Ballyteige Upper

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyteige Upper, from 17 m² to 243,383 m² (24.34 ha, 60.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyteige 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.

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  erection of a 24 metre high telecommunications lattice tower with antennas, dishes and associated equipment attached, and with equipment cabinets at ground level, all enclosed by security fencing and accessed using an existing farm track which will be modified and widened at its entrance with the public road, L-1539

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560435

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) detached domestic garage, (2) blockwork boundary walls & splayed entrance walls

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 211618

• 20 Nov 2019N/a

  (1) detached domestic garage, (2) blockwork boundary & splayed entrance walls

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191137

• 15 Nov 2017Conditional

  construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171054

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  retention planning permission for a change of use of the coach house to a dwelling house and retention planning permission for a change of use from horse stables to a dwelling house and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17508

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 Ballyteige Upper.

Recorded monuments

• LI038-135 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture overlooking valley to N, adjacent to 038-136--- which lies to the S. Roughly rectangular area (c. 35m N-S; 57.7m E-W) enclosed by eroded earthen bank, best preserved on E side (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.3m); gap on E side (Wth 6.4m) apparently recent. Enclosure appears co-joined with 038-136--- on 1st ED OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-136 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture overlooking valley to N, adjacent to 038-135--- which lies to the N. Rectangular area (40m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.6m) with external fosse (D 1.6m). Both enclosing element and interior heavily overgrown. Known locally as "the Moat". Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-137 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, on terrace in N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected except for curve in earthen field boundary (H 1.6m) SSW->NNW which may incorporate part of enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-138 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying, marshy pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been largely levelled. However, it is still evident as circular area (diam. 34.2m N-S) enclosed by fragmentary remains of earthen bank (max. H 0.6m). Interior slightly below level of surrounding terrain except at centre where there is irregularly shaped earthen mound (12.4m N-S; 14.6m E-W; H 0.8m). Small pond abuts enclosure on E side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI038-139 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pasture. Circular area (29m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.1m). Interior under pasture and slopes gently up towards centre. Recent-cut drain abuts enclosure on E side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballyteigue House, country house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1850, having later porch to front (south), two-bay two-storey return to rear (north) and three-bay single-storey lean-to extension to side (east). Now in use as guest house. Hipped slate roofs to house and return having rendered chimneystacks. Overhanging eaves with timber brackets to main block, having replacement galvanised-steel and uPVC rainwater goods. Artificial slate-lean to roof to lean-to extension block with rendered rubble stone eaves course. Rendered walls throughout with recessed bays to front and side (east and west) elevations of porch. Recent wrought and cast-iron stairs to rear elevation of return. Diminishing square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and uPVC casement windows throughout. Render sills to porch and lean-to extension window openings. Round-headed window openings with render sills to front and side (west) elevations of porch having uPVC casement window surmounted by spoked fanlights. Round-headed door opening to side (east) elevation of porch having tooled limestone step and timber panelled door surmounted by spoked fanlight. Square-headed door openings with render and tile steps to side (east) elevation of lean-to having timber battened door and glazed uPVC door. Timber panelled door to ground floor and glazed uPVC door to first floor of rear elevation of return. Enclosed paved cobbled farmyard to rear of house, comprising nine-bay two-storey former stable block with central porte-cochere forming northern range having five-bay two-storey return forming eastern range and four-bay two-storey return forming western range. Now partially converted into accommodation. Four-bay single-storey and three-bay single-storey lean-to carriage houses to rear elevation of northern range. Pitched slate roof to northern range, hipped slate roofs to returns and lean-to slate roof to carriage houses. Rubble stone and rendered chimneystacks, uPVC, cast-iron and galvanised-steel rainwater goods throughout. Rubble stone walls with tooled limestone quoins. Integral camber-headed porte-cochere having tooled stone voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Integral camber and elliptical headed carriage arches to rear elevations having tooled stone voussoirs. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone and render sills, timber louver and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings having timber battened and glazed uPVC doors. Cast-iron water pump having banded shaft, fluted neck and cap, spout with bucket notch and cow-tail handle. Rubble stone enclosing walls with integral camber-headed arch and square-headed door opening to yard having rubbed red brick voussoirs, double and single-leaf wrought-iron gates. Break-front arch way to rear enclosing wall with tooled stone voussoirs and recent single-leaf wrought-iron gate. Decorative cast-iron piers and single-leaf wrought-iron gate to south-west of house. Splayed entrance to south-west comprising of rendered enclosing walls with render coping and square-profile piers having render capping and double-leaf wrought-iron 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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyteige Upper, about 1 in 20 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 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 Ballyteige Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyteige Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyteige Upper · Baile Uí Thaidhg Uachtarach

Area

1,637,909 m² (163.79 ha, 404.74 acres)

Civil parish

Bruree, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Rockhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinoran, Ballinwillin, Ballyclogh Upper, Ballyfookeen, Ballyteige Lower

Placenames

Ballyteige 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.