Strike Lower

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Strike Lower, from 11,462 m² (1.15 ha, 2.83 acres) to 29,195 m² (2.92 ha, 7.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Strike Lower 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 Strike Lower 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS070-078 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes a boundary which ran 'to the sayd River Glassalling [Clashawley] & upwards the same River till oppositt to the mill of Strake [Strike] bounded on the West with the sayd Droumdyle [Drumdeel]' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 182). The same watermill 'one Corne mill, unroofed upon a brooke wch runns through it' appears to be described under the area of 'Kylmocley' which was in the proprietorship of Nicholas Everard in 1640 (ibid. 184). In narrow margin of pasture adjacent woodland, c. 1m from edge of Clashawley River. Indicated as a 'Flour Mill in ruins' on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. Rectangular area (dims. 5.7m N-S; 7m E-W) defined by random rubble wall (Wth 0.75m) to E and short return of N-side (L 1.7m) and of S-side (L 6.2m). Low, sod-covered wall footings for remainder of N and S sides and all of W side. Remains of window ope (Wth 0.8m; D 0.75m) at N-end, E-wall with camber relieving arch of narrow voussoirs; surround and parts of embrasure removed. Door ope (original Wth 0.8m; D 0.75m) at S-end, E-wall is breached (Wth 1.2m; H 1.75m) where jamb stones removed on W-side. Ope has semi-circular relieving arch of rough milky quartz voussoirs. Ope leads into lean-to, which is a later addition. Addition is a square area (L 3m) defined by upstanding walls to N and S and low remains to E. Construction of main compartment shows an attempt at coursing whilst adjoining lean-to is of small, uncoursed rubble. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-079001 Enclosure
  Description

  On S end of N-S ridge with ground falling to E and W. Monument has been levelled but is visible as a circular raised area (23.6m N-S; 21.6m E-W) defined by a very gradual scarp (H 0.65m), possible fosse (Wth 4m) and suggestion of a flattened outer bank surviving in the SE sector (H above fosse H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m; Wth at top 4.8m; overall Wth 8m). According to Cahill (1982) this levelled enclosure consisted of two banks and corresponding fosses with a possible entrance in the SE quadrant. The townland boundary along the S sector of the monument kinks out to accommodate the monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 21 November 2014

• TS070-079002 Enclosure
  Description

  Just off N-S ridge on gradual E-facing slope. No visible trace above ground. Yard of house, driveway and lawn where monument is located. According to Cahill (1982) this levelled monument was enclosed by one bank. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, high up on western edge of Clashawley River valley. Circular area (dims. 32m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by wide, flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 10.3m-11.55m; int. H 0.45m-1.2m; ext. H 0.95-2.3m). Slippage on exterior of bank E-ESE and vegetation cover in places. External fosse (Wth 8.2m; D 0.85m) SSW-W-NE. Interior slopes gently downwards to SE and is poached by cattle in places. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Grove House, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch demesne bridge over Clashawley River, built c. 1830. Coursed rubble limestone walls, with dressed limestone voussoirs and having V-cutwaters to north elevation.

• Grove House, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant entrance gateway, erected c.1800, comprising central vehicular entrance flanked by pedestrian entrances defined by square-profile ashlar limestone piers with chamfered panels, having decorative carved caps and moulded plinths. Spear-headed cast-iron gates, double-leaf to vehicular entrance. Sweeping coursed rubble limestone walls terminated by outer piers, similar to others but lacking panel device and plinths.

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 Strike Lower, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Strike Lower.

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 Strike Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Strike Lower · An Stréic Íochtarach

Area

333,614 m² (33.36 ha, 82.44 acres)

Civil parish

Coolmundry, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Peppardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumdeel, Grove, Kiltinan, Strike Upper

Placenames

Strike Lower 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.