Scarrough
Scarrough is a townland in the civil parish of Donohill, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Scarbhach.
- Area
- 133.9 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,918 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scarrough, from 279 m² to 545,510 m² (54.55 ha, 134.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Scarrough 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
15 Apr 2022Conditional
(a) extensions to the sides of the existing house (b) shed to the side of existing house (c) a vehicular entrance and (d) all associated site works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260175
31 Mar 2022N/a
a) extensions to the sides and rear of existing house, b) vehicular entrance, c) sheds and associated site works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260149
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 Scarrough.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Scarrough.
Architectural heritage
- Scarrough Bridge, bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge, over the Glasheenyreagha River, built c. 1840. Roughly-dressed snecked limestone walls with margined voussoirs to round arch and very roughly-dressed parapet. Recent polished granite date plaque to west parapet wall.
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 Scarrough, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Scarrough.
- 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 Scarrough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Scarrough · An Scarbhach
- Area
- 1,339,224 m² (133.92 ha, 330.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Electoral division
- Donohill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 656 people lived in 242 households in the Donohill electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrack, Carrow, Gortard, Moheragh
- Placenames
- Scarrough 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.