Ballyhee

Area

46,275 m² (4.63 ha, 11.43 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

Zoning

O2 Water Bodies (Ennis and Environs) The objective
P1 Agriculture (Ennis and Environs) The objective

Townland

Ballyhee

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Ballyallia Lake SAC 000014
• Special Protection Area: Ballyallia Lough SPA 004041
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyallia Lake 000014

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• CL025-212 Souterrain
  Description

  A souterrain was found when cutting a new channel for the River Fergus and building a new bridge, work which commenced in 1848 and continued for several years (O’Connell 1979, 25-6). The souterrain was named ‘Cave’ on the 1920 OS 6-inch map and is indicated on that map just S of the bridge on the W side of the channel. O’Connell (ibid., 26) shows a plan of the area (based on an unidentified OS map) and notes the cave just S of the bridge. The souterrain was described by Westropp (1917, 3) as having been found ‘in the river-cutting opposite to the ancient church of Templemaley’. He goes on to describe it as ‘25 feet long with large unscribed limestone slabs for its roof, and the sides of comparatively small stones. It has a side passage 10 feet long’. On completion, the upper portion (c. 8m) of the river cutting N of the bridge was faced with limestone blocks retaining the topsoil and subsoil while the lower portion was cut through bedrock. The river also cut through bedrock S of the bridge. On inspection in 1999 banks (H 2m) were noted on either side of the river S of the bridge but no evidence of the souterrain was visible. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 February 2019

• CL025-213001 Church
  Description

  In a low-lying area at the junction of a low ridge to the N and the low-lying ground around Ballyallia Lake c. 1km to the S. A new cut for the river Fergus is c. 200m E and N of the church. Templemaley parish church (once known as ‘Maley’ or ‘O’Maley’s’ church (Swinfen 1992, 135)) oriented E-W (int. dims. 15.75m E-W; 5.72m N-S) built of roughly coursed inner and outer faced walls (T 0.75m) with a rubble core. Almost all the walls survive and the S wall is 3.4m high (some rebuilding of the walls has taken place due to collapse and there is some ivy cover). Sloping buttresses support the E gable at N and S (Large 2010, 243-4). Some good quoins remain at the NW and SW angles. The church is entered through a pointed door (Wth 0.91m; H 1.79m) towards the W end of the S wall. The arch of the doorway is chamfered and there is a hanging eye inside on the W side. The inner embrasure (Wth 1.05m; H 1.9m) is rectangular. E of the door is a pointed window embrasure (Wth 0.95m), the head of which is composed of two stones. The ope itself is rectangular and roughly constructed. At the E end of the S wall there is a round-headed ope with a round-headed embrasure (Wth 1.3m). The E side of the window surround is missing. The N and W walls are featureless. The E gable has a pointed lancet window with external rebate within a pointed embrasure (Wth 1.25m) with dressed ingoings. There is a plain aumbry (Wth 0.54m; H 0.42m; D 0.4m) at the S end of the E wall. Westropp (1900-02, 146) cites a date of about 1080AD for this church based on the window styles although he notes the angular two-stone embrasure head might be even earlier. The adjacent river cutting separates the graveyard from a souterrain (CL025-212----) on the other side of the bridge to the NW which may be related in date. The following images have been uploaded: CL025-213001-_01.jpg View of church from SE. CL025-213001-_02.jpg View of church from NW. CL025-213001-_03.jpg E gable interior. CL025-213001-_04.jpg West doorway. CL025-213001-_05.jpg Window at E end of S wall. CL025-213001-_06.jpg Window in centre of S wall. CL025-213001-_07.jpg Drone view of church (photo: Ros Ó Maoldúin) Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 July 2019

• CL025-213002 Graveyard
  Description

  A well-maintained graveyard, roughly triangular in shape (110m E-W on the straight S side; curved elsewhere c. 100m NE-SW with the apex at N) surrounding Templemaley church (CL025-213001-), defined by a double-faced masonry wall on all sides except S where there is an iron railing. The graveyard has several 18th/19th century chest tombs, some uninscribed headstones and two crudely carved, possibly early crosses. It is still used for burial. The entrance may incorporate a coffin-resting stone. Archaeological testing (09E0553) by Graham Hull in advance of a graveyard extension failed to produce any related material (Excavations 2009, 24, No. 86). The following images have been uploaded: CL025-213002-_01.jpg General view across graveyard from NE. CL025-213002-_02.jpg General view across graveyard from NW. CL025-213002-_03.jpg Chest tombs. CL025-213002-_04.jpg Possible early cross. CL025-213002-_05.jpg Possible early cross. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 3 July 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_500 (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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.