Oldtown

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown, from 115 m² to 164,097 m² (16.41 ha, 40.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Oldtown 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.

• 17 Apr 2025N/a

  a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560330

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 Oldtown.

Recorded monuments

• TN029-051 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated in an area of flat pasture. In 1612 the 'castle, town and lands of Oldtown were granted to John Cantwell (Cal. pat. Rolls, Ire., Jas I, 197). Although visible on aerial photographs neither the castle (TN029-051001) nor the earthworks are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN029-051001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. In 1612 the 'castle, town and lands of Oldtown (TN029-051----) were granted to John Cantwell' (Griffith 1966, 197). The earthworks indicated in the aerial photographs (OSI 2339-2342) taken 08/04/1990 are not now visible at ground level. The earthworks which are visible on the Digital Globe aerial photographs represent a series of attached rectangular enclosures. These earthworks belong to a field system which may be associated with the castle mentioned in the 1612 land grant. the castle may have been located in this area where the earthworks are visible on the aerial photographs. Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 12 July 2016

• TN029-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a slight rise of ground in an undulating upland area. A circular area (diam. 21m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1m) with traces of a shallow outer fosse (Wth 4m) and an outer bank visible at E only where the outer bank is incorporated into a field fence, elsewhere destroyed. No clear entrance feature 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

• TN029-102 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m), defined by a fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps; Google Earth, imagery date 12 August 2022), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached imagery: TN029-102----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery TN029-102--------_02 Google Earth satellite imagery; imagery date 12 August 2022 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 July 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldtown.

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

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

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

Name

Oldtown · An Seanbhaile

Area

1,432,005 m² (143.2 ha, 353.86 acres)

Civil parish

Templemore, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Drom, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drom electoral division: 1,212 people in 403 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheen, Barnalascaw, Culleenagh, Lisnaviddoge North, Lisnaviddoge South, Manna North, Priory Demesne, Sandymount

Placenames

Oldtown 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.