Ballykelly

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykelly, from 23 m² to 357,040 m² (35.7 ha, 88.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Ballykelly 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  the red line boundary as erected, the domestic garage as constructed and the entrance as constructed following the development carried out under planning permission Ref 041315

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660858

• 23 Apr 2026N/a

  change of the red line boundary of the site granted and developed under planning permission reference no. 041315

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660351

• 12 May 2020Conditional

  (a) a domestic dwelling which has been constructed contrary to original planning permission ref. no. 00/378, (b) The location of the site boundary fences, and for Permission to (c) Construct a recessed roadside boundary and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20461

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 Ballykelly.

Recorded monuments

• TS053-064 Church
  Description

  In grassland on an E-facing slope of rising ground with good views to N, E and S, higher ground to W. Ballykelly is mentioned in 1182 as being granted to the Cistercian Oorder of Holycross by Domnall Mór Ua Bríain. In 1467 the tithes of Ballykelly featured in a dispute between the vicar of nearby Ballysheehan and the Abbot of Holycross, with the ruling in favour of the Abbot. In 1538 the Abbot of Holycross leased to Richard Archdekan, the treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel 'all houses and all ecclesiastical profits in Ballykelly for the use of Margaret Butler for 62 years at the annual rent of one mark' (Meskell 1987, 84). Poorly preserved remains of rectangular church (int. dims. 6.2m N-S; 11.6m E-W; wall T 0.8m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble, of which the N wall and W gable survives and a small portion of the W end of the S wall (L 3m). Ivy cover on the W gable obscures a centrally placed single-light window, with a second single-light window at first-floor level to S of centre. The latter window suggests that there were two floors at the W end of the church, the upper floor probably used as the priest's private quarters or presbytery of the parish church. No evidence of the E gable or most of the S wall of the church. Aerial photograph (CUCAP ATA63) taken in 1967 shows earthworks to the W of church where a retirement home is now located and a square-shaped boundary, which is not evident above ground, to the S of the church. A modern house has been built 20m to the N of the N wall of church. On the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map there is a quarry surrounding the S and E portions of the church, the S quarry also represented on the 2nd ed. The quarry was subsequently extended to the N of the church (O'Brien and Hughes 2000, 98) and this was confirmed by limited archaeological excavations in 2000 (Henry 2002, 312). Described in the OS letters as an old church of which only the N and W walls survive and the foundations of the other walls were still visible, the church measured 38 feet [11.6m] in length and 20 feet [6.1m] wide. The W gable had two windows one above each other, one of which was placed 3 and a half feet [1m] above ground, the second 9 feet [2.75m] from the ground. There is no graveyard attached to this church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 107). A possible stoup associated with the church was discovered in a nearby garden (O'Brien 2006, 92-4). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS053-089 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In back garden of Ballykelly House which is 100m to S and appears to be a tree-ring (int. diam. 23m N-S) consisting of a circular area enclosed by an earthen bank with a sharp profile (H 0.8m; H 1m) as depicted as such on first ed. OS 6-inch map. Small summer house built into face of bank of tree ring at S. Associated with the landscaping of Ballykelly House. This was classified in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1997) as an 'Enclosure'. Following field inspection this was found to be a tree-ring of post-1700 date. It has been classified as a 'Tree-ring' but is not included in the current remit of the ASI. 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 Ballykelly.

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 Ballykelly, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

• Ballykelly, Cashel5 sales

Name

Ballykelly · Baile Uí Cheallaigh

Area

985,313 m² (98.53 ha, 243.48 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysheehan, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Ballysheehan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 175 households in the Ballysheehan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysheehan, Garryard, Grangebeg, Grangemore, Marshalstown, Newpark

Placenames

Ballykelly 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.