Ballintemple

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintemple, from 351 m² to 318,329 m² (31.83 ha, 78.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballintemple 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballintemple 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintemple.

Recorded monuments

• TS070-009 Church
  Description

  On top of a hill in undulating pasture. Rathcool motte (TS070-008---) is located 350m to the N and Rathcool Castle (TS070-007001-) and possible 17th-century house (TS070-007002-) are located c. 390m to the N. Barrettstown Castle (TS070-035001-) is visible 2km to the SSW. A nave (int. dims. 19.6m E-W; 6.68m N-S) and chancel (int. dims. 6.9m E-W; 4.4m N-S) church, with evidence of an internally projecting wall (T 0.9m) between the nave and chancel, probably the remains of a chancel arch. The church is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble and is heavily overgrown. It has no datable features. The quoins at the NW and SW angles have been robbed. The church occupies the N side of a rectangular graveyard (TS070-009001-), the N wall of which has been keyed into the NE and NW angles of the church. There is a broken-out doorway (Wth 1.9m) in the S wall towards the W end of the nave and another broken-out doorway opposite (Wth 2m) 4.55m from the W gable, now blocked up with masonry. A stone embedded in the ground immediately S of the S doorway has a chamfered edge (Wth 0.08m) and was probably a door jamb. The W gable survives to full height (c. 6m) with a few of the dressed coping stones still in position. It has an inner skin (H 2.4m; T 0.3m) which is not keyed into the side wall of the church. It was probably built to support a gallery or first-floor accommodation at the W end. There is a breach (Wth 2.85m) in the N wall of the nave, 1.6m from the chancel, which has been blocked up with masonry. According to the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 165 (470-71) the blocking up of breaches in the walls had been done by 1840 (ibid.). There are a lot of gravestones in the church interior, the earliest is a 17th-century graveslab (TS070-009002-) in the chancel while the latest visible headstone dates to 1951/1953 and is just inside the S wall to the E of the doorway. Adjacent to this 1950s headstone there is a block of chamfered limestone embedded in the ground, with possible punch tooling. Just outside the S doorway there is ogee-headed window head with punch tooling embedded in the ground. The chancel is narrower than the nave, the kick-in is visible on the N side but is obscured by vegetation on the S side. The E gable is c. 1.6m high and the S wall of the chancel appears to be largely broken out and the opposite N wall is c. 1.4m high. As described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 165 (470-71) the ‘side wall of the choir [was] destroyed at east gable; the north wall is repaired; the east gable was reduced to a state of ruin and was repaired in the middle part which forms the west wall of a tomb at the exterior of it’. The OS Letters also mention a window in the S wall of the chancel, near the E gable, with chamfered jambs and another window in the S wall of nave, near the chancel (ibid.). A wall monument dating to 1919, with the last date commemorating a burial in 1989, has been concreted into the external S wall of the church, E of the doorway. At the graveyard entrance there is a stile with a number of stepping stones projecting from the wall. These stones appear to be re-used corbels. They are all very similar with a flat top and base, and a flat vertical front (Wth 0.025-0.035m) with a deep chamfer (Wth 0.12-0.18m) undercut towards the base. They may have been supports for a gallery or first-floor at the W end of the nave. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 9 April 2018

• TS070-009001 Graveyard
  Description

  On top of a hill in undulating pastureland. Rathcool motte (TS070-008---) is located 350m to the N and Rathcool castle (TS070-007001-) and possible 17th-century house (TS070-007002-) are located c. 390m to the N. Barrettstown Castle is visible 2km to the SSW. A church (TS070-009----) occupies the northern portion of this roughly rectangular graveyard (dims. 55m E-W; 31m N-S) which is enclosed by a stone wall. The public road runs along the outside of the E wall and the entrance is by gate and stile at the S end of the E wall. Five of the stepping stones of the stile appear to be re-used corbels from the church, with at least one other corbel embedded in the top of the wall. There is a Calvary just inside the gate. The graveyard wall has been keyed into and extends W from the NW angle of the church and E from the NE angle of the church. The graveyard wall runs for c. 7m W of the NW angle before turning S for 21m and then returning eastward. The headstones are concentrated on raised ground immediately S of the church, and date mainly from the late 18th and 19th centuries. The earliest noted dates to 1776. The last burial appears to have been in 2001. There are a lot of headstones within the church interior, the latest visible dating to 1951/1953. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 March 2012

• TS070-009002 Graveslab
  Description

  Within the interior of the medieval church (TS070-009----), standing upright against the N end of the N wall of the chancel. A rectangular limestone slab (H above ground 1.4m; Wth 0.7m; T 0.19m) with drafted margins around the top end, the lower portion of the slab is buried in the ground. There is a latin inscription in raised capitals around the border which continues in horizontal lines in the centre of the slab, occupying the upper portion. It reads: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS CAFFO ET IVANNA MACKY E…..AUO DIE MENSIS OCTOBERIS ET FILIUS EIUS THOMAS CAFFO QUI EODEM MENSE OBYT ANNO DOMINI 1626. This translates as: Here lies Phillip Caffo [Coffey?] and Ivanna Macky E……..8th[?] day of the month of October and his son Thomas Caffo [Coffey?] who died the same month in the year of Our Lord 1626. The lower portion of the centre of the slab has raised decoration with a central five-armed floriated cross, which is interlaced within a ring. There is a three-barred knop on the cross shaft below the ringed head of the cross. There are symbols of the passion on either side of the cross shaft. On its sinister side there is a scourging pillar with chords, surmounted by a cock, a scourge and the top of a robe just visible above ground. On the dexter side there is a cross with a crown of thorns at the head, a ladder, a cup/sponge and lance. Above this cross there is Peter’s sword and Veronica’s towel. The back of the slab is not flat, being only roughly dressed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 April 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballintemple, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballintemple · Baile an Teampaill

Area

847,343 m² (84.73 ha, 209.38 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcool, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ardsallagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

470 people lived in 167 households in the Ardsallagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annesgift, Derryluskan, Grangeduff, Rathcool, Rocklow

Placenames

Ballintemple 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.