Priory Demesne
Townland in the civil parish of Templemore, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Diméin na Prióireachta
- Area
- 108.1 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 2,900 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Priory Demesne, from 150 m² to 147,707 m² (14.77 ha, 36.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Priory Demesne 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
16 Mar 2026Conditional
the demolition of an existing dwelling house and for permission to construct a replacement dwelling house, detached garage, replace existing waste water treatment system, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660235
1 Aug 2025Conditional
a) Roof Horse Walker, b) Farmyard Manure Pit and Effluent Tank and, c) All associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560756
19 Dec 2024Conditional
the construction of a proposed two-storey dwelling, domestic outbuilding, a proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated siteworks, including a proposed site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24290
3 Dec 2024Conditional
bungalow dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2461033
28 Nov 2023Conditional
refurbishment and side extension to existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations, replacement of existing septic tank system and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360945
4 Oct 2022Conditional
development and alterations as constructed to the following: (1) revised elevations (2) front grass verge (3) oil tank shed, (4) together with all associated works to existing dwelling
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260533
31 Mar 2022Refused
a two storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 22266
16 Dec 2021Conditional
unauthorised sun room to the south west elevation of existing dwelling house and elevational changes to existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211837
9 Dec 2021Conditional
1) extension to existing dwelling house and 2) roofed horse arena and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211774
21 Sept 2017Conditional
construction of a two storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601033
5 Sept 2017N/a
construction of a two storey dwellinghouse., domestic garage, entrance waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600975
29 Aug 2017N/a
construction of a two storey dwellinghouse., domestic garage, entrance waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600946
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 Priory Demesne.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Priory Demesne.
Architectural heritage
- Templemore Abbey, farmyard complex, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of stable yard and demesne walls of country house, built c.1865. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings with pitched slated roofs. Central north-south building has cut limestone chimneystack, coursed squared limestone walls and integral square-headed carriage arch with ashlar limestone surround. Walls of yard are of coursed squared limestone and entranceway at southeast corner comprises advanced segmental-arch gateway of ashlar limestone with ornate cast and wrought-iron gates and railings. Blocked pointed-arch opening in east wall of yard, flanked by buttresses, with plaque. Various other rendered and unrendered buildings in yard, some with ashlar voussoirs to round-arch openings.
- Templemore Abbey, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan former gate lodge with dormer attic, built c.1865. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with ashlar limestone chimneystack. Snecked cut limestone walls with corner buttresses, round panel, croix pommées and uninscribed limestone plaques to east gable. Mullioned two-light segmental-headed windows to east gable, square-headed elsewhere, with limestone label-mouldings and sills, and replacement timber windows. Projecting cut limestone dormer windows to north elevation, supported on cut limestone corbels. Inserted square-headed opening in east elevation with replacement timber door. Ornate gates to east of building.
- Templemore Abbey, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway to former country house, comprising vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances. Ashlar limestone piers with raised panels and carved caps and detailing to jambs. Ornate wrought- and cast-iron gates and railings with ashlar plinths and ashlar flanking walls.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Priory Demesne.
- 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 Priory Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Priory Demesne · Diméin na Prióireachta
- Area
- 1,081,440 m² (108.14 ha, 267.23 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
- Belleville, Ivyhall, Lisnaviddoge South, Manna North, Manna South, Oldtown
- Placenames
- Priory Demesne 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.