Rorardstown Lower

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rorardstown Lower, from 112 m² to 344,665 m² (34.47 ha, 85.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Rorardstown Lower 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.

• 22 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and driveway along with all ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211069

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21821

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  1.The dwelling is to be increased in height and consequently altered from a storey and a half style dwelling to a full two storey dwelling. The single storey wing to the front of the dwelling is to be increased in height, to a full two storey wing 2. The floor area of the upper storey is to be increased to include an additional bedroom, two en-suites, a study/office, walk in wardrobe, storage and ancillary areas. 3. There will be significant internal alterations to the layout of the first floor plan and minor internal alterations to the layout of the ground floor plan. 4. There will be significant alterations to the exterior elevations namely the front, rear and side elevations of the dwelling 5. Due to the increased design population of the dwelling, an additional 18 linear meters of percolation trench is to be provided for the existing wastewater treatment system. Note: the septic tank condition and size is adequate and consequently is to be retained in place. 6. Landscaping of the site consisting of hard landscaping areas, parking areas, planting beds, trees, shrubbery and grass areas and all associated site works. Retention Permission is also sought for the location of the site entrance as constructed. The site entrance was granted planning permission under planning reference number 04511872 in a different location

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21704

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rorardstown Lower.

Recorded monuments

• TN035-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated at the S end of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside. A raised circular platform (diam. 37m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5-2m), an outer fosse (Wth 5-6m; D 0.6-0.9m) and an external bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 1m) both of which are only visible at W - elsewhere they have been destroyed. The SW sector of the platform has been quarried away while at SE the scarp has been removed where a possible entrance feature was located. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN035-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the gentle NE-facing slope of a low hillock in undulating countryside. An irregular-shaped area (diam. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) and an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.5m) with a possible destroyed entrance gap (Wth 6m) at W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Rorardstown Lower.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Rorardstown Lower.

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.

No address of the register names Rorardstown Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Rorardstown Lower · Baile Roraid Íochtarach

Area

1,188,718 m² (118.87 ha, 293.74 acres)

Civil parish

Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Kilrush, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilrush electoral division: 556 people in 184 households; 94% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballypatrick, Dovea Lower, Killahagan, Lisheenataggart, Rorardstown Upper

Placenames

Rorardstown Lower 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.