Parkmore
Townland in the civil parish of Roscrea, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Pháirc Mhór
- Area
- 136.9 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 643
- registered freehold, median 359 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 73
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
643 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parkmore, from 1 m² to 59,975 m² (6 ha, 14.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 69 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 517 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 40 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Urban Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M1Regeneration (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
Roscrea Local Area Plan 2023_2029, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Aug 2026N/a
A) the change of use of the existing Bridewell (Gaol) and Temperance Hall buildings from an educational facility/offices to residential use comprising of: 7 no. one-bedroom and 4 no. two-bedroom apartments, B) the demolition of an existing non-historic flat roof section, C) the construction of a proposed external stairwell to the side of the rear Temperance Hall building, D) elevational changes to include a proposed external door & window to replace existing opes to the front (northern façade) of the Bridewell building, 2 no. proposed balconies to the rear (southern façade) of the Bridewell building as well as proposed fenestration to the northern, eastern and western elevations of the Temperance Hall building, and E) proposed raising of height of the existing northern boundary wall along with all associated site development and facilitating works. This is a Protected Structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660829
4 Jun 2026N/a
installation of ground mounted solar panels and all associated site works. This development relates to a protected structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660544
30 Mar 2026Conditional
new single storey dwelling house with site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2636
13 Mar 2026N/a
new single storey dwelling house with site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2631
16 Dec 2025Conditional
the installation of solar panels on the existing roof of the building and all associated site works. This application relates to a Protected Structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561307
3 Nov 2025Unconditional
construction of 23 no dwellings on site No 1 and Sites No. 3 - Site No. 24 inclusive, full planning permission is also sought to complete all ancillary site works (original development previously granted under planning permission Ref. 05510932)
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 25223
10 Sept 2025Conditional
the change of use from a single residential dwelling and a commercial unit to 3 one bed apartments and a commercial unit and installation of a new window to the north facing façade at first floor level
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560889
3 Sept 2025N/a
change of use from a single residential dwelling and a commercial unit to 3 one bed apartments and a commercial unit and installation of a new window to the north facing façade at first floor level
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560860
12 Aug 2025Conditional
the garage as constructed and velux roof lights to the rear of the house and PLANNING PERMISSION for the installation of two upstairs windows
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560785
30 Jul 2025Conditional
existing on site totem signage and advertisement as constructed on site and also PERMISSION for revisions to planning app granted ref: 2460775 , revisions to include relocation / construction of EV charging area and canopy over, along with relocation of new jet wash area to accommodate new EV charge location and air / water services also to include all associated site works and services required
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560744
12 Jun 2025Conditional
demolition of existing rear extension and construct a single storey extension to the rear of dwelling house, make alterations to elevations of the existing dwelling and construct 2 new rooflights, demolish detached sheds and construct new detached shed, construct pergola and alter the internal wing wall to the entrance to improve accessibility, all together with associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560540
11 Jun 2025Conditional
the revised site boundaries and all associated site work
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560533
9 Jun 2025N/a
revised site boundaries and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560524
30 May 2025N/a
the following development: - demolish existing rear extension and construct a single storey extension to the rear of their dwelling house - demolish detached sheds and construct new detached shed. - construct pergola and alter the internal wing wall to the entrance to improve accessibility all together with associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560493
29 May 2025Conditional
extensions to existing dwelling house
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560488
21 Mar 2025Conditional
1) elevational changes to dwelling house; 2) conservatory to front elevation; 3) extension to side of dwelling house and conversion of car port to garage and storage/additional accommodation; 4) tennis court to side of dwelling house; 5) all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560227
17 Mar 2025N/a
the following works to existing dwelling house:- (1) Elevational changes to dwelling house ( 2) Conservatory to front elevation (3) Extension to side of dwelling house and conversion of car port to garage and storage / additional accommodation and (4) Tennis court to side of dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560209
3 Dec 2024Conditional
the installation of 2 no. electric vehicle (EV) chargers and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461032
16 Sept 2024Conditional
the construction of new extensions to existing service station building to include: (1) extensions to existing ground floor service station building and revision to forecourt area; (2) a new first floor area incorporating new access stair cores to provide additional seating, staff areas, offices, store rooms; (3) revisions of existing site layout to include a revised site entrances and egress, revised car parking layout and additional parking, additional HGV fuel pump area and underground tanks, EV charging area with canopy over, revisions to existing forecourt and relocation of existing car wash to include all associated site works & services required for the proposed development
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460775
12 Sept 2024Conditional
unauthorised works to existing house and sheds as constructed onsite
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460768
11 Jan 2023Conditional
demolished walls in existing protected structure and demolition of site boundary wall (ref: RC099) and alterations to plans and elevations to previously approved three storey primary care facility (ref: 21/951) and PERMISSION for the reconstruction of demolished walls to protected structure and to site boundary walls (ref: RC099)
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360008
29 Nov 2022Conditional
alteration of previously approved permission nr. 22/364 namely amend roof over existing utility/ dining room as identified on the side elevation (north west) and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260654
14 Sept 2022N/a
the walls demolished in existing protected structure and demolition of site boundary wall (ref: RC099), Permission for (1) the reconstruction of demolished walls to protected structure and to site boundary walls (ref: RC099). (2) alternations to plans and elevations to previously approved three storey primary care facility (ref: 21/951).
