Togher
Townland in the civil parish of Templetouhy, barony of Ikerrin, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Tóchar
- Area
- 141.2 ha
- 349 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,142 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Togher, from 91 m² to 201,929 m² (20.19 ha, 49.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Togher in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jul 2024Conditional
a new extension to existing dwelling, along with a new packaged wastewater treatment system and new polishing filter and some minor changes to front facade of existing dwelling, also Permission to decommission existing septic tank with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460574
25 May 2022Conditional
new agricultural entrance to lands and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260246
17 May 2021Conditional
a) the existing previously constructed single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, b) of the existing two-storey garage structure and associated site works and FULL PLANNING PERMISSION for c) proposed new ground floor level and first floor level extensions to the existing single storey dwelling, d) associated alterations to existing dwelling external elevations to accomodate proposed new extensions and internal layout amendments, e) replacement of the existing septic tank and percolation area with proposed new on site wastewater treatment system and percolation area and f) all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21691
30 Nov 2020Conditional
alterations to previously approved planning register reference 18/601128 to include the following items: (a) revised location and finished floor level of approved dwelling (b) minor alterations to as-built dwelling (c) revised location, design and finished floor level of approved garage (d) revised site entrance location (e) revised location of WWTS and percolation area (f) revised site boundaries and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201429
18 Sept 2018Conditional
new 2-storey detached dwelling to replace existing residence, new detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works, and also change of use of existing dwelling from residential to farm storage
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601128
17 Sept 2018N/a
construction of a new 2-storey detached dwelling to replace existing residence, new detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works, and also change of use of existing dwelling from residential to farm storage
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601123
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Togher.
Recorded monuments
- TN030-004001 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Situated on top of a low hillock in undulating countryside with a poorly drained bog immediately to the N. A well-preserved impressive ring-barrow consisting of a naturally raised area (diam. 29m E-W) defined by a scarp and enclosed by a wide well-preserved fosse (Wth 3-6m; ext. D 1m) and outer bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.5-0.9m) with possible causewayed entrance (Wth 5m) at SE. The area to the NW of the ring-barrow represents a natural hillock the base of which has been scarped, with a modern trackway intersecting the hillock to the W of the barrow (Stout 1984, 83). 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Togher.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Togher.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Togher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Togher · An Tóchar
- Area
- 1,412,301 m² (141.23 ha, 348.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templetouhy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ikerrin
- Electoral division
- Templetouhy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templetouhy electoral division: 823 people in 322 households; 82% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonbuogh, Clonmeen North (Co. Laois), Clonmeenwood (Co. Laois), Lisduff (Co. Laois), Lissanure
- Placenames
- Togher 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.