Tullamore
Townland in the civil parish of Monsea, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Tulach Mhór
- Area
- 142.3 ha
- 352 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,565 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullamore, from 62 m² to 124,392 m² (12.44 ha, 30.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Tullamore 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
13 Feb 2026Conditional
the renovation of an existing dwelling including the removal of existing chimneys and dormer roof and for the construction of a new dwelling extension to the rear & sides, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, widening of existing entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660117
29 Aug 2024Conditional
modifications to house design granted planning permission under Pl Ref: 2260182
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460717
22 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system & entrance along with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260182
25 Aug 2017Conditional
agricultural development as constructed
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17600935
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 Tullamore.
Recorded monuments
- TN020-098 Enclosure
Description
Situated on flat pasture in undulating countryside. Described (OPW file, 1968) as being of no archaeological significance and probably destroyed by a subsequent land improvement scheme in the late 1960s. Not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- Tullamore Park, country house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having lower one-bay two-storey wings, that to southwest being L-plan, that to northeast having flat-roof tower-like link with square-headed loop lights and multiple-bay block along rear wall of main house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, having moulded cornice to main block, hipped roof to wings and pitched to rear block. Rendered walls with dressed limestone quoins. Timber sliding sash six-over-six pane windows to main block with tooled limestone sills and having moulded surrounds to southeast garden and gable elevations and some three-over-three pane windows to rear of main and wing blocks. Elliptical-headed entrance doorway in southwest block with moulded render surround, timber battened door and spoked fanlight. Doorway with block-and-start surround to south gable of northeast wing. Two connecting yards to rear of house with single and two-storey outbuildings having pitched, hipped and lean-to slate roofs and square and segmental-headed openings. One building is five-bay two-storey stable block with round-headed first floor niches, and elliptical-arch doorways, another is eleven-bay two-storey stable block with segmental-arch carriage entrance and square-headed openings with dressed limestone lintels. Elliptical-arch carriage entrances to yard boundaries. Garden gate with cast-iron gates and piers with finials. Quadrant entrance gates with pair of chestnut trees, rendered walls with limestone dressings and ornate cast-iron vehicular and pedestrian gates, railings and piers. Roofless three-bay single-storey gate lodge with carved timber brackets, coursed rubble walls and brick voussoirs to openings.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1322 (ZIP).
- 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 Tullamore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Tullamore · An Tulach Mhór
- Area
- 1,422,578 m² (142.26 ha, 351.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monsea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Electoral division
- Youghalarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Youghalarra electoral division: 1,001 people in 346 households; 89% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belleen Lower, Belleen Upper, Clareen, Fatthen, Gorteennakilla, Grallagh, Loughaun, Monsea
- Placenames
- Tullamore 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.