Ballingarry Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile an Gharraí Uachtarach
- Area
- 217.6 ha
- 538 acres
- Land parcels
- 166
- registered freehold, median 996 m²
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
166 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingarry Upper, from 0 m² to 225,379 m² (22.54 ha, 55.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 6 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 · 6 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
10 Dec 2024Conditional
the renovation works to the existing dwelling, the retention of the as-constructed extension and the retention of the changes to the front elevation of the property & all associated site development works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2461065
15 Nov 2024Conditional
a storage shed and associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 24262
8 Nov 2024N/a
a storage shed and associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 24253
26 Jun 2024Conditional
temporary road widening works and construction of temporary sections of stoned roads and all ancillary development on the R691 and L-2107-2 at bends and junctions to enable the delivery of turbine components to consist of: • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road located adjacent to the R691 in the townland of Harleypark to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. The works will require a temporary bridge crossing and all associated drainage and sediment protection, temporary works and storage area, temporary stockpiles and demolition and reinstatement of a section of stone wall to accommodate the works. • Temporary widening of section of the R691 in the townland of Harleypark to accommodate abnormal load deliveries comprising construction of a stoned area on a bend. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road adjacent to the R691 in the townland of Harleypark to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. Works include the demolition and reinstatement of a section of stone wall to accommodate the works. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 at a second location in the townland of Harleypark to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. Works include the demolition and reinstatement of a section of stone wall to accommodate the works. • Construction of a temporary section of stoned road off the R691 and L-2107-2 in the townland of Ballingarry Upper to accommodate abnormal load deliveries. Works include the demolition and reinstatement of 2 no. sections of stone wall to accommodate the works. • Temporary widening of a section of the L-2107-2 in the townland of Gortnasmuttaun comprising construction of a stoned area at the wind farm entrance to accommodate abnormal load deliveries - An NIS is submitted with the application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460514
31 May 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, packaged wastewater treatment system and raised bed soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2460428
18 Apr 2024Conditional
the erection of a domestic storage shed with solar panels on the roof and all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460281
3 Feb 2023Refused
log cabin consisting of bedroom, office, kitchen / living /dining room, bathroom and all associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2324
26 Jul 2022Conditional
(1) the construction of a single storey dwelling and a single storey domestic garage, to all current building regulations, codes and standards (2) the installation of a wastewater tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area, to all appropriate standards (3) the current site entrance and a portion of the roadside site boundary is to be removed and replaced with a roadside boundary hedge and fencing (4) the construction of a combined site entrance, driveway, parking areas, footpaths, patio and hard landscaping areas. The new site entrance is to provide vehicular and pedestrian access for the occupants of an existing two storey dwelling and the proposed single storey dwelling (5) the comprehensive landscaping of the site consisting of new lawn areas, planting beds, trees and shrubbery, garden walls and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260389
11 Apr 2022Conditional
two agricultural entrances and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260170
22 Mar 2022Conditional
the following works: (a) proposed new tarmac play area; (b) proposed new reinforced concrete retaining wall structure to perimeter of proposed new play area complete with 2.4m high perimeter fencing & 4.8m high ball stop netting to the top of the wall; (c) a new ramped/stepped access route complete with associated handrails; (d) replacement of existing dilapidated chain link boundary fence with proposed new capped, blockwork boundary wall and piers (average height 1.6m above relative ground level); (e) new ball stop netting to western end of existing playing pitch; (f) and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260133
21 Jul 2021Conditional
a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, bore well, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211054
13 Jul 2021N/a
build a dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, bore well, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211015
4 Sept 2020Conditional
proposed single storey dwelling, domestic garage, packaged waste water treatment system and raised bed polishing filter, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 201003
6 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a two-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20206
6 Mar 2020Conditional
the as constructed garage to the side of my dwelling and permission to install 2 no. rooflights in the roof of my dwelling
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 20214
19 Feb 2020Conditional
