Traverston
Townland in the civil parish of Dolla, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Tréibhisigh
- Area
- 118.9 ha
- 294 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 7,039 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Traverston, from 599 m² to 136,401 m² (13.64 ha, 33.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Traverston 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
12 Dec 2025Conditional
1) construction of a two-storey rear extension to existing gate lodge, 2) restoration and repair of existing mid 1800’s gate lodge, 3) installation of gravity feed to chamber and then pump to percolation area foul water drainage system and 4) all ancillary works - the existing gate lodge is in the curtilage of a protected Structure Ref S387, Traverstown House (House in ruins, walls of stone house still remaining)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561290
8 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system & percolation area and all ancillary site work
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560883
17 Nov 2023Conditional
existing domestic garage, as constructed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23291
1 Sept 2022Conditional
the demolition of existing substandard dwelling and outbuilding and to construct a replacement dwellinghouse, new garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260455
24 Jan 2020Conditional
1. entrance as constructed 2. position of septic tank as constructed and PERMISSION to install a new percolation area
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2056
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 Traverston.
Recorded monuments
- TN027-171 Moated site
Description
Situated in grassland in upland area with old woodland to N as depicted on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map. Traverston House located 320m to NNE. Outline of possible moated site (approx. ext. dims. 43m NNW-SSE x 52m NE-SW) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Depicted as a trapezoidal shaped field on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map and not as an antiquity. Present remains consist of a roughly square-shaped area enclosed by a low wide earthen bank with traces of an external fosse. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Faith Bailey. Date of upload: 2 August 2018
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Traverston.
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 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 Traverston.
- 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 Traverston with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Traverston · Baile an Tréibhisigh
- Area
- 1,188,526 m² (118.85 ha, 293.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dolla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballynaclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynaclogh electoral division: 745 people in 272 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Addane, Clonmore, Curraghleigh, Grallagh, Pollanorman
- Placenames
- Traverston 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.