Slevoir
Slevoir is a townland in the civil parish of Terryglass, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Sliabh Mhaghair.
- Area
- 182.4 ha
- 451 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 7,268 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Slevoir, from 88 m² to 297,305 m² (29.73 ha, 73.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Sept 2026N/a
the installation of an external milk silo to the south western corner of existing milking parlour, including all ancillary site works thereto
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660916
17 Aug 2022Conditional
agricultural structures comprising: 1. as-built extension of livestock shed (slatted house) and associated underground effluent storage (slatted) tanks; 2. as-built livestock cubicle shed and associated underground effluent storage (slatted) tank; 3. as-built concrete silage base and apron; 4. as-built underground effluent storage (slatted) tank to existing livestock holding yard. PERMISSION is also sought for the construction of: 1. an extension of the existing livestock sheds (slatted house and cubicle shed); 2. the extension of existing underground effluent storage (slatted) tank, and all ancillary site works thereto
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22516
6 Jul 2022Conditional
an extension to the western side of existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works thereto
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260348
28 Jan 2022Conditional
works carried out and proposed to be carried out to Slevoir House, a protected structure (NIAH Ref: 22301001 and RPS No.: S363).The retention works carried out to the building and site consist of: • Repairs to render, internal covings and finishes, • Installation of new kitchen facilities, • Upgrading the Mechanical and Electrical throughout the house, • Installation of two new doors on the external fabric, • Installation of fixtures and fittings, • All ancillary and associated works to the building and site, and • Retention of small cottage on the site. The new works proposed to be carried out consist of permission for: • Installation of a new wastewater treatment plant system, and • All ancillary and associated site works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260031
26 Jan 2022N/a
works carried out and proposed to be carried out to Slevoir House, a protected structure (NIAH Ref: 22301001 and RPS No.: S363).The retention works carried out to the building and site consist of: • Repairs to render, internal covings and finishes, • Installation of new kitchen facilities, • Upgrading the Mechanical and Electrical throughout the house, • Installation of two new doors on the external fabric, • Installation of fixtures and fittings, • All ancillary and associated works to the building and site, and • Retention of small cottage on the site. The new works proposed to be carried out consist of: • Installation of a new wastewater treatment plant system, and • All ancillary and associated site works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260027
22 Dec 2021N/a
Retention of works carried out to a protected structure (RPS No. 363) including retention of internal and external works to Slevoir House and retention of a separate dwelling known as 'The Priest's Cottage', which has been in situ for more than 8 years. Full planning permission for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated and ancillary site works.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2160007
9 Jul 2019Refused
for changes on NW and SE elevations, internal reconfigurations and works and one bedroom self contained holiday apartment and ancillary site works. Full planning permission for a five bedroom self contained holiday apartment, completion of internal works, reconfiguring the new entrance on the SE elevation, a new waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works. A protected structure
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600760
14 Jun 2019N/a
for changes on NW and SE elevations, internal reconfigurations and works and one bedroom self contained holiday apartment and ancillary site works. Full planning permission for a five bedroom self contained holiday apartment, completion of internal works, reconfiguring the new entrance on the SE elevation, a new waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works. A protected structure.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600659
14 May 2019N/a
a french window on the NW elevation, retention and improvement of an entrance door on the SE elevation, with interior openings to connect it to the stairs, one roof window, moving and adapting partitions for the provision of en suite bathrooms, the finishing of the upper floors of the tower, with new access stairs, replastering of the former kitchen and various decorative alterations, cornices and trimmings in the former service areas, associated works, the use of part of the house for self catering short term letting and a new waste water treatment system
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600508
20 Mar 2018Conditional
a single storey extension and modifications to external elevations of existing dwelling house and the provision of a replacement wastewater treatment system, including all ancillary site works thereto
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600333
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
- TN006-003009 Bullaun stone
Description
Situated in the graveyard of St. Mary's RC church there is a small bullaun stone (dims. 0.5m x 0.5m x 0.28m H) with deep circular depression (diam. 0.21m; D 0.14m) lying beside the base of a possible high cross (TN006-003010-) which originally came from the medieval church and graveyard in the village of Terryglass. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN006-003010 Cross - High cross
