# Priorpark, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cloghprior, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Páirc an Phrióra.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 837,455 m² (83.75 ha, 206.94 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,320 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Cloghprior, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/cloghprior.md
- Barony: Ormond Lower
- Electoral division: Cloghprior, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 326 people lived in 107 households in the Cloghprior electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/45911
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212698
- Centre: latitude 52.945345, longitude -8.212292 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priorpark, from 781 m² to 398,918 m² (39.89 ha, 98.57 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 558038: 398,918 m² (39.89 ha, 98.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/558038.md
- Parcel 546502: 208,373 m² (20.84 ha, 51.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/546502.md
- Parcel 522353: 85,104 m² (8.51 ha, 21.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/522353.md
- Parcel 552727: 57,869 m² (5.79 ha, 14.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/552727.md
- Parcel 513571: 54,242 m² (5.42 ha, 13.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/513571.md
- Parcel 518600: 7,794 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/518600.md
- Parcel 531742: 4,846 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/531742.md
- Parcel 531122: 4,790 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/531122.md
- Parcel 546728: 4,060 m² (0.41 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/546728.md
- Parcel 532419: 3,897 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/532419.md
- Parcel 540888: 3,753 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/540888.md
- Parcel 555034: 781 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/555034.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Priorpark 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.

- 28 Oct 2022, Tipperary County Council 2260580: Conditional. Permission. the renovation and extension of existing dwelling including demolition of existing storage sheds and upgrade existing waste water system on site along with all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260580/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clareen Lough, site code 000929

