Tintern

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tintern, from 24 m² to 235,571 m² (23.56 ha, 58.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Tintern 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the proposed alterations and extension to existing dwelling hous

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20251703

• 22 Sept 2025Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251197

• 8 May 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for proposed minor alterations/changes to the grant of planning

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20250526

• 22 May 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240575

• 8 Nov 2023Refused

  Permission for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231349

• 28 Jun 2023Refused

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house

  Outline permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20230738

• 31 May 2023Granted (conditional)

  Permission for development to consist of the installation of 2 number

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230612

• 4 May 2023N/a

  Permission for the proposed development to consist of the installation

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230475

• 5 Apr 2023N/a

  Permission for proposed development which will consist of

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230353

• 15 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission for the proposed development to consist of the installation

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20230254

• 3 May 2022Granted (conditional)

  Permission for a change of house plan design to that approved under Planning reg

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220575

• 3 Feb 2022Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20171228

• 2 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house & garage and remo

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211696

• 20 Oct 2021N/a

  Permission for the erection of a fully serviced dwelling house and garage

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211626

• 11 Jun 2020N/a

  Permission for a semi permanent structure and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200614

• 16 Mar 2020N/a

  Permission for a semi permanent structure and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200317

• 13 Sept 2019Refused

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191271

• 25 Aug 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171148

• 3 Jul 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170854

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bannow Bay SAC 000697
• Special Protection Area: Bannow Bay SPA 004033
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bannow Bay 000697
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tintern Abbey 000711

