Racecourse
Townland in the civil parish of St. Johnbaptist, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Cúrsa an Ráis
- Area
- 69.5 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,219 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Racecourse, from 103 m² to 297,392 m² (29.74 ha, 73.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Racecourse 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
12 Dec 2024Conditional
amendments to granted planning application ref: 22678 - reduce the red boundary line area, relocate the single storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment tank and percolation system, relocate site entrance and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461088
3 Nov 2023Conditional
new 2 storey dwelling with single storey living area, detached garage, new entrance in location of existing field gate, septic tank ,percolation area and associated siteworks and drainage
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360884
16 Dec 2022Conditional
the erection of a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment tank and percolation system, entrance and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 22678
4 Mar 2022Conditional
to retain indefinitely the as constructed single storey extension to the rear of dwelling, single storey front porch, detached single storey domestic garage and all associated site development works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22193
25 Jul 2018Conditional
new 2 storey dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600940
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 Racecourse.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Racecourse.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Racecourse.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Racecourse.
- 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 Racecourse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Racecourse · Cúrsa an Ráis
- Area
- 695,160 m² (69.52 ha, 171.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Johnbaptist, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Killeenasteena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeenasteena electoral division: 677 people in 226 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carron, Farranliney, Lalor's-Lot, Racecourse Demesne, Shanballyduff, Templenoe
- Placenames
- Racecourse 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.