Turraheen Upper

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turraheen Upper, from 79 m² to 813,949 m² (81.39 ha, 201.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Turraheen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Turraheen Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Turraheen Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TS045-026 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On flat partially reclaimed grassland in upland area with good views to the E. The ring-barrow consists of a well-preserved low circular flat-topped platform(diam. 4m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.2m) enclosed by an inner fosse (base Wth 1.5m; top Wth 3m; ext. D 0.2m) and outer bank (base Wth 4m; top wth 2.5m; ext. H 0.4m). Overall diameter 12.9m NW-SE; 11.1m SW-NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS046-001 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope of Gortmore Hill overlooking Turaheen river valley in an upland region. Enclosure was inaccessible due to its location in a Coillte conifer plantation. The monument is visible as an enclosure on aerial photographs (GSI R 359/8, 16/04/74). An inspection in 1994 described this monument as an enclosure (diam. C.50m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 3-4m; H 0.5m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 3-4m) which is tangential with roadside level along the S quadrant and remains of the external bank are visible along the SE sector. The enclosure had been recently shallow ploughed and planted with conifers and a new forest access road constructed to the SE of monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turraheen 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Turraheen 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.

No address of the register names Turraheen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Turraheen Upper · Toirthín Uachtarach

Area

7,793,465 m² (779.35 ha, 1,925.81 acres)

Civil parish

Clogher, and its townlands

Barony

Kilnamanagh Lower

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clogher electoral division: 242 people in 86 households; 93% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughvallydeag, Dooree Commons, Glenough Lower, Glenough Upper, Gortahoola, Graniera, Reafadda, Tooreencullinagh, Turraheen Lower

Placenames

Turraheen 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.