Recorded monuments

• WX045-027001 Religious house - Cistercian monks
  Description

  William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, was on his first voyage to Ireland as lord of Leinster in the autumn of 1200 when he was caught in a storm. He vowed to establish a new abbey if saved from shipwreck and on reaching safety in Bannow Bay, he immediately granted c. 9000 statute acres of land for the foundation of a Cistercian abbey dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The land was part of Hervey de Montmorency’s fief in the cantred of Shelburne but following Hervey’s death in 1205 it reverted to Marshal. The actual conferring of the charter by Marshall is dated to 1207-13. The monastic estate, equivalent to the parishes of Tintern and Owenduff, extended north from Bannow Bay and lay to the west of the Owenduff River and were divided in two by the Episcopal manor of Kinnagh (Colfer 2002, 185-8; 2004, 45-7). The abbey was colonised by monks from Tintern Major in Marshal’s manor of Chepstow in Monmouthshire. Tintern Abbey is variously known as Tintern Minor, Tintern Parva (Little Tintern) or Tintern de Voto (of the vow). Close contact was maintained between Tintern Minor and its mother house but relations with its confreres at nearby Dunbrody were tempestuous and often violent. Tintern was suppressed on 6th May 1536 along with Dunbrody and Bective in Co. Meath. In 1576 a fee-farm grant of the abbey and its lands was made to Anthony Colclough who had come to Ireland as a member of the Lord Deputy’s staff and whose descendants continued to reside at the abbey until 1959. Throughout the post-Dissolution period, different elements of the abbey church were converted or adapted to domestic use. In 1963, the abbey, its outbuildings and the bridge with crenellated parapet (WX045-02802-) were transferred into the ownership of the state for preservation as a national monument. The Office of Public Works commenced conservation works in the early 1980s and extensive archaeological excavations were undertaken in the mid-1980s and 1990s (Lynch 2010). The abbey is sited on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking a small but fast-flowing river (sometimes referred to as the Tintern River) where it enters Bannow Bay in a tidal estuary. The surviving buildings comprise the nave, crossing tower, chancel and south transept chapels of the abbey church. The layout of the cloister arcade wall, as revealed by excavation, is also presented. Burial took place throughout the church and cloister area during the Cistercian period with most burials dating to the fifteenth century, and three graveslabs are preserved. The medieval gatehouse has been incorporated within a nineteenth-century stable block that houses a visitor reception area. The site is open with a guide service on a seasonal basis (see www.heritageireland.ie) but it is possible to walk in the environs of the abbey all year round. The Cistercian church comprised an aisled nave, crossing tower, transepts with three chapels opening off each arm and a chancel that was rectangular in plan. The archaeological evidence has shown that in the mid-fifteenth century a major contraction of the church took place which involved the demolition of the north aisle and north transept and the abandonment of the south aisle (ibid. 15-6). The upstanding remains are constructed of rubble masonry incorporating granite, sandstone, quartzite and shale with locally sourced red sandstone and granite used for the chamfered piers and arches. Dundry stone imported from near Bristol was used for some of the mouldings on the west door. The nave (L c. 22.5m; Wth c. 8.5m) is plain and austere with unmoulded arches, rectangular piers chamfered at the corners and solid masonry occupying the equivalent of the western bay. The chamfer moulding on the quoins of the west façade and the remains of a wall scar at a high level on the south façade indicate that the aisle walls terminated before the west wall. Details of the west doorway were revealed when later Colclough modifications were removed in the 1960s. The pointed-arch opening has two attached filleted jamb-shafts, banded at mid-height with moulded bases and capitals (now much eroded), all consistent with a thirteenth-century date. Dundry stone was used for the bands, capitals and defaced labels and the remainder of the dressed stone is Old Red Sandstone. In the early nineteenth-century, the nave was converted by the Colcloughs into a three-storey domestic dwelling of Georgian Gothic style. The nave arcades were blocked up and pointed neo-Gothic windows inserted and a ‘Gothicized Venetian doorway in the Betty Langley manner’ (Bence-Jones 1978, 273), reached by a set of three steps was set in the blocking of the western arch on the south side. The Colclough house was removed from the nave in the years following state acquisition. The crossing tower is square in plan (8m x 8m) and with its crenellated parapets is a maximum 27m high. The tower is an integral part of the extant church and may belong to the earliest phase of building. The parapets with crenellations and blockhouses were probably added during the fifteenth-century modifications. Just below the parapet, there is a double ogee-headed window on the south and west elevations which provided light to the bell chamber. On the west face of the tower, just under the apex of the stone flashing for the nave roof, there is a double square-headed ope which may originally have been a doorway giving access to a floored attic or loft over the nave. A similar blocked-up rectangular ope is visible on the south face of the tower as well as a a single narrow ogee-headed window just to the east. A small square-headed window and two narrow slit windows on the south elevation and a small ogee-headed window and narrow slit window on the north face all provide light to the mural stairs. The east face of the tower is fairly featureless except for the stone roof flashing and a blocked-up square-headed ope. Massive stone corbels indicate a timber floor just above the arch with a possible second floor or timber structure at a higher level to support the abbey bells. Access to the tower chamber was originally provided by a very narrow (0.4m wide) spiral stairway rising from the south-east corner of the south transept chapels. In the mid-fifteenth century modifications, a stair turret was built against the north face of the tower and at fourth floor level, the spiral stairs leads into steep flights of stairs within the east, north and west walls. A porch, roofed with large stone lintels protects the entrance to the stair turret. A substantial buttress (1.8m x 2.2m) built against the north face of the tower also belongs to the fifteenth-century phase of reorganization. In 1569 / 1570 the crossing tower was converted into a six-storey fortified dwelling. The remaining open arches were blocked up, large stone corbels were used to support the wall plates and floor beams, limestone fireplaces were installed and a number of small square-headed windows were inserted at different levels. Oak panelling was installed in the early seventeenth century, sections of which have been restored and are on display within the tower. The tower continued in use as part of the Colclough residence until the mid-twentieth century. The chancel (L c. 13.25m; Wth 8m) displays a degree of architectural sophistication not evident in the nave or tower. It may have been extensively remodelled c. 1300 or perhaps it was not actually constructed until this later period (ibis. 24-7). Traces of the outline of the original east window can be seen but this was blocked up and a narrower window inserted at some later stage. No tracery from either window has survived. There were three slender lancet windows in the side walls and sufficient remained of the tracery to reconstruct a two-light window with cinquefoil heads with pointed trefoil above and a dagger-shaped motif in the centre. Three plain tomb recesses have been incorporated in the north wall. The outside walls are strengthened by a series of shallow buttresses d

