Ballindoney West

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindoney West, from 53 m² to 406,794 m² (40.68 ha, 100.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballindoney West 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.

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  fill the depression in the ground and reinstate ground to new levels including temporary access and all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460972

• 21 Jun 2022Conditional

  (i) extensions to an existing dwelling, (ii) a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22423

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 Ballindoney West.

Recorded monuments

• TS082-059 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In gently S sloping terrain. The tower house is incorporated in an old farmyard, but most of the old farm buildings are gone or in a ruined state. The old farm house is situated immediately NE of the tower house, running E-W. The County juror for Ballindoney in 1551 and 1561 is Maurice English (COD V, 61, 121). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) the 'walls of the castle'of 'Ballendonny' were, in 1640, the property of 'Richard Butler of Kilkash Esqr Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 319-20). The tower house (ext. dims. 12.7m N-S; 10.4m E-W; wall T 2.11m) is four storeys high with two-storey turret blocks running the length of the N and S walls, constructed of cut limestone blocks, roughly coursed, with cut and dressed quoins and a base-batter (2.67m H x 0.3m Wth). The main entrance, a pointed doorway at the N end of the E face, is protected externally by a covered machicolation at fourth-floor level supported on finely cut corbels and internally by a murder-hole over the small internal lobby. This lobby leads straight-ahead, through a doorway, into the main chamber, while a doorway to the S gives access to a mural stairs. These stairs rise through the E wall to access the first-floor chamber. At the SE angle a spiral stairway continues upwards, giving access to the upper floors. The stairs are lit by a number of flat-headed loops and there is a spy hole overlooking the stair from the first-floor mural chamber. The ground floor is lit by flat-headed windows in the N, W and S face, the N ope now blocked. There are wall cupboards at every floor level. The first and second floors were wooden, carried on wall-plates supported on corbels, while the third floor is supported by a barrel vault. The first floor is lit by an ogee-headed single light in the S wall and single light with a caernavon head in the N wall. There is a centrally-placed fire-place in the W wall, with lintel robbed. At the E end of the N wall a narrow, round-headed doorway leads into a mural chamber containing the murder-hole chute. At the W end of the S wall a narrow, flat-headed doorway gives access to a garderobe chamber which was lit by at least one single-light window. The garderobe chute exits at ground level at the S end of the W wall. The second floor is lit by a flat-headed single light window in the N wall. A breach in the S wall gives access to an oubliette originally only accessed from the S window embrasure on the third floor. There is a lot of intact plaster at this level, noticeably on the vaulted ceiling and the N wall. Between the second and third floor there is a pointed doorway from the spiral stairs giving access to a lobby. From this five steps lead down to another small lobby area with a flat-headed doorway which gives access to a vaulted mural chamber running along the E wall with a dog-leg at the N end. It contains three wall cupboards and is lit by two single-light windows, one flat-headed, the other with a caernavon arch. The third floor had a high-pitched gable roof, the line of which is visible on the N and S walls, together with traces of slate. Steps project above the line of the pitched roof to give the only access to the W wall-walk. The third-floor hall is lit by a two-light, cusped, ogee-headed window in the N and E wall, a caernavon-headed single-light in the S wall and an ogee-headed single light in the W wall. All, except that in the S wall, have external hood-mouldings. The S window embrasure has a wall cupboard on the W side and a square hole in the floor of a recess on the E side, lit by a small loop, accessing an oubliette below. Above the window embrasures on the N and S wall there is blind arcading; two arches with one central corbel support on the S wall and three arches with two well cut and dressed corbel supports on the N wall. On the E and W wall there are two continuous rows of corbels supporting the parapet and the base of the roof. There is a narrow, flat-headed doorway in the S wall of the W window embrasure which leads downwards to a small mural chamber. This vaulted chamber has three wall cupboards and is lit by two loops in the W wall, one lighting the bottom of the stairs, the other lighting the chamber. Back in the main third-floor chamber, towards the S end of the E wall, there is a narrow, pointed doorway which leads to a mural stairs in the E wall. The base of this stairway, opposite the doorway, is lit by a flat-headed loop with slop-stone beneath the sill. The stairs rise up to battlement level, where there are remains of the crow-stepped parapet, and gives access to mural and turret chambers on the N and S walls. Before reaching the wall-walk, a doorway off the stairs accesses a mural chamber running the length of the south wall to a garderobe at the S end of the W wall. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS082-092 Enclosure
  Description

  Just off crest of hill in very gradual S-facing slope in undulating terrain, under tillage - barley. Ballindoney tower house (TS082-059----) visible c. 15km to SSW. A sub-rectangular enclosure (TS082-106----), also identified on aerial photographs, lies c. 30m to the N. Monument not marked on 1st (1840) or 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch map. Identified as a circular cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (30) 34-35, 3.8.1996). A field boundary which transected the enclosure, possibly after the monument was levelled, was removed some years ago and also appears as a cropmark. There is no knowledge or tradition of a 'fort' in this field. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 February 2014

• TS082-106 Enclosure
  Description

  Just off crest of hill in very gradual S-facing slope in undulating terrain, under tillage - barley. Ballindoney tower house (TS082-059----) visible c. 15km to SSW. Another enclosure (TS082-092----), also identified on an aerial photograph, lies c. 30m to the S. Monument not marked on 1st (1840) or 1904-05 ed. OS 6-inch map. Identified as sub-rectangular cropmark on aerial photographs (ASIAP (30) 36-37, 3.8.1996). A field boundary which transected the enclosure, possibly after the monument was levelled, was removed some years ago and also appears as a cropmark. There is no knowledge or tradition of a 'fort' in this field. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 February 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballindoney West, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballindoney West · Baile an Donaigh Thiar

Area

2,376,034 m² (237.6 ha, 587.13 acres)

Civil parish

Derrygrath, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Derrygrath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

709 people lived in 244 households in the Derrygrath electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindoney, Cloghanacody, Commons-Entire East, Crutta North, Crutta South, Kilmaloge, Knockinrichard, Lisnamuck, Nicholastown, Raheenballindoney, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballindoney West 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.