extend my existing premises at ground floor and to convert portion of my existing premises and the proposed extension at ground floor to a take away restaurant, together with signage, front elevation changes and all associated site works and services
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20146
29 Jan 2020Conditional
a) Retention Planning Permission for quarry, b) Planning Permission for continuance of use of existing quarry within existing footprint and c) all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2067
6 Nov 2019Conditional
construction of a two storey, three-bedroom dwelling house, new effluent treatment system with raised bed/polishing filter, to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance to a domestic and an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601247
1 Nov 2019N/a
a) Retention Planning Permission for quarry, b) Planning Permission for continuance of use of existing quarry within existing footprint and c) all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601225
25 Feb 2019Conditional
change of use from stable to short let, self catering accommodation, alterations to existing façade and connection to existing wastewater treatment system with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600161
25 Oct 2018Conditional
to retain hurling wall in location as built as it differs from permission granted under 12/197
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18601285
28 Aug 2018Conditional
to install lighting to walkway and ball wall. Fit wheelchair ramp and steps from carpark to pitch level including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601055
14 Aug 2018N/a
to install lighting to walkway and ball wall. Fit wheelchair ramp and steps from the carpark to pitch level including associated site works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601004
2 Aug 2017Conditional
dwelling, garage, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600871
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 Ballingarry Upper.
Recorded monuments
- TS055-018 Enclosure
Description
In wet marshy land on a NW-facing slope off summit of hill top in upland region with good views to W and N but limited views to S. Barely visible outline preserved in circle of gorse bushes encircling a circular area (int. diam. 16m N-S; 17m E-W) intersected by a field boundary at S on an E-W axis. No other features visible. Indicated as a circular enclosure intersected by a field boundary at S on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the 1906 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS055-019 Enclosure
Description
In grassland on a SE-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views to S and E, higher ground to N. Large clump (dims. 16m N-S x 18m E-W) of thorn bushes in corner of field marks site of enclosure unable to examine the surface to see if there were any remains of a bank and outer fosse. No other features visible. Depicted as a semi-circular enclosure in corner of field on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- The Glebe, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, built c. 1815, with three-bay side elevations, full-height return and extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and cut limestone eaves course. Exposed rubble sandstone walls with cut limestone string courses at sill levels. Elliptical retaining arches with roughly dressed voussoirs over door and south-east ground floor window of façade, square-headed elsewhere with redbrick voussoirs. Three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and tripartite six-over-six pane to ground floor, all having limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with brick voussoirs and having timber panelled door flanked by Doric columns with cobweb fanlight above and accessed by limestone steps. Outbuildings to rear with pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls. Two-storey outbuilding to north-west of site with pitched slate roof and rubble sandstone walls.
- Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1828, on a cruciform plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height shallow chancel to crossing (east); single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Renovated, 1964. Replacement pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan with perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with cast-iron downpipes. Replacement roughcast walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on rendered plinth with abbreviated rendered diagonal stepped buttresses to corners having "slated" coping. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, timber Y-mullions, and rendered surrounds framing storm glazed over fixed pane fittings. Remodelled lancet window openings to entrance (west) front with concrete sills, timber Y-mullions, and rendered surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors having sidelights on panelled risers; full-height interior open into roof with mosaic tiled central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style stations between stained glass windows, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (east) reordered, 1964, with pierced quatrefoil-detailed altar below stained glass "Rose Window", and exposed arcaded Queen post timber roof construction on cut-limestone beaded ogee corbels with wind braced diagonal timber boarded vaulted ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice. Set in relandscaped grounds.
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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballingarry Upper.
- 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 Ballingarry Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballingarry Upper · Baile an Gharraí Uachtarach
- Area
- 2,175,977 m² (217.6 ha, 537.7 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
- Ballaghboy, Ballingarry Lower, Foilmarnell Upper, Garranacool, Glengall, Tinock
- Placenames
- Ballingarry Upper 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.