Tircullen Upper
Tircullen Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilwatermoy, barony of Coshmore and Coshbride, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Tír Chuilinn Uachtarach.
- Area
- 32.6 ha
- 81 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 5,567 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tircullen Upper, from 1,874 m² to 222,572 m² (22.26 ha, 55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tircullen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 May 2026Conditional
(1) a revised house entrance and driveway along with associated site works and (2) a change of site boundaries at Tircullen, Tallow, Co. Waterford. This is a change from the previously granted planning permission P.D. 20/102.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660369
21 Feb 2020Conditional
the construction of a house, 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, 20102
15 Jan 2020N/a
the construction of a house, a waste water treatment system, a bored well and an entrance along with all associated site works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2013
22 Jun 2018Conditional
EXTENSION OF DURATION PD12/385 for bungalow, garage, entrance, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Waterford City and County Council, 18428
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 Tircullen Upper.
Recorded monuments
- WA028-016 Earthwork
Description
Marked as a small circular feature (diam. c. 20m) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in pasture on a N-facing slope, it is not visible at ground level. 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: 26 July 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tircullen 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Tircullen Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1561 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Tircullen Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Tircullen Upper · Tír Chuilinn Uachtarach
- Area
- 326,417 m² (32.64 ha, 80.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilwatermoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshmore and Coshbride
- Electoral division
- Kilwatermoy West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 241 people lived in 78 households in the Kilwatermoy West electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinaha, Ballyhamlet, Ballyhander, Hunthill, Paddock, Tircullen Lower
- Placenames
- Tircullen 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.