Sporthouse

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sporthouse, from 954 m² to 222,001 m² (22.2 ha, 54.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Sporthouse 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.

• 29 Aug 2025Refused

  the construction of a second dwelling in the rear field , to be connected to the existing septic tank and well, using the existing site access and driveway

  Outline permission · Waterford City and County Council, 25121

• 15 Dec 2023Conditional

  to extend existing garage structure as an office and for change of use of part of existing garage to office use & associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 23339

• 13 Jun 2023Conditional

  to develop a scout campsite including car parking, entrance, access roadway, associated site works, a storage shed, a toilet and shower block, and a septic tank and percolation area at our lands in accordance with the drawings submitted

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2360244

• 28 Apr 2023N/a

  to develop a scout campsite including storage sheds, a toilet and shower block, and a septic tank and percolation area at our lands at Sporthouse, Co. Waterford in accordance with the drawings submitted.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2360164

• 11 Apr 2023N/a

  Planning Permission to develop a scout campsite including storage sheds, a toilet and shower block, and a septic tank and percolation area at our lands at Sporthouse, Co. Waterford in accordance with the drawings submitted.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2360136

• 13 Aug 2021Conditional

  SECTION 254 Licence Application - The erection of overground electronic communications infrastructure and any associated physical infrastructure along public roads including:- 1. The erection of new overground fibre optic cables on existing timber poles 2. The erection of new poles and associated fibre optic cables (2021WD0377)

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 21820

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  construction of a new single storey house, a garage, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 18872

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 Sporthouse.

Recorded monuments

• WA017-029 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low plateau. Dished, grass-covered subcircular area (dims. 22m E-W; 19m N-S) with slight remains of a bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3m) at SW. Earthwork (WA017-030----) is c. 60m to the NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 05 January 2011

• WA017-031 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a SE-facing slope. A dished, grass-covered circular area (diam. 25m; D 0.5-1m) is visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 29 July 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_2214 (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.

No address of the register names Sporthouse with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Sporthouse · Tigh an Spóirt

Area

1,367,583 m² (136.76 ha, 337.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbride, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Pembrokestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Pembrokestown electoral division: 523 people in 184 households; 95% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh North, Cullencastle, Kilronan, Knockeen, Munmahoge, Munmahoge, Slieveroe

Placenames

Sporthouse 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.