Ballymackey

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackey, from 1,816 m² to 302,516 m² (30.25 ha, 74.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballymackey 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.

• 26 Jan 2026N/a

  (i) fattening house with underground effluent tank, (ii) cull sow & weaned piglet house with underground effluent tank, (iii) feeding tank house, (iv) loading bay with underground effluent tank and all other associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660059

• 13 Dec 2025N/a

  as-constructed agricultural entrances and farm roadways

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561295

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  the as-constructed agricultural entrances and farm roadways

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561254

• 5 Jul 2025N/a

  the demolition of existing: (i) dry sow house, (ii) service house, (iii) dry sow house, (iv) farrowing house, (v) old farm house, (vi) boiler room, (vii) feed mixer shed, (viii) 3 loose sheds, (ix) isolation shed, (x) overground water tower. Permission to construct: (i) gilt house with underground effluent tank, (ii) service house with underground effluent tank, (iii) dry sow with underground effluent tank, (iv) two fattening houses with underground effluent tank, (v) two weaner houses with underground effluent tank and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560645

• 24 Jun 2025N/a

  demolition of existing (i) dry sow house, (ii) service house, (iii) dry sow house, (iv) farrowing house, (v) old farm house, (vi) boiler room, (vii) feed mixer shed, (viii) 3 loose sheds, (ix) isolation shed, (x) overground water tower and construction of (i) gilt house with underground effluent tank, (ii) service house with underground effluent tank (iii) dry sow with underground effluent tank, (iv) two fattening houses with underground effluent tank, (v) two weaner houses with underground effluent tank and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560602

• 22 Jun 2025N/a

  the demolition for existing: (i) dry sow house, (ii) service house, (iii) dry sow house, (iv) farrowing house, (v) old farm house, (vi) boiler room, (vii) feed mixer shed, (viii) 3 loose shed, (ix) isolation shed, (x) overground water tower. Permission to construct: (i) gilt house with underground effluent tank, (ii) service house with underground effluent tank, (iii) dry sow with underground effluent tank, (iv) two fattening houses with underground effluent tank, (v) two weaner house with underground effluent tank and all other associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560591

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 Ballymackey.

Recorded monuments

• TN021-023001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on level ground in the middle of a pig farm, surrounded by undulating pastureland. A rectangular tower house (dims. 14.7m x 9.4m; wall T 1.65m) of coursed, uncut limestone blocks with good quoins and base-batter. The entrance, in the S wall, has yett-holes over the door and on the E rebate, and gives access to a lobby now blocked off. A guardroom lies to the E of the doorway with a musket-loop in the SE angle. A blocked, pointed doorway leads from the lobby into the easternmost of two ground floor chambers. The ground floor is divided into two chambers to the E and W, connected by a rectangular doorway in the S end of the partition wall, now blocked. Both chambers are roofed by separate N-S barrel vaults. A low, flat-headed doorway in the E wall gives access to mural stairs leading to the first floor. A small mural passage (inaccessible) lies immediately N of this doorway. The first floor has a large fireplace in the S wall, largely destroyed, with a large concrete pit occupying most of the floor space. There is a fine fireplace in the S wall at second-floor level, with chamfered jambs and the remains of a mantle supported on corbels. Many of the windows are semi-elliptical, some are ogee-headed with hollow spandrels and many have hood-mouldings. The stonework in this tower house was very well executed; internal features, including decorative tooling, suggest a late sixteenth/early seventeenth-century date for the building. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN021-023002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as the 'walls of a castle onely standinge with a little Barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 223). Sir John MaGrath is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). The OS Namebooks (c. 1840) refer to 'an old house adjoining the S side of Ballymackey old castle it seems to have been at one time a place of some account but it is now in a state of total ruins'. An Foras Forbartha refer to a possible addition to the tower house (TN021-023001) to form a H-shaped house (Craig 1972, 55). No visible remains. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymackey, about 1 in 10 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 Ballymackey.

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

Name

Ballymackey · Baile Uí Mhacaí

Area

661,194 m² (66.12 ha, 163.38 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymackey, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Ballymackey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

582 people lived in 207 households in the Ballymackey electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonmore, Derrycarney, Garravally, Gortnadrumman, Knockanglass, Lisnamoe

Placenames

Ballymackey 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.