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260481
5 Aug 2022Conditional
1. the conversion of the garage to living accommodation 2. the extension to rear of original dwelling 3. the existing sheds
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260409
25 May 2022Conditional
shower toilet and kitchen as part of office suite
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22372
The 25 most recent of 73 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Parkmore.
Recorded monuments
- TN012-010010 Religious house - Franciscan friars
Description
National Monument No. 10005. Situated on the S side of Abbey Street in the town of Roscrea, the N wall and bell-tower are now used as an entrance into the RC church. A fifteenth-century Franciscan friary founded sometime before 1477 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 258). The remains are poorly preserved with only the N wall, E gable and bell-tower surviving. Originally the friary consisted of a nave and chancel (dims. 8m N-S; 13.3m E-W) church divided by a crenellated bell-tower two storeys high. In the E gable a pointed, mullioned and transomed, traceried window is now blocked up by the adjoining house which has been built onto the E end of the church. Two twin-light ogee-headed windows survive intact in the N wall of the chancel with hollow spandrels and external hood-mouldings. The bell-tower is carried on high pointed arches with a number of mason's marks incised into the stonework. There are no visible remains of the cloister area which is usually located to the S of the friary. Fragmentary architectural remains of the cloister arcade have been cemented into the base of the bell-tower. In 1568 it was recorded that the precincts of the friary measured two acres and contained the friar's house, with dormitory, hall, prior's chamber, chapel, cemetery, garden and two orchards (ibid.). The Civil Survey of 1654-6 recorded that the site had become a large ruined abbey (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 29). In the early 1800s the friary was partially destroyed by the builders of the adjacent parish church (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 415). Graveyard (TN012-010012-) to S of friary. 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
- TN012-010012 Graveyard
Description
Situated on the S side of Abbey Street in the town of Roscrea, the N wall and bell-tower are now used as an entrance into the RC church. A fifteenth-century Franciscan friary (TN012-010010-) founded sometime before 1477 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 258). In 1568 it was recorded that the precincts of the friary measured two acres and contained the friar's house, with dormitory, hall, prior's chamber, chapel, cemetery, garden and two orchards (ibid.). The Civil Survey of 1654-6 recorded that the site had become a large ruined abbey (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 29). In the early 1800s the friary was partially destroyed by the builders of the adjacent parish church (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 415). A large rectangular graveyard containing 18th and 19th century headstones is attached to the S of the franciscan friary (TN012-010010-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN017-012 Castle - unclassified
Description
Located either at a break in a fairly steep N-facing slope or on gently undulating ground at the base of this slope. It is not possible to determine the exact location as there is no visible trace of this site at ground level. This area, adjacent to Roscrea, is described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as having 'one castle [and] two turretts' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 29) and would seem to refer to this site. 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
Architectural heritage
- Abbey House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins. Timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows with moulded render surrounds and stone sills. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door, decorative fanlight, moulded render surround and stone step. Decorative cast-iron railings and gate to front. Outbuildings to rear.
