Moorabbey

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorabbey, from 89 m² to 119,140 m² (11.91 ha, 29.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Moorabbey 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  extension to existing dwelling house to include attic conversion and erection of garage and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660616

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional

  the replacement of the existing glass porch with a new front porch, the construction of extensions to the sides and rear of existing bungalow and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360963

• 9 Jul 2018N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, proposed new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600870

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 Moorabbey.

Recorded monuments

• TS073-011 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  At the W end of the Glen of Aherlow, on flat ground at the S edge of a S-facing slope. Immediately S of the friary church the ground falls to the Aherlow River which has a flood meadow on either side. Early in the 13th century Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, King of Thomond, founded a friary for Franciscans. It is likely that the present church was built in 1471 by Aunfurn M’Bryon of Aghrlough (Aherlow) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 250), only to be burned the following year (Harbison 1970, 233). After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1540, it was sold to John of Desmond for a fine of £15 and an annual rent of 4d. (ibid.), with its three gardens, six messuages and six acres of land (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 250). It was used as a garrison during the Elizabethan wars and was burned by Sir Humphrey Gilbert's horsemen in 1569 (Harbison 1970, 233; Lynch 2018, 31). The friars returned in 1570, only to be massacred by English soldiers some years later (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 250). The friars returned to Moor Abbey again in 1645 only to be driven into hiding five years later when the abbey was shelled by Cromwellian forces (Lynch 2018, 31). Three burials found in the area of the cloister walk appear to be those Franciscan friars dating to the 17th century (Lynch 2018, 45-6, 68). The abbey appears to have fallen into disrepair after this. During the War of Independence, in 1921, the Royal Irish Constabulary attempted to blow up the church to prevent its use as a strategic position by the Irish Republican Army, but did little damage (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 284; Harbison 1970, 233). The ruins of the abbey were vested in the Commissioners of Public Works in 1931 and extensive repairs were carried out in 1937 (Lynch 2018, 34). The church is a simple rectangular building (ext. dims. 33.73m x 9.5m; wall T 1.26m) divided into nave (int. dims. 7m x 13.55m) and chancel (int. dims. 7m x 11.9m) by a bell-tower which rises three storeys high above the side wall of the church. It is constructed of roughly cut sandstone blocks, with some limestone, randomly coursed. The front façade has a chamfered foundation plinth and a buttress projects out from the E and W end of the S wall. The main doorway in the centre of the W gable has been almost entirely reconstructed. It is pointed with moulded surrounds within a rectangular moulded frame. Above the doorway are the remains of a large, broken out window, otherwise the nave was lit by a round-headed two-light window in the S wall. Beneath this is a flat-headed piscina. A doorway at the W end of the S wall gives access to a spiral stairs in the SW angle which is lit by a series of single-light windows, three of which, one above the other, are evident in the W façade. This stair, now broken out, gave access to the parapet which runs along the top of the side walls. There is a broken out doorway towards the W end of the S wall. The bell-tower (H 21.4m) appears to be a late 15th/early 16th-century insertion (Lynch 2018, 67) and has a separate entrance from the exterior in the N wall. There is an aumbry in the W wall and E of the doorway there is a broken-out, ogee-headed stoup. It is lit at ground level by an ogee-headed window in the S wall. It is vaulted with rib-vaulting, most of which has collapsed and was replaced in the 1930s with a concrete floor with square hole in the centre (OPW report, 1937-8). First-floor level of the bell-tower contains a doorway in each face, giving access to the attic level of the nave and chancel and to the parapet of the side walls. The second floor was lit by a single, ogee-headed window in the S and W face, while the third floor, separated externally from the floor below by a string-course, was lit by a single, ogee-headed window in the E face and two-light ogee-headed window in the N, S and W face. The chancel was lit by a large traceried window in E gable only fragments of which survive. There are two windows in the S wall, a broken-out traceried two-light window and a pointed two-light window. There is a double piscina at the E end of the S wall with double pointed-head and surviving engaged twisted column. There is a tomb niche in the N wall, at the E end, as well as two doorways, leading to the cloister and claustral buildings respectively. Immediately E of the most easterly doorway, internally, there is an ogee-headed stoup. A large portion of the external face of the N wall of the nave, W of the most westerly doorway, has a cement render where c. 1937 the wall was repurposed for use as a hand-ball alley (Lynch 2018, 35). The ball alley was demolished in the 1970s (ibid.). Nothing survives of the ancillary buildings to N of the church, however, according to the report on repair works carried out in the 1930s 'of the foundations of the cloister and its buildings some traces remain below ground. The cloister space was about 58 feet [17.7m] from east to west and 46 feet [14m] in the other direction' (OPW report 1937-8). Following an excavation in 1983 the basal courses of the E and W claustral range and one small section of the cloister arcade wall were uncovered (Lynch 1989/90, 78). A series of oak posts, set consistently 2m from the church and range buildings have been interpreted by the excavator as supports for the lean-to roofs over the cloister walk (Lynch 2018, 68). This would give the area of the cloister garth as c. 12m2 (ibid.). In the interior there is a tapering recumbent graveslab (TS073-011001-) with no visible inscription or date, though stylistically it may date to the 16th/17th century (Lynch 2018, 34). There are two worn graveslab fragments, one (L 1.14m; Wth 0.83m) with a badly scratched polished surface and the other (L 1.3m; Wth 0.8m) with a rough surface. Neither have a visible inscription or date but they are likely to be relatively modern. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 24 September 2019

• TS073-011001 Graveslab
  Description

  In the interior of Moor Abbey friary church (TS073-011----), lying on a stone plinth at the E end of the N wall is a tapered recumbent graveslab (L 2.06m; Wth at top 0.73m; Wth at base 0.56m; D 0.17) with an incised ringed-cross with a pyramidal cross-base. The dexter edge, top and base have a chamfered edge (Wth 0.04m), though the chamfer on the top and base stops 0.16m from the sinister edge of the slab. Possibly of 16th /17th-century date (Lynch 2018, 34). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Galbally Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch road bridge, built c. 1800, over River Aherlow, close to medieval Moor Abbey. Round arches with dressed limestone voussoirs. Random rubble and roughly coursed rubble limestone walls, having stepped dressed limestone V-cutwaters to west (up-stream) elevation. Smaller disused flood arch visible to north of east elevation.

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 Moorabbey, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moorabbey · An Múr

Area

918,377 m² (91.84 ha, 226.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbeg, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Clonbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

777 people lived in 299 households in the Clonbeg electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Co. Limerick), Ardnamoher (Co. Limerick), Ballycrana, Corderry, Galbally (Co. Limerick), Park (Co. Limerick)

Placenames

Moorabbey 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.