Thurles Townparks

1,719 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Thurles Townparks, from 1 m² to 34,543 m² (3.45 ha, 8.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 87 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 924 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Urban Core (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 612 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 70 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services and Infrastructure (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Amenity (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space & Recreation (Active open space)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Regeneration (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P5Town Environs (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Aug 2026N/a

  a) the construction of 42 no. residential dwelling units comprising of the following types; 1no. Block A (2-storey semi-detached block of 1no. 2-bed & 1no. 3-bed); 1no. Block A1 (2-storey semi-detached block of 1no. 2-bed & 1no. 3-bed); 1no. Block B (2-storey semi-detached block of 1no. 2-bed & 1no. 3-bed); 1no. Block C (2-storey semi-detached block of 2no. 3-bed); 1no. Block C1 (2-storey semi-detached block of 2no. 3-bed); 1no Block D (2-storey terrace block of 3no. 3-bed); 10no. Block E (3-storey semi-detached block of 2no. 4-bed); 1no. Block F (2-storey terrace block of 2no. 2-bed & 2no. 3-bed); 1no. Block G (2-storey terrace block of 1no. 2-bed & 4no. 1-bed apartments); b) proposed new site entrance, access roads and footpaths; c) new site boundary treatments; d) new waste, water and utility service connections and all associated site works - the above works are proposed to be carried out within the curtilage of 2no. protected structures - references: TRPS2460, TRPS2459

  Permission, 41 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2660760

• 28 Jul 2026N/a

  the installation of an off-licence area for the sale of beer and spirits off the premises, installation of a pizza takeaway facility within the existing shop and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660735

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  a) the construction of 42 no. residential dwelling units comprising of the following types; 1no. Block A (2-storey semi-detached block of 1 no. 2-bed & 1 no. 3-bed); 1no. Block A1 (2-storey semi-detached block of 1 no. 2-bed & 1 no. 3-bed); 1 no. Block B (2-storey semi-detached block of 1 no. 2-bed & 1 no. 3-bed); 1 no. Block C (2-storey semi-detached block of 2 no. 3-bed); 1 no. Block C1 (2-storey semi-detached block of 2 no. 3-bed); 1 no. Block D (2-storey terrace block of 3 no. 3-bed); 10 no. Block E (3-storey semi-detached block of 2 no. 4-bed); 1 no. Block F (2-storey terrace block of 2 no. 2-bed & 2 no. 3-bed); 1 no. Block G (2-storey terrace block of 1 no. 2-bed & 4 no. 1-bed apartments); b) proposed new site entrance, access roads and footpaths; c) new site boundary treatments; d) new waste, water and utility service connections and all associated site works. The above works are proposed to be carried out in the grounds of a protected structure, schedule of Protected Structures reference: TRPS2460

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660723

• 17 Jul 2026Conditional

  the addition of a 6.5 metre totem sign with yellow acrylic internally illuminated "Golden Arch", located on the western side of the site, and all associated works necessary to facilitate the development. The McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant is permitted on site under planning permission reg. ref. 2460829/ACP ref. 322465-25 and is now under construction

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660699

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  demolition of 8sqm utility room to rear of existing dwelling and construction of a new part two storey and part single storey extension to rear and associated internal alterations and fabric upgrade to existing two storey dwelling house, raising ridge level of existing dwelling by 640mm, modifications to existing site entrance on the Dublin Road and new accessible site entrance on Ard Carraig estate access roadway, connection to all public services and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660622

• 22 Jun 2026Conditional

  • conversion of rear single storey outhouse to kitchen • alterations to existing dwelling to include rear extension to living room and corridor to connect the kitchen on ground floor • changes to elevations and rear roof on dwelling • and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660612

• 7 May 2026N/a

  the following; a) Material change of use of ground floor of the premises from a shop to a coffee shop, b) to retain as constructed alteration to the building façade and development of a new shopfront with all associated and ancillary sitework

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660408

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  the following; a) Material change of use of ground floor of the premises from a shop to a coffee shop, b) to retain as constructed alteration to the building façade and development of a new shopfront with all associated and ancillary sitework

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660366

• 5 Feb 2026N/a

  the demolition of the existing light industrial buildings on the site, for the construction of 1 no. detached two storey dwelling, 1 no. detached bungalow and 6 no. semi-detached bungalows. Permission is also sought for new entrance, connection to services and all associated site works

  Permission, 8 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2660087

• 20 Jan 2026Refused

  internal alterations to the existing first floor apartments and full planning permission for the conversion of attic storage space to include 1no. 1 bedroom apartment and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660038

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  2 new offices to the rear of my site with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561352

• 22 Dec 2025N/a

  internal alterations to 2no. existing first floor apartments to provide 1no. 1 bedroom and 1no. 2-bedroom apartments and conversion of existing attic space to provide 1no. 1 bedroom apartment and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561354

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  as constructed timber out house and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561322

• 14 Dec 2025N/a

  construction of timber out house and all associated siteworks

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561297

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  change of use of existing ground floor from retail/commercial use to residential use, with changes to the front and side elevations of the existing building with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561284

• 9 Dec 2025Conditional

  the change of use from domestic garage (that was associated with apartment no. 2) and part of adjoining shop unit 2 at ground floor to a 1 bed apartment with all associated sitework and ancillary works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561271

• 26 Nov 2025N/a

  change of use of existing ground floor from retail/commercial use to residential use, with changes to the front and side elevations of the existing building with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561219

• 24 Nov 2025Conditional

  change of use of existing hair salon to be integrated into existing shoe shop retail outlet and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561210

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of an extension (south of existing structure) and undertaking of alterations to a property adjoining and within the curtilage of a protected structure (TRPS2503) E41 PX09. Permission for completion of works relating to this extension development and associated changes to elevations, and also conservation led renovation of the protected structure (TRPS2503) E41 F674 and associated works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561181

• 12 Nov 2025Conditional

  construction of an extension to the side of dwelling with all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561146

• 6 Oct 2025Refused

  demolition of a section of wall (in part) at Mitchel Street and partial demolition of 3 no. outbuildings within the site to create a point of vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access from Mitchel Street north into the site; development of 75 no. residential units, public and private open space, private and visitor car parking, creche building to cater for 35. no. children, pumping station, set down area and associated infrastructure works, all tree planting, landscaping and earthworks, all roads, footpaths, cycle paths, public lighting, all associated works and services (A NIS accompanies this application)

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 25208

• 6 Oct 2025Refused

  demolition of existing wall at Bohernamona Road, Thurles and creation of new vehicular and pedestrian entrance from Bohernamona Road, creation of new crossing point via raised table from the application site to the existing playpark at Loughtagalla Park, Bohernamona Road, development of 50 residential units, public and private open space, private and visitor car parking spaces, associated drainage and infrastructure works, all tree planting and landscaping and earthworks, all roads, footpaths, cycle paths, public lighting and associated works and services. This application represents a Phase 2 development proposal. A Phase 1 planning application (ref: 20/1172) has been lodged for lands to the west of the site. A Natura Impact Statement ('NIS') accompanies the planning application.

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 25209

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  construction of 2 no. semi detached bungalows, entrances, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2560982

• 25 Sept 2025N/a

  construction of 2 no. semi detached bungalows together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560960

• 8 Sept 2025Refused

  change of use of existing ground floor from barber shop/retail to living accommodation and all associated site works - Protected Structure Reference Number RPS 18

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560882

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Thurles Townparks.