• WX045-027002 House - 16th century
  Description

  In 1576 a fee-farm grant of the Cistercial abbey and its lands was made to Anthony Colclough who had come to Ireland as a member of the Lord Deputy’s staff and whose descendants continued to reside at the abbey until 1959. Throughout the post-Dissolution period, different elements of the abbey church were converted or adapted to domestic use. In 1569 / 1570 the crossing tower was converted into a six-storey fortified dwelling. The open arches were blocked up, large stone corbels were used to support the wall plates and floor beams, limestone fireplaces were installed and a number of small square-headed windows were inserted at different levels. Oak panelling was installed in the early seventeenth century, sections of which have been restored and are on display within the tower. Shortly after the conversion of the tower, the chancel was converted to a three storey dwelling. The lancet windows were blocked up and three-light windows with Tudor-style hood mouldings were inserted. Large granite fireplaces were inserted in the north and south walls and a large limestone fireplace with bread oven was inserted in the west wall at ground level. The only extant remains of the south transept of the original church comprise the lady chapel or eastern aisle which is rib-vaulted in three bays. Two further storeys were added to the lady chapel in the later sixteenth century when the adjacent chancel was converted to domestic quarters. The east face of this addition has four Tudor-style windows at a high level. The transept clerestorey windows on its west face were opened up and extended to provide three long windows. A round chimney stack services two small fireplaces in the west wall. In the early nineteenth-century, the nave was converted by the Colcloughs into a three-storey domestic dwelling of Georgian Gothic style. The nave arcades were blocked up and pointed neo-Gothic windows inserted and a ‘Gothicized Venetian doorway in the Betty Langley manner’ (Bence Jones 1978, 273), reached by a set of three steps was set in the blocking of the western arch on the south side. (Lynch 2010) Compiled by: Ann Lynch Date of upload: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027003 Gatehouse
  Description

  The only upstanding claustral building of the Cistercian abbey is the gateway and adjacent structures in the west range that have been incorporated into the late eighteenth / nineteenth century stable block. Both archways of the gateway are 2.3m wide and the internal dimensions of the passage linking the two, is c. 4.2m x 4.2m. The west façade of the gateway consists of a simple arch of red sandstone with chamfered voussoirs. The wall displays a slight batter and is surmounted by stepped crenellations added by the Colcloughs. The voussoirs of the east façade were replaced in post-Dissolution times but the red sandstone jambs of the arch are intact. The gateway was converted into a coach house by blocking the outermost arch and fitting doors to the inner (eastern) arch. (Lynch 2010, 30-1) Compiled by: Ann Lynch Date of upload: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027004 Graveslab
  Description

  Three sandstone graveslabs were recovered at Tintern abbey without archaeological contexts. This fragment (max. dims c. 0.66m x c. 0.95m) is the head of a trapezoidal slab with chamfered edges, and it is decorated with an incised Latin cross that has fleur-de-lys terminals. A hammer and pincers are depicted on either side of the shaft. (Manning 2010, 104) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of uplaod: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027005 Graveslab
  Description

  Three sandstone graveslabs were recovered at Tintern abbey without archaeological contexts. This fragment (L 0.75m; Wth 0.5m) is the base of a rectangular slab with one chamfered edge. Four steps at the base of a cross are incised on it. (Manning 2010, 105, No. 2) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027006 Graveslab
  Description

  Three sandstone graveslabs were recovered at Tintern abbey without archaeological contexts. This fragment (L 0.77m; Wth 0.43m) is the base of a slab with chamfered edges that are all badly damaged. Three steps at the base of a cross are incised on it. (Manning 2010, 105, No. 3) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027007 Bridge
  Description

  Situated in woodland just 20m SW of the cloister gateway (WX045-027003-) of the Cistercian abbey. A single pointed arch (Wth 2.4m) of a bridge (Wth 5m) with wicker centring spans what was probably a drain leading from the abbey to the Tintern stream. The carriageway would have led to the gatehouse of the abbey. (Lynch 2010, 101) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013

• WX045-027008 Field system
  Description

  A recent photogrammetric survey of the Tintern area conducted by Simon Dowling identified an area of field banks in the valley N of the abbey covering an area of c. 4 ha (c. 9 acres). About four rectangular fields (dims c. 40-45m x c. 90m) can be identified. These are probably related to the Cistercians rather than the Colcloughs. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April, 2015

