Ballyea
Townland in the civil parish of Dorrha, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Aodha
- Area
- 270 ha
- 667 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 13,030 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyea, from 50 m² to 497,889 m² (49.79 ha, 123.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballyea 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
28 Jul 2026Conditional
(A) construction of a new extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, (B) renovation and alterations to the existing dwelling, (C) a new domestic shed, (D) a new wastewater treatment system, (E) a new bored well, and all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660734
19 Jun 2026Conditional
the changes to previously approved drawings (previous planning reference no. 23/60964), for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of the following: new extension to the side of the dwelling, the inclusion of a self contained granny flat, alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works. RETENTION PERMISSION is also being sought for works carried out to the existing dwelling and alterations to the front and side elevation of the dwelling
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660599
5 Dec 2023Conditional
a single storey extension to the existing dwelling house. Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwelling house consisting of the following: new extension to the side of the dwelling, the inclusion of a self contained granny flat, alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2360964
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: Redwood Bog SAC 002353
- Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
- Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Redwood Bog 000654
Recorded monuments
- TN001-011 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a SW-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area. A large circular area (diam. 80m E-W) enclosed by a poorly preserved earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m) and an outer bank visible at S where it acts as a field boundary. The inner bank is best preserved from SE through S to SW. No visible entrance feature. The irregular surface of the interior is due to natural rock outcrop. 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 Ballyea.
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 Ballyea.
- 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 Ballyea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyea · Baile Aodha
- Area
- 2,700,476 m² (270.05 ha, 667.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dorrha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Redwood, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Redwood electoral division: 126 people in 50 households; 91% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghan Demesne (Co. Offaly), Coolross, Culleen, Derry, Redwood
- Placenames
- Ballyea 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.