Walshpark
Townland in the civil parish of Dorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Doire Leathan
- Area
- 328.1 ha
- 811 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 17,565 m² (1.76 ha, 4.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Walshpark, from 31 m² to 701,356 m² (70.14 ha, 173.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Walshpark 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
15 Oct 2024Conditional
take down remaining portion of existing stone wall and reconstruct wall and original entrance pier (which has collapsed) in new position, for the purpose of recreating original entrance appearance, extending the width of the entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24233
27 Oct 2021Conditional
new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel shed, installation of effluent treatment unit with percolation area, new site entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211574
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyduff/Clonfinane Bog SAC 000641
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyduff/Clonfinane Bog 000641
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Walshpark.
Architectural heritage
- Derrylahan Park, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with half-dormer attic, built 1865, on a rectangular plan. Pitched slate roof centred on gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic with trefoil-crested roll moulded ridge tiles, snecked limestone "wallhead" chimney stack (south) having cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, roll topped cut-limestone chamfered coping to gables on tooled cut-limestone "Cavetto" kneelers, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters. Snecked limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement timber boarded door. Lancet window opening (half-dormer attic) with cut-limestone chamfered sill, and tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement fixed-pane window. Square-headed window opening (west) with cut-limestone chamfered sill, and tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing replacement casement window. Set perpendicular to road at entrance to grounds of Derrylahan Park with bowtell- or bull nose-detailed limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having cut-limestone chamfered capping.
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 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 Walshpark.
- 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 Walshpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Walshpark · Doire Leathan
- Area
- 3,280,986 m² (328.1 ha, 810.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Graigue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Graigue electoral division: 303 people in 99 households; 83% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduff, Clonfinane, Clonraskin, Derrinlieragh, Lelagh, Lisballyard, Rath, Ross, Sharragh
- Placenames
- Walshpark 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.