# Oldtown, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templemore, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Seanbhaile. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,432,005 m² (143.2 ha, 353.86 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 25,951 m² (2.6 ha, 6.41 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Templemore, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/templemore.md - Barony: Eliogarty - Electoral division: Drom, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,212 people lived in 403 households in the Drom electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46997 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212626 - Centre: latitude 52.792724, longitude -7.868548 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Oldtown, from 115 m² to 164,097 m² (16.41 ha, 40.55 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 3194778: 164,097 m² (16.41 ha, 40.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3194778.md - Parcel 521873: 113,336 m² (11.33 ha, 28.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/521873.md - Parcel 493586: 99,508 m² (9.95 ha, 24.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/493586.md - Parcel 523006: 91,109 m² (9.11 ha, 22.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/523006.md - Parcel 554592: 86,849 m² (8.68 ha, 21.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/554592.md - Parcel 529064: 77,289 m² (7.73 ha, 19.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/529064.md - Parcel 527000: 73,027 m² (7.3 ha, 18.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/527000.md - Parcel 4144820: 64,659 m² (6.47 ha, 15.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4144820.md - Parcel 525173: 55,636 m² (5.56 ha, 13.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/525173.md - Parcel 507599: 39,051 m² (3.91 ha, 9.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/507599.md - Parcel 513255: 33,879 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/513255.md - Parcel 583622: 33,142 m² (3.31 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/583622.md - Parcel 570822: 31,287 m² (3.13 ha, 7.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/570822.md - Parcel 573648: 25,951 m² (2.6 ha, 6.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/573648.md - Parcel 517776: 23,530 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/517776.md - Parcel 566540: 21,392 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/566540.md - Parcel 514507: 21,136 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/514507.md - Parcel 4144821: 19,947 m² (1.99 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4144821.md - Parcel 517794: 19,379 m² (1.94 ha, 4.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/517794.md - Parcel 546741: 10,606 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/546741.md - Parcel 527159: 6,171 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/527159.md - Parcel 556496: 2,551 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556496.md - Parcel 5102504: 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102504.md - Parcel 535574: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/535574.md - Parcel 556839: 2,075 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/556839.md - Parcel 4873733: 1,659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4873733.md - Parcel 4873730: 115 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4873730.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 17 Apr 2025, Tipperary County Council 2560330: N/a. Permission, 1 home. a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560330/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Oldtown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - TN029-051: Settlement deserted - medieval, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN029-051----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN029-051001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN029-052----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN029-102----. 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 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Oldtown. ## 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 Oldtown, 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 Oldtown. - 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/oldtown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/oldtown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/oldtown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Oldtown 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) - Ballyheen: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballyheen.md - Barnalascaw: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/barnalascaw.md - Culleenagh: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/culleenagh.md - Lisnaviddoge North: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lisnaviddoge-north.md - Lisnaviddoge South: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/lisnaviddoge-south.md - Manna North: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/manna-north.md - Priory Demesne: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/priory-demesne.md - Sandymount: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/sandymount.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/oldtown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/oldtown