Noan

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Noan, from 151 m² to 258,528 m² (25.85 ha, 63.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  extension and alterations to an existing derelict dwelling, detached garage, new site entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561279

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  change of use and alterations of former coach house, which is in the curtilage of Noan House, a protected structure (TRPS1062). Works will include the following: (i) change of use, alteration of existing coach house into 2 no. 2-storey apartment dwelling units intended for short term let. (ii) construction of 3no. dormer windows to the south of the existing structure, (iii) alterations to existing elevations, (iv) new domestic wastewater treatment system and (v) all other associated landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460867

• 28 Feb 2024Conditional

  the conversion of the existing attached shed to rear of existing dwelling house for use as Granny Flat ancillary to the main house and to retain the second vehicular access and driveway serving this house together with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460142

• 26 Jan 2018Conditional

  retention of (a) domestic garage, (b) 5 box stables building with associated feed and tack rooms, attached to existing domestic garage with associated under-ground effluent storage tank, (c) existing domestic fuel store and trailer and attached stables, (d) existing uncovered horse walker, (e) side access gateway to site.

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600084

• 24 Nov 2017Conditional

  consisting of the installation of a waste water sewage treatment system to replace the existing septic tank system. The development for Retention Permission consists of the miscellaneous changes both internal and external carried out to the existing property since its original construction including to the on-site buildings such as the thatched roof on the dwelling, internal alterations within the dwelling and a small extension to the rear of the out buildings which relates to a protected structure as listed within the County Development Plan

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17601295

• 3 Jul 2017Conditional

  existing storage container and to modify/convert it for use as garden shed at "The Barracks"( a protected structure S281)

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600742

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  (a) relocate existing vehicular gate and (b) retain footpath and complete parking/yard area (a protected structure - S281)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600355

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 Noan.

Recorded monuments

• TS053-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a low rise of ground in undulating countryside with good views in all directions. Poorly preserved ringfort consisting of a raised circular area (int. diam. 36m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.6m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) mainly reduced to a scarp. S quadrant of interior has been quarried away and the inner bank is intersected by the modern road at W on a N-S axis. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-052001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In a demesne on N facing slope of low rising ground with good views to W, N and E with higher ground to S. Nearby ringfort (TS054-041----) 200m to SE and house of possible 17th-century date (TS053-052002-). Castle not visible at ground level. It is mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) when Henry Laffan is listed as proprietor in 1640 and on the lands are mentioned a 'little old Castle with part of the Walls of a stone house not finished' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 106). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-052002 House - 17th century
  Description

  In a demesne on N facing slope of low rising ground with good views to W, N and E with higher ground to S. Nearby ringfort (TS054-041----) 200m to SE. Multiperiod house consisting of a two-storey five-bay house with central shallow breakfront and venetian doorway with large fanlight over the doorway. This block is built onto the front of an earlier two-storey building which itself is built onto the N gable of an earlier two and a half storey single-pile house of possible 17th-century date. In the Civil Survey (1654-6) Henry Laffan is listed as proprietor in 1640 and on the lands are mentioned a 'little old Castle with part of the Walls of a stone house not finished' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 106). The earliest part of these range of buildings may be the remains of the house which was under construction in the Civil Survey. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In beech planted 19th-century woodland on N facing slope of rising ground in upland region good views on downslope, higher ground to S. Impressive well-preserved ringfort (int. diam. 32m N-S; 35m E-W) consisting of a raised circular area enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; Ext. H 1.5-3m) and external fosse (base Wth 1.5m; top Wth 6m; Ext. D 1.2m). Nearby gate lodge to Noan House located 70m to W. Possible entrance gap at NNE (Wth 2.5m) where bank slopes down to interior only break in bank around ringfort. External height of bank is greatest on the downslope and lower on the upslope, remains well preserved despite been planted with beech trees in the 19th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On low rise of grassland with good views in all directions. Road intersects outer bank at N on an E-W axis. Bivallate ringfort consists of a raised circular platform (diam. c. 23m N-S; 6m E-W; overall diam. 50m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 2m), fosse (base Wth 4-2m; top Wth 6m; ext. D 1.5m) and external bank (base Wth 3m; top Wth 1.2m; ext. H1.5m). The SW quadrant has been quarried away leaving a hollow depression (dims. 25m N-S; 15m E-W; D 2m) where the platform and the enclosing elements were located. External bank is best preserved from N through E to SE. At SE to SSW the bank has been levelled and the fosse has been filled in and from SSW through W to NW the enclosing elements have been quarried away. Evidence of cattle poaching damage to bank at NE and the external face of the platform at N. No clear entrance feature visible. Platform was originally enclosed by a bank which has now been reduced to a scarp. Fair to poor condition situated in a reclaimed field of grassland. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS054-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In 19th-century beech woodland on a NW-facing slope of rising ground with good views to W and N, higher ground to S. Nearby castle possible (TS053-052001-) and seventeenth-century house (TS054-052002-) 200m to NW. Slightly hollow circular area (int. diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by and earthen bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 4m; ext. H 1-2m; int. H 0.2-0.5m)and outer fosse (base Wth 4m; top Wth 6m; ext. D 1m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at N where the bank has been levelled and where the game rearing buildings are located. Gamekeepers single-storey house of 19th-century date immediately to N with three low corrugated buildings for rearing game built around the N quadrant of the ringfort. Ringfort may have been re-used or landscaped in the 19th century when the beech woodland was being planted. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballinure Garda Síochána Station, garda station/constabulary barracks, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former RIC barracks, dated 1874, with two-bay single-storey pitched-roofed extension to west side of rear elevation, and single-bay pitched-roof porch to front. Converted to use as Garda barracks c. 1925, now disused. Pitched slate roofs with painted rendered gable-end chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins to house and porch. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and replacement door. Rubble limestone boundary walls with roughly-dressed limestone coping stones and dressed limestone piers.

