Ballaghboy
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Bealach Buí
- Area
- 240.5 ha
- 594 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 28,260 m² (2.83 ha, 6.98 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghboy, from 1,402 m² to 431,468 m² (43.15 ha, 106.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Nov 2025Conditional
existing domestic camper van and car storage garage and for retention of planning permission for timber storage shed and private work area
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2561170
30 Aug 2024Conditional
a) the rebuilding of habitable dwelling with elevational changes, (b) the construction of a further single storey extension to aforementioned dwelling. Permission for decommissioning of exiting septic tank, installation of new treatment tank and percolation area, upgrading of vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 24194
27 Jun 2022Conditional
a conversion of existing outbuilding to living accommodation and a single storey side extension to existing dwelling to form link from existing dwelling to converted outbuilding.
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22434
25 May 2022N/a
(1) conversion of existing outbuilding to living accommodation and (2) a single storey side extension to existing dwelling to form link from existing dwelling to converted outbuilding
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22373
25 Mar 2020Conditional
a) Demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house b) Alterations to existing cubicle house and the construction of an extension consisting of cubicles, livestock feeding area and straw bedding c) Construction of a milking parlour, dairy and ancillary rooms, livestock waiting yard, livestock handling facilities, underground slatted flow channel and underground slatted soiled water tank d) erection of a meal bin e) Construction of an agricultural building consisting of livestock cubicles and an underground slatted flow channel f) Change of use of existing milking parlour to livestock cubicle house g) Alterations to existing milking parlour and cubicle house building h) Construction of an extension to existing over ground slurry store i) Construction of a roof over existing over ground slurry store and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20299
17 Jul 2017Conditional
two storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, sewerage treatment system , percolation are and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600799
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballaghboy.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballaghboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballaghboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghboy · An Bealach Buí
- Area
- 2,404,929 m² (240.49 ha, 594.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingarry electoral division: 767 people in 273 households; 82% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry Upper, Ballintaggart, Cloncurry, Glengall, Gragaugh, Mackinawood, Mohober, Tinock
- Placenames
- Ballaghboy 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.