Ballina
Townland in the civil parish of Templeachally, barony of Owney And Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Béal an Átha
Parcel 5140865
- Area
- 4,653 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 204 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- S5 Social and Public (Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans) The objective
G1 Amenity (Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans) The objective - Townland
- Ballina
Planning applications on this parcel
13 Apr 2021Conditional
upgrading of existing waste water treatment plant to increase the treatment capacity comprising of the decommissioning of the existing inlet works, the construction of a) a new below ground inlet pump station, b) a new above ground inlet screening works area (including 1 no. above ground storm overflow weir chamber and inlet flume), c) 1 no. partially below ground storm tank overflow flume and 1 no. partially below storm water storage tank, d) 1 no. above ground oxidation ditch splitter chamber, 1 no. partially below ground oxidation ditch and 1 no. blower housing, e) 1 no. below ground pump sump, f) 1 no. partially below ground clarifier splitter chamber and 1 no. partially below ground clarifier tank, g) 1 no. below ground meter chamber, h)1 no. partially below sludge thickening tank, and 1) 1 no. outfall flume - the development will also consist of the decommissioning of the existing treated effluent outfall to the Grange river, and the construction of a new treated effluent pipe and outfall which will extend approx. 70 m into Lough Derg/River Shannon before discharging to the lake/river via a single port diffuser, replacement of selected pipework within the existing process units and ancillary development including associated underground chambers, cabling and piping, and all associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21487
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- TN025-016001 Church
Description
Templeachally (Teampall an Chalaidh/Church of the callow/wet meadow) parish church ruins stands in the townland of Roolagh, parish of Templeachally, diocese of Killaloe, in the barony of Owney and Arra. In 1306 the Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Deanery of 'Wethirchir' listed the church of 'Killaitmamory [Callatamery, or Templeichally, co. Tipperary] which was valued at 16s. 8d. per annum with the tithe valued at 20d. (Cal. doc. Ire., Vol. 5, 281). In 1460 there is a reference to 'Donato Ohogayn [O'Hogan]' and the rectory of 'Bale Inccuyssleaynara' (Castletown Arra TN019-002001-) and the perpetual vicarage of 'Teampallincalayth' (Templeachally) (Gleeson and Costello 1943, 35). In 1511 there is a reference to John O'Hogan, clerk of the diocese of Killaloe and the rectory of Baile an Chaisleáin Arra [Castleown Arra] which was united to the churches of Youghalarra, Burgesbeg, Ballina and Templeachally (Gleeson and Costello 1943, 95). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Tipperary described the united parishes of Templeachally and Kilmastulla, as follows; 'The sd. Parishes lying and being in the Territory of Arra, were many years sithence for the meane of the p[ro]fits of the tythes thereof and at the Request of the Parishioners, United and made one entire Parish, the Rectories being Impprieat conferred many yeares sithence upon the Earle of Ormond by Pattent from the Crowne, and held by the assignee in Right of the now Countess of Ormond (as wee are informed) The tythes belonging to the Impropriat Rectories being one moytie of all the tythes great & smale, the other moytie belonging to the Viccar. The tythes greate & smale of the sd. United Parishes was worth in the yeare 1640 the sume of £15' (Simongton 1934, 159). The glebe land of the medieval church of Templeachally was described in the Civil Survey as; 'one plantation acre of Gleabland belonging to the Viccarage situated close by the Churchyard on the East of the Church of Tample Ically afforesd lying and being in the two pl [oughlan]ds of Bellanaha [Ballina] and is finced round wth. a ditch and is at prsent wast vallued in 1640 at 2s. 6d.' (ibid.). Church ruins described by John O'Donovan in 1840 as follows; 'The old Church of Teampull a Chala is situated on the side of a gentle elevation about one hundred and forty paces (106m) east of the Shannon and half a mile south east of the Town of Killaloe. It measures on the inside sixty two feet nine inches (19m) in length and twenty five feet six inches (7.7m) in width end its side walls were three feet six inches (1m) in thickness and about ten feet (3m) in height and built of brown sand stone (quarried) cemented with lime and sand mortar. The north wall of this Church is destroyed, except ten feet [3m] connected with the west gable. The east window forms a semicircular arch of cut sand stone on the inside and is pointed on the outside. It measures on the inside nine feet (2.7m) in height and five feet six and a half inches (1.7m) in width, and on the outside, where it is five feet (1.5m) from the ground six feet four and a half inches (1.9m) in height and two feet one inch (0.63m) in width. It was divided into two compartments by a stone mullion, which has been taken out. At the distance of six feet six inches (2m) from the east gable the south wall has a small window, which is rectangular on the outside, where it measures two feet four inches (2.3m) in height and six inches (0.15m) in width. It is destroyed at top on the inside, so that its height cannot be ascertained, but its width is four feet six inches (1.37m). At the distance of seventeen feet six inches (5.3m) from the west gable there is a doorway on the same wall destroyed on the inside, but perfect on the outside where it is pointed and constructed of chiselled sand stone of a brownish color. It is six feet eight inches (2m) in height and three feet nine inches (1.1m) in width. The west gable had two windows, now nearly destroyed, one near the ground and the other about ten feet (3m) from it. there is a large graveyard attached to this church now much in use' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 11-12). Present remains situated on a natural rise of ground overlooking the River Shannon to the W with a nearby castle (TN025-015----) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular medieval parish church (ext. dims. 9.7m N-S; 21.3m E-W; wall T 1m) built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. The E, S and W walls stand to full height with only the partial wall returns of the N wall surviving. The W end of the church may have had two floors as indicated by a destroyed window at first-floor level. There is also a single-light window at ground-floor level in this gable as well as a destroyed single-light window at the E end of the S wall. The E gable has a partially destroyed twin-light traceried window in the centre. The destroyed doorway at the W end of the S wall was described in the OS Letters as a pointed sandstone door (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 11-12). In the centre of the S wall is a segmental-arched tomb-niche and at the E end is a four-centred arched piscina with moulded bases, chamfered jambs and a six-lobed marigold pattern around the drain-hole. The graveyard (TN025-016002) around the church contains eighteenth- and nineteenth-century headstones. The top soil cover has been removed during a recent graveyard scheme. To see a 3D model of the piscina, visit https://skfb.ly/owK6V 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. Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 4 August 2022
