Townlough Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Tuaim Locha Uachtarach
- Area
- 132.7 ha
- 328 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 4,100 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Townlough Upper, from 26 m² to 156,211 m² (15.62 ha, 38.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Townlough Upper 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
28 Jul 2022Conditional
renovations and alterations to existing house and septic tank and percolation area and provision of gravel parking area and other associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260397
25 Jul 2022N/a
renovations and alterations to existing house and septic tank and percolation area and provision of gravel parking area and other associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2260385
25 Jun 2021N/a
renovations and alterations to existing dwellinghouse, retention of gravel parking area to front and retention of small shed / pumphouse to rear of house and retention of new door (in place of window to rear gable) and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21933
11 Sept 2020Conditional
1) Renovate and extend existing house to include granny flat. 2) Construct a garden shed to the rear of the property. 3) Upgrade waste water treatment system. 4) Upgrade existing entrance.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201031
25 Apr 2019Conditional
to (1) retain 2 no. extensions to front and side of dwelling house as constructed, (2)retain garage as constructed, (3) retain garden shed as constructed, (4) retain patio and pond area with glazed screen as constructed and full planning permission to upgrade existing waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600419
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 Townlough Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Townlough Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Townlough Upper.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Townlough Upper.
- 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 Townlough Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Townlough Upper · Tuaim Locha Uachtarach
- Area
- 1,327,365 m² (132.74 ha, 328 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownarra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloneybrien, Coolbaun, Derry Demesne, Laghtea, Tountinna, Townlough Lower
- Placenames
- Townlough Upper 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.