Description
Situated in the graveyard of St. Mary's RC church there is a possible conglomerate granite base (H 0.6m; dims. 1.25m x 0.7m) of what is locally believed to be from a high cross which originally was located in the medieval church and graveyard in the village of Terryglass village. On top of the roughly circular shaped base there is a small panel (H 0.05m; dims. 0.35m x 0.6m) standing in relief on top of the base which has a 19th century limestone cross inserted into a socket on top of the panel. Possible original socket was for the shaft of a high cross. A small bullaun stone (TN006-003009-) lies beside the base of the possible high cross base. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- TN006-004 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Situated on a low rise of ground near the E shore of Lough Derg. A shallow depression (Wth 1.8m) is all that survives of Toberaughan. No enclosing element or votive offerings visible. Described in the Ordnance Survey Namebooks (1840) as a 'holy well so called but does not represent any matter worthy of remark'. 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
- Slevoir House, country house, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, c.1870, in Italianate style, having projecting four-stage towered entrance bay, lower, slightly-recessed four-bay wing to south end of front and bowed bay and advanced bay to garden façade of main block. Pitched slate roofs to house and felt roof with cornice and brackets to tower and to rendered chimneystacks. Balustrade to main roof with low parapet to wing. Ruled-and-lined render to all facades with stucco quoins to main house. Tower of ashlar granite, channelled to lower stages and with paired pilasters to upper. Square-headed window openings with stone sills, moulded surrounds and entablature and some tripartite with brackets to sills. Round-arch and squared-headed windows to tower, with imposts to ground floor, pediments to second and paired with keystones to third. Depressed-arch Palladian window in front elevation with panelled pilasters. Keystone, entablature, scrolls and brackets to sills. Round-arched door opening with keystone, spoked fanlight and flanked by red marble columns and panels. All windows and doors replacement uPVC. Stable yard to south built around courtyard having hipped slate roofs. Rubble limestone walls and snecked squared limestone entrance gateway in east of complex having cut-stone voussoirs to carriage arch. Cut-stone surrounds to window openings facing onto yard.
- Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1875–1885 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1880; built 1880-4, on a cruciform plan comprising four-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east); broach spire-topped single-bay four-stage tower (south-east) on a square plan. Completed, 1927-9. Renovated with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan abutting pitched slate roof (east), perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables on margined tooled cut-limestone kneelers with Cross finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters with cast-iron square profile downpipes. Snecked rock faced limestone walls on lichen-spotted cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on rock faced cut-limestone plinth with margined rock faced cut- or hammered limestone flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having sheer chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Windows" (transepts) with rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having sheer chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings. Lancet "Trinity Window" (east) with rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having sheer chamfered reveals framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Shouldered square-headed door opening in pointed-arch recess (west) with three cut-limestone steps, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having colonette-detailed moulded reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded double doors having overpanel ("MDCCCLXXX"). Pair of lancet window openings in bipartite arrangement (gable) with rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having sheer chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars. Full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between timber pews, Gothic-style timber stations between leaded stained glass windows, pointed-arch arcades on pillars, exposed strutted collared timber roof construction on ogee-detailed cornice, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered with cinquefoil-detailed altar below stained glass memorial "Trinity Window". Set in landscaped grounds with cast-iron colonette piers to perimeter having finial-topped capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
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 Slevoir, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Slevoir.
- 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 Slevoir with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Slevoir · Sliabh Mhaghair
- Area
- 1,824,058 m² (182.41 ha, 450.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Terryglass, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Terryglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 575 people lived in 220 households in the Terryglass electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownaglogh, Firmount, Killeen, Lacken, Muckloon, Terryglass
- Placenames
- Slevoir 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.