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1780, with curved windbreak to door and recent single-storey flat-roofed extension to east gable. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystack. Corbelled rendered canopy with cast-iron cresting over windbreak. Painted wet-dashed walls, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Single-storey outbuildings to either side of front yard have pitched corrugated-iron roofs and painted wet-dashed walls. Rendered walls and piers to site boundary.

• Noan House, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey double-pile gate lodge, built c.1810, to north of Noan House. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed openings with timber quarry glazed windows to front elevation, having limestone sills. Rubble garden wall to front of lodge with rendered piers and wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Snecked limestone walls to quadrant entrance gateway to east side of lodge, with cut-stone copings and having cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gate set to carved limestone piers having ornate caps with ball finials and terminating in second pair of piers.

• Noan House, country house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, having slightly projecting central breakfront, to front of multiple-bay three-storey earlier block with four-bay three-storey earliest possibly seventeenth-century block at right angles to latter and having one-bay two-storey lean-to addition and further multiple-bay two-storey block at right angles to four-bay block. Hipped slate roof to front block with overhanging sheeted eaves. Pitched slate roofs to earlier blocks, slate cat slide roof to lean-to addition. Rendered chimneys throughout, earliest block having stout stack. Painted rendered walls, with moulded rendered eaves course to front block. Square-headed openings throughout with timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Front block has six-over-six pane to first floor, nine-over-six pane to ground floor and tripartite to gables. Six-over-six pane to rear blocks, with three-over-three pane to top floor of earliest block. Entrance comprising round-headed opening with elaborate beaded cobweb fanlight, timber panelled double doors with flanking Doric pilasters having fluted frieze and ashlar limestone entablature, two-over-two pane flanking timber sidelights, accessed by flight of limestone steps. Courtyard of fine outbuildings to south and gates and gate lodge to north.

• Noan House, farmyard complex, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Yard of outbuildings to west of country house. Carved sandstone piers leading to yard with south and east ranges. Multiple-bay two-storey south range having pedimented shallow central breakfront, pitched slate roof and painted roughcast rendered walls. Segmental-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, circular opening with timber fitting and timber louvred half-moon window openings to first floor and camber-headed three-over-six pane and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills to ground floor some of which have carved limestone keystones. Elliptical-headed carriage arches to breakfront having ashlar limestone voussoirs and surrounds and camber-headed openings, some with carved limestone keystones, and timber battened doors. L-plan two-storey east range having pitched and hipped slate roofs with brick chimneystack and painted roughcast rendered walls. Segmental-headed openings having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and round-headed window openings with timber fittings, and round-headed opening with timber battened door to first floor. Elliptical-headed carriage arches with ashlar limestone voussoirs and surrounds. Segmental-headed openings with timber battened doors having cut sandstone steps. Waterpump to cobble stoned yard. Rendered bellcote to west outbuilding. Three-bay two-storey gardener's house to south having single-bay single-storey extension to west. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and having pitched slate roof to extension. Coursed rubble sandstone and limestone masonry walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows with limestone sills. Square-headed quarry glazed window to extension. Square-headed door opening with glazed overlight and glazed timber door. Limestone boundary walls with cut limestone copings and ashlar piers with carved ornate caps having cast-iron gate. Variety of other single and two-storey rendered elsewhere in complex.

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 Noan, 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 high, 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 Noan.

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

Name

Noan · An Uamhain

Area

3,768,572 m² (376.86 ha, 931.23 acres)

Civil parish

Graystown, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Graystown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

438 people lived in 156 households in the Graystown electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Ballinure, Burnchurch, Curraheen, Grallagh, Lurgoe, Manserghshill

Placenames

Noan 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.