Ballyard

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyard, from 28 m² to 425,553 m² (42.56 ha, 105.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyard 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  to fill the existing poor quality agricultural land with inert materials comprising of Class 5 and Class 6 material (topsoil, subsoil, soil, recovered concrete and stone) in order to raise the level of the ground, provision of a temporary wheel wash on site, proposed access track, utilising existing site entrance including all ancillary site works - NIS submitted with application

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25246

• 14 Oct 2025N/a

  filling the existing poor quality agricultural land with inert materials comprising of Class 5 and Class 6 material (topsoil, subsoil, soil, recovered concrete and stone) in order to raise the level of the ground, provision of a temporary wheel wash on site, utilising existing site entrance, including all ancillary site works at Ballyard Td, Birdhill, Co. Tipperary. The Assessment Screening Report and Natura Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of Tipperary County Council, during its public opening hours.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25211

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 Ballyard.

Recorded monuments

• TN031-009 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated on a low SE-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area with a nearby stream to the SE and a church (TN031-010001) some 200m to the SW. Although at some distance this is possibly associated with the church site to the SW as there is a holy well called 'St Commaneth's Well' (TN031-010002) close to the church. A large earthfast boulder (dims. 2m x 0.9m x 0.65m) with two deep depressions (dims. 0.35m x 0.17m; 0.38m x 0.10m) and one shallow one on its upper surface. 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

• TN031-010001 Church
  Description

  Situated at the base of a W-facing slope with a stream immediately to the S, a holy well (TN031-010002-) to the SE and a bullaun stone (TN031-009----) to the NE. Present remains consist of a low rise of ground where the church was located in the centre of a graveyard (TN031-010003-) enclosed by a stone wall. Several architectural fragments are located in the SW sector of the graveyard and others are reused as grave surrounds. Berry (1904, 99-110) described the church as surviving to foundation level only measuring internally 60ft x 26ft (18m x 8.7m) with architectural fragments of a late medieval date scattered around the graveyard. An octagonal-shaped limestone stoup which rested on a four-clustered column is now located in the grounds of Newport RC church. 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

• TN031-010002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy Well dedicated to St. Commaneth, also known as 'Cragg Well'. Situated at the base of a W-facing slope of rising ground with a church and graveyard (TN031-010001-) to the NW. A disused holy well originally enclosed by a drystone wall and now enclosed by a modern concrete surround with broken statues on a shelf to the N of the well. Lizzie Capliss of Tooreenbrien Upper and a pupil of Lackamore National School recorded the following tradition about this holy well; 'In the parish of Newport there are two holy wells, "Tobar Geal (TN037-047----) and Cragg Well. Tobar Geal is situated two Miles East of Newport and two miles West of Lackamore School in the townsland of Derrygeen. "Cragg Well" is situated in the townsland of Cragg; it is about three miles outside Newport. The Saint of "Tobar Geal" is St. Deborah and her sister St. Commat [Commaneth] founded "Cragg Well". At all seasons of the year people visit "Tobar Geal"; a visit consist of "Five Rounds". "By a round" is meant to go "round" the well. Each person leaves something as an offering when he is leaving such as a beads, a picture, a statue, a coin, a fancy drinking vessel, a piece of ribbon, a medal, but food is never left there. People suffering from teethaches, sore eyes, headaches, stomach troubles and bone disease visit "Tobar Geal". People give "rounds" for invalids and take home some of the water and the sick will rub it to the affected part or else drink it. No trout has been seen in "Tobar Geal". The well is surrounded by whitethorns and evergreen bushes. Cragg Well What has been said about "Tobar Geal" also applies to "Cragg Well". A trout can be seen in "Cragg Well", and anybody who gets lucky enough to see the trout is sure of his request being granted.' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 022; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922160/4857119) 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

• TN031-010003 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated at the base of a W-facing slope with a stream immediately to the S, a holy well (TN031-010002-) to the SE and a bullaun stone (TN031-009----) to the NE. Present remains consist of a low rise of ground where the church (TN031-010001-) was located in the centre of a graveyard enclosed by a stone wall. Several architectural fragments are located in the SW sector of the graveyard and others are reused as grave surrounds. Berry (1904, 99-110) described the church as surviving to foundation level only measuring internally 60ft x 26ft (18m x 8.7m) with architectural fragments of a late medieval date scattered around the graveyard. An octagonal-shaped limestone stoup or font (TN031-010004-/TN037-046----) which rested on a four-clustered column is now located in the grounds of Newport RC church. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN031-010004 Font
  Description

  An octagonal-shaped limestone stoup or font (TN037-046----) which rested on a four-clustered column is now located in the grounds of Newport RC church, originally came from the church (TN031-010001-) and graveyard (TN031-010003-) at Ballyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN031-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge in an upland area overlooking a church (TN031-010) to NW. The present remains consist of a semicircular area (diam. 33m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.45m; int. H 0.4m ; ext. H 1.7m) visible from S through W through N to E, elsewhere destroyed with external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.7m) visible at W only. Possible entrance gap at NE. Field fence intersects site at SE on a NE-SW axis. 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 Ballyard.

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 Ballyard, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1147 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyard · An Baile Ard

Area

2,553,438 m² (255.34 ha, 630.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomenty, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Kilcomenty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

743 people lived in 247 households in the Kilcomenty electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykinlalee, Coolderry, Cooleen, Coolross, Cragg, Gortnavarnoge, Lackenavea (Dunalley), Touknockane

Placenames

Ballyard 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.