Recorded monuments

• TN041-042 Historic town
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. The town appears to have been established along a fording point of the River Suir which runs N-S along the E side of the present town. Barry's Castle (TN041-042002-) and stone bridge (TN041-042006-) are located on or close to the site of the medieval fording point over the River Suir. Thurles was established as an Anglo-Norman town by Theobald Walter in the late twelfth century around which time the earth and timber motte-castle (TN041-042004-) was constructed (Bradley 1985, 54; Empey 1989, 32, 36). This Anglo-Norman fortification known locally as the 'Moat' was located 70m NW of Liberty Square in the NW quadrant of the medieval town. It is possible that there was a pre-Norman fortification located here which gave its name Durlas / Thurles meaning 'oaken ringfort' to the town. No evidence of a pre-Norman fortification has been uncovered at Thurles although the ringfort at Bowling Green (TN041-041--) is an example of such a ringfort. It is recorded that Donal Mór O'Brien won a military victory here in 1192, presumably his target being the newly established settlement (Smyth 1991, 166-7; Nolan 1989, 12). The earliest reliable reference to a castle in Thurles is in a charter granted by Theobald Walter, who died in 1206 (Curtis 1933, 18). In the year 1211-12 Theobald Walter paid King John an annual sum of £26 13s. 4d. for the 'farm of Thurles' (Davies and Quinn 1941, 69). A manor court had been established at Thurles in the 13th century, on the 2nd of April 1309 the King wrote to the sheriff of Tipperary ordering him to 'forbid the bailiffs of Edmund Butler of Thurles to hold the plea which is in the said lord’s court of Thurles between Thomas Broun, plaintiff, and Philip Baroun, tenant, 6s 8d concerning 6s 8d rent in Sythan in a writ of right, because Philip who is tenant put himself in the grand assize' (Close Roll 2 Edward II, No. 88; RCH 9/88). The borough status of the town is clear from an early fourteenth-century reference (1336) to two knights' fees held as a burgage to the value of £22 17s 2d (Martin 1981, 51; Cal. inq. post mortem, 18). By the fourteenth century the town was probably defended by a wall as is supported by a murage grant to Thurles dated 1356-7 (Thomas 1992, vol. 2, 192). In this year the Chancery Rolls recorded a royal exemption on 'certain specified customs from articles for sale coming to that town' for a period of 20 years, 'to the town of Thurlys [Thurles] in aid of the paving [of that town] and its enclosure with a stone wall' (Patent Roll 30 Edward III, No. 43) In 1432 the reeve and community of Thurles were summoned to the seneschal's court (Martin 1981, 51; Curtis 1933, 95). The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840 described a destroyed W gate as 'geata na gcoileach', the letters also mention a round building known as Crow's tower which stands on the W side of the town on the road to Cashel (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 78). This tower may have been a mural tower associated with the town walls of Thurles (Carey and Farrelly 1994, 85-100). It was locally believed that five castles were pulled down to construct the courthouse in Thurles (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 78). There is no depiction of a town wall on either the Down Survey map of 1655-9 or Rocque's map of 1755 (NLI 16 I 3/9). The possible footprint of the medieval town and its buildings are depicted on the 1755 map which shows that the town buildings were located on E and W sides of the River Suir. It is not certain whether the town defences were of stone (Bradley 1985, 53) but there were gates at E, N and W that gave access to the town. Only the springing arch of the E gate survives protruding from 'Barry's Castle' (TN041-042002-) - there is only the placename evidence for the W gate while there is no surviving evidence for a N gate. Cartographic and historical documents along with the monumental remains suggests that by the seventeenth century the town consisted of three distinguishable areas, namely a core area centering on the market square now Liberty Square; an eastern quarter to the E of Barry's Bridge (TN041-042006-); and a western quadrant to the W of the town square and outside the town walls and the West gate (Smyth 1991, 166-7). The Civil Survey of 1654-56 recorded that James Earl of Ormond and Elizabeth Lady Viscountesse Dowager of Thurles were the proprietors of the town in 1640 and that the town yielded an annual value of £260 (Simington 1934, 53). In 1640 the town of Thurles had 'the privileges of a Mannor and a Marckett twice a week, and a fayre twice a yeare (vizt.) on Eater Twesday and the 9th of August. It is well inhabited. In Thurles there is a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a Castle [TN041-042006-] and severall Turretts upon the Bawne, three stone houses; In the Towne, and severall thatch Cabbins, a stone bridge [TN041-042006-] upon the River Shewer, a small Castle [TN041-042002-] at the bridge foot and old ruinous Aby [TN041-042008-], & the walls of the p[ar]ish Church' (ibid.). 17th century taxation records (Hearth Money Returns) suggested that the areas outside the town defences were the poorest and that the eastern quadrant was the main artisan quarter, containing many kilns, ovens etc. (Smyth 1991). Within the modern town there are the remains of a destroyed late 12th century motte castle (TN041-042004-), a 13th/14th century Carmelite friary (TN041-042008-), two 15th century tower houses represented by 'Black Castle' (TN041-042001-) and its enclosing bawn (TN041-042020-), and 'Barry's Castle' (TN041-042002-); two church sites, St Bridget's (TN041-042003-) in the western quadrant and St Mary's (TN041-042009-) in the eastern quadrant. Other monuments include the remains of sheela-na-gig (TN041-042005-), the site of a castle (TN041-042013-) and the late medieval 'Barry's Bridge' (TN041-042006-). In 2002 archaeological monitoring at Croke Street, Thurles carried out by Aine Richardson for a commercial development revealed no archaeological features. Monitoring of the excavation of foundation trenches was carried out at Croke Street, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. The site, on the eastern side of Croke Street, is within the zone of archaeological potential as outlined in the Urban Archaeological Survey. The development proposal involved demolishing the buildings on the site and constructing a larger retail unit with car-parking facilities to the rear. Testing of the site had been carried out by John Tierney as part of an assessment (Bennett 2003, No. 1231, 01E0542). However, the locations of the foundations for the new building were not tested, as the demolition of the old structures had not taken place, so the assessment recommended that all groundworks associated with the development be monitored. Seven foundation trenches were excavated for the development. Although historical research pointed to the possibility of finding the enclosing wall of the medieval town of Thurles, no evidence of medieval activity was discovered on the site. The sediments removed from the foundation trenches were mainly relatively modern or late post-medieval. Only one context showed any likelihood of being earlier, and this was inconclusive: a layer of rubble that may be the remnants of a demolished wall. It was in the centre of the site and consisted of limestone blocks held within dark brown/black, mortar-enriched clay. It was 0.9m deep. The average dimensions of the stones were 0.22m by 0.1m by 0.08m. No coursing was evident, but the wall may have been demolished to create a level ground surface. It is possible that any medieval layers were removed at the time of the construction of the original retail unit. At the eastern end of the site, under the upper modern layers, the sediments were largely natural. This monitoring was carried out under Licence No. 01E0542ext. (Bennett 2004, 482). In 2002 archaeological trenching at Friar Street, Thurles carried out by Brian

• TN041-042001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Locally known as the 'Black Castle', this 15th century tower house was also known as 'Thurles Castle' and stood 35m S of the 12th century Anglo-Norman motte castle (TN041-042004-) as depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. The Mac Richard Butler family resided in the tower house which they built around the year 1453 (O’Donovan 1856, 1170-1). This date of construction was confirmed in a marginal entry in the Laud Misc. 610 manuscript which stated that, ‘It will be a year tomorrow since the Earl of Ormond [James Butler, the 4th Earl] died, that is, St. Bartholomew’s Day, and in that year [1452] he built the bawn of Dunmore and the two castles of Thurles’ (Dillon 1963, 147). The castle stands today surrounded by buildings on the W side of Liberty Square in the medieval town of Thurles (TN041-042----). The tower house stands to the W of the houses fronting onto Parnell Street/Liberty Square and N of the houses fronting onto West Gate Street. The town car park is located 35m N of the castle. The tower house stood inside a bawn (TN041-042020-) or courtyard defended by a stone wall with angle towers and accessed through a gateway. It is not clear if the bawn now mainly levelled is contemporaneous with the castle or if it was a later addition. The castle and bawn is mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 where the building is described as 'a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a castle and severall Turrets upon the Bawne' (Simington 1931, 53). 'James Earle of Ormond' and 'Elyzabeth Lady Viscountess Dowager of Thurles' are listed as proprietors of the castle in 1640 (ibid.). This tower house appears to be the Thurles Castle described in the early 1900s as following; 'Thurles Castle has a late keep with trefoil windows. From information on the spot it appears that there used to be a motte (TN041-042004-) in the gardens behind the castle' (Armitage 1912, 346). Described in the late 18th century as a castle that 'was strongly garrisoned in the civil war (1641-53), but was taken and demolished by the Parliament's forces; since which it has gone to decay; however enough remains to shew it was formerly a place of considerable strength' (Grose 1791, 70). Present remains consist of a four-storey high lobby-entrance tower house built from coursed limestone rubble with a pronounced base-batter. There is a barrel vault over the ground floor, a pointed vault over the second floor and wooden floors elsewhere. The original entrance, which is now blocked, was in the S end of the E wall with two other entrances inserted at a later date. The main entrance gave access to two lobbies protected by overhead murder-holes and a cruciform gun loop. The walls and floor at ground-floor level have been concreted and a plastic barrel-shaped panel roof inserted to accommodate its last function as an abattoir. A mural stairs in the W and N walls gave access to the upper floors. Windows at first-floor level have been blocked up or modified. A later brick fireplace and flue were inserted into the centre of the W wall of this floor. This inserted flue continues to rise in the W wall up through the second and third-floor levels. A flat-headed doorway in the S end of the W wall of the main chamber at first-floor level gives access to a small mural chamber above the lobby which contains the murder-hole. S of this there is a garderobe chamber which contains two chutes, the second coming from the inaccessible floor above. The second floor is lit by single-light flat and ogee-headed windows. The third floor is well lit with one single and three two-light ogee-headed cusped and rebated windows, with external double chamfers and decorated spandrels. There are a number of wall cupboards in this chamber, some, including a slop-stone, are in window embrasures. The N side of the embrasure in the E wall contains a round-headed doorway which gives access to parapet level via mural stairs. There is very little left of the parapet wall, a portion of it survives on the S and W sides with evidence of a bartizan at the SW angle. There are also the remains of drip stones at the base of the parapet wall. On the external W face there are substantial corbels projecting out, three above the first and the same above second-floor level. They appear to be original and probably relate to an adjoining building, now demolished. Only fragmentary remains of the bawn (TN041-042020-) survive, the N wall of which was levelled in recent years. These include a section of the bawn wall, which would have joined the W wall of the tower house near the SW angle, with the remains of a wall-walk. N of the tower house there is another portion with the remains of a bartizan. A seventeenth-century house (TN041-042017-) may have been constructed against the W face of the tower house where only the tie stones for such a structure survive. See attached 18th century drawing by John James Barralet of 'Thurles Castle' and bawn wall, taken from The Antiquities of Ireland (Grose 1791). 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Hugh Carey Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 August 2018

