of present church. - Modreeny, country house, 1770–1810, Regional interest, registry number 22401023, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22401023. Detached seven-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1790, comprising five-bay block to centre with pedimented breakfront and having advanced nineteenth-century single-bay wings, two-storey with canted-bay front to southwest and single-storey to southeast. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Balustraded parapet to southeast wing. Ruled-and-lined render to walls. Timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, two-over-two pane to centre five-bay block and one-over-one pane elsewhere. Cut-stone Venetian window to southeast wing. Cut-stone doorcase to front door having pediment supported on engaged columns, decorative fanlight and replacement timber double-leaf doors. Flight of limestone steps up to front door over basement. Extensive stone outbuildings to rear having pitched slate roofs, some with brick chimneystacks. Three-bay dormered single-storey gate lodge to north having canted west end, hipped slate roof with decorative brick chimney, ruled-and-lined render walls, timber sash windows and brick-walled porch. Carved stone gate piers to north gateway with cast-iron railings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Modreeny, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Modreeny. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/modreeny.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/modreeny.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/modreeny.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Modreeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyhasty: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballyhasty.md - Ballysteena: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballysteena.md - Eminiska: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/eminiska-211310.md - Garraunorish: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/garraunorish.md - Hilton: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/hilton.md - Killurane: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/killurane.md - Kylebeg: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kylebeg-212171.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/modreeny - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/modreeny