Ballybeg
Townland in the civil parish of Aghnameadle, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Baile Beag
- Area
- 294.9 ha
- 729 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 25,976 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 20
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 94 m² to 792,091 m² (79.21 ha, 195.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Ballybeg 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
25 Apr 2026Conditional
dwelling house, garage, entrance and waste water treatment system including all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2660358
3 Feb 2025Conditional
ready-mixed concrete plant (comprising a feed ramp, 1 no. feed bin, 1 no. feed conveyor, 5 no. aggregate storage bins, a batch conveyor, a mixer house and 2 no. cement silos) with associated hard and soft landscaping and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground. The proposed development will operate from 07.00 hrs to 18.30 hrs Monday to Friday inclusive and from 08.00 hrs to 16.00 hrs on Saturdays inclusive (no operations on Sundays, Bank and Public Holidays). Permission is also being sought for occasional out-of-hours operations up to a max. of 40 no. occasions per year (excluding Sunday, Bank and Public Holidays) outside of normal operating houses. There are no changes to the proposed permitted pit operating hours. The site comprises part of the existing approved and operational sand and gravel quarry (Tipperary County Council Reg. 2124; An Board Pleanala Ref. ABP-312864-22)
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560064
25 Aug 2024Conditional
an extension to the rear of the existing building and PERMISSION for a new septic tank and standard percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2460701
13 Nov 2023Conditional
the erection of a dwelling, garage, entrance and wastewater treatment system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360903
22 Nov 2022Conditional
(1) revised boundary between the properties; (2) a domestic storage shed over existing concrete slab on Noel Kenneally’s side of the new boundary
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260638
22 Oct 2022Conditional
the erection of a dwelling, garage, entrance, well bore and wastewater treatment system, incl. associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2260573
18 Nov 2021Conditional
alterations to existing dwelling to include; changes to elevations and extensions to the rear and side and all ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 211672
7 Oct 2021Conditional
cattle shed incorporating slatted tanks and all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 211482
12 Mar 2021Conditional
part two storey, part single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, store and home gym, onsite wastewater treatment system, borewell, entrance and boundary treatment, together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 21313
13 Jan 2021Conditional
extension of sand and gravel quarry - the development will consist of extension of the existing sand and gravel quarry and for continued use of the site entrance, access laneway, weighbridge, maintenance shed, settlement lagoons, site office, toilet, plant and machinery and ancillary works. The extension area will be 13.818ha in lands to the north-west of the existing quarry. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared and is submitted with the application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2124
21 Dec 2020N/a
extension of sand and gravel quarry - the development will consist of extension of the existing sand and gravel quarry and for continued use of the site entrance, access laneway, weighbridge, maintenance shed, settlement lagoons, site office, toilet, plant and machinery and ancillary works. The extension area will be 13.818ha in lands to the north-west of the existing quarry. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report has been prepared and will be submitted with the application.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201552
9 May 2019Conditional
(1) Construct a new milking parlour & dairy complete with collecting yard, handling facilities and underground effluent storage tanks, (2) Permission to construct a new farm building for the housing of livestock including slatted areas over underground effluent storage tanks and (3) Permission to demolish existing old milking parlour & dairy; all completed with associated siteworks and for the purposes of agriculture on farmlands
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600484
18 Apr 2019Conditional
to renovate and extend existing dwelling along with all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600401
19 Dec 2018Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works (Planning Permission Ref. 18600039)
Permission consequent, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601499
8 Nov 2018Unconditional
dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, entrance and all ancillary site works - Previous Ref No 13510384
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 18601341
19 Jan 2018Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance, driveway along with all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600039
4 May 2017Conditional
construction of an agricultural livestock unit, underground slurry storage tank, milking parlour, collecting yard, dairy, handling facilities and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600466
6 Apr 2017Conditional
to construct a slatted shed with concrete yard and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600350
21 Mar 2017N/a
construction of a slatted shed with concrete yard and associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600272
17 Feb 2017Conditional
a two storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and store, septic tank and percolation area, alterations to the existing shared entrance from the public road, together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600150
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 Ballybeg.
Recorded monuments
- TN022-046 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a low hillock in undulating countryside. Depicted as a circular enclosure on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. The barely discernible outline of a destroyed circular enclosure (approx. diam. 35m). No other features visible. 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
- TN022-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a S-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A circular area (diam. 40m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m) reduced in places to a scarp with an outer fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.5m) and possible external bank (Wth 2m; H 0.1m) visible at NE only. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at SE. A modern field fence intersects the fosse and outer bank at S on an E-W 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 Ballybeg.
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 Ballybeg.
- 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 Ballybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybeg · An Baile Beag
- Area
- 2,949,224 m² (294.92 ha, 728.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghnameadle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Electoral division
- Aghnameadle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Aghnameadle electoral division: 350 people in 102 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnameadle, Ballinveny, Blean, Coologe, Curraghaneety, Glenawinna, Stook
- Placenames
- Ballybeg 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.