Riverlawn
Riverlawn is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymackey, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Plásóg na hAbhann.
- Area
- 28.9 ha
- 72 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 27,488 m² (2.75 ha, 6.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Riverlawn, from 6,392 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres) to 255,686 m² (25.57 ha, 63.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Riverlawn 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
No planning application touches the townland of Riverlawn in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Riverlawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Riverlawn.
Architectural heritage
- Riverlawn House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey U-plan house over half basement with attic, built c.1780, having four-bay returns. Hipped slate roof, gabled to returns, with render chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows with cut limestone sills. Timber panelled door with cobweb fanlight set in round-headed opening. Replacement concrete steps leading to entrance. Outbuilding to west having hipped slate roof and rubble limestone 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
- At the centre of the townland of Riverlawn, about 1 in 10 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 Riverlawn.
- 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 Riverlawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Riverlawn · Plásóg na hAbhann
- Area
- 289,412 m² (28.94 ha, 71.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymackey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballygibbon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 673 people lived in 238 households in the Ballygibbon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinahemery, Cappa, Cloonmore, Donnybrook, Elmhill, Lisnamoe, Tooreigh, Wilton
- Placenames
- Riverlawn 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.