• TN041-042002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Known as the Bridge Castle this site is located at the E end of Liberty Square on the S side adjacent to Barry's Bridge (TN041-042006-). Local tradition suggests that this castle was built and occupied by the Knights Templars (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 4). A marginal entry in the Laud Misc. 610 states that, ‘It will be a year tomorrow since the Earl of Ormond [James Butler, the 4th Earl] died, that is, St. Bartholomew’s Day, and in that year [1452] he built the bawn of Dunmore and the two castles of Thurles’ (Dillon 1963, 147). A date of 1453 has been suggested for its construction (Condon 1984, 2; Corbett 1993, 144). It is described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'a small castle at the bridge foot' with 'James Earle of Ormond' and 'Elyzabeth Lady Viscountess Dowager of Thurles' listed as proprietors (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 53). Present remains consist of a three-storey high tower house with attic and parapet constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter. A later building has been erected against the S and W walls. There is a vaulted roof over the first floor with wooden floors elsewhere which have been replaced with modern timber flooring. The ground floor of the tower house is currently used as a drapery shop which has resulted in a lot of alteration obscuring the original features of the tower. The original doorway was possibly in the W wall which gave access to spiral stairs in the NW angle from which all upper floors were accessed. In the N wall at ground level there is a blocked pointed doorway which may have been a separate entrance to the tower house from the E gate of the town wall, the arch of which springs from the N wall of the tower house. At first-floor level the window embrasures in the S and W walls have been broken through to provide access to the adjoining buildings. In the N wall there is a flat-headed, raised doorway into a mural passage, which leads up into a garderobe chamber lit by a loop. The vaulted roof has traces of wicker centring and both walls and roof are whitewashed. At second-floor level there is a garderobe chamber accessed from the stairs. In the stone floor of this chamber there is a hole with slots to accommodate a wooden trapdoor - this is directly over the main entrance. A flat-headed doorway in the S wall of this chamber leads into the main second-floor chamber. The second floor is also accessed via a pointed doorway in the stairs. It is lit by single and two-light ogee-headed windows. The attic level is roofed with a modern A-frame roof supported on two rows of breeze block which in turn rest on the original stone supports on both the E and W walls. The E example is composed of three rows of stone blocks, the lowest course, being well cut and dressed, is supported by an elaborate central corbel which rests on a rectangular stone pier. There appears to have been additional corbelled support in the NE and NW angles. The arrangement on the W wall is similar. The N and S walls carried the gables, the latter given addition support by means of a double arcade resting on a central, pyramidal corbel with broach stops. At attic level a mural chamber is accessed from the stairs. It is floored with stone lintels and lit by a single-light window, with a slop-stone in the S wall. There is a similar chamber above this, at parapet level, which rested on a wooden floor. It is lit by two single lights and roofed with stone lintels. The parapet was reached from the stairs and has stepped crenellations which appear to be mostly original though those on the W side have been heightened in recent times. 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: 3 November 2014

• TN041-042004 Castle - motte
  Description

  Site of levelled motte castle situated in the modern car park at the W end of Thurles town (TN041-042----) 35m N of 'Black Castle' (TN041-042001-). Circular outline of levelled motte castle depicted on 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, the location of the monument is preserved in the name of 'Moat Lane' located immediately to the N. No surface remains visible of the late 12th or early 13th century Anglo-Norman earth and timber motte castle which was destroyed c. 1800 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 1, 7). According to the OS Letters the earthen motte stood c. 30m high (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 7). The motte castle was located inside or adjoining the bawn of the 15th century 'Black Castle' also known as 'Thurles Castle'. The earthen mound or motte was described in 1752 as 'a mount with a winding ascent' (Stokes 1891, 174). From this reference it is clear that the motte was converted into a landscape feature belonging to the gardens of 'Thurles Castle'. In the early 1900s the location of the motte and the gardens were described as following; 'From information on the spot it appears that there used to be a motte (TN041-042004-) in the gardens behind the castle' (Armitage 1912, 346). The earth and timber motte castle was constructed in the late 12th century by Theobald Walter which in the 13th century became the manorial castle or administrative centre of the newly created Anglo-Norman Manor of Thurles (Bradley 1985, 54; Empey 1989, 32, 36). The earliest reliable datable reference to a castle (TN041-042013-) in Thurles is in a charter granted by Theobald Walter, who died in 1206 (Curtis 1933, 18, 34). The manor of Thurles is described in 1338 as consisting of 'a chamber, a chapel, a kitchen of stone walls covered with shingle, a bakehouse with a stone wall and covered with straw of no value because no one wishes to rent them.' (Cal. inq. post mortem, vol. 8, no. 184). 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Hugh Carey Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 August 2018

• TN041-042005 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Situated on the back wall of Lyon's Tyre and Batteries Centre opposite the GAA museum on the Slievenamon road in Thurles town. According to the OS Letters the W gate of the town was known locally as 'geata na Gcoileach' or the gate of the old woman with a carving of an old woman chiselled on a stone in one of its sides (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 7-8). It is likely that this reference is to the sheela-na-gig which was inserted in its present location after the demolition of the W gate. The figure consists of a woman carved in relief with a pear-shaped head, almond-shaped recessed eyes, small nose and horizontal mouth on a square body with sagging breasts, splayed legs and arms pulling vulva apart. It has pronounced jug-shaped ears and the lower leg on the dexter side is missing while that on the sinister side terminates in a foot positioned side-ways with pronounced heel and foot. The figure is carved on a limestone block (H 0.49m x Wth 0.47m) in relief. 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

• TN041-042006 Bridge
  Description

  Barry's Bridge, situated at the E end of the town of Thurles, crosses the River Suir. This bridge may be that referred to in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 as 'a stone bridge upon the river Shewer' in Thurles (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 53) and despite later alterations may contain some of the original fabric. The present bridge consists of seven round arches and six cutwaters. The arches have cut voussoirs with projecting keystones. Two refuges on the N, upstream side, as depicted on Grosse's sketch of the bridge in 1793, are no longer visible and were probably removed when the bridge was reconstructed or widened in the early nineteenth century. The S face of the bridge appears to have retained its original façade consisting of seven pointed arches of roughly cut limestone blocks. 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

• TN041-042007 Town defences
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture with good views in all directions. The medieval settlement at Thurles appears to have been established along a fording point of the River Suir which runs N-S along the E side of the present town. Thurles was established as an Anglo-Norman town (TN041-042----) by Theobald Walter in the late twelfth century around which time the earth and timber motte-castle (TN041-042004-) was constructed (Bradley 1985, 54; Empey 1989, 32, 36). This Anglo-Norman fortification known locally as the 'Moat' was located 70m NW of Liberty Square in the NW quadrant of the medieval town. The earliest reliable reference to a castle in Thurles is in a charter granted by Theobald Walter, who died in 1206 (Curtis 1933, 18). It is recorded that Donal More O'Brien won a military victory here in 1192, presumably his target being the newly established settlement (Smyth 1991, 166-7; Nolan 1989, 12). The borough status of the town is clear from an early fourteenth-century reference (1336) to two knights' fees held as a burgage to the value of £22 17s 2d (Martin 1981, 51; Cal. inq. post mortem, 18) and almost a century later (1432) the reeve and community were summoned to the seneschal's court (Martin 1981, 51; Curtis 1933, 95). It is unclear whether a stone wall was ever constructed around the town of Thurles and no physical remains of a town wall have yet been identified. A stone wall may have been constructed around the town in the second half of the fourteenth century when Thurles received a murage grant dated 1356-7 (Thomas 1992, vol. 2, 192). In this year the Chancery Rolls recorded a royal exemption on 'certain specified customs from articles for sale coming to that town' for a period of 20 years, 'to the town of Thurlys [Thurles] in aid of the paving [of that town] and its enclosure with a stone wall' (Patent Roll 30 Edward III, No. 43). A tentative line of the town wall was suggested by Thomas (1992, 193). The circuit of this proposed wall (area c. 7.5 ha) would only enclose the town of Thurles on the W side of the River Suir, leaving the E side of the town undefended. The wall may have ran parallel to the W bank of the River Suir for a length of c. 250m and then ran parallel to the main street towards 'Black Castle' (TN041-042001-) and the Anglo-Norman motte castle (TN041-042004-) which may have stood close to the NW angle of the town wall. Black Castle, Castle Avenue and Westgate Street may mark the W boundary of the town wall. However Westgate Street may be a reference to the gate of the bawn wall (TN041-042020-) belonging to Black Castle and not to a town wall entrance gate. A gateway may have been located on the E side of the town beside Barry's Bridge (TN041-042006-) and castle (TN041-042002-) where the modern road crosses the River Suir. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1840 describe a destroyed W gate as geata na gcoileach, they also mention a round building known as Crow's tower which stands at the town to the right of the road to Cashel (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 78). This tower may have been a mural tower associated with the town walls of Thurles (Carey and Farrelly 1994, 85-100). There is no depiction of a town wall on either the Down Survey map of 1655-9 or Rocque's map of 1755 (NLI 16 I 3/9). It is not certain whether the town defences were of stone (Bradley 1985, 53) but there were gates at E, N and W that gave access to the town. Only the springing arch of the E gate survives protruding from Barry's Castle (TN041-042002-) - there is only the placename evidence for the W gate while there is no surviving evidence for a N gate. See attached image of proposed/suggested line of town wall if it had been constructed around the town of Thurles, taken from The Walled Towns of Ireland (Thomas 1992, 192). 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Hugh Carey Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 August 2018

• TN041-042008 Religious house - Carmelite friars
  Description

  The levelled Carmelite friary stood on the E side of the River Suir where the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption now stands (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 440). It was founded in either c. 1291 or 1300 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 291-2) and dissolved during the sixteenth century. Its possessions were listed as consisting of a church, a chapter-house, three chambers, a stable and two gardens, all ruinous. They were granted to the Earl of Ormond in 1557 (ibid.). The friars returned to Thurles from time to time, 'Thurlusiae' being listed among the Irish Carmelite houses c. 1737 (ibid.). Although nothing now remains of the friary, an 'old ruinous aby' was described in Civil Survey of 1654-6 (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 53). In 1795, Topographia Hibernica recorded the following; 'A monastery was founded here by the Butler family, in A.D. 1300, a tower is still remaining on the E side of the river, and a part of the cross aisle leading to the N' (Seward 1795). Pococke noted the remains of '...a convent, a tower and some part of the cross aisle to the N...' (Stokes 1891, 174-5). In 1892, John Davis White referred to 'a tower...on the east side of the river, and some part of the cross aisle leading to the north' (White 1892, 9). The similarity to Pococke's comment suggests Davis White may not have visited the site himself. The first Catholic Archbishop's house in Thurles was built near the ruins of the friary by James Butler (1692-1774) (Bradley 1985, 54). According to the OS Letters of 1840 the last vestiges of the monastery, consisting of 'a small portion of a stone wall with a circular doorway of chiselled limestone on it' stood until 1806 when it was pulled down to make way for an R.C. chapel (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 3-4). 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. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Hugh Carey Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 August 2018

