Ballyboy
Ballyboy is a townland in the civil parish of Upperchurch, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Bealach Buí.
- Area
- 213.3 ha
- 527 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 6,390 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 288 m² to 163,284 m² (16.33 ha, 40.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyboy 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
19 May 2026Conditional
the renovation and extension of existing dwelling to include removal of existing cottage roof and construction of a new roof with an increased height of 850 mm to accommodate a loft storage area, new windows to side gables, new entrance door and bathroom window to front elevation; to construct a one and half storey rear extension to accommodate a hallway, kitchen/dining area, and bedroom at ground floor level, two bedrooms and bathroom at first floor level; to replace existing septic tank with a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660465
5 Nov 2025Conditional
a single storey style house, domestic garage, treatment tank, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2561108
8 Jul 2025Conditional
a single storey house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560653
5 Feb 2025N/a
a traditional two storey style house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2560073
12 Jan 2022Conditional
construction of a new two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, a private well, entrance, landscaping, solar panels on the roof of the dwelling house and all associated site works, a Natura Impact Statement is submitted with the application
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2211
15 Aug 2019Conditional
single storey house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19600896
14 Feb 2017Conditional
traditional two storey dormer style house, domestic garage, treatment tank, percolation area and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600127
2 Feb 2017Conditional
construct a new dwellinghouse with garage, entrance, septic tanks system and percolation area with all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17600078
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 Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyboy, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballyboy, Upperchurch6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboy · An Bealach Buí
- Area
- 2,133,251 m² (213.33 ha, 527.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upperchurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Gortkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 594 people lived in 198 households in the Gortkelly electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Atshanboe (Cahill), Atshanboe (Launders), Gortkelly, Gortnaskehy, Graceland, Knockmehill, Moher, Newtown, Rossoulty
- Placenames
- Ballyboy 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.