Ballyhimikin

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhimikin, from 832 m² to 340,104 m² (34.01 ha, 84.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Ballyhimikin 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.

• 31 Aug 2025Conditional

  the renovation of existing fire damaged dormer dwelling previously granted under planning ref. no PLC/14205, including internal and elevational changes to same and permission for the construction of 2 minor extensions to rear of same. Permission is also sought for removal of existing septic tank and installation of treatment system, coconut filter & percolation area including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560855

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  existing dwelling extensions, detached domestic garage/store and change of use from garage to residential, all as constructed

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 24204

• 5 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260461

• 21 Jun 2022Conditional

  front porch to existing dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22422

• 29 Jul 2021N/a

  dormer type dwelling house, entrance on site, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211127

• 19 Feb 2019Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, detached garage, waste water treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto

  Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600136

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  construction of a new milking parlour and dairy complete with collecting yard, handling facilities and underground effluent storage tanks; all completed with associated site works and for the purposes of agriculture

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601251

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 Ballyhimikin.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhimikin.

Architectural heritage

• Rockford House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  L-plan two-storey house comprising three-bay north and west blocks, built c.1800, with canted full-height bay to west elevation of west block. Single-storey canted bay to north elevation of north block also. Pitched slate roofs, hipped to northwest, with brick chimneystacks. Rubble limestone walling to west block and snecked limestone to north. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows with brick surrounds, six-over-six pane to ground floor and three-over-six pane and two-over-two pane, some doubled, to first. Stable yard attached to south of house and consisting of four ranges, having breakfront to one side with elliptical archway having dressed limestone voussoirs and flanked by pointed niches with brick surrounds. Square-headed openings throughout with brick surrounds and having limestone sills and timber bars to windows and battened timber doors to stables. Square-headed archways through two sides with segmental and cambered brick relieving arches.

• Rockford House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1820, with three-bay rear return to south having canted end bays, and having infill additions to north end of rear. Hipped slate roof with over-sailing eaves with decorative coved cornice and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls with channelled quoins and having string course between floors and to top of plinth, channelled render to plinth and render panels below ground floor windows. Mainly one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, having moulded render surrounds to front elevation and to return. Two-over-two pane timber sash windows to addition and barred two-over-two pane to basement of return. Double-leaf timber door with diamond-pointed panels set into recess fronted by square-plan columns set on plinths and having render surround with dentils and moulded cornice, accessed by flight of stone steps with limestone parapet walls.

• Millview House, miller's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey miller's house over basement, built c.1800, with bowed central bay to rear. Lean-to single-storey extension to rear also. Now in use as private house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble limestone front wall with dressed stone quoins and rendered to other elevations. Front elevation has brick surrounds to openings, square-headed with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and stone sills and segmental-headed with timber panelled door having sidelights and spoked fanlight, approached by flight of cut limestone steps. Two-storey rendered outbuildings to rear with hipped slate roof.

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 Ballyhimikin, about 1 in 10 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_1356 (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.

No address of the register names Ballyhimikin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Ballyhimikin · Baile Shimicín

Area

1,803,611 m² (180.36 ha, 445.68 acres)

Civil parish

Monsea, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Nenagh Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,980 people lived in 694 households in the Nenagh Rural electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyanny Upper, Ballyannymore, Ballycommon, Ballyvillane, Boolagelagh, Coolaholloga, Drummin, Moyroe, Richmond

Placenames

Ballyhimikin 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.