• WX045-028001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1839 and 1925 eds of the OS 6-inch map and described as Lady Well in gothic lettering on both. It is located at the bottom of a W-facing slope, c. 15m from the E bank of the tidal estuary of the NNW-SSE Tintern stream and c. 25m S of the old road between Clonmines and Fethard. This is a rectangular well (dims 0.6m NW-SE; c. 0.6m NE-SW; D 0.54m) within a masonry canopy (dims 2.18m NW-SE; 1.25m NE-SW) with an apex (H 1.17m) over the opening (H 0.8m) at SW where there is paved apron (dims 2.1m NE-SW; 1.2m NW-SE). There is no record of veneration and there are no offering, but a St. Bridget’s Cross is inscribed in cement over the opening. The church (WX045-029001-) is c. 90m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029001 Church
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope and on the S side of the old road from Clonmines to Fethard. This is a Capella-ante-portas (lay chapel) of Tintern Abbey within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 36m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE ) defined by masonry walls. It was probably rebuilt in the later 16th century by Sir Anthony Colclough with stones from the Abbey, which is c. 300m to the NW. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 the church of Limregh or Tintern was newly built by Thomas Colclough, and Richard Allen was the priest (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 269).Robert Leigh writing in 1684 described it as the parish church of Tintern (ibid. vol. 2, 147), and it would have remained in use until the present Church of Ireland church, which is c. 800m to the SSE, was built in 1818 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 627). The church survives almost complete with good quoins. It is an undivided structure (ext. dims 14.05m E-W; 7.7m N-S; int. dims 12.3m E-W; 6.1m N-S), with a double bellcote added separately as an extension (dims 2.68m N-S; 1.18m E-W; H c. 6m) to the N side of the W gable. The only entrance is a round headed doorway (Wth 0.99m; H 1.99m) in dressed sandstone with a hood moulding towards the W end of the N wall. The triple lancet E window (Wth 1.59m; H 2m) of Old Red Sandstone, sandstone and shale, is now blocked. The two-light W window (Wth 1.59m) is pointed and partly blocked, while a window towards the E end of the S wall is destroyed. All the windows could be re-built with stones from the abbey, as might a blocked doorway (WX045-029008-) built into a wall on the S side of the road c. 30m W of the graveyard. A double set of joist holes in the N and S walls at the W end of the church may have supported a gallery that was replaced once. The late 16th century memorial of Sir Anthony Colclough (FitzGerald 1904-06) is attached to the inside of the S wall and there are four late 17th century memorial slabs within the church (Cantwell 1974-84, vol. 8, No. 383). There is a vault, now blocked, entered from a doorway on the outside of the W gable. Lady's Well (WX045-028001-) is c. 90m to the W. This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 614 The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. See the attached views: _25 N doorway; _72 from NW Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 24 July 2013 Amended: 2 Sep. 2013

• WX045-029002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope and on the and on the S side of the old road from Clonmines to Fethard. The church of Tintern (WX045-029001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 36m ENE-WSW; c. 30m NNW-SSE) defined by masonry walls. A blocked doorway (WX045-029008-) built into a wall on the S side of the road c. 30m W of the graveyard serves no purpose. Lady's Well (WX045-028001-) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029003 Wall monument
  Description