- TN025-016002 Graveyard
Description
Situated on a natural rise of ground overlooking the River Shannon to the W with a nearby castle (TN025-015) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular late medieval parish church (TN025-016001) built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. The E, S and W walls stand to full height with only the partial wall returns of the N wall surviving. The W end of the church may have had two floors as indicated by a destroyed window at first-floor level. There is also a single-light window at ground-floor level in this gable as well as a destroyed single-light window at the E end of the S wall. The E gable has a partially destroyed twin-light traceried window in the centre. The destroyed doorway at the W end of the S wall was described in the OS Letters as a pointed sandstone door (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 11-12). In the centre of the S wall is a segmental-arched tomb-niche and at the E end is a four-centred arched piscina with moulded bases, chamfered jambs and a six-lobed marigold pattern around the drain-hole. The graveyard around the church contains eighteenth- and nineteenth-century headstones. The top soil cover has been removed during a recent graveyard scheme. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 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.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 108.7 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 752
- registered freehold, median 406 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
752 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 1 m² to 71,059 m² (7.11 ha, 17.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 58 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 617 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Town / Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 21 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Employment and Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Sept 2026N/a
alterations to the number, location and sizes of windows and doors from that permitted and extension of premises to rear boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660889
6 Sept 2026N/a
alterations to the number, location and sizes of windows and doors from that permitted and retention of extension of premises to rear boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660871
28 Aug 2026N/a
3 no. dwelling houses (2 no. with garages) and all other ancillary site development works (these serviced sites have existing installed utilities, services and connections, roads and footpaths development and granted under previous approved planning permissions)
Permission, 5 homes · Tipperary County Council, 26123
24 Aug 2026N/a
alterations to the number, location and sizes of windows and doors from that permitted and extension of premises to rear boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660819
17 Aug 2026N/a
3 no. dwelling houses (2 no. with garages) and all other ancillary site development works (these serviced sites have existing installed utilities, services and connections, roads and footpaths development and granted under previous approved planning permissions)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 26117
30 Jul 2026Conditional
the construction of a single storey flat roof extension and for the construction and PERMISSION for the completion of a single storey flat roof extension all to an existing dwelling
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660746
28 Jul 2026N/a
a side extension to existing dwelling, alterations to existing elevations, a detached garage, an attached store and carport and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660733
5 May 2026N/a
4 no. dwelling houses at development estate Radharc Moylussa and all other ancillary site development works, the serviced sites have existing installed utilities, services and connections, roads and footpaths development and granted under previous approved planning permissions
Permission, 4 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2652
20 Apr 2026N/a
a two storey dwelling house at serviced site No. 2 Radharc Moylussa and all other ancillary site development works (the serviced site has existing installed utilities, services and connections, roads and footpaths developed and granted under previous approved planning permissions)
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2645
10 Apr 2026N/a
a two storey dwelling house at servicesd site No. 2 Radharc Moylussa and all other ancillary site development works (the serviced site has existing installed utilities, services and connections, roads and footpaths developed and granted under previous approved planning permissions)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2641
4 Feb 2026N/a
the construction of three residential units, which include 2 no. 2-bedroom duplex units and 1 studio, connection to the public services and ancillary site development works, which include works to the boundaries of the neighbouring protected structure (RPS S676)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660083
4 Dec 2025Conditional
alterations to the plans and elevations approved under planning file reference 2460359
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561256
13 Nov 2025Conditional
change of the design of my dwelling house previously granted under Ref. Planning Number 2560521
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561153
8 Nov 2025N/a
the change the design of my dwelling house previously granted under Ref. Planning Number 2560521
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561129
3 Oct 2025N/a
the alterations to the number, location and sizes of windows and doors from that permitted, and extension of premises to rear boundary and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560989
26 Aug 2025Conditional
renovation and extension of existing dwelling house and to modify existing entrance along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560836
23 Aug 2025Conditional
the change of use from solicitors office to dentists clinic, to erect a small hanging sign and re-word existing gable signage and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560823
8 Jun 2025Conditional
the construction of a dwelling, garage and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560521