• TN041-042009 Church
  Description

  Situated to the E of Barry's Bridge at the end of St Mary's Avenue on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A modern church located in a graveyard (TN041-042019) which may have been associated with the medieval church. It is possible that this was not the site of the medieval church as it is located outside the medieval core of the town (Bradley 1985, 54). By the late thirteenth century St Mary's church had come under the control of Owney Abbey in Limerick (Johnstone 1989, 187). The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is mentioned in 1432 (COD, vol. 3, 84). In 1562 all the possessions of Owney Abbey were put in lay hands (Johnstone 1989, 187). By the time of the Civil Survey (1656) the church was in ruins and in 1673 Lady Thurles was buried in Ladyes Chapple beside St Mary's Church (Corbett 1993, 145). Pococke in 1752 described a church which is built onto the tower of an old church which is located to the E of the river and where there is a monument to the Archers of Archer's Court (Stokes 1891, 174). The tower, together with two ruined buildings, is depicted in Grose's Antiquities of Ireland (1791-7, vol. 2, pl. 105). The modern St Mary's church was built in 1820 and it is recorded in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 7) that this church was built near a castle called Church castle which may have been the tower of the old St Mary's as recorded by Pococke in 1752 (Carey and Farrelly 1994, 98) and depicted in Gros (ibid.). In fact the modern church may have incorporated part of the original tower. There is an impressive table-tomb (TN041-042010) dedicated to the Archer family dated 1520 in the graveyard. It has a double effigy on top of the tomb with a depiction of the knight and his lady with their feet resting on a dog. The sides of the tomb contain depictions of six apostles each one contained under a round-arched niche springing from moulded capitals and columns. On one end of the tomb there is a depiction of the Crucifixion, Our Lady and St John (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 230). There is a wall memorial dated (TN041-042012) 1683 in the graveyard, N of the church, built up against a free-standing stone wall. The coat of arms is surmounted by a side view of a helmet on which is standing a lion rampant, with tail in the air. Under the coat of arms there is a scroll with the initials IG and EP. The wall memorial rests on a limestone altar. There is a sixteenth/seventeenth-century recumbent graveslab (TN041-042011) located on the S side of the church, S of the W door, consisting of an eight-armed floriated cross with a knop under which are the symbols of the Passion. 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

• TN041-042010 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  Situated to the E of Barry's Bridge at the end of St Mary's Avenue on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A modern church located in a graveyard which may have been associated with the medieval church (TN041-042009). It is possible that this was not the site of the medieval church as it is located outside the medieval core of the town (Bradley 1985, 54). By the late thirteenth century St Mary's church had come under the control of Owney Abbey in Limerick (Johnstone 1989, 187). There is an impressive table-tomb dedicated to the Archer family dated 1520 in the graveyard. It has a double effigy on top of the tomb with a depiction of the knight and his lady with their feet resting on a dog. The sides of the tomb contain depictions of six apostles each one contained under a round-arched niche springing from moulded capitals and columns. On one end of the tomb there is a depiction of the Crucifixion, Our Lady and St John (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 230). There is a wall memorial (TN041-042012) dated 1683 in the graveyard, N of the church, built up against a free-standing stone wall. The coat of arms is surmounted by a side view of a helmet on which is standing a lion rampant, with tail in the air. Under the coat of arms there is a scroll with the initials IG and EP. The wall memorial rests on a limestone altar. There is a sixteenth/seventeenth-century recumbent graveslab (TN041-042011) located on the S side of the church, S of the W door, consisting of an eight-armed floriated cross with a knop under which are the symbols of the Passion. 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: 07 December 2011

• TN041-042011 Graveslab
  Description

  Situated to the E of Barry's Bridge at the end of St Mary's Avenue on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A modern church located in a graveyard which may have been associated with the medieval church (TN041-042009). It is possible that this was not the site of the medieval church as it is located outside the medieval core of the town (Bradley 1985, 54). By the late thirteenth century St Mary's church had come under the control of Owney Abbey in Limerick (Johnstone 1989, 187). In the graveyard there is a sixteenth/seventeenth-century recumbent graveslab located on the S side of the church, S of the W door, consisting of an eight-armed floriated cross with a knop under which are the symbols of the Passion. 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

• TN041-042012 Memorial stone
  Description

  Situated to the E of Barry's Bridge at the end of St Mary's Avenue on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A modern church located in a graveyard which may have been associated with the medieval church (TN041-042009). It is possible that this was not the site of the medieval church as it is located outside the medieval core of the town (Bradley 1985, 54). By the late thirteenth century St Mary's church had come under the control of Owney Abbey in Limerick (Johnstone 1989, 187). There is an impressive table-tomb dedicated to the Archer family dated 1520 in the graveyard. It has a double effigy on top of the tomb with a depiction of the knight and his lady with their feet resting on a dog. The sides of the tomb contain depictions of six apostles each one contained under a round-arched niche springing from moulded capitals and columns. On one end of the tomb there is a depiction of the Crucifixion, Our Lady and St John (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 230). There is a wall memorial (TN041-042012) dated 1683 in the graveyard, N of the church, built up against a free-standing stone wall. The coat of arms is surmounted by a side view of a helmet on which is standing a lion rampant, with tail in the air. Under the coat of arms there is a scroll with the initials IG and EP. The wall memorial rests on a limestone altar. 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

• TN041-042015 Gateway
  Description

  The OS Letters describe a destroyed W gate as geata na gcoileach, they also mention a round building known as Crow's tower which stands at the town to the right of the road to Cashel (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 78). This tower may have been a mural tower associated with the town walls of Thurles (Carey and Farrelly 1994, 85-100). It was locally believed that five castles were pulled down to construct the courthouse in Thurles (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 78). 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

• TN041-042016 Gateway
  Description

  The East Gate, part of which is attached to Bridge Castle (TN041-042002), Only the springing arch of the E gate survives protruding from the Bridge Castle (TN041-042002) 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

• TN041-042017 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated at the W end of Liberty Square behind the houses fronting onto the square. In the Civil Survey of 1654-6 the house is described as 'a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a castle and severall Turrets upon the Bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 53). This seventeenth-century house may have been constructed against the W face of the tower house (TN041-042001) where tie stones for an additional structure survive. Only fragmentary remains of the bawn survive, the N wall of which was levelled in recent years. These include a section of bawn wall, which would have joined the W wall of the tower house near the SW angle, with remains of a wall-walk. N of the tower house there is another portion with the remains of a bartizan. The bawn may be contemporary with the tower house and reused or modified when the seventeenth-century house was constructed. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN041-042019 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated to the E of Barry's Bridge at the end of St Mary's Avenue on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A modern church located in a graveyard which may have been associated with the medieval church (TN041-042009). It is possible that this was not the site of the medieval church as it is located outside the medieval core of the town (Bradley 1985, 54). By the late thirteenth century St Mary's church had come under the control of Owney Abbey in Limerick (Johnstone 1989, 187). The church of the Blessed Virgin Mary is mentioned in 1432 (COD, vol. 3, 84). In 1562 all the possessions of Owney Abbey were put in lay hands (Johnstone 1989, 187). By the time of the Civil Survey (1656) the church was in ruins and in 1673 Lady Thurles was buried in Ladyes Chapple beside St Mary's Church (Corbett 1993, 145). Pococke in 1752 described a church which is built onto the tower of an old church which is located to the E of the river and where there is a monument to the Archers of Archer's Court (Stokes 1891, 174). The tower, together with two ruined buildings, is depicted in Grose's Antiquities of Ireland (1791-7, vol. 2, pl. 105). The modern St Mary's church was built in 1820 and it is recorded in the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 7) that this church was built near a castle called Church castle which may have been the tower of the old St Mary's as recorded by Pococke in 1752 (Carey and Farrelly 1994, 98) and depicted in Gros (ibid.). In fact the modern church may have incorporated part of the original tower. There is an impressive table-tomb (TN041-042010) dedicated to the Archer family dated 1520 in the graveyard. It has a double effigy on top of the tomb with a depiction of the knight and his lady with their feet resting on a dog. The sides of the tomb contain depictions of six apostles each one contained under a round-arched niche springing from moulded capitals and columns. On one end of the tomb there is a depiction of the Crucifixion, Our Lady and St John (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 230). There is a wall memorial dated (TN041-042012) 1683 in the graveyard, N of the church, built up against a free-standing stone wall. The coat of arms is surmounted by a side view of a helmet on which is standing a lion rampant, with tail in the air. Under the coat of arms there is a scroll with the initials IG and EP. The wall memorial rests on a limestone altar. There is a sixteenth/seventeenth-century recumbent graveslab (TN041-042011) located on the S side of the church, S of the W door, consisting of an eight-armed floriated cross with a knop under which are the symbols of the Passion. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN041-042020 Bawn
  Description

