Silverfort

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Silverfort, from 93 m² to 35,406 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Silverfort 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Silverfort 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.

Designated sites

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

Recorded monuments

• TS061-053 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  In improved pasture, on an E-facing slope. Mill buildings called 'Old Mill' are depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map with the mill, aligned N-S, depicted on the E side of the mill pond and another building to the NE aligned E-W. The mill pond consists of an oval area (dims. 48m E-W; 28m N-S) cut into hillslope on W-half and raised on E-half to create a level interior. Interior defined by face of cutting (scarp Wth 7.9m; D 2.95m) SW-NW and by bank (overall Wth 6.4m; Wth at top 1.0m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) NW-N and ESE-SW where it is best preserved. Bank (overall Wth 13.6m; Wth at top 3m; int. H 1.55m; ext. H 3.9m) has a counter scarp and is very steep on exterior N-ESE, where it has been raised highest to compensate for hillslope. Fosse (overall Wth 4.6m; basal Wth 2.2m; D 1.1m) E-SW appears to have been re-cut and terminates at large bank of earth at SW. Outer bank (overall Wth 4.45m; Wth at top 0.4m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 0.5m) E-SW. A gap (Wth 3.5m) in inner bank at S may be later. Interior is sunken, level and poorly drained; Gap (Wth 2m) at E allows water drain to exterior. Causeway (Wth 6m) at NW allows access into a roughly triangular area (dims. 18m N-S; 14m E-W across centre) defined by bank (overall Wth 4.8m; Wth at top 2.2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. max. H 1.25m) to W (L 18m) and short return to E, on S-side (total L 16m). Bank (overall Wth 14.6m; Wth at top 5.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) defines eastern side (L 26m). Fosse (overall Wth 5.15m; basal Wth 2.6m; D 1.35m) along W-side. Causewayed entrance (Wth 6m) at S, providing access to mill pond. Interior is flat bottomed (basal Wth 8m) and poorly drained. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-065001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Barely traceable remains of circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by faint outline of fosse. Depicted on 1st (1840) and 2nd (1952-4) eds OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular area (map dims. c. 54m N-S; c. 56m E-W). A sketch plan and profiles drawn in 1954 depict a roughly circular monument enclosed by a bank (Field memorandum files). In 1982 it is described by Cahill (1982, R415) as being 'in fair condition with one bank and one ditch'. Ringfort (TS061-065002-) is c. 8m to S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-065002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In improved pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Barely traceable remains of circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by faint outline of fosse. Trace of linear field fence (long-axis ENE-WSW) truncates monument off-centre to S. Depicted on 1st (1840) and 2nd (1952-4) eds OS 6-inch map as a semi-circular area (map dims. c. 47m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) truncated by a field fence to which runs ENE-WSW. It is similarly depicted in a sketch plan with sections drawn in 1954 (OS Field Memorandums). Described by Cahill (1982, R414) as being 'in fair condition with one bank and one ditch, disturbed by field fence to S'. Ringfort (TS061-065001-) is c. 8m to N. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS061-066 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture on a gentle SE-facing slope. No visible surface trace. Depicted on 1840 edition OS 6-inch map as an oval area (dims. c. 15m E-W; c. 10m N-S). This feature is depicted as a pond on the 1952/1954 OS 6-inch revision and survives as a pond. As there are a number of associated designed landscape features, particularly tree-rings, within Silverfort demesne this could be a landscape feature. However, it is also possile that this is an earlier enclosure which was excavated post 1840 to create a pond. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Silverfort House, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c. 1800, having central porch addition to front, with three-bay full-height return and three-bay three-storey addition to rear, latter supporting cast-iron water tank. Hipped slate roof to main block and return with overhanging sheeted eaves, moulded eaves course and rendered chimneystacks, with lean-to slate roof to addition. Rendered walls to front and west end elevations, lined-and-ruled render to east and roughcast render to rear. Square-headed openings, end windows of front façade being paired, with timber sliding sash windows to lower floors and having timber casement windows to second floor, all with limestone sills. Six-over-six pane windows to first floor and two-over-two pane to ground floor. East elevation has some blind openings to south end bay, barred windows to basement and round-headed first floor window to north end bay, latter being tripartite with slender round-profile mullions to fixed timber lights. Variety of timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation. Glazed timber porch with chamfered support posts, glazed roof and glazed timber double doors with paned overlight, accessed by flight of ashlar limestone steps over area. Round-headed door opening to interior, with spoked fanlight over timber panelled door and sidelights. Pair of three-bay former workers' houses to west, now outbuilding, having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble limestone and sandstone walls, square-headed openings with mainly three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and brick voussoirs, and square-headed openings with replacement timber doors. Yard to rear of house accessed by segmental-headed doorway and segmental-arched carriage entrance with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs, timber battened double doors and with pitched slate coping to latter entrance. Cobblestone surface in situ. Four-bay two-storey former outbuilding to east, now house, having single-storey single-bay addition to north, with pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack, coursed rubble sandstone and limestone walls, square-headed openings with recent two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and segmental-arched carriage entrance, with roughly dressed sandstone and limestone voussoirs having glazed timber door to centre. Road entrance has square-profile rendered piers with ball finial caps and sweeping rendered plinth with balustrades and rendered coping terminating in second pair of piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Silverfort, 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 Silverfort.

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.

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

Name

Silverfort · Garraí an Stocadúnaigh

Area

937,747 m² (93.77 ha, 231.72 acres)

Civil parish

Magorban, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Ballyherberry, Curraghtarsna, Foulkstown, Kilballyherberry, Magorban, Woodhouse

Placenames

Silverfort 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.