Ballyglass Upper

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass Upper, from 90 m² to 306,948 m² (30.69 ha, 75.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyglass Upper 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.

• 15 Jul 2026N/a

  construction of a shed on the west side of their dwelling house

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2693

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  relocation of vehicular entrance from that previously granted under planning ref 24/34

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560318

• 26 Feb 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2434

• 12 Feb 2024N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2421

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  (i) an existing attic conversion and also Planning Permission for (ii) a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19600787

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  the refurbishment, alteration and extension to existing two storey dwelling, relocation of existing roadside entrance, upgrading and relocation