# Templemichael, Co. Waterford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Templemichael, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford; in Irish Teampall Mhichíl.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 493,397 m² (49.34 ha, 121.92 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,411 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Templemichael, https://everytownland.com/waterford/parish/templemichael.md
- Barony: Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division: Templemichael, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 465 people lived in 164 households in the Templemichael electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Waterford, https://everytownland.com/waterford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/50688
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 221506
- Centre: latitude 51.988913, longitude -7.888666 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Templemichael, from 794 m² to 191,988 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 5294949: 191,988 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5294949.md
- Parcel 1552034: 164,019 m² (16.4 ha, 40.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1552034.md
- Parcel 4654187: 49,720 m² (4.97 ha, 12.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4654187.md
- Parcel 1587610: 34,106 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1587610.md
- Parcel 1586176: 20,411 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1586176.md
- Parcel 1543870: 20,290 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1543870.md
- Parcel 1575099: 4,522 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1575099.md
- Parcel 1543250: 1,951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1543250.md
- Parcel 1559161: 794 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1559161.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Templemichael in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 1 May 2024, Waterford City and County Council 2485: N/a. Permission. for installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2485/0
- 3 Apr 2024, Waterford City and County Council 2469: N/a. Permission. installation of a cattle underpass, a soiled water tank and associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2469/0
- 6 Oct 2021, Waterford City and County Council 21929: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a single-storey dwelling house, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21929/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170
- Special Protection Area: Blackwater Estuary SPA, site code 004028, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004028
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater River And Estuary, site code 000072

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- WA037-013001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-013001-. Located on a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluene of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. This is the parish church of Templemichael within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by masnory walls. The church was in ruins by the 18th century (Smith 1746, 44) and was replaced by a C of I church in the late 18th/early 19th century which is now ruinous. No evidence of an older structure is visible. St Michael’s Well, a natural spring which was venerated in the late 19th century (OS Name Books), is c. 110m to the SW. A tower house (WA037-014001-) is adjacent immediately to the E of the graveyard. (Power1898a, 209) Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. Smith, C. (1746) The history of the town and county of Waterford. W. Wilson. Dublin. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
- WA037-013002: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-013002-. Located on a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. The parish church of Templemichael (WA037-013001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by masnory walls. A tower house (WA037-014001-) is adjacent immediately to the E of the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
- WA037-013003: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-013003-. Located on the W side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River, and c. 110m SW of the site of Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-). This is a natural spring (diam. c. 1.5m) flowing off to the W, which was venerated in the late 19th century (OS Name Books; Power1898a, 209). Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
- WA037-013004: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-013004-. There is a stone-built building (int. dims. 12.85m E-W; 5.2m N-S) of one storey with an attic attached to the E of the tower house (WA037-014001-) just to the E of Templemichael church (WA037-013001-). This was the rectory of Templemichael (O'Connel Redmond 1918-19, 95) and it has a single dividing wall. This building also incorporated the ground floor of the tower house and re-built its doorway. At the ground floor the S stone wall (T 0.65m) has two doorways and a large window. There is a single doorway in the N wall and a window in the E wall. There are two internal doorways at the ground floor, and there is a doorway in the dividing wall at the attic level. It is probably 18th century in date. O’Connell-Redmond, G. (1918-19) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24-25, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 01 March 2012
- WA037-014001: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-014001-. Located on the E side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. This is a Fitzgerald tower house that was probably built in the 16th century, and two lords of Decies died there, Gerald Fitzgerald of Dromana (WA029-021001-) in 1553, and his grandson, Gerald of Dromana in 1598. Templemichael was owned by the widow of Garret Fitzgerald in 1640 (Simington 1942, 21). It was apparently attacked by Cromwell in 1649 (O’Connell Redmond 1918, 94-5). It is a rectangular tower (ext. dims. 12.05m E-W; 10.4m N-S) of five floors with E-W barrel vaults over the first and third floors. Only the E and S walls survive complete with a base-batter and cut-stone quoins. A rebuilt lintelled entrance towards the N end of the E wall leads to a N-S passage protected by a guardroom with an E-W barrel vault to the N, and what are probably two murder-holes. The ground floor chamber (int. dims. 5.7m E-W; 4.75m N-S) has one slit window in the S wall, and a destroyed chamber in the W wall. The entrance passage leads to a newel stairs at the SE angle and a secondary entrance in the S wall. The stairs rise to the first floor under an E-W vault, entered through a pointed doorway. This floor has mural chambers in the E and W walls, that in the E wall entered from the stairs through a lintelled doorway. The E chamber has a window with a seat in the E wall an a corner light, probably with blocked gun-loops at the NE angle, but its N-S barrel vault is largely destroyed. There is a cross-loop, a stirrup-loop and slop stone in the stairs to the second floor, which is inaccessible, but it has mural chambers in the E and S walls, the latter with three lights, one plain, one ogee-headed, and a corner light with two two gun-loops. This chamber is vaulted, but that in the E wall is not. The