Ballylegan

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylegan, from 805 m² to 527,492 m² (52.75 ha, 130.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ballylegan 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.

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new storage shed (circa 1350sqm and 13.6m high) and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560613

• 30 May 2025N/a

  new Storage Shed (circa 1350sqm and 13.6m high) and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560496

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  the material change of use for existing and new agricultural sheds to include the storage and drying of grain, timber, bark and other wood based materials

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20162

• 11 Feb 2020N/a

  the material change of use for existing and new agricultural sheds to include the storage and drying of grain, timber, bark and other wood based materials

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20114

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new agricultural shed (circa 846sqm and 13.6m high) for the storage of straw bales, containerised heat exchanger unit (circa 17sqm) and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601344

• 4 Apr 2018N/a

  construction of a commercial shed for the storage of straw bales (circa 1350sq m and 12.5m high) and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600404

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 Ballylegan.

Recorded monuments

• TS076-036 Church
  Description

  On rock outcrop in undulating terrain. Very steep drop immediately W and N of church walls as a result of large scale quarrying. The quarry is marked on 1st (1840) and 2nd (1901-05) ed. OS 6-inch map and according to landowner continued in use up to the 1920s-30s. The church is located immediately N of the graveyard (TS076-036001-). The 'Church of Ballynlegane' is mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1931, vol.1, 350). Only part of the W gable survives, upstanding (H c. 2.5m; T 1.2m) for a length of 3m. It is built of rubble and appears to be roughly coursed, obscured by heavy ivy growth. The outline of the remainder of the church is visible as a low wall, grass-covered for the most part. The N side has mostly collapsed into the quarry with only the foundation surviving. It consists of a nave (int. dims. 5.7m N-S; 11.5m E-S) and chancel (dims. 4.5m x 4.14m (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.2, 135). The S side is difficult to discern due to heavy overgrowth and dumping on top. According to the OS Letters the church originally measured 'thirty seven feet [11.3m] in length by seventeen feet [5.2m] in breadth, as ascertained by means of the parts of the walls now remaining and the foundations of the parts of the building demolished. The remains consist of a portion of the west gable, not retaining its original height; half the breadth of the gable at south sidewall is much battered; twenty two feet [6.7m] in length of the north sidewall attached to the gable, near which it is injured inside and does not retain the original height; the highest part of the wall, twenty two feet in length, is no more than eight feet [2.4m]; the thickness of the wall is two feet seven inches [0.8m] and only eleven feet [3.3m] in length of the south sidewall near where the east gable stood; this is the same height with the above wall, eight feet, and is three feet [0.9m] thick. There was an apartment attached to the east end which measured fifteen feet [4.5m] in length by thirteen feet seven inches [4.14m] in breadth. The foundation of the walls are still traceable; the materials were the same as used in the rest of the building. This was probably the choir [chancel] and the above apartment the nave of the Church. There is a lime stone quarry at north west corner of the ruin' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.2, 136). Machinery has been dumped on the S side of the chancel and the SW of the nave. Foundation of the S wall [L 1.7m; T 0.73m] of the chancel is visible under machinery. The area of the church is badly overgrown with long grass and brambles, with a lot of loose stone and small stone piles lying around the S wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS076-036001 Graveyard
  Description

  On rock outcrop in undulating terrain. Very steep drop immediately W and N of church walls as a result of large scale quarrying. Graveyard is indicated on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map by a dashed line around a roughly circular area immediately S of the church (TS076-036----). On the latest ed. the graveyard is more irregular in shape (dims. approx. 38m N-S; 26m E-W) and again is indicated by a dashed line. There is no evident boundary for the graveyard and its extent could not be established as the area is badly overgrown with long grass and brambles. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylegan.

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 Ballylegan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Ballylegan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Ballylegan · Baile an Liagáin

Area

1,050,707 m² (105.07 ha, 259.64 acres)

Civil parish

Caher, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Mortlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,689 people lived in 568 households in the Mortlestown electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingeary East, Ballyallavoe, Ballyhenebery, Knockagh, Knockmorris, Loughaun, Suttonrath

Placenames

Ballylegan 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.