Toor Beg
Toor Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Shanrahan, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Tuar Beag.
- Area
- 142.1 ha
- 351 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 1,525 m²
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor Beg, from 16 m² to 647,505 m² (64.75 ha, 160 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Nov 2025Conditional
for permitted alterations and extensions to the original dwelling, for which planning permission was granted under planning file reference number 211164, including all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561178
15 Aug 2025N/a
change of house type from that permitted under planning file reference number 211164 to a new house type including all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560800
9 Aug 2021Conditional
alterations and extension to existing dwelling including all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211164
16 Jun 2021Conditional
construction of an open sided roofed structure and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21873
27 Jul 2020Conditional
construct dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system with tertiary filter, bored well, dual vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 20822
1 Jul 2020N/a
construct dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system with tertiary filter, bored well, dual vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20681
15 Aug 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, separate domestic garage, entrance, connect to existing services and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601009
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Galtee Mountains SAC 000646
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galtee Mountains 000646
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor Beg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toor Beg.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Toor Beg, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toor Beg.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Toor Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Toor Beg · An Tuar Beag
- Area
- 1,421,112 m² (142.11 ha, 351.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shanrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Burncourt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 472 people lived in 177 households in the Burncourt electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhurrow, Burncourt, Cullenagh, Shanbally, Toor More
- Placenames
- Toor Beg 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.