Thomastown
Townland in the civil parish of Derrygrath, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 71.2 ha
- 176 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 2,277 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- S5
- Social and Public
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thomastown, from 289 m² to 335,232 m² (33.52 ha, 82.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
- S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 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
19 Jan 2023Conditional
an extension to an existing Loose Cattle Shed and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360030
13 Jul 2022N/a
an extension to an existing Loose Cattle Shed and associated works. The number of buildings is 1 and the apex height will be 5.504. The proposed height at the eave on the east side will be 3.1 mt.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260366
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 Thomastown.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Thomastown.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex, built c. 1860, comprising four-bay single-storey house with two-bay returns giving square plan overall, with four-bay two-storey house, formerly pair of semi-detached houses to north-west, having only two openings to first floor, having adjoining single-storey outbuilding to north-west end, and having further single-storey outbuildings arranged around north-west and north-east sides of yard. Hipped slate U-plan roof to main house, pitched slate to other house, with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted pebbledashed walls to houses with render plinths. Square-headed window openings to both houses, with mainly replacement uPVC windows, having some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, one double, to single-storey house, all windows having painted sills. Square-headed door openings, having timber panelled door with paned overlight and steps to main house and glazed timber door to other. Outbuildings have pitched roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls, that attached to two-storey house having slate roof and elliptical-arched carriage entrances with brick voussoirs. Part two-storey, part-single-storey outbuilding to north-west side of yard having slate roofs and square-headed openings with roughly dressed voussoirs. Single-storey building to north-east has corrugated-iron roof and elliptical- and square-headed openings with brick voussoirs. Pebbledashed walls and piers to front of site.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Thomastown.
- 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 Thomastown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Thomastown · Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 712,432 m² (71.24 ha, 176.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Derrygrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Tullaghmelan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tullaghmelan electoral division: 1,116 people in 399 households; 72% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindoney West, Crutta South, Dorneyswell, Park, Raheenballindoney
- Placenames
- Thomastown 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.