Rodeen Upper
Rodeen Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Finnoe, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Róidín Uachtarach.
- Area
- 84.1 ha
- 208 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 1,660 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rodeen Upper, from 355 m² to 335,832 m² (33.58 ha, 82.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Rodeen Upper 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
11 Dec 2024Conditional
construction of new garage to the rear of the existing house and to include all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461079
23 Nov 2020Conditional
construction of an extension to a six bay single-storey cottage, as part of the development the existing extension will be part demolished for the new extension to be constructed, this building is a Protected Structure
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201381
4 Nov 2020N/a
construction of an extension to existing dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201292
28 Mar 2017Conditional
erection of an agricultural building for livestock use incorporating the provision of cubicles, slatted feed area with underground effluent storage tanks together with all associated site development works which is adjacent of a protected structure Rodeen Cottage (Ref S343
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600304
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 Rodeen Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rodeen Upper.
Architectural heritage
- Rodeen Cottage, house, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-pile single-storey over basement house, built c.1855, having two-storey block to northwest. Pitched M-profile roof to main block, re-slated to rear and with pitched slate roof to northwest block. Rendered chimneystacks. Pebble-dash render to walls. Margined timber casement windows to front façade and basement, with timber sliding sash windows to all other elevations. Round-headed window to rear lighting staircase. Limestone sills. Timber panelled front door having carved timber doorcase, ornate fanlight and side-lights with uPVC porch door to front, and limestone steps up over basement. Stone outbuildings forming yard to north.
- The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey rectory over half-basement, built 1819. Now in use as private house. Glazed flat- roof extension to rear. Hipped artificial slate roof with uPVC eaves and rainwater goods, and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast render to all walls except southeast which is slate hung. Timber sliding sash windows, tripartite to front façade including basement, six-over-six pane to front except for three-over-three pane to basement, and six-over-three and six-over-four pane to rear, with some replacements. Limestone sills. Timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and limestone steps up over basement. Stone outbuildings with slate roofs recently renovated and converted for residential use.
- Rodeen House, house, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1825, having earlier two-storey four-bay block to rear. Hipped slate roof to main house and pitched slate roof to rear block, both having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with stone plinth course. Tripartite timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to front, and eight-over-eight pane timber casement to rear block. Timber doorcase with pilasters and cobweb fanlight having recently replaced glazed double leaf timber door. Limestone steps to front door. Timber battened doors to rear block. Farmyard to north-west retaining high rubble coursed limestone wall, cut-stone entrance archway and single and two-storey stone outbuildings.
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 Rodeen Upper, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1410 (ZIP).
- 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 Rodeen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Rodeen Upper · An Róidín Uachtarach
- Area
- 840,882 m² (84.09 ha, 207.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Finnoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Finnoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 209 people lived in 71 households in the Finnoe electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boherleigh, Curraghmore, Graigillane, Kyletombrickane, Rodeen Lower, Sragh
- Placenames
- Rodeen Upper 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.