Wrensborough
Townland in the civil parish of Thurles, barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Ráithín Rua
- Area
- 32.4 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 5,722 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Wrensborough, from 47 m² to 68,426 m² (6.84 ha, 16.91 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise uses)
Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
Thurles and Environs Local Area Plan 2024-2030, Tipperary · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, effluent treatment system together with all associated site works together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561285
1 Aug 2023Conditional
renovations to dwelling house to include (a) alterations to elevations, (b) decommissioning existing septic tank and installing a new waster water treatment system, and polishing filter, (c) internal layout changes, (d) landscaping (e) changes to roof lights and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 23206
24 Jun 2022Conditional
a new dwelling house with garage, entrance to public road and Septic and percolation area treatment system with all associated siteworks at Wrensborough, Dublin Road, Thurles , Co. Tipperary.
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260311
3 Jun 2020Conditional
63 no. dwellings (consisting of 10 no. two bed bungalows, 11 no. two bed mid-terrace units, 14 no. 3 bed end-terrace units, 22 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 4 no. 4 bed semi-detached units and 2 no. 4 bed detached units along with all associated site and development works
Permission, 63 homes · Tipperary County Council, 20540
29 Jun 2018Refused
to retain as erected signage to the boundary wall and entrance gates to premises with all associated and ancillary site work
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600817
22 May 2018N/a
to retain as erected signage to the boundary wall and entrance gates to premises with all associated and ancillary site work
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18600637
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 Wrensborough.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Wrensborough.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Wrensborough.
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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Wrensborough.
- 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 Wrensborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Wrensborough · An Ráithín Rua
- Area
- 324,457 m² (32.45 ha, 80.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Thurles, and its townlands
- Barony
- Eliogarty
- Electoral division
- Thurles Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Thurles Rural electoral division: 2,365 people in 851 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drish, Knockcurra, Laghtagalla, Lognafulla, Mullauns, Rathcooney
- Placenames
- Wrensborough 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.