Mountfalcon

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountfalcon, from 63 m² to 262,204 m² (26.22 ha, 64.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Mountfalcon 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.

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  the erection of an extension to the existing agricultural structure, to include cubicle housing, milking parlour/ dairy and associated yards with slurry storage tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19601218

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 Mountfalcon.

Recorded monuments

• TN010-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on high ground with good views in all directions. Described by Wheeler (OPW file, 1955) as a raised circular platform (diam. 50m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a scarp with no evidence of an external fosse or entrance feature. Not visible at ground level. Probably removed during a land improvement scheme 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

• TN010-111001 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Situated in gently rolling terrain. An early eighteenth-century, five-bay, two-storey with attic over basement house (ext. dims. 16.36m x .65m; W wall T 0.65m) with a projecting T (ext. dims. 8.85m x 6.54m) to the rear. The main entrance, with steps up to it, is centrally placed in the W façade. It has a Gibbsian surround with scrolls supporting a pediment. The attic storey is pedimented and bears an inscription 'RMF' which refers to Richard and Maria Faulkner and is dated 1720. It is described by Craig (1972, 50, 52) as 'an open-bed pediment, with round-headed window in the centre, flanked by paterae and a blind balustrade in the attic, surmounted by a cornice with balls at the ends and on the pediment. The pediment is emphasised by volutes at either side. Unfortunately the house was rendered in the nineteenth century, when stucco cornices were added to the windows, and a pediment to the central first-floor window'. The house is single pile and the main block is divided into three, with a central staircase and room to either side; there is another room to the rear in the projecting T. In the rear, E wall of the T-projection there are remains of two moulded string-courses, the lower is forming the lintel of a first-floor window while the upper section is c. 1m above this between the first and second floor. Most of the windows at the rear have been altered. There is a well-built courtyard (TN010-111001) to the rear enclosed by a high stone wall. One of the outbuildings on the S side has a large fireplace with brick oven. 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

• TN010-111002 Courtyard
  Description

  Situated in gently rolling terrain. An early eighteenth-century, five-bay, two-storey with attic over basement house (TN010-111001) with a projecting T to the rear. The main entrance, with steps up to it, is centrally placed in the W façade. It has a Gibbsian surround with scrolls supporting a pediment. The attic storey is pedimented and bears an inscription 'RMF' which refers to Richard and Maria Faulkner and is dated 1720. It is described by Craig (1972, 50, 52) as 'an open-bed pediment, with round-headed window in the centre, flanked by paterae and a blind balustrade in the attic, surmounted by a cornice with balls at the ends and on the pediment. The pediment is emphasised by volutes at either side. Unfortunately the house was rendered in the nineteenth century, when stucco cornices were added to the windows, and a pediment to the central first-floor window'. The house is single pile and the main block is divided into three, with a central staircase and room to either side; there is another room to the rear in the projecting T. In the rear, E wall of the T-projection there are remains of two moulded string-courses, the lower is forming the lintel of a first-floor window while the upper section is c. 1m above this between the first and second floor. Most of the windows at the rear have been altered. There is a well-built courtyard to the rear enclosed by a high stone wall. One of the outbuildings on the S side has a large fireplace with brick oven. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Mount Falcon, country house, 1715–1725 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey house with basement, built 1720, having dormer attic and three-bay three-storey with attic return, and single and two-storey additions. Pitched slate main roof and mono-pitch additions, having cut-stone chimneystacks. Ornamented limestone ashlar pediment with marigold paterae and incised date and initials of builder. Partly balustraded parapet having cut-stone cornices and ball finials. Front façade rendered in nineteenth century with quoins and hood-moulding to windows added. Remainder of walls have lime render. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, having three-over-three pane round-headed window to pediment, some four-over-eight timber sash windows to return, small-pane casements to gables and to lower floors of return and additions, with some pivoted round windows and some replacement uPVC windows also to return. Cut-stone Gibbsian door surround to front entrance with limestone steps over basement, timber panelled door and margined overlight. Partly rendered limestone wall attached to north gable of house, screening farmyard and has castellations, turret, decorative gable to outbuilding and pointed doorway. Farmyard has single and two-storey stone outbuildings, one having slate roof, and rear screen wall with castellated round-arch gateway. Ruined gate lodge located to main road southwest of house.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1432 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Mountfalcon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Mountfalcon · Coill Ó gCaithnia

Area

1,750,334 m² (175.03 ha, 432.52 acres)

Civil parish

Ardcrony, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Mertonhall, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mertonhall electoral division: 194 people in 66 households; 85% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry, Ballynamona, Ballyrickard North, Bellgrove, Bellpark, Derrinlee, Gaulross, Mertonhall, Shesheraghmore

Placenames

Mountfalcon 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.