Ballyfinboy

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfinboy, from 357 m² to 174,535 m² (17.45 ha, 43.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfinboy 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyfinboy in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballyfinboy.

Recorded monuments

• TN010-005001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of natural rock outcrop in low-lying pastureland with Ballyfinboy River to the N. A rectangular tower (ext. dims. 11.4m E-W; 9.35m N-S; wall T 2.15m) four storeys high, built with roughly coursed limestone rubble, with base-batter evident. The centre of the W wall and most of the third floor is destroyed. The main entrance is located at the centre of the E wall and consists of a two-centred arch with chamfered, punch-dressed jamb stones with stop chamfers visible. There is a yett-hole in the S jamb of the doorway. The lobby, protected by a murder-hole directly inside the main entrance, gives access to spiral stairs in the SE angle and a guard room in the NE angle. A series of small chambers orientated on a N-S axis are located over lobby. The ground floor is accessed from the lobby via a two-centred doorway and is lit by narrow single-light slit opes with pivot holes visible. The sillstones of the windows are rebated to allow the wooden shutter to sit into the base of the window to prevent draughts. Joist-holes for a wooden ceiling are visible over the ground and first floors with a barrel vault over the second floor. All chambers above the first floor were accessed from the spiral stairs. A mural passage in the S wall at first-floor level gives access to a destroyed garderobe in the SW angle, the chute of which is still visible. There is a large destroyed fireplace in the N wall also at first floor level. Destroyed garderobes occupy the SW angles at second and third-floor levels. The second floor is accessed via a double door off the spiral stairs with the inside door opening from the main chamber. Windows consist of simple slit opes with flat and round heads with single-light ogee-headed window with hollowed terminals in NE angle. There is a sheela-na-gig (TN010-005002-) on the external face of a SE quoinstone. 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

• TN010-005002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  Located at first-floor level on the external face of the SE quoinstone of Ballyfinboy castle (TN010-005001). A barely discernible female figure with a round head, splayed arms and bent legs. The arms are pulling the vulva apart and the feet are turned outwards. A dense cover of ivy made detailed examination of the figure impossible. Described by Freitag as a figure 'boldly carved clear outline of a standing neckless female set in a frame. Relatively small, earless round head, clearly incised ribs and no breasts, disproportionally thick arms, elbows turned outwards, reaching from behind splayed legs to touch sagging pudenda. Below an upright elongated indentation, seemingly indicating the vulva, there is a further downward pointing cavity which both hands clutch. Knees and feet bent outwards' (Freitag 2004, 123). 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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 05 June 2012

• TN010-005003 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  Situated on a low rise of natural rock outcrop in low-lying pastureland with the Ballyfinboy River to the N. In the Patent Rolls of James I there is a reference to the 'Castle, town and Lands of Bealafinwoy', which were part of the estate of Dermot Mc Philip More O'Kennedy (Cal. pat. Rolls, Ire., Jas I, 356). There are no earthworks visible at ground level around Ballyfinboy tower house (TN010-005001). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfinboy.

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1410 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballyfinboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Ballyfinboy · Beal Átha Fionnmhaí

Area

279,051 m² (27.91 ha, 68.96 acres)

Civil parish

Finnoe, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Finnoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Finnoe electoral division: 209 people in 71 households; 85% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Curraghmore, Fee More, Shesheraghmore, Shesheraghscanlan

Placenames

Ballyfinboy 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.