Ballydrinan

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydrinan, from 78 m² to 142,235 m² (14.22 ha, 35.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ballydrinan 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) partly completed garden room structure (blockwork completed to wall plate level) and concrete pathway to and around same and (2) PERMISSION to (i) complete the garden room structure and (ii) create an external patio area by paving over the existing concrete area to the north of the garden room along with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660806

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  (1) partly completed garden room structure (blockwork completed to wall plate level) and concrete pathway to and around same, and (2) PERMISSION to complete the garden room structure and create an external patio area by paving over the existing concrete area to the north of the garden room, along with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660807

• 29 Nov 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561231

• 23 Apr 2025Refused

  sheds (being used for light industrial purposes) and associated concrete yard - constructed at rear of dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560347

• 2 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460837

• 17 Jan 2024N/a

  the construction of a dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system - and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460029

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  relocation of domestic garage from that as already granted under Planning Permission reference number 18/601045 with all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20989

• 24 Aug 2018Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601045

• 8 Aug 2018N/a

  a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, effluent treatment systems and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600991

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

• TS081-056001 Church
  Description

  On the edge of a steep E-facing slope in rolling pasture. A stream runs c. 50m to the E, with the River Suir c. 200m also to the E. The church is positioned on the S side of a graveyard (TS081-056003-), aligned E-W (dims. 8.55m x 17.8m externally), constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble and is heavily covered with ivy. The E gable (wall T 0.7m) has largely collapsed, though the NE corner survives. At the E end of the N wall (H c. 3.5m; T 0.9m) there is a single-light window. At the W end of the N wall there is a straight-sided opening (1.04m Wth) which was probably the original doorway, though no door surrounds survive. The W gable has collapsed internally and only survives to a height of 1-1.5m. The S wall (H 3m; T 0.8m) survives for much of its length, though there is a section of rebuild (3m L) consisting of a later narrow wall, c. 4.15m from the SW corner. At the E end of the S wall there is a window embrasure, only the W side of which survives. The wall E of this has collapsed and has been rebuilt. The interior contains a lot of rubble and is very overgrown with vegetation. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 January 2014

• TS081-056002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in undulating pasture. The field has been reclaimed. Enclosure identified as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP July 1970 BDR 84). There is no visible trace of the enclosure above ground. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 January 2014

• TS081-056003 Graveyard
  Description

  On the edge of a steep E-facing slope in rolling pasture. A stream runs c. 50m to E and the River Suir flows c. 200m to the E. Ballydrinan church (TS081-056001-) is positioned on the S side of a walled, roughly square graveyard (dims. 39m N-S; 32m E-W). The graveyard wall is best visible on the roadside and is composed of mortared limestone rubble. The interior is very hummocky. The visible headstones are mainly of 19th-century date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 January 2014

• TS081-057 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Formerly situated on a fairly flat ridge which slopes off gently to the E, in rolling pasture. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describes 'the stump of a castle' in 'Ballydrenane' under the ownership of the 'Lord Baron of Cahyr Irish Papist' in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol.1, 367). The tower house (ext. dims. 9.4m N-S x 10.9m E-W; int. E-W 7.48m) was illegally demolished in 2000. It was constructed of limestone and sandstone rubble (wall T 1.7m-1.9m at base), well coursed, with a base-batter (2m H x 0.37m Wth) and clay foundation visible at the S end of the E wall. It had a barrel vault over the ground floor, springing from the N and S walls, and a wooden floor between the first and second floor, evidenced by four large beam-holes in the E wall. According to Salter (2004, 107) two inserted octagonal piers carried an arcade which in turn carried two slightly pointed vaults. When visited in 1997 it survived up to second-floor level, except the S wall and S end of the W wall which had collapsed. The N wall and surviving length of W wall were heavily overgrown with ivy. The ground floor was lit by a single-light window in the E wall, while the first floor was lit by a single-light window in the N wall and a broken-out window in the E wall. All windows were within straight-sided inner embrasures. The top of the E wall overhung internally. A garderobe chute at the N end of the W wall had been broken-out, the garderobe exiting at the base of the wall. There is now a large mound of rubble (dims. 20m x 10m; H 4-5m), the remains of the tower house, where it formerly stood. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 January 2014 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2001).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballydrinan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballydrinan · Baile Uí Dhroighneáin

Area

640,117 m² (64.01 ha, 158.18 acres)

Civil parish

Tubbrid, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ardfinnan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,178 people lived in 453 households in the Ardfinnan electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylaffin, Carrigataha, Magherareagh, Reechestown

Placenames

Ballydrinan 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.