Toor More
Toor More is a townland in the civil parish of Shanrahan, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Tuar Mór.
- Area
- 106.3 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 3,357 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor More, from 131 m² to 265,514 m² (26.55 ha, 65.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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
No zone of a development plan covers Toor More 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
31 Jul 2026Conditional
1) dormer extension to the rear of existing house, 2) entrance porch to the East side of existing house, 3) revised fenestration to existing single storey annex , 4) velux windows on the dormer roof of existing house and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660752
29 Apr 2026Conditional
a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, vehicular entrance, connection to public sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660376
2 Oct 2025N/a
a new dwelling house with attached carport and domestic garage, vehicular entrance, connection to public sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2560988
10 Jan 2020Conditional
the demolition of a silage pit and the construction of a cubicle house, a straw-bedded calving house, a roofed easi-feed area, a slatted tank and all associated site works. In addition the construction of a walled silage pit, silage aprons and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2011
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
7 Feb 2018Conditional
erection of a two storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, connection to public sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600135
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 More.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Toor More.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Toor More.
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 More, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Toor More.
- 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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Toor More · An Tuar Mór
- Area
- 1,063,142 m² (106.31 ha, 262.71 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
- Cullenagh, Cullenagh South, Hopkinsrea, Shanbally, Toor Beg
- Placenames
- Toor More 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.