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- TN009-052001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN009-052001-. Cloghprior Church ruins stands on a rise of ground in undulating countryside, in the N quadrant of Cloghprior graveyard (TN009-052002-). Prior Park House stands 515m to SW, Cloghprior Castle (TN009-047----) stands 645m to NW, Carney Castle (TN010-052001-) 1.7km to NE, Woodpark House stands 320m to SE. Cloghprior (Cloch an Phrióra) medieval parish church ruins stands in the townland of Priorpark (Páirc an Phrióra) previously known as Ballybeg, in the parish of Cloghprior, diocese of Killaloe, barony of Lower Ormond. The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as 'church and chancell downe' (Murphy and Ormond 1914, 220). Church ruins and Cloghprior Castle depicted on 1654-57 Down Survey map of Cloghprior parish (NLI MS 721). The Civil Survey of 1654-56 recorded the following details about Cloghprior parish; 'The s[ai]d Parish lying and being in the Barrony of Lower Ormond being an intire Rectory impropriate belonging to the Priory of Tyone [TN021-042----] in the Barrony of Upper Ormond. The Tythes greate and smale of the sd Parish was worth in 1640 the sume of £30. The sd Tythes is an intire Impropriation belonging to the Priory of Tyone afforesd. and held by John Grace of Ballylensy in the County of Kilkeny by Pattent (as wee are informed) in whome the presentation of a Curatt was. In this Parish is noe Gleabland' (Simington 1934, 340-1). In 1640 the lands of Cloghprior and Ballybegg were in the ownership of John Grace of Ballylinch, Co. Kilkenny and Philip Kennedy of Castletown, both listed as Irish papists (ibid. 341). The terrier of the 1654-57 Down Survey map of Cloghprior Parish recorded that 'In Cloghprior & Ballibegg is a Thatcht House a Castle & Church in repaire' (NLI MS 721). Medieval parish church ruins described by John O’Donovan in 1840 as follows; ‘The old Church of Cloghprior is a small building about three centuries old. It measures on the inside forty two feet ten inches [13m] in length and twenty feet nine inches [6.3m] in breadth and its side walls are two feet seven inches [0.8m] in thickness and about ten feet [3m] in height. The east gable contains a pointed window divided into two parts on the outside by a stone mullion. This outer part of it is three feet five inches [1m] in height and one foot six inches [0.45m] in width and placed at the height of five feet three inches [1.6m] from the present level of the ground. The doorway was on the south wall at the distance of eleven feet [3.35m] from the west gable, but it is now reduced to a formless breach in the wall. At the distance of nine feet [2.75m] from the south east corner on the outside there is a small window constructed of cut lime stone and measuring on the outside two feet four inches [0.7m] in height and four and a half inches [0.11m] in width. This little church is covered with strong dense ivy which conceals any other features it may contain; its two gables are in good preservation' (O’Flanagan 1930, 24-5). Cloghprior Church described by Gleeson (1951, 100) as follows; ‘This parish was formed from the gift of lands by Theobald Walter Butler about A.D. 1200 to the Prior and community of Tyone (Tigh Eoin) for which see Cal. O. Deeds Vol. 1. The lands in the grant can be identified from those shown in the Civil Survey of 1653 as in the possession of the Graces of Ballylinch, Co. Kilkenny, which family succeeded to them at the Dissolution of the monasteries. The Church is described in O.S. Letters as ‘not more than three centuries old’ i.e. circa 1540. It is in a collapsed condition. The E. gable has a pointed window with two lights and a stone mullion. The S. door is gone. The whole is infested with ivy and growths. There are many tombs and interments of the 18th century’. Present remains consist of a single cell rectangular church (ext. dims. 7.9m N-S; 14.9m E-W; wall T 0.7m) constructed with uncoursed limestone rubble of cyclopean appearance with a protruding plinth at the base of the wall. The church walls have undergone recent restoration with reset quoin stones at the SW angle and rebuilding of the external face of the S wall. Nineteenth-century headstones have been inserted into the external face of the N wall and E gable. A rebuilt doorway with no cut stone visible is at W end of the S wall. There are traces of wicker centring on the underside of the rebuilt doorway arch. The E gable has a partially blocked-up twin-light ogee-headed window with hood-moulding. In the W gable there is a round-headed single-light window at first floor level which may indicate the presence of a two storey priests residence or a gallery. There is a round-arched bell-cote on top of the W gable. A single-light flat-headed window with chamfered jambs is visible at the E end of the S wall. The E end of the church has been converted into a burial area for the Cambie family with a seventeenth-century graveslab (TN009-052003-) inserted into the base of the window embrasure of the S wall at the E end. No window openings visible in N wall of church. The church stands inside an irregular-shaped graveyard (TN009-052002-) defined by a wall constructed with large limestone boulders of cyclopean appearance at N only, elsewhere the wall has been rebuilt. 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.# Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 8 July 2022
- TN009-052002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN009-052002-. Cloghprior Church ruins stands on a rise of ground in undulating countryside, in the N quadrant of Cloghprior graveyard (TN009-052002-). The church is located inside an irregular-shaped graveyard (dims. 55m N-S) defined by a wall constructed with large limestone boulders of cyclopean appearance at N only - elsewhere the wall has been rebuilt. The church is located in the centre of a sub-rectangular graveyard (approx. dims. 54m N-S; 49m E-W) which is enclosed by an 18th/19th century wall with entrance gate and stile at SW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN009-052003: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN009-052003-. Situated on a rise of ground in undulating countryside. Medieval ruins of Cloghprior church (TN009-052001-) stands in centre of graveyard (TN009-052002-). Nineteenth-century headstones have been inserted into the external face of the N wall and E gable of church. A rebuilt doorway with no cut stone visible is at W end of the S wall. The E gable has a partially blocked-up twin-light ogee-headed window and in the W gable there is a round-headed single-light window with a round-arched bellcote on top. A single-light flat-headed window lies at the E end of the S wall. The E end of the church has been converted into a burial area for the Cambie family. A seventeenth-century graveslab with the Cambie coat of Arms was inserted into base of the window embrasure located at the E end of the S wall of the church. The inscription on this plaque reads 'HERE LIETH MARY THE WIFE OF SOLOMON CAMBIE DECEASED THE 11 DEY OF FEB 1684 AND RACHEL HARDING HIS 2 FEB 1687'. According to Lenihan the forfeited lands of Annagh Castle (TN009-036----) which belonged to the Irish papist, John Hurly, were granted to Captain Solomon Camby, 'one of Oliver Cromwell's officers' (Lenihan 1871). In 1656 Captain Solomon Camby of the Parliamentarian army was governor of the town of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford (Hore 1911, 508). In 1659 Solomon Cambie [Sol. Camby] was one of the signatories to a petition to the Commonwealth for the compilation or 'hastening up of the Down Survey of Ireland and to have there his 'arrears satisfied in Ireland' (Larcom 1851, 80). The 1659 Census of Ireland listed 'Soloman Cambier Esq.' as the owner of the lands of Annagh in the parish of Kilbarron (Pender 2002, 298). In 1661 the Earl of Orrery requested pardons from King Charles II on full terms of the Act of Parliament [Engl.] of 25 April, 1660 for a list of people which included 'Major Soloman Canby, of ........, co. Tipperary' (Mahaffy 1905, 319). In the same year the Irish Treasury recorded the payment of arrears to the 'Foot' which included 'Major Solomon Camby, in part payment of £489 17s. due to him as Major and Captain' (Calendar of the manuscripts of the Marquess of Ormonde 1904, 426). In 1669 a Solomon Cambie and Alice [nee Craine] his wife were listed as defendants over the purchase of lands by the plaintiff, Charles Minchin for 'Annagh, Kilbarron, Knockballea, Tullaghan, Kilbelew alias Kilbeller' for the sum of £641 (Anon. 1869, 41). In 1672, a Solomon Camby is listed as a defendant against the plaintiff John Berckely, in Chancery Pleadings of the Palatine Court of Co. Tipperary from 1666-1690 (Anon. 1869, 47). O'Hart (1884, 664) gives the following pedigree for a Major Solomon Cambie 'of Ballycullatan [Ballycolliton TN009-042----] and Annagh Castle [TN009-036----], co. Tipperary, and Alice his wife, and Samuel Cambie (of Galway), son and heir apparent of said Solomon Cambie who was a witness with William Cleburne, of the city of Kilkenny, to a tripartite Indenture dated 20th July, 1677, for the sale of Castletown, Ballycullatan, Killinboy, Kilbulloir, Burnadubber, and part of Annagh, with all the Castles, towns, village, lands, premises, their rights, marches and appurtenances situate in the co. Tipperary, to the said William Cleburn. Major Solomon Cambie, here mentioned, was a Cromwellian Officer; Alice his wife, was a dau. of Henry Craine. Her daughter Elizabeth Cambie m. William, son of William Cleburn of St. John's Manor, Co. Wexford, and had one child Elizabeth, who d. in 1682, aged 16 days'. To see a 3D model of graveslab visit https://skfb.ly/ovWr9 Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revised upload: 8 July 2022
- TN014-017: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN014-017----. Situated in rolling grounds a few hundred metres NNE of Priorpark House. Indicated as an irregular, tree-covered site on the 1st ed. (1840) OS 6-inch map. A roughly circular area (diam. 31.6m N-S; 34.6m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.46m; ext. H 1.53m), a fosse (Wth 4.6m; D 0.85m) and an outer bank at W (Wth 3.7m; ext. H 1.15m). This outer bank joins the inner bank at N and peters out in the SW sector. The bank from N to SE is revetted with drystone walling. The interior slopes to the E and there is no visible entrance feature. A field bank runs parallel to the site at S. Mature beech trees growing around the bank suggest that this site may have been used as a tree-ring. 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

