Philipston
Townland in the civil parish of Donohill, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Philib
- Area
- 174 ha
- 430 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 2,829 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Philipston, from 244 m² to 387,987 m² (38.8 ha, 95.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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
No zone of a development plan covers Philipston 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2023Conditional
(Ref. No. 22594 of outline permission) the construction of an entrance, dwelling house and domestic garage
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360641
4 May 2023Conditional
demolition of extensions erected to the rear of the existing cottage and to replace with a new extension, renovate the existing cottage and erect a front porch, replace the existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment tank and percolation system and to include all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360300
10 Oct 2022Conditional
a new entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage and assoicated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22594
23 Dec 2021Conditional
to change the location of Domestic Garage to a location which is contrary to that granted under planning file reference 18600917
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211886
13 Sept 2018Conditional
to renovate and erect an extension to the rear of our existing cottage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601112
18 Jul 2018Conditional
construction of a new single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system, site entrance, driveway and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600917
16 May 2018N/a
construction of a new single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site waste water treatment system, site entrance, driveway and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600611
31 Jan 2017N/a
works already carried out to a proposed garage and planning permission to complete same and all associated site works, garage for private and domestic use only
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600067
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Philipston Marsh SAC 001847
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Philipston Marsh 001847
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilbeg Marsh 001848
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Philipston.
Architectural heritage
- Philipston House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1780, with advanced central two-bay breakfront, three-bay side elevations and with return to rear. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls to first floor with painted rubble walls to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, those of ground floor of façade set into segmental-arched recesses, with replacement uPVC windows and having double timber sliding sash four-over-six pane windows to first floor of end bays and some to rear and side elevations and double one-over-one pane and round-headed twelve-over-twelve to rear, all having tooled limestone sills. Round-arched door opening with timber panelled door flanked having panelled timber pilasters with cobweb fanlight above, render knees, and flanked by sidelights. Segmental-arch entranceway to rear yard of rubble sandstone construction with roughly-dressed sandstone voussoirs, cut sandstone string course and pediment and having rubble sandstone bellcote. Two-storey outbuilding to yard with limewashed walls and corrugated-iron barrel roof. Curved-plan entrance gateway with wrought-iron gates and railings with roughcast rendered wall and gate piers with limestone capping stones to front of site.
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 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 Philipston.
- 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 Philipston with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Philipston · Baile Philib
- Area
- 1,739,987 m² (174 ha, 429.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Drumwood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumwood electoral division: 626 people in 198 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappagh, Cappagh, Clonganhue, Crossayle, Greenfield, Kilbeg
- Placenames
- Philipston 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.