Ballycohy
Townland in the civil parish of Shronell, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Uí Chothaigh
- Area
- 211.9 ha
- 524 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 50,449 m² (5.04 ha, 12.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycohy, from 1,359 m² to 197,249 m² (19.72 ha, 48.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballycohy 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
29 May 2023Conditional
(i) Milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, meal bin, rain water storage tank, milk silo, holding yard with crush / drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel (ii) Cubicle shed with underground effluent tanks (iii) roof over existing roof less cubicles (iv) Walled silage pits and all associated site works. Permission for Retention of roofless cubicles with underground effluent tank is also required
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360359
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 Ballycohy.
Recorded monuments
- TS058-062 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On level ground at base of slight depression, immediately to the S of a stream, in gently undulating pasture. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. 22m NE-SW; 16m NW-SE) defined by an earthen scarp (Wth 1.5 m; H 0.8m). At the external base of the scarp is a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth at base 2m) and a low broad external earthen bank (overall Wth 5.3m; Wth at top 2.4m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.3m). The curving scarp, fosse and external bank enclose the site NE-SW. The scarped edge, fosse and external bank have been removed and the edge of the barrow straightened off SW-NW by a modern N-S orientated field drain. The monument is defined NW-NE by a W-E flowing stream. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS066-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
In improved pasture; drainage channels and dry stream beds. Circular area (diam. 20.5m) defined by low bank (Wth 5.9m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) WNW-NW and ESE-SE and a denuded scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.95m) NW-ESE and SE-WNW. Breach (Wth 0.75m) at E. Fosse (Wth 6.55-7.25m; D 0.5-0.65m) is waterlogged NW-SE and poorly drained elsewhere. Possible remains of outer bank (Wth 6.1m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.2m) WNW-N and ESE. Raised area (dims. 6m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) ESE-WNW and levelled scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.05m) WNW-NNW within NE sector is a possible house foundation.Possible entrance at S and depression within. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS066-222 Enclosure
Description
A circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 27m) identified on satellite imagery (Google Earth satellite imagery, 18 November 2020) by Jean-Charles Caillère. See attached: TS066-222----_01 Google Earth satellite imagery, 18 November 2020 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycohy.
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 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycohy.
- 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 Ballycohy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycohy · Baile Uí Chothaigh
- Area
- 2,118,750 m² (211.88 ha, 523.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shronell, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Shronell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Shronell electoral division: 390 people in 137 households; 88% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinard, Ballinglanna, Ballyphilip, Barronstown (Ormond), Deerpark, Gotinstown, Shronell Beg
- Placenames
- Ballycohy 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.