Toor
Townland in the civil parish of Thurles, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Tuar
- Area
- 21.2 ha
- 52 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,639 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- Town Environs
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 268 m² to 60,234 m² (6.02 ha, 14.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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
- 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 - M5Mixed Use (Other mix of uses)
Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Open Space & Recreation (Active open space)
Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2024Conditional
the change of design of dressing room building from that previously granted under planning permission number 22/197, and all associated site works and services
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461043
8 Mar 2022Conditional
(a) construction of one playing pitch in addition to ancillary goal posts and ball nets (b) dressing rooms (c) car park (d) previously permitted septic tank and percolation area (e) astro turf/wall ball area and (f) lighting for two pitches, astro turf/wall area and perimeter path and (g) viewing stand
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22197
9 Dec 2020Conditional
a) proposed new single storey extension to rear of the existing dwelling; b) associated alterations to existing dwelling external elevations to accommodate proposed new extension and internal layout; c) all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201471
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 Toor.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toor.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Toor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Toor · An Tuar
- Area
- 211,578 m² (21.16 ha, 52.28 acres)
- Civil parish
- Thurles, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eliogarty
- Electoral division
- Thurles Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Thurles Rural electoral division: 2,365 people in 851 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawntameena, Carrigeen, Killinane, Racecourse
- Placenames
- Toor 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.