21 Mar 2025Conditional
partial conversion of a detached garage to habitable space and the extension of the proposed converted garage floor area with a new link extension to the existing dwelling & all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560232
20 Mar 2025Conditional
construction of a new two storey, dormer style dwelling house, garage, proposed driveway, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560222
10 Mar 2025N/a
1) the as built single storey rear extension to the existing dwelling.; 2) the changes to the as built first floor rear extensions to the existing dwelling – planning reference 11510274; 3) PERMISSION for the construction of a 2-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling to include a carport at ground floor level and a bedroom at first floor level dwelling house; 4 ) all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560185
9 Mar 2025Conditional
an extension to side of dwelling and a garage
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560183
2 Jan 2025N/a
the as built single storey rear extension to the existing dwelling and for the changes to the as built first floor rear extensions to the existing dwelling - Planning Ref 11510274. Planning permission for the construction of a 2-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling, to include a carport at the ground floor level and a bedroom at the first floor level dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2560001
19 Dec 2024Conditional
the construction of an extension to the dwelling, and alterations to the dwelling, and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2461123
6 Dec 2024N/a
(1) as built single storey rear extension to the existing dwelling, (2) permission for retention to changes to the as built first floor rear extensions to the existing dwelling – planning reference 11510274, (3) planning permission for the construction of a 2-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and to include a carport at ground floor level and a bedroom at first floor level dwelling house & all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2461045
The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- TN025-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. An oval-shaped area (diam. 48m NW-SE) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5-1m) from S through W to NE; elsewhere destroyed. Possible entrance gap at S. 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
- TN025-015 Castle - hall-house
Description
Situated on high ground overlooking a deep ravine and nearby church (TN025-016----) to the S. The poorly preserved remains of a small rectangular building surviving to first-floor level only, built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble of cyclopean appearance. The building consists of a narrow small ground-floor chamber (int. dims. 6.65m N-S; 3.05m E-W; Wall T 2m) accessed from a segmental-arched doorway situated in the centre of the E wall. This appears to be an insertion and may belong a later phase of construction. The ground floor had a wooden ceiling carried in the thickness of the wall with a destroyed flat-headed window in the centre of the W wall which replaced an earlier window. At first-floor level there is a single-light round-arched window in the N wall (Fitzpatrick 1985, vol. 3, 75-86) which is now obscured by ivy growth. At the E end of the extant S wall there is the remains of a garderobe chute. Possible stairs are visible at the E end of the S wall which gave access to an E chamber (now destroyed). There was no cut stone used in the fabric of the building. It is unclear from the surviving evidence and the dense cover of ivy if this building survives fully intact or whether only the W half of the castle survives. There is possible evidence for a bawn wall extending E from the SE angle of the castle. In 2001 archaeological testing by Brian Hodkinson on a proposed house site beside the Ballina-Birdhill road and is overlooked by the ruins of Cloghaneena castle, no archaeological features were uncovered (Bennett 2003, 377). Testing carried out under licence No. 01E0864. 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
- TN025-099 Enclosure
Description
Indicated on a Longfield estate map (title, author, date), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère, as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m) defined by hachures. The field boundary running along the S perimeter is depicted as kinking out to following the line of the curvilinear enclosure. Another field boundary runs roughly N-S through the centre of the enclosure. The enclosure is not indicated on the 1st ed. (1840) 6-inch OS map, the N-S field boundary is shown, as is the S field boundary but without a kink and a spot height is given as 258ft in the area corresponding to the NW quadrant of the enclosure on the Longfield map. The location is currently occupied by a housing estate, ‘The Brook’, which is part of the northern expansion of the town of Ballina. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Architectural heritage
- Ferns Hollow, house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached multiple-bay three-storey house, built c.1830, with subsidiary blocks to north. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Coursed rubble sandstone walls with dressed sandstone quoins. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows, except for one round-headed window to rear, two-over-two pane to ground and second floors and six-over-six pane to first floor. Outbuildings to site. Stone walls and piers to site with wrought-iron gate flanked by pair of mature trees.
- Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint Lua, church/chapel, 1835–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached cruciform-plan gable-fronted church, built c.1845, with three-bay entrance gable, two-bay nave and chamfered re-entrant corners, having limestone bellcote to chancel with cross finial and single-storey sacristy to east end. Pitched copper sheet roofs. Sandstone rubble walls and with snecked limestone walls to west end. Pointed-arch openings with stained-glass to windows, and replacement doors. Retains interior features. Graveyard to site.
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 10 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; parts are made ground and water.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballina · Béal an Átha
- Area
- 1,087,375 m² (108.74 ha, 268.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeachally, and its townlands
- Barony
- Owney And Arra
- Electoral division
- Ballina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballina electoral division: 3,414 people in 1,158 households; 77% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycorrigan, Cullenagh, Drumbane, Grange, Roolagh, Ryninch Lower
- Placenames
- Ballina 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.