Russelstown
Townland in the civil parish of Solloghodmore, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Ruiséalaigh
- Area
- 86.7 ha
- 214 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Russelstown, from 92 m² to 350,408 m² (35.04 ha, 86.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Russelstown 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
7 Jan 2026Conditional
cubicle shed with slatted tanks and walled silage pit and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660008
13 Dec 2025N/a
cubicles shed with slatted tanks and walled silage pit and all associated site works - the proposed buildings are within the curtilage of a protected structure Reg No22205806
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561296
10 Jul 2025Conditional
extension to the side of existing cottage and to replace the existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment tank and percolation system and to include all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560660
3 Jul 2020Conditional
a) proposed new single storey extension to existing school building, b) associated alterations to existing school building external elevations to accommodate proposed new extension and internal layout, c) all associated site works (the development is located within the curtilage of a recorded protected structure S1110 Monard NS (boundary walls))
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20700
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 Russelstown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Russelstown.
Architectural heritage
- Russelstown House, country house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier house, having three-storeys to north-east corner, slight projection to west elevation continued by slightly lower three-bay two-storey addition, formerly an outbuilding, projecting west end bays to rear elevation and having single-storey extension to south-west with pitched artificial slate roof. Hipped and pitched slate roof to main block with overhanging eaves, having ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls having painted smooth render sill course and plinth. Exposed rubble stone walls to addition with partly-blocked former carriage arch entrance. Recessed openings to front and east elevations with render window reveals, segmental headed to ground floor and square-headed to first floor. Double timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, with painted stone sills to ground floor. Replacement uPVC windows elsewhere except for round-headed twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash window with coloured glass to rear elevation. Three-over-six pane timber slding sash windows to first floor of addition and four-pane timber casement to ground, all with brick surrounds. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door having ornate petal fanlight, decorative panelled timber pilasters and ornate sidelights. Yards to rear of house having two-storey outbuildings, with rendered and exposed rubble limestone walls and pitched slate roofs, some with round brick-arched doorways, some with wrought-iron gates and some having pitching doors in upper gable walls. Blocked former elliptical-headed carriage arch to outbuilding to west of house.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Russelstown.
- 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 Russelstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Russelstown · Baile an Ruiséalaigh
- Area
- 867,207 m² (86.72 ha, 214.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Solloghodmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Ballykisteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballykisteen electoral division: 892 people in 344 households; 71% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrien, Ballygodoon, Ballylahiff (Co. Limerick), Boherdotia (Co. Limerick), Boreen, Gortnabarnan, Monard
- Placenames
- Russelstown 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.