Ballysimon

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballysimon, from 144,463 m² (14.45 ha, 35.7 acres) to 144,463 m² (14.45 ha, 35.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysimon 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.

• 30 Aug 2023Conditional

  the construction of a milking parlour, a slatted cubicle/straw-bedded house, and a silage pit, together with all associated facilities, concrete yards, and site works. In addition, retention permission is sought for an underground slatted storage tank

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360687

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 Ballysimon.

Recorded monuments

• TS059-048 Enclosure
  Description

  In level area of improved pasture; drained stream beds and drainage channels evident. A circular area (dims. 20m N-S; 19m E-W) bisected by a townland boundary (long axis E-W; Wth 1.1m; H 0.75m) and defined by scarp (Wth 4m; H 1m) and an outer fosse (Wth 8.7m; D 0.7m) from WNW-ENE, which is shallower (Wth 6.1m; D 0.4m) in the SE quadrant. The fosse is backfilled where the monument is bisected by a field boundary in the E and W quadrants. The scarp is best defined from WNW-ENE and less defined (Wth 1.9m; H 0.2m) from ESE-SSE. There are traces of a possible outer bank (Wth 6.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.15m) in the NW quadrant. There is a large, natural hollow c. 7m to the SSE. 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 Ballysimon.

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballysimon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Ballysimon · Baile Mhic Shíomoin

Area

144,463 m² (14.45 ha, 35.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmucklin, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmucklin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmucklin electoral division: 576 people in 195 households; 89% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonagh, Emlagh, Ranacrohy, Shanballymore

Placenames

Ballysimon 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.