  A wall monument of Kilkenny limestone is built onto the inner face of the S wall of Tintern church (WX045-02900-1). It consists of a limestone disc (diam. c. 0.65m) high on the wall that once held an attached crest (C. D. 1895-7), while below it is a limestone plaque (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.6m). The incised inscription has a Latin introduction and commemorates Anthony Colclough from Wolstanton, Staffordshire, who acquired the Tintern estate in the 1560s and died in 1584. He had seven sons, and the marriages of four of his five daughters are recorded on the stone. The inscription has been transcribed from the Latin and English by Hore (1858-9, 457; FitzGerald 1904-06m 168-9) as: IN OBITVM EGREGII VIRI ANTHONII COLCLOVGH MILITIS / PRISTINA SVBLIME PROAVORVM STEMATE DVTA / ET SEREES MAGNIS ORTA AB IMAGINTIBUS / ATQVE SVPERBA MANVS VARRIIS ORNATA TROPHEIS / HAEC SORTIS FRAGILI SOLA PARANTVR OPE / AST SINCERVS AMOR PATRIAE VOX CONSONA VVLGI / ET VERVS VERO CANDOR HONORE NITENS / NESCIA VEL DVRIS FLECTI CONSTANTIA REBVS / NON ALIENA SED HAEC NOSTRA VOCARE LICET / VTRVM PLVRA DARET SORS ET NATVRA VICISSIM / CERTARVNT VNO HAEC CVNCTA VIATOR HABES Here lieth the body of Sir Anthony Colclovghe knight eldest svne of / Richard Colclovghe of Wolstanton in Stafordshire Esqvire who came / First into this land the 34 yeer of Henry the 8 and then was Captayn / Of the Penshioners in which place and others of greater charg he continvd / A most faythfvl serviter dvring the life of Edward the VI and Qveen Mary / and vntil the XXVI yer of ovr most noble qven Elizabeth and then died the IX of December / 1594 He left by his wife Cleare Agare dowgther of Thomas Agare Esqvire 7 sonns / Frances, Ratclife, Anthony, Syr Thonas Colclovgh knight, John, Mathew, Lenard, and 5 / Doghters, Ianet who married to Nichlas Walshe, Esqvre of the Privie Covsayle and / on of the ivstise of the Kings Bench in Ireland. Fravnc married to William Smethiwike / of Smethwick in Cheshire. Mari married to Ihon Cots of Wodcote in Shropshier / Esqvire. Clare married to William Snead of Brodwal in Staferd. Shier /Esqvier. Elinor died ivnge. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 30 May, 2017

• WX045-029004 Graveslab
  Description

  Inside the church of Tintern (WX045-029001-) at the SW angle is a worn memorial commemorating Mary Ivory with the date 1697. It has been recorded by B. Cantwell (1984, vol. 8, No. 383, A, No. 8) as: Here lieth the body of Mary Ivory only dauther of William Ivory of New Ross esq and wife/ to Caesar Colclough of Rosegar/land Esq son of Anthony & grandson of Sir Thomas Colclough/ shee (sic) had issue one son Anthony/ six daughters Anne, Antonia,/ Margaret, Maery, Frances & Elenor./ Maria died before the mother. Antonia, Margaret & Mary / Shee dyed at Rosegarland Agus ye 2/1697/ in the 38th year of her age. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029005 Graveslab
  Description

  Inside the church of Tintern (WX045-029001-) at the E end are three worn memorials on the ground. That at the NE angle has the date 1683 but is otherwise illegible. It has been recorded by B. Cantwell (1974-84, vol. 8, No. 383, A, No. 3) as: Here lyeth/ ye body of Capt John Colclough/ …. Deceas/ed ye 26th February/ 1683 aged 64 years. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029006 Graveslab
  Description

  Inside the church of Tintern (WX045-029001-) at the E end are three worn memorials on the ground. That at the centre is illegible but is thought to be late 17th century in date. It has been recorded by B. Cantwell (1974-84, vol. 8, No. 383, A, No. 4) as: Here lyeth the body of/ Francis Clerk Daugh/ter to Sir Francis Clerak/ of….Oxford/ ----&.. os Cesar/ Colclough of….. (Nine further lines) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029007 Graveslab
  Description

  Inside the church of Tintern (WX045-029001-) at the E end are three worn memorials on the ground. That at the SE angle has the date 1684 but is otherwise illegible. It has been recorded by B. Cantwell (1984, vol. 8, No. 383, A, No. 5) as: Here lyeth the/ Body of Sr. Caesar/ Colclough Barront/ grandson to Sir Thomas Colclough and son to Sr/ Adam Colclough Bant/ he dyed ye 22d of June/ 1684 in the 61 year of/ his age leaving issue/ Sir Caesar Colclough/ Bart since deceased &/ Margaret his onely/ daughter & heiress now/ Maryd to Robt. Leigh/ Colclough of Rose/garland in the County of Wexford. esq. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-029008 Architectural feature
  Description

  Located on a W-facing slope and built into a wall on the S side of the old Clonmines to Fethard road. The stonework of a pointed doorway (Wth 0.98m; H 1.28m) of sandstone and Old Red Sandstone with a chamfered edge was always probably blocked and serves no purpose. Originally the stones may have come from the Cistercian abbey (WX045-027001-) c. 300m to the NW and may have been left over from building or making alterations to the church (WX045-029001-) c. 50m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