- Abbeyside, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1810 onto east gable of medieval Franciscan friary and onto rear of earlier three-bay two-storey house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with render quoins to front block and pebble-dashed to rear block. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, paired to end bays of both blocks, having segmental-headed openings to front blocks with over-lights, and square-headed openings to rear block, with stone sills, continuous to end bays of rear block. Segmental-arch door opening to front with timber panelled door, cobweb fanlight and sidelights, and round-headed doorway to rear with cobweb fanlight. Garden to front with decorative cast-iron railings and gate. Rear yard accessed through gateway with rendered piers and cast-iron gates. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered stone walls and having segmental-arch carriage entrance and square-headed doors and windows.
- House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered parapet having moulded cornice and brackets. Rendered walls to ground floor and roughcast rendered walls to upper floors, with render string courses, plinth and quoins. Segmental-headed openings with timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows, moulded render surrounds and keystones. Ground and first floor openings also having render pilasters, consoles and pediments. Segmental-arch doorway with render surround, having keystone, consoles and pediment, with replacement timber panelled double-leaf half-glazed doors and overlight.
- Water pump, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, c.1880, having fluted shaft with lion mask spout and acorn finial. Set on limestone plinth.
- House, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Terraced two-bay three-storey house with projecting porch, built 1862 as pair with adjoining house to south. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC frames, moulded render surrounds, cornices and stone sills. Porch with frieze, cornice and decorative timber side windows. Timber panelled door with timber sidelights and overlight. Cast-iron railings and gate to front of site.
- House, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
End-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built 1862 as pair with adjoining house to north, having projecting porch. Pitched and hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds and cornices and replacement uPVC frames. Porch has frieze and cornice, and timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight and replacement uPVC windows. Cast-iron railings and gate to front of site.
- Saint Cronan's Catholic Church, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch snecked rock-faced limestone bridge, built c.1890, over Bunow River, providing access to St Cronan's Catholic church from north. Bridge has rusticated voussoirs to arch and has rock-faced piers, and parapet walls with copings. Gas lamp standards, added 1884, with barley-sugar shafts to parapet walls.
- Saint Cronan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan Catholic church, built c.1855, comprising gable-fronted six-bay nave with side aisles, two-bay transepts, single-bay chancel with bow-plan apse to east and with L-plan sacristy to south-east. West front has shallow gable-fronted porch to centre with order arch and with statue over and is flanked by polygonal turrets with narrow round and square-headed lights and blind lights, crenellations and spirelets. Pitched artificial slate roofs with mono-pitched roofs to aisles, flat roof to sacristy and with stone cross finials to gables. Snecked sandstone walls, rubble to exterior of side aisles, with string courses, modillions and buttresses. Trefoil-headed windows to aisles, paired to clerestorey, lancets to apse, large round and pointed-arch windows with hood-mouldings to west front, and with some trefoil windows with hood-mouldings. Stained glass to windows in east and west ends. Pointed-arch openings with timber battened double-leaf doors with stone hood-mouldings. Blind door and window openings to east elevation. Interior has arcade of polygonal columns supporting pointed arches, roof of braced wooden trusses with decorative cast iron to spandrels and with ornamental marble screen in apse.
- Frankfield, house, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c.1815, with flat-roofed porch added c.1875. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and plinth. Panelled render pilasters and cornice to porch. Timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows in square-headed openings, with render surrounds and stone sills. Timber windows with concrete sills and timber panelled door with over-light to porch. Rubble stone walls to front of site with polygonal cut sandstone piers having pyramidal stone caps and cast-iron gates and flanked by squared rubble limestone square piers.
- Malt house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached eleven-bay three-storey malt house, built c.1900, with return to north, multiple-bay block to west, single and two-storey additions to west end and with corrugated iron-clad additions to north. Now disused. Sprocketed pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron roof-lights. Coursed rubble limestone walls with cut-stone quoins. Square-headed window openings having brick block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber windows. Large square-headed door opening and pitching door in north elevation and segmental-headed doorway in west elevation, with timber battened double-leaf door. Rubble walls and modern steel gates to site boundaries.
- Roscrea Courthouse, court house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay double-height courthouse, dated 1820, with flanking single-bay slightly advanced single-storey entrance bays. Now in use as community centre. Artificial slate roofs, gabled to central block and hipped to flanking bays. Brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed snecked sandstone walls with stone plat-band and plinth. Round-headed window openings with stone sills, stone, brick block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber windows. Square-headed timber panelled double-leaf door with brick surrounds. Paving to front of site.