third floor under an E-W vault is entered through a pointed doorway from the stairs, and has mural chambers in the E and S walls, each chamber having a barrel vault. The chamber in the E wall is entered by a lintelled doorway from the stairs. The fourth floor has no ante-chambers, but each surviving wall has a two-light, ogee-headed window. The parapet does not suvive. A garderobe chute exits the W wall at the S end, but the fireplaces must have been in the N or W walls. There is a stone-built building (int. dims. 12.85m E-W; 5.2m N-S) of one storey with an attic attached to the E of the tower house. This was the rectory of Templemichael (O'Connel Redmond 1918-19, 95) and it has a single dividing wall. This building also incorporated the ground floor of the tower house and re-built its doorway. At the ground floor the S stone wall (T 0.65m) has two doorways and a large window. There is a single doorway in the N wall and a window in the E wall. There are two internal doorways at the ground floor, and there is a doorway in the dividing wall in the attic. It is probably 18th century in date. Just 4m NE of the tower house is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.1m; int. diam. 3.1m; H 3.7m over the bawn; ext. H 6.7m), entered through a rebuilt doorway at SW. Only one level survives with a wall recess and three embrasure, two with plain lights, the other blocked. Walls extending to the W and S may have formed the bawn wall, but they are not bonded to the tower. Daniel Grose illustrates the tower house and corner tower accurately from the 1830s (Stalley 1991, 51-3). Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-) is immediately adjacent to the W. O’Connell-Redmond, G. (1918-19) The castles of north-east Cork and near its borders. JCHAS 24-25, 1-6, 62-6, 93-103, 145-51. O’Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray. Simington, R. C. (ed.) (1942) The Civil Survey AD 1654-1656, vi, the County of Waterford. Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin. Stalley, R. (1991) Daniel Grosse (c. 1776-1838): the antiquities pf Ireland. The Irish Architectural Archive. Dublin. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011
- WA037-014002: Bawn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWA037-014002-. Located on the E side of a short promontory (dims. c. 260m E-W at S; c. 200m N-S) jutting N into the confluence of the W-E Glendine River with the N-S Blackwater River. Templemichael is a Fitzgerald tower house (WA037-014001-) that was probably built in the 16th century, but the only evidence of its bawn is a corner tower just 4m to the NE. This is a circular tower (ext. diam. 5.1m; int. diam. 3.1m; H 3.7m over the bawn; ext. H 6.7m), entered through a rebuilt doorway at SW. Only one level survives with a wall recess and three embrasure, two with plain lights, the other blocked. Walls extending to the W and S may have formed the bawn wall, but they are not bonded to the tower. Daniel Grose illustrates the tower house and corner tower accurately from the 1830s (Stalley 1991, 51). Templemichael church site (WA037-013001-) is immediately adjacent to the W. Stalley, R. (1991) Daniel Grosse (c. 1776-1838): the antiquities pf Ireland. The Irish Architectural Archive. Dublin. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 07 October 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Templemichael Church, 1820–1825, Regional interest, registry number 22903710, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WA&regno=22903710. Detached two-bay double-height single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1823, built on site of earlier church, c.1620, with single-bay single-storey vestry to north-east, and single-bay three-stage entrance tower to west on a square plan. Now in ruins. Pitched slate roofs now gone with no rainwater goods surviving on cut-stone eaves. Roof to tower not visible behind parapet. Unpainted roughcast walls over random rubble stone construction with cut-stone dressings including surrounds to gables forming ‘pediments’, cut-stone date stone/plaque, cut-stone courses to each stage to tower, roughcast advanced corner piers to top stage having slit-style apertures, and Irish battlemented parapet having cut-stone coping. Pointed-arch window openings to nave with cut-stone sills, red brick chamfered reveals (originally concealed), cut-stone mullions and tracery forming paired lancet arrangement, and fittings now missing. Pointed-arch window opening to east with cut-stone sill, red brick chamfered reveals (originally concealed), cut-stone mullions and tracery forming tripartite lancet arrangement, and fittings now missing. Square-headed window openings to second stage to tower with cut-stone sills, and timber casement windows having diamond-leaded glazing. Pointed-arch openings to top (bell) stage to tower with cut-stone sills, timber mullions and tracery forming bipartite lancet arrangement, and louvered panel fittings. Pointed-arch door opening to tower with chamfered reveals. Now blocked-up (exposed concrete block) retaining Gothic-style timber overpanel. Pointed-arch window opening to vestry with cut-stone sill, red brick dressings (originally concealed), and remains of timber fittings. Interior now in ruins. Set back from road in own grounds with part-overgrown grounds to site. (ii) Gateway, c.1825, to west comprising pair of rubble stone piers with cut-stone coping, wrought iron double gates having finials, and random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter of site.
- Templemichael Church, mausoleum, 1875–1880, Regional interest, registry number 22903717, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WA&regno=22903717. Freestanding single-bay single-storey gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1876, with single-bay single-storey side elevations. Pitched (gable-fronted) cut-stone roof (ivy-clad) with cut-stone coping having cross finial to apex. Broken coursed tooled squared rubble stone walls with inscribed cut-limestone blocks, and cut-stone coat-of-arms to gable to rear (east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone lintel, and steel door. Pointed-arch window opening to rear (east) elevation with cut-stone sill, and pierced cast-iron fitting. Set back from road in grounds shared with Templemichael Church.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Templemichael, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Templemichael.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/waterford/templemichael.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/waterford/templemichael.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/waterford/templemichael.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Templemichael with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford: https://everytownland.com/waterford.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballydasoon: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballydasoon.md
- Ballyknock: https://everytownland.com/waterford/ballyknock-220166.md
- Killea: https://everytownland.com/waterford/killea-220934.md
- Lackaroe: https://everytownland.com/waterford/lackaroe.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/waterford/newtown-221301.md
- Stael: https://everytownland.com/waterford/stael.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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