Stonestown
Townland in the civil parish of Loughkeen, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile na Cloiche
- Area
- 34.7 ha
- 86 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Stonestown, from 2,142 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 6 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 Stonestown 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 Aug 2024Conditional
a) demolition of existing dwelling b) construction of a new dormer style dwelling, garage and storage shed, decommissioning of existing septic tank and construction of a new septic tank and percolation area and associated ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 24185
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 Stonestown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Stonestown.
Architectural heritage
- Baronne Court, farmyard complex, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex of single and two-storey buildings, built 1828, having cut-stone entrance archway. Complex includes two-storey house with three-bay first and two-bay ground floor, having pitched slate roof, rendered walls and chimneystacks and replacement uPVC windows and doors, and single-storey lean-to rear extension and which was rear return of otherwise demolished main house. Farmyard buildings have pitched and hipped slate roofs, rendered walls and cut-stone square-headed arches to doors and windows with segmental-headed carriage arches. Walled garden to southwest entered through carriage arch with date '1828' inscribed in keystone. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to east having projecting entrance bay containing panelled timber door flanked by windows. Lodge has hipped slate roof with eaves brackets and rendered walls with render plinths and rendered chimneystack. Elaborate gateway comprising six granite columns and cast-iron railing and 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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1620 (ZIP).
- 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 Stonestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Stonestown · Baile na Cloiche
- Area
- 346,775 m² (34.68 ha, 85.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrig electoral division: 186 people in 70 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Ballyloughnane, Cornhill, Killeen, Tinlough
- Placenames
- Stonestown 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.