• WX045-091 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Located on a SW-facing slope overlooking the valley of the NW-SE Tintern stream, with Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) c. 400m to the SW. The cropmark of a roadway (Wth c. 10m) defined by two ditch features emerges from the E side of the trees bordering the present N-S avenue into Tintern. The cropmark road runs E (L c. 50m) and turns SSE to rise up the slope at a gentle angle (total L c. 250m). This is undoubtedly associated with the Colclough use of the abbey and represents an earlier route for the avenue as marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, which it emerges at Poundtown cross-roads c. 850m NNE of the abbey. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 July, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Tintern Abbey, stables, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable complex, extant 1840, including (north): Attached three-bay single-storey stable outbuilding with half-attic on an L-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (east). Restored, 1994, to accommodate alternative use. Hipped slate roof on an L-shaped plan with clay ridge tiles extending into rolled lead ridges, and cast-iron rainwater goods on red brick header bond eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls with hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite threshold, and red brick block-and-start surround framing replacement glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Roundels (half-attic) with slate sills, and red brick voussoir surrounds framing replacement fixed-pane fittings having "spoke wheel" glazing bars. Interior including (ground floor): elliptical arcaded screen on chamfered timber posts on cut-granite padstones. Set in grounds shared with Tintern Abbey.

• Tintern Abbey, building misc, 1700–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay two-storey turret, extant 1840, on a circular plan. Set in grounds shared with Tintern Abbey.

• Tintern Abbey, gates/railings/walls, 1842–1902 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, extant 1902, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of lichen-spotted granite ashlar piers having "Cavetto"-detailed shallow pyramidal capping. Road fronted at entrance to grounds of Tintern Abbey.

• Kiln, 1700–1794 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-oven single-stage lime kiln, extant 1794, on a square plan. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone battered walls with Irish battlemented parapets having lichen-spotted coping. Single round- or segmental-headed oven with cut-limestone voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystone. Set on unkempt grass bank.

• Graveyard/cemetery, 1754–1859 · Regional interest
  Description

  Graveyard with collection of lichen-spotted markers, ob. 1754-1859. Set in landscaped grounds with roughcast piers to perimeter having rendered pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.

• Saint Mary's Church (Tintern), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1818, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Closed, 1992. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers downpipes. Rendered battered walls; rendered surface finish to tower with cut-granite stringcourses including cut-granite stringcourse (bell stage) on cut-granite beaded consoles supporting pyramid-topped cut-granite piers centred on rendered crow stepped battlemented parapets having lichen-covered rendered coping. Pointed-arch window openings with cut-granite sills, timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surrounds having rebated reveals with "Cavetto" hood mouldings over framing six-over-four timber sash windows without horns. Pointed-arch window opening to chancel (east) with cut-granite sill, interlocking timber Y-mullions, and cut-granite surround having rebated reveals with "Cavetto" hood moulding over framing fixed-pane timber fittings. Lancet window opening to tower (first stage) with cut-granite sill, and cut-granite surround having rebated reveals with "Cavetto" hood moulding over framing concrete block infill. Square-headed openings (second stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Lancet openings (bell stage) with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered timber fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); pointed-arch door opening into nave with timber panelled door having overlight; full-height interior with tessellated terracotta tiled central aisle, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1842; 1892) with pair of polished brass plates (ob. 1875; 1941), trefoil-perforated timber panelled pulpit on an octagonal plan with trefoil-perforated timber clerk's desk, timber boarded stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting timber communion railing centred on altar below "East Window", and moulded plasterwork cornice to vaulted ceiling centred on moulded plasterwork ceiling rose. Set in unkempt grounds on a slightly elevated site with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having overgrown capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tintern.

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.

• Tintern, Saltmills8 sales

Name

Tintern · Tinteirn

Area

2,685,200 m² (268.52 ha, 663.53 acres)

Civil parish

Tintern, and its townlands

Barony

Shelburne

Electoral division

Tintern, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tintern electoral division: 1,744 people in 636 households; 80% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvaroge, Castleworkhouse, Curraghmore, Garrycullen, Saintkierans, Saltmills

Placenames

Tintern 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.