Prospect
Prospect is a townland in the civil parish of Rathcool, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Prospect.
- Area
- 70.6 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 17,202 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Prospect, from 3,141 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres) to 334,927 m² (33.49 ha, 82.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Prospect 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
19 Dec 2024N/a
the construction of a single-storey dwelling with associated effluent treatment plant and percolation area, and all associated site development works, including alterations to existing site entrance and associated roadside boundary setback
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2461121
14 Apr 2020Conditional
sun room extension built to the gable of our dwelling including associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20378
12 May 2017Conditional
demolition of an existing dwelling and construction of a single storey replacement dwelling with detached boiler house, decommission existing septic tank and construct new effluent treatment system and associated percolation bed, and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600537
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 Prospect.
Recorded monuments
- TS069-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, incorporated into paddock for horses, to S of farmyard. Raised (H 0.6m) sub-circular area (dims. 62m N-S; 58m E-W) defined by earthen scarp (Wth 4.7m; H 1.3m) NNE-ESE and SSE-NW. Bank (Wth 6.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.45m) is low NW-NNE and ESE-SSE. Entrance (Wth c. 4m) at ESE is blocked up with dead wood. External fosse (Wth 10m; D 0.5m) N-NW. Possible traces of a circular/oval feature within centre of interior. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS070-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
On ground sloping gradually to W in undulating terrain, under pasture. Ringfort is enclosed by a post and pail fence along outer edge of fosse and perimeter is heavily overgrown with scrub, otherwise interior is clean except for brambles in the NW quadrant. Roughly circular ringfort (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank (Wth 7.8m; int. H 1.38m; ext. H 2.15m) and fosse (Wth 5m; D 1.4m) which in the W quadrant is waterlogged. Hedgerow runs N-S up to S quadrant into the fosse and skirts along the SW sector. Causewayed entrance (Wth 5.2m) in E quadrant. Cattle gap (Wth c. 1.5m) broken through bank in S quadrant. A shallow drain has been dug into the fosse in the E sector and a drainage trench cuts through the counterscarp in the SW sector. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Prospect.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Prospect, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 Prospect.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Prospect with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Prospect · Prospect
- Area
- 706,216 m² (70.62 ha, 174.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcool, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Peppardstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barrettsgrange, Coolmoyne (Fennell), Crossard, Derryluskan, Tullamain
- Placenames
- Prospect 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.