- Roscrea Erasmus Smith School, school, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
Description
Detached school, built c.1820, comprising gable-fronted three-bay two-storey block, flanked by slightly recessed three-bay single-storey blocks. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to centre block. Rendered walls with render plat-bands and circular niche to gable-front. Square-headed windows with stone sills and replacement uPVC windows, with render surrounds to end blocks and set into round-headed recesses to ground floor of centre block. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight in round-headed recess. Rubble boundary walls with cast-iron gate to front of site.
- Saint Cronan's Parochial Hall, prison/jail, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey former jail, built c.1815, with advanced entrance front flanked by three-bay blocks, and with second pile to rear. Now in use as parochial hall. Hipped artificial slate roof to front block and pitched slate to rear. Roughcast rendered walls with render plinth. Entrance flanked by polygonal turrets with crenellations and corbel table. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and stone sills. Loop windows with stone sills and replacement timber windows to turrets and hood-moulding to window over entrance door. Pointed segmental-arch doorway with timber battened door, having sidelights and decorative over-lights. Rendered walls and piers to front of site.
- Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy, school, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
L-plan convent school building, built c.1865, comprising seven-bay three-storey north block and lower nine-bay three-storey east block to street. Lower single-bay added to west end of north block. Multiple-bay three-storey extension to south. Hipped artificial slate roof with carved stone eaves course, having ashlar parapet to north block, with bell-cote to west end. Rubble limestone walls with dressed stone quoins and window surrounds and cut-stone string courses. Rendered to second floor south wall of north block. Round-headed window openings to second floor of north block, square-headed elsewhere, with timber sliding sash windows some with coloured glass, six-over-six pane to lower floors of both blocks and to second floor of north block, three-over-six pane to east wall of second floor of east block and four-over-eight pane and twelve-over-twelve pane to east end of east block. Projecting porch to north end of east block comprises engaged columns to corners bearing entablature and carved cornice with pediment over entrance doorway having stone cross finial, timber panelled door with moulded timber architrave and approached by flight of stone steps with cut sandstone parapet to east side and coloured glass window to north with moulded render surround. Doorway in west end of north block with rendered surround and timber panelled divided door flanked by sidelights, and timber panelled door with paned over-light in north wall having dressed stone surround.
- Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Attached seven-bay three-storey two-pile former house, built c.1790, with canted central bay to north elevation, slightly advanced end bays and with bow to west end of rear pile. Part of complex of convent buildings. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with square-headed openings having timber sliding sash windows, mainly one-over-one pane with some three-over-six pane and six-over-six pane, some doubled to top floor, and some replacement timber windows, all with stone sills. Round window with petal tracery in canted bay and traceried pointed window with cut limestone block-and-start surround in south elevation. Timber battened door with cut-stone surround in south elevation. Steel fire escape staircase to east end of north elevation.
- Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy, school, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Seven-bay three-storey former school, built c.1845, with advanced gable-fronted former entrance bay to east elevation and lean-to extension to west. Now disused. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and ashlar limestone eaves course. Coursed rubble and rendered walls with stone string courses. Former entrance bay altered with removal of original openings and insertion of recessed panel. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows having dressed stone surrounds and with replacement metal windows to former entrance bay, with cut-stone oculus above.
- Mount Saint Joseph Convent of Mercy, school, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
Description
Attached eleven-bay two-storey over basement L-plan school, built c.1930, having three-bay breakfront to east elevation with advanced centre section having cornice and fascia. Now in use as leisure centre. Recessed section to north end of east elevation links building to rest of former convent and schools complex. Advanced bay with render cornice, fascia and statue to west elevation in three-bay recessed section. Flat roofed with rendered parapets. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber three-over-three pane and two-over-two pane windows and some replacement uPVC windows, all with stone sills. Round-headed opening to west elevation with render keystone and surround, timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1722 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Parkmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Parkmore · An Pháirc Mhór
- Area
- 1,369,411 m² (136.94 ha, 338.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscrea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Roscrea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roscrea electoral division: 6,606 people in 2,431 households; 60% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Parkmore 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.