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)

- Prior Park, country house, 1775–1790, Regional interest, registry number 22400918, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN&regno=22400918. Detached five-bay three-storey over basement house, built 1779-86. L-plan multiple-bay two-storey hipped roof addition to northwest and three-bay two-storey pitched roof addition to northeast, forming two sides of small yard to rear of house, last side being formed by segmental archway and small hipped slate outbuilding. Central three bays of front are grouped. Hipped slate roof with carved limestone cornice and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered rubble walls with cut limestone coping to plinth. Replacement uPVC windows, with one twelve-over-twelve pane round-headed and one three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to rear. Limestone sills, dressed stone surrounds, with slightly-projecting keystones. Some three-over-three pane and four-over-four pane windows to north-west addition. Cut limestone Doric doorcase with open-bed pediment, cornice, engaged columns and cobweb fanlight, having replacement door. Flight of cut limestone steps with curving parapets. Stable yard to rear of house, accessed through round entrance archway with limestone voussoirs and having brick bellcote. Eleven-bay two-storey stable block along north side of yard, having advanced single-bay ends, hipped slate roof, rubble limestone walls, segmental-arch carriage openings at centre and ends of main part of façade, flanking groups of three bays. Pitching doors to first floor of rear wall and limestone flag floor to interior. Remains of outbuildings to other sides of yard. Cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates to public road, flanked by cut limestone piers.

## 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 Priorpark, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Priorpark.
- 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/priorpark.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/priorpark.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/priorpark.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Priorpark 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)

- Cloghprior: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/cloghprior.md
- Parkboy: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parkboy.md
- Prospect East: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/prospect-east.md
- Prospect West: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/prospect-west.md
- Woodpark: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/woodpark.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.

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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/priorpark
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/priorpark