  Locally known as the 'Black Castle' (TN041-042001-), this 15th century tower house was also known as 'Thurles Castle' and stood 35m S of the 12th century Anglo-Norman motte castle (TN041-042004-) as depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. The Mac Richard Butler family resided in the tower house which they built around the year 1453 (O’Donovan 1856, 1170-1). The castle stands today surrounded by buildings on the W side of Liberty Square in the medieval town of Thurles (TN041-042----). 'Black Castle' stands to the W of the houses fronting onto Parnell Street/Liberty Square and N of the houses fronting onto West Gate Street. The town car park is located 35m N of the castle. The tower house (TN041-042001-) stood inside a bawn or courtyard defended by a stone wall with angle towers and accessed through a gateway. It is not clear if the bawn now mainly levelled is contemporaneous with the castle or if it was a later addition. The castle and bawn is mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 where the building is described as 'a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a castle and severall Turrets upon the Bawne' (Simington 1931, 53). 'James Earle of Ormond' and 'Elyzabeth Lady Viscountess Dowager of Thurles' are listed as proprietors of the castle in 1640 (ibid.). In the late 18th century the castle was described as following; 'it was strongly garrisoned in the civil war (1641-53), but was taken and demolished by the Parliament's forces; since which it has gone to decay; however enough remains to shew it was formerly a place of considerable strength' (Grose 1791, 70). Only fragmentary remains of the bawn survive, the N wall of which was levelled in recent years. These include a section of the bawn wall, which would have joined onto the W wall of the tower house near the SW angle, with the remains of a wall-walk. N of the tower house there is another portion of the bawn wall with the remains of a bartizan. A seventeenth-century house (TN041-042017-) may have been constructed against the W face of the tower house where only the tie stones for such a structure survive. See attached 18th century drawing by John James Barralet of 'Thurles Castle' showing the entrance gate of the bawn wall with flanking towers on either side of the entrance, taken from The Antiquities of Ireland (Grose 1791). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Hugh Carey Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 10 August 2018

• TN041-042021 Stone sculpture (present location)
  Description

  Late medieval stone sculpture or effigy incorporated into SSE facing boundary wall of post medieval date to the W of Parnell Street at W end of Thurles Town (TN041-042----). Black Castle (TN041-042001-) 125m to SSE, W gateway of medieval town 180m to SSE, site of Carmelite Friary (TN041-042008-) 440m to E, St. Mary's Church (TN041-042009-) 840m to E, St. Brigid's Church and graveyard (TN041-042003-) 525m to SW. The statue was revealed when builders were stripping ivy from the face of this wall. The rubble wall with brick inclusions acts as a dividing wall between two property plots to the rear of the buildings facing onto the W side of Parnell Street. When the sculpture was inserted into this wall a small canopied structure like a small shrine was constructed over the statue. The outline of the shrine roof is visible above the head of the statue. The wall surface around the statue was finished with a smooth concrete render probably in the early 1900s when this structure was built around the statue. Possibly a 16th / 17th century statue (H 0.65m; Wth 0.28m) carved by the Ormond or Thurles school of sculptors working in this area in the late medieval period and closely associated with the MacRichard Butler family (Rae 1970, 1-2). This family resided in the nearby tower house known locally as ‘Black Castle’ which they built around the year 1453 (O’Donovan 1856, 1170-1). The limestone statue was probably broken into two sections when it was moved from its original location in 18th / 19th century. The carving consists of a robed male effigy carved in high relief with hands joined in prayer, the fingers touching the neck, the figure stands on a stepped semi-circular shaped base (dims. H 0.15m; Wth 0.32m). The face has a recessed hairline with prominent forehead, oval-shaped eyes, broad angular nose, rounded cheeks and smiling slit mouth with rounded chin. The figure is wearing a pleated garment and mantle. The hair has the appearance of a wig and may be similar to the type of hair described by Rae as ‘three-dimensional corkscrew curls’ which he identified as being typical of the Ormond school of sculptors (Rae 1970, 8). However the treatment of the eyes, nose, and mouth are similar in style to the stone heads carved on voussoirs at St. Mary’s Church. These carved heads probably date from the post-medieval date. The effigy may have stood on the circular-shaped base the underside of which is slightly concave and lipped around the edge suggesting that it may have rested on a column. The effigy and be may not be the one piece and may have been inserted as one piece in the post medieval period. The statue could have stood in a niche belonging to a tomb surround of the Butler family. However the back of the figure is hidden in the wall and it is not possible to be certain whether the figure was freestanding or incorporated into the fabric of a wall or some other structure. The figure could have stood in a wall niche in one the medieval parish churches (TN041-042009-/003-) or from a wall niche in the Carmelite Friary (TN041-042008-) which was pulled down in the early 19th century. The semi-circular shaped base was clearly set into the wall of another building as can be seen from the rough dressed sides of the base. It is a possibility but less likely that the figure and base came from the nearby tower house. In the Civil Survey of 1654-6, the nearby 'Black Castle' is described as 'a faire house wherein the Lady of Thurles liveth with a castle and severall Turrets upon the Bawne' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 53). 'James Earle of Ormond' and 'Elyzabeth Lady Viscountess Dowager of Thurles' are listed as proprietors of the castle (ibid.). This tower house dating from the fifteenth/sixteenth-century was built beside another castle (TN041-042013-) and the site of the Anglo-Norman motte castle (TN041-042004-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 August 2018

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Health Centre, hospital/infirmary, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey former fever hospital, built 1838, with slightly advanced end bays, having substantial later extensions to southwest. Now in use as day-care centre. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with render chimneystacks. Coursed random limestone walls, with dressed quoins to end bays. Replacement uPVC windows with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds. Later round-headed door opening inserted having timber panelled door, fanlight and sidelights having lined-and-ruled render surround and render imposts.

• Thurles Library, school, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey former technical school, built 1928. Now in use as county library and archive with single-storey branch library to east. Flat roof with moulded cornice. Central entrance breakfront. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to upper storey having string course and moulded cornice, channelled render walls to ground floor having plinth. Square-headed metal casement windows with concrete sills. Pair of timber panelled doors with fanlight and coved doorcase. Wrought-iron gates and railings with concrete piers to site boundary.

• House, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay two-storey house with attic storey and projecting porch and bay window to ground floor, built 1928, as a pair with building to west. Half-hipped artificial slate roof with cast-iron rooflights and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with render label mouldings and timber shutter additions. Square-headed replacement door with overlight. Cast-iron gate and railings to site boundary.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey house, built c.1900. Now also in use as public house. Pitched slate roof with decorative brick chimneystacks, render cornice with timber brackets and cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick walls to upper storey, rendered walls to shopfront to ground floor. Square-headed timber sash windows with raised brick surrounds. Shopfront consists of render pilasters, replacement windows, and having render cornice with timber brackets above.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house with integral carriage arch, c.1860. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with decorative render quoins and moulded eaves course having dentils and frieze. Square-headed openings with flanking render colonettes having decorative capitals to upper floor and render cornices to ground floor openings. Replacement uPVC windows and replacement uPVC door with overlight. Pair of timber battened doors to carriage arch.

• Thurles Courthouse, court house, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted multiple-bay two-storey court house, built 1826, with four-bay side elevations, and having later single-storey multiple-bay lean-to blocks to side elevations. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone chimneystack and artificial slate roofs to extensions. Limestone ashlar to gable front with broken pediment and with string course between storeys. Limestone cladding to extensions. Tripled round-headed openings with nine-over-nine pane timber sash windows to upper storey, and with three round-headed blocked entrances to ground floor. Square-headed timber sash eight-over-eight pane windows to first floor of side elevations. New entrance to south-east elevation.

• Holy Family Confraternity Hall, prison/jail, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Formerly detached gable-fronted multiple-bay two-storey with attic former bridewell, built 1816, with three-bay front elevation and double exterior staircase to first floor entrance, converted to hall in 1900. Now in use as community centre. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with brick chimneystack and cut limestone eaves course. Pebble-dashed walls with limestone string course, first floor sill course and gable details and render plinth. Round-headed windows throughout with oculus to attic level, all cut stone. Carved surrounds and keystones to first floor of side elevations. Round-headed main entrance and square-headed ground floor doorway. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, one-over-one pane to front and ground floor of side elevations and four-over-four pane to first floor of side elevations, with metal pivoted frame to oculus. Timber panelled double-leaf doors to entrances.

• House, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-storey two-bay house with projecting entrance bay and octagonal corner bay connected by balustraded balcony, built c.1930, as pair with building to south. Single-storey extension to north. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Decorative crenellated parapet to projecting bays. Roughcast rendered walls with plat bands and plinth. Square-headed two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with concrete sills and continuous sill courses to corner bay. Glazed timber door with overlight and concrete steps. Glazed timber door to balcony. Concrete balustrade and wrought-iron gate to site boundary.

• House, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-storey two-bay house with projecting entrance bay and corner bay window connected by balustraded balcony, built c.1930, as pair with building to the north. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Decorative crenellated parapet to projecting bays. Smooth rendered walls with plat bands and plinth. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows with concrete sills and continuous sill course to corner bay. Glazed timber door with overlight and concrete steps. Glazed timber door to balcony. Concrete balustrade and wrought-iron gate to site boundary.

• The Capitol, cinema, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey cinema, opened 1949, with central projecting four-bay entrance block having canopy and lettering. Flat roof to entrance block and pitched corrugated sheet roof to auditorium. Artificial slate cladding to projector room block. Rendered walls with corrugated effect render panels flanking entrance doors. Fixed windows and timber glazed double-leaf doors to entrance block. Oculus windows to north and south sides of entrance block.

• W. Brophy, house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1920, now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Shopfront comprises timber framed plate glass windows and leaded stained glass windows over tiled stall riser, flanking recessed splayed entrance with glazed timber door with overlight, all flanked by fluted timber pilasters with timber panelled fascia with raised lettering.

• The Classic, house, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey house, c.1890. Now also in use as barber shop. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to first floor. Shopfront comprises timber-framed plate glass window and timber panelled double-leaf doors having overlight flanked by pilasters carrying fascia and timber cornice.

• Station House, station master's house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former stationmaster's house, built 1848, with gabled breakfront to east façade, gabled bays to west façade, and later extension to north. Now in use as private house. Pitched slate roofs with ashlar limestone copings and rendered chimneystack. Snecked limestone walls with cut limestone quoins and snecked limestone plinth. Chamfered cut limestone window openings throughout with square and shouldered heads, many with keystones. Margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Pointed-arch recessed porch with chamfered cut limestone surround with glazed timber doors. Slightly projecting entrance to rear. Lodge to west with pitched slate roofs, brick chimneystack, random rubble walls, square-headed and segmental-headed replacement windows with brick voussoirs.

• Park Avenue House, house, 1900–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace five-bay three-storey house, built c.1920, now vacant and with vacant public house to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Red brick walls with yellow and corbelled red brick eaves course, yellow brick string courses and yellow brick surrounds to upper floor openings. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Shopfront comprising fixed windows and glazed doors flanked by engaged colonettes having fascia, consoles and moulded cornice above.

• T. Mason, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace six-bay two-storey house, built c.1930. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render platband and plinth. Square-headed openings with decorative render architraves having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills and timber panelled door with overlight. Shopfront consists of fluted render pilasters supporting render cornice with brackets and dentils, with plate glass windows and glazed door to timber frames.

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1910, formerly two two-bay houses, with retail outlets to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and gabled dormers. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and replacement windows to dormers. Shopfront to west comprises replacement pair of timber panelled doors with overlight and plate glass windows flanked by timber pilasters with carved consoles, fascia and cornice over. Replacement shopfront to east.

• J. Butler, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, now also in use as shop. Pitched slate roof having brick chimneystack. Rendered walls with rendered quoins and plinth. Square-headed openings with replacement windows and door. Shopfront comprises central pair of timber panelled doors flanked by vertically divided plate glass windows having timber fascia and cornice over.

• Glenmorgan House, house, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey house with attic, built c.1865. Now in use as flats and shops. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and decorative eaves course. Square-headed replacement windows having limestone sills. Shopfront comprises replacement windows on panelled timber stall risers flanked by render pilasters supporting render fascia and cornice. Date stone inscribed with name and date AD 1860(?) to upper front façade.

• House, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1915, now also in use as café. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks and rendered parapet. Rendered walls with quoins and fluted render pilasters to ground floor. Decorative render surrounds to square-headed openings with tripartite timber casement windows having coloured glass pivoting overlights to first floor. Paired one-over-one pane timber sash windows to second floor. Replacement timber door with overlight. Shopfront comprises replacement windows and door with bakelite stall riser, flanked by render pilasters supporting nameplate.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c.1860, now in use as offices. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render continuous sill courses. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sash windows and replacement window with decorative render surrounds. Replacement timber double doors with render shouldered architrave.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of terraced two-bay and three-bay three-storey houses with integral carriage arch, built c.1880, now in use as shops and offices. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills and render label-mouldings, continuous to first floor. Replacement shopfronts to ground floor, western with render quoins.

• House, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1915, now in use as flats. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks. Brick walls having raised brick quoins. Bevelled square-headed two-over-two horizontal pane timber sliding sash windows. Mosaic tiled shop front having vertically divided glazed timber door with overlight flanked by plate glass and fixed windows, and timber panelled door with overlight, with timber panelled fascia over.

• House, 1905–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c.1915, as pair with adjoining building to west. Now in use as shop. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Brick walls with relieving arch to first floor, raised brick quoins and moulded eaves course. Paired segmental-headed timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows with brick voussoirs to upper floors. Replacement timber shopfront.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, forming western subdivision of five-bay house and with single-storey crenellated entrance porch to west elevation. Now in use as offices. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered rusticated quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with render label-mouldings. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with fanlight and decorative render surround with pilasters, archivolt and keystone. Cast-iron gate and railings to front of site. Yard with cut limestone carriage arch and outbuilding with gabled slated roof to rear along side street.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, forming eastern subdivision of former five-bay house now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rusticated render quoins. Replacement windows with stone sills and render label-mouldings. Round-headed door opening to upper floors having timber panelled door with fanlight, sidelights and decorative render surround with pilasters, archivolt and keystone, approached by limestone steps. Replacement timber shopfront. Limestone plinth with cast-iron gate and railings to house entrance.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house with integral carriage arch, built c.1880, now also in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, decorative render parapet and finials. Rendered walls with decorative render eaves course and fluted render pilasters to upper floors. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sash windows with render label-mouldings and limestone sills. Depressed-arch carriage arch with chamfered corners. Shopfront comprises carved timber brackets and render pilasters flanking replacement door and replacement bow window with replacement fascia over.

• J. Dempsey, house, 1735–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, dated 1736, with later second storey addition. Now in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having decorative render quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sash windows having decorative render surrounds and cornices, with limestone sills to first floor and plat band serving as sill-course to second floor. Shopfront consists of timber-framed plate glass and fixed windows and centrally-sited glazed timber door, flanked by timber pilasters having decorative consoles supporting timber fascia with dentils and cornice and painted lettering. Date stone to upper front wall.

• Thurles Post Office, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of two-bay three-storey houses, built c.1860. Now in use as post office. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with brick chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls to upper storeys, channelled render piers and walls having cornice over to ground floor. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sash windows with render surrounds and stone sills to upper storeys, timber windows with stone sills and timber panelled door with overlight to ground floor.

• Flynn's, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1850, with later alterations and shopfronts. Now in use as shops. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render quoins, plat bands, and eaves course. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative render surrounds. Paired shopfronts each consist of bakelite façade having chrome framed plate glass windows, and recessed doorways with glazed timber doors having frosted hinged overlight to eastern.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, now in use as flats, with vacant shop to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render pilasters, render eaves course, platband dividing storeys and render plinth. Square-headed one-over-one timber sliding sash windows with decorative render surrounds. Pair of timber doors with overlight. Shopfront consists of timber-framed plate glass window with timber sill, flanked by render pilasters supporting render cornice.

• Hotel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay three-storey hotel, built c.1840. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, moulded eaves course and central pediment. Rendered walls with quoins to upper storeys. Rusticated concrete block cladding to ground floor having black marble plinth. Square-headed openings having consoles cornices and continuous sill course to second floor, and having consoles and pediments to first floor. Replacement windows and doors. Glazed cast-iron entrance canopy.

• Devlin's Medical Hall, house, 1840–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house and retail outlet, built c.1850 and remodelled and second storey added 1904. Flat asphalt roof having rendered parapet with lettering. Rendered walls with rendered quoins, rendered pilasters, decorative render cornices between storeys, and render plinth. Depressed-arch window openings with decorative paired render pilasters, keystones and continuous label-moulding to second floor and square-headed window openings flanked by colonettes to first floor, all with replacement uPVC windows. Ground floor has square-headed opening with decorative render surrounds having one-over-one pane timber sash window with stone sill and with timber panelled door with overlight. Shopfront consists of timber-framed plate glass windows and fixed windows with glazed timber door having decorative overlight, the whole flanked by pilasters supporting entablature with frieze and cornice. Retaining interior features.

• Archbishop Croke Monument, monument, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding monument, erected 1922, with larger than life-size bronze statue of Archbishop Croke on triangular-profile limestone pedestal having bronze figures set in niches and inscribed plaque in Irish. Trefoil shaped step to base.

• 1798 Monument, monument, 1895–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding carved limestone monument of larger than life-size standard bearer, erected 1900, set on pedestal having low relief sculptures of patriots Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmet on three sides. Plaque to base and inscription commemorate Rising of 1798. Bevelled stepped plinth.

• Barry's Bridge, bridge, 1575–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch limestone road bridge over River Suir, built c.1600, widened and reconstructed c.1820. Dressed limestone triangular cut-waters and round arches having dressed voussoirs and dropped keystones to north elevation, and pointed segmental arches with roughly dressed voussoirs to south elevation. Concrete road surface with steel railings.

• Ursuline Convent, convent/nunnery, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding eight-bay three-storey convent, built 1864, with chapel built c.1867 to west. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron roof-lights. Rendered walls with moulded cornices and incised plat bands and lintels to openings. Square-headed windows to upper floors and double round-headed replacement windows to ground, with limestone sills. Chapel has pitched slate roofs with modillions, dressed limestone walls with chamfered round-headed stained-glass windows and cast iron cross finials.

• Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption, cathedral, 1860–1865 · National interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted three-bay Latin cross plan cathedral, begun 1861. Three-bay entrance front and eight-bay aisle elevations, with side aisles and ambulatory. Seven-stage bell tower to west and round-plan baptistery to east integrated into an overall highly-ornate façade composition. Pitched slate roofs to cathedral, copper dome to baptistery and copper pyramidal roof to tower with weather vane. Snecked and irregular coursed limestone ashlar walls with corner pilaster buttresses, sandstone eaves course, string courses and plinth course. Carved sandstone cornice to tower. Blind arcading with sandstone arches separated by polychrome marble colonettes. Round-arch and oeil-de-boeuf stained-glass windows and rose window with sandstone surrounds. Timber panelled double doors with decorative sandstone tympanums and with statue niches flanking main door. Statues to top of gable front. Flight of limestone steps to church doors. Highly ornate interior with arcaded nave and ambulatory with marble columns supporting round arches with clerestorey over. Late sixteenth-century Italian marble tabernacle at altar. Carved limestone piers topped with lamps and cross finials with cast-iron gates and railings to site boundary. Statue of Bishop Leahy to forecourt.

• Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption, bishop's palace, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey bishop's palace, built c.1860, with subsidiary two-storey bay to east and projecting entrance porch. Hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with decorative render plat bands, pilasters, eaves course and string courses. Square-headed and elliptical-headed replacement windows with decorative render surrounds, some with blank tympanums. Square-headed timber panelled door with fanlight. Cut limestone piers, wrought-iron gates and cast-iron railings to site boundary.

• Presentation Convent, convent/nunnery, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached fourteen-bay three-storey convent, built 1826, having chapel wing at east end and with entrance porch and incorporating three-bay extension at west end. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and belfry. Rendered walls with limestone plinth, moulded eaves course and cut limestone quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash and some replacement uPVC windows and with traceried lancet windows to chapel. Large traceried window to upper west gable of convent. Pair of carved timber doors with rose window overlight and lancet sidelights in moulded render surround and approached by limestone steps with cast iron boot scrapers. Chapel porch is gable fronted with limestone dressings, cross finial and openings with hood-mouldings. Gardens, grotto and graveyard also to site.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with banded shaft, curved handle, fluted neck and fluted cap with pineapple finial. Foliate decoration where spout meets neck. Set on platform with stone trough.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of three and four-bay two-storey houses, built c.1890, with vacant retail outlet to ground floor of western half. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render double-height pilasters and render eaves course and plat band. Square-headed window openings to first floor and to ground floor of eastern half, latter double, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and render surrounds and with continuous sill course to first floor, and limestone sills. Square-headed doorway to eastern half with timber panelled door with overlight and sidelights, flanked by bays with double windows and having continuous cornice above all three openings. Shopfront to western end comprises fixed timber windows and glazed timber door, with panelled timber pilasters to doorway and ends of shopfront, with scallop ornament below moulded tops, and end pilasters having console having moulded consoles and decorative box tops and supporting fascia with dentils and moulded cornice.

• Saint Mary's Church (Thurles), church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Board of First Fruits style single-cell Church of Ireland church, built c.1825, with three-bay gable-front, five-bay side elevation and three-stage crenellated tower with spire to west end. Pitched slate roof and ashlar limestone to spire. Exposed limestone rubble walls with dressed quoins and plinth and some roughcast render panels. Ashlar limestone spire and carved finials and crenellations to tower. Carved limestone panels and clock to west elevation. Chamfered lancet windows. Pointed-arch doorway with roll-mouldings and timber battened door with wrought-iron strap hinges. Graveyard around church, bounded by stone walls with dressed limestone gate piers and cast-iron gates.

• Innisfail, house, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey L-plan house, built 1898, with three-bay gabled front and recessed gabled corner bay and with canted bay to east elevation. Pitched slate roofs having timber bargeboards, timbered upper gable and brick and roughcast rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with red brick quoins and with buttresses to corner bay. Six-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with red brick block-and-start surrounds and moulded red brick sills. Glazed timber double doors with decorative render surround. Cast-iron gates and railings to site boundary.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1890. Also in use as shop. Pitched roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and remains of brick chimney on projecting stack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to upper floors with raised brick quoins, moulded string courses between floors and moulded eaves course. Segmental-arch openings to upper floors with brick block-and-start surrounds, timber sliding sash and timber casement windows. Replacement shopfront flanked by brick pilasters from earlier shopfront.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey house, built c.1900, with oriel window and full-width shopfront. Now in use as insurance office. Pitched artificial slate roof. Smooth rendered walls having decorative render eaves course. Segmental-headed timber sliding sash windows in square openings with stone sills. Oriel window has segmental-headed timber sliding sash windows and decorative timber cornice. Shopfront comprises plate glass windows and glazed timber door, flanked by pilasters with decorative consoles, having fascia and decorative cornice above.

• Hotel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced six-bay three-storey hotel, built c.1860, with two-bay projection to east end and projecting single-storey entrance bay. Now in use as bank and public house. Pitched artificial slate roof with hipped roof over projecting bays and with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with decorative render eaves course and with decorative corner pilasters and plat band with decorative festoon motif to upper storeys. Channelled rendered walls with decorative render cornice and brackets to ground floor. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows with decorative render surrounds and stone sills to upper storeys, replacement timber windows and doors to ground floor. Round-headed window and round-headed door to west end with timber panelled door with fanlight and plinth stones to public house.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1850. Now also in use as retail outlet. Pitched artificial slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with decorative render surrounds with keystones and moulded sills. Shopfront comprises timber-framed plate glass window with timber panelled double-leaf door to each end of facade with overlights, flanked by pilasters, having fascia and cornice above.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay three-storey former house, built c.1870. Now in use as public house. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with moulded copings. Smooth rendered walls having decorative render eaves course, string courses, pilasters and plat bands to upper floors. Square-headed replacement uPVC windows having decorative surrounds with pilasters and with triangular pediments with consoles to first floor openings. Shopfront comprises timber-framed fixed windows, recent brick stall-riser, and timber panelled replacement door with overlights having fascia and moulded cornice.

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey bank, built c.1910, with double-height ground floor. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, rendered parapet and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with moulded eaves cornice and string course to first floor. Channelled render pilasters with impost course and cornice to ground floor. Round-arch fixed windows with render panels to ground floor and square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, tripartite and with hood-mouldings to front façade. Square-headed doorway with panelled timber double-leaf door with decorative render doorcase and fanlight.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace former pair of three-bay three-storey houses, built c.1860. Now in use as shop. Hipped artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins to ground floor. Render fascia with modillions to upper façades. Replacement uPVC windows. Timber panelled door with overlight, providing access to upper floors. Shopfront comprises timber pilasters and consoles flanking plate glass windows and double-leaf doors, with cast-iron cresting above.

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1890. Now in use as offices and shop. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and curvilinear gablet with ball finial. Rendered walls with brick quoins, moulded eaves course, string course at second floor level and decorative roundel to gablet. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and replacement uPVC windows to second floor, all with brick block-and-start surrounds and render keystones. Shopfront comprises plate glass window flanked by recessed doorways having timber panelled doors with overlights, flanked by carved timber pilasters having fascia with cornice and decorative consoles with ball finials and with decorative gablet with ball finial.

• House, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1875. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof having brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls with decorative platband, render eaves course and with decorative render pilasters to upper floors. Replacement uPVC windows with decorative render surrounds with cornices and consoles. Shopfront comprises timber glazed door in recessed doorway, flanked by steel sheets to former plate glass windows, having tiled stall-riser and timber cornice.

• House, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced pair of two-bay two and three-storey houses, built c.1875. Now in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered parapets and rendered and red brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls having render quoins at east end and sill course to second floor. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills and with render sill courses to upper floors of eastern part with decorative render pilasters and cornices. Replacement timber full-width shopfront.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1820. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors. Timber panelled door leading to upper floors has pilasters, limestone step and plain overlight. Shopfront comprises square-headed timber panelled shop door with geometric overlight and limestone threshold, flanked by fixed four-by-four pane timber windows having stone sills and wrought-iron sill guards, all openings flanked by panelled timber pilasters supporting fascia with dentils and cornice.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey bank, built c.1900. Brick chimneystacks with ashlar sandstone parapet and moulded eaves cornice. Ashlar limestone walls to upper floor with ashlar sandstone string course at sill level with incised lettering, and having channelled limestone to ground floor. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, square-headed with sandstone surrounds, consoles and cornices to first floor and segmental-headed with decorative sandstone keystones and limestone sills to ground floor. Square-headed timber panelled door having limestone pilasters, consoles and cornice and segmental overlight approached by limestone steps. Cast-iron railings to limestone plinth to front of site.

• T. Morris, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1900. Now also in use as public house. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with limestone cornice, brick-effect render block-and-start quoins and surroundings to openings and render string courses and plinth. Segmental-headed timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Square-headed glazed timber door with vertically divided overlight. Shopfront consists of tripartite fixed window with timber panelled doors, vertically-divided to shop and having overlights and limestone steps, flanked by timber pilasters with consoles supporting fascia with painted lettering and having dentils and cornice.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1850. Now in use as office. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows with limestone sills. Shopfront consists of timber-framed plate glass and fixed windows flanked by recessed doorways with panelled timber doors with overlights. Panelled fascia, pilasters and stall riser with scallop motif to panel corners.

• House, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey house, built c.1885, as pair with adjoining house to east, having single-storey extension to west. Hipped artificial slate roof with decorative eaves course, and rendered chimneystack with decorative brick coping. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed replacement windows having render torus-mouldings to jambs and with stone sills. Wider window opening to ground floor with cast-iron sill guard. Square-headed timber panelled door with limestone step and plinths and with fanlight.

• House, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1885, as pair with adjoining house to west. Pitched artificial slate roof with decorative brick eaves course, and rendered chimneystack with decorative brick coping. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed replacement windows having render torus-mouldings to jambs and with stone sills. Square-headed timber panelled door with fanlight and render torus-mouldings to jambs.

• Saint Patrick's College, gates/railings/walls, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ashlar limestone gate piers and plinths, erected 1839, flanking vehicular and pedestrian gateways, with limestone wheel-guards, eagles surmounting central piers, and with replacement cast-iron railings and gates.

• The Presbytery, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached asymmetrical four-bay two-storey presbytery, built 1879, having gabled breakfront, with single-bay block added to west end in early twentieth century. Hipped slate roofs with yellow brick chimneystacks, cross finial and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked ashlar limestone walls. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick block-and-start surrounds with torus-mouldings to jambs and with replacement uPVC windows having stone sills. Gabled dormer window with cross finial to east elevation. Timber panelled door with overlight. Cast-iron railings with limestone piers to site boundary. Ornamental wrought-iron railings with limestone piers to east of building.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house with integral carriage arch, built c.1840, now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof. Smooth rendered walls to first floor, lined-and-ruled rendered to ground floor. Replacement uPVC windows and door. Shopfront comprises timber-framed plate glass window and timber panelled double doors, flanked by carved timber pilasters supporting timber fascia and cornice with painted lettering. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight to upper floor and segmental-headed carriage arch with replacement timber battened door.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, as pair with adjoining house to east. Now also in use as public house. Rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with decorative render quoins and decorative render eaves course with render panels and with render brackets to decoratively-moulded cornice. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having decorative render surrounds with engaged colonettes and decorative cornices. Replacement shopfront.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with decorative render quoins and decorative render eaves course with render moulded cornice with brackets. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows having decorative render surrounds with engaged colonettes and decorative cornices. Replacement shopfron

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870. Now also in use as public house. Hipped artificial slate roof with brick and rendered chimneystacks. Brick and rendered walls having decorative render pilasters and render eaves course. Segmental-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprises panelled render pilasters and consoles flanking replacement timber windows and doors.

• Almshouse, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terrace of eighteen two-bay single and two-storey almshouses, built 1889, with open gable-fronted porches. Central pair of houses in higher two-bay gabled projection. Two-storey T-shaped former director's house and hall attached to north. Complex now in use as sheltered housing units. Pitched slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks. Spirelet with roundels to director's house. Timber bargeboards and timbered gables to porches, with carved timber supports. Enclosed carved timber porch to director's house. Red brick walls with brick plinth. Timber casement windows with raised render block-and-start surrounds, single and quadripartite to director's house and tripartite to almoners' houses. Tudor-arch openings with timber battened doors. Single-storey outhouse returns to rear of almshouses. Gate piers with alternating bands of brick and stone and with wrought-iron gates and cast-iron railings to site boundary.

• McGrath, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay three-storey house, built c.1860, having oriel window to first floor. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to upper floors. Shopfront comprises timber-framed plate glass windows and recessed doorway with glazed timber door and wrought-iron gate, rendered quoins and stall riser with trompe-l'oeil effect, moulded render cornice and fascia with cast-iron lettering.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Formerly detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860. Pitched slate roof with replacement brick chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows and replacement timber panelled door with decorative cobweb overlight and with render label-moulding. Decorative spearheaded cast-iron gate and railings to stone plinth to site boundary to front.

• M. Ryan, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1870. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with render plat band at second storey level. Replacement uPVC windows with moulded render surrounds. Shopfront comprises render pilasters supporting render fascia and moulded cornice, vertically-divided timber-framed plate glass windows and timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight.

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render quoins and render plinth. Square-headed openings with decorative render surrounds having replacement uPVC windows, wider to ground floor and replacement timber panelled door with overlight.

• Store/warehouse, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay four-storey former corn store with blocked integral carriage arch, built c.1855, Now in use as public house. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Exposed roughly-dressed limestone masonry walls with dressed ashlar quoins. Replacement windows with brick block-and-start surrounds. Segmental-headed carriage arch with dressed voussoirs, now window. Late twentieth-century entrance at south end.

• Bank/financial institution, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey bank, built c.1885, with slightly projecting end entrance bays and flanked by single-storey screen walls. Now in use as shop and offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and limestone cornice. Coursed rusticated limestone walls to ground floor and ashlar walls with render quoins and render frieze to upper floors. Segmental-arched window openings with continuous limestone sill course to second floor, bevelled square-headed with render surrounds, cornices and continuous limestone sill course to first-floor and round-arched with dropped keystones and separated by rusticated pilasters to ground floor. Replacement aluminium windows. Square-headed timber panelled double-leaf door with overlights, having render triangular pediments and render consoles and pilasters. Carriage arch in limestone wall to north and blind arch in limestone wall to south.

• 16th Heavy Mortar Battery Hall, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay gable-fronted Methodist church, built 1848, having three-bay two-storey side elevation with lean-to extension to rear. Now in use as military hall. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls to front with square-headed niches with limestone sills and moulded render surrounds, ashlar limestone pilasters, and limestone pediment with fascia and acroteria with anthemion motif. Central square-headed replacement timber panelled double-leaf door with render cornice with consoles and limestone steps. Rendered wall having cast-iron gate with military insignia to site boundary.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay three-storey house, built c.1850, as pair with building to south. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered parapet. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render eaves course and vermiculated render quoins. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, tripartite one-over-one pane to ground floor and six-over-six pane to upper floors, with limestone sills. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight.

• House, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Semi-detached two-bay three-storey house with attic storey, built c.1850, as pair with building to north. Now in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and rendered parapet. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render eaves course and vermiculated render quoins. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight and limestone step.

• Butler, house, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1915. Now also in use as shop. Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings with tripartite timber casement windows having stained-glass overlights, render architraves and stone sills. Decorative render door surround with consoles, dentils and architrave, having stained-glass overlight and timber panelled door. Timber shopfront comprising tripartite fixed windows with stained-glass overlights and replacement timber panelled double-leaf door having stained-glass overlight with fascia with painted lettering and moulded cornice above.

• Shop/retail outlet, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace gable-fronted multiple-bay two-storey former shop, built c.1915. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystacks and timber bargeboards. Brick walling to north elevation. Rendered walls with decorative render to upper gable and having channelled render piers with fluting detail to tops to each end of facade and having decorative moulded cornice between floors also forming top of shopfront. Fixed and timber casement windows. Shopfront comprising carved timber pilasters flanking timber panelled double-leaf central door, with similar door at end of facade leading to upper floor, and with simple fascia below cornice.

• House, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house, built c.1915, as part of terrace of three with adjoining houses to east. Pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render eaves dentils, strip pilasters, plinth and moulded surrounds to window openings. Segmental-headed openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sash windows and wider square-headed opening to ground floor with timber casement window. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with fanlight and label-moulding. Retains interior features.

• House, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house, built c.1915, as part of terrace of three with adjoining houses to west. Pitched slate roof and brick chimneystack. Rendered walls with render eaves dentils, strip pilasters, plinth and moulded surrounds to openings. Segmental-headed openings to first floor and wider square-headed opening to ground floor, with replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening having replacement timber panelled door with fanlight and label-moulding.

• Chabot House, school master's house, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey school, dated 1852, with projecting gabled end bay and projecting porch. Now in use as house. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone chimneystacks with paired and tripled octagonal upper parts. Dressed limestone walls having moulded eaves course and plaque reading 'Parochial School 1852'. Three-centered-arch openings to upper gables with paired round-head windows and square-headed elsewhere, with double and triple timber casement windows. Replacement timber door with sidelights to entrance porch with carved eaves board. Single-storey extension to rear.

• Saint Patrick's College, college, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached twenty-one-bay three-storey seminary, begun 1829, with central three-bay pedimented breakfront and slightly projecting three-bay terminating blocks, eastern block being twentieth century. Now in use as college. Pitched roofs with rendered chimneystacks and metal cross finial. Broken coursed ashlar walls with raised limestone cornice, quoins and plinth. Timber sliding sash windows throughout, square-headed to upper floors having three-over-six pane windows to second floor and six-over-six pane, with round-headed three-over-nine pane set in round-arched recesses and square-headed six-over-nine pane to ground floor. Limestone sills to ground and second floors, with limestone sill course to first floor. Vertically-divided panelled timber doors in round-arched opening with block-and-start surround and with fanlight and flight of limestone steps.

• House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1930. Now also in use as shop. Pitched artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystacks with decorative copings. Red brick walls to first floor with rusticated concrete quoins. Rusticated render concrete walls to ground floor with string course above. Replacement uPVC windows to first floor with concrete sills and decorative keystones. Timber-framed plate glass shop front with recessed glazed timber door with overlight and name fascia. Timber panelled door with overlight leading to first floor.

• Ursuline Convent, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited four-bay three-storey over basement school building with three-storey return. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneys, cast-iron cross finials and terracotta cresting. Rendered walls with brick quoins, replacement windows with brick block-and-start surrounds and continuous sills to upper floors and with limestone dressings to gables. Vertically-divided door with fanlight and carved limestone surround with brick voussoirs approached by steps. Cast-iron railings to front of site.

• Ursuline Convent, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached fourteen-bay three- and four-storey school building. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneys. Rendered walls with moulded cornice, render quoins, incised plat bands at lintel and sill levels and limestone dressings to gables. Replacement segmental-headed windows with brick heads and stone sills. Gable-fronted projecting porch with cut limestone dressings and cresting to slated roof. Limestone wall to front of site. Crucifixion to east gable.

• Presentation Convent, school, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-bay two-storey former industrial school with projecting gabled entrance bay with integral carriage arch, built 1876, forming street façade of convent complex. Pitched slate roofs with dormer windows. Pebble-dashed walls with render quoins, mainly doubled timber sliding sash windows, six-over-nine pane to first floor and nine-over-nine pane to ground floor, with integral carriage arch with cut limestone arched surround with hood-moulding. Range of glasshouses connects building with convent to rear. Multiple-bay two-storey former dormitory to west of site gables onto street has pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, rendered walls, replacement and timber sash windows, round-headed to front gable.

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Radon

About 1 in 10 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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Thurles Townparks.

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.

No address of the register names Thurles Townparks with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Thurles Townparks · Páirceanna Baile Dhurlais

Area

1,523,623 m² (152.36 ha, 376.5 acres)

Civil parish

Thurles, and its townlands

Barony

Eliogarty

Electoral division

Thurles Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Thurles Urban electoral division: 7,122 people in 2,924 households; 57% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bawnanattin, Bohernamona, Bowling Green, Brittasroad, Clongower, Garryvicleheen, Glebe, Gortataggart, Lognafulla, Monacocka, Monakeeba, Racecourse, Stradavoher

Placenames

Thurles Townparks 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.