Ballybeg

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 357 m² to 250,168 m² (25.02 ha, 61.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballybeg 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.

• 17 Nov 2022Conditional

  (1) the construction of a cubicles shed with underground effluent tank (2) the demolition of an open slurry tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260623

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: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS088-012 Enclosure
  Description

  On the W bank of the River Suir, in a flat river valley, under tillage. The monument has been levelled. There is a slight rise in the NE corner of the field which maybe the remains of the enclosure. It is marked on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, within a wooded area and is hachured as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 26m N-S; c. 22m E-W) on the 2nd (1907) ed. On the 25-inch OS map it is depicted as an oval raised area (dims. c. 28m NE-SW; max. c. 19m)within which there is horse-shoe shaped depression, open to the NW, defined by a bank in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 November 2013

Architectural heritage

• Tullaghmelan Church, church/chapel, 1785–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1780, having three-bay nave elevation, lower chancel to east end, vestry added 1860s to north-east with half-octagonal east end, two-stage square-plan tower to west end with low single-storey lean-to extension to its north elevation. Pitched slate roof to nave, pitched artificial slate roof to chancel, slate roof to lean-to, and pitched and spired artificial slate roof to vestry, all with dressed limestone copings. Cut limestone string courses and crenellations to tower. Roughcast rendered walls, having cut limestone plinth and with carved limestone triangular plaque to chancel gable. Coursed snecked limestone walls to vestry, having quatrefoil carving over doorway, with cut-stone plinth and corbel table. Brick walls to lean-to structure. Pointed arch window openings throughout. Two-light nave and three-light chancel windows have hood-mouldings with stops with sculpted vegetal motifs, and raised chamfered sandstone block-and-start surrounds, with Y-tracery. Timber louvered windows to upper stage of tower and two-light timber sliding sash four-over-six pane window to lower with Y-tracery, all with limestone sills. Chamfered windows to vestry with block-and-start surrounds and stained glass. Chamfered shouldered square-headed door opening to sacristy with timber battened door having strap hinges and limestone step. Pointed arch doorway to south elevation of tower, having cut limestone label-moulding over, raised cut limestone door surround, plinth blocks and lintel, raised imposts, fanlight with Y-tracery, and timber panelled double-leaf doors, limestone steps and metal hand rail. Graveyard to site, one burial place having decorative cast-iron railing. Rendered octagonal-profile rubble stone piers to boundary wall with roughly dressed limestone capstones, having decorative wrought-iron double-leaf and flanking pedestrian gates.

• Tullaghmelan House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan two-storey over basement former rectory, built 1817-18, having two-bay front elevation with with one-bay single-storey porch projection continued by one-bay two-storey projection at west corner south end of front and which is slightly lower than main house roof. Two-bay north-east side elevation with canted bay window. Blank rear, south-east elevation. South-west elevation has stepped plan, one elevation of corner projection and further projection to middle. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roofs with sheeted eaves, moulded eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls, projection to south-west having smooth render, and slate-hung to south-east and original faces of south-east side elevation, with smooth render to base of latter. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills, three-over-six pane to first floor and basement, six-over-six pane to ground floor, tripartite six-over-six pane to north-east elevation, four-over-four pane to lights of bay window. Round-headed six-over-six pane window with cobweb fanlight to first floor of south-west elevation and round-headed three-over-six pane window with cobweb fanlight to side of porch. Elliptical-headed carved limestone doorcase with pilasters, moulded capitals, lintel and archivolt, and having timber panelled door with decorative rilling and moulding to panels, cobweb fanlight and flight of cut limestone steps. Enclosed yard to rear has outbuildings with painted rubble walls and slate roofs. Two-storey building to south-east side of yard has hipped roof, having square-headed windows and doors, with timber louvers and segmental carriage entrance with double-leaf timber battened door. Further single-storey outbuilding to rear with lean-to roof and segmental carriage entrances with brick voussoirs. Single-storey outbuilding at south-west side of yard has pitched and hipped roof, and square-headed windows and doors with timber lintels. Segmental carriage arch to yard has roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and jambs, set in rendered walls with slate coping. Rendered rubble stone boundary walls to road, rendered square-profile piers and cast-iron spearhead double-leaf gates.

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 Ballybeg, 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 high, 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 Ballybeg.

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

Name

Ballybeg · An Baile Beag

Area

1,220,444 m² (122.04 ha, 301.58 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghmelan, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Tullaghmelan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,116 people lived in 399 households in the Tullaghmelan electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonagh (Co. Waterford), Ballymorris, Flemingstown, Greenmount, Kilmanahan (Co. Waterford), Knockeen, Roxborough, Tullaghmelan, Whitesfort (Co. Waterford)

Placenames

Ballybeg 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.