Springpark
Springpark is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Páirc an Tobair.
- Area
- 46.1 ha
- 114 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 25,729 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springpark, from 5,340 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres) to 124,963 m² (12.5 ha, 30.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Springpark 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
27 Oct 2020Conditional
construction of agricultural livestock shed to include calf housing, meal storage & straw storage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201249
14 Oct 2020N/a
construction of agricultural livestock shed to include calf housing, meal storage and straw storage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201187
14 Sept 2020N/a
agricultural livestock shed to include calf housing, meal storage and straw storage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201035
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 Springpark.
Recorded monuments
- TN008-064 Enclosure
Description
A roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 30m), defined by an inner and outer fosse which is visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Apple Maps), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached imagery: TN008-064----_01 Apple Maps satellite imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 July 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Springpark.
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 Springpark, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Springpark.
- 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 Springpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Springpark · Páirc an Tobair
- Area
- 461,391 m² (46.14 ha, 114.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Borrisokane Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 579 people lived in 215 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gortinarable, Kilcunnahin More, Quakerstown, Whitehall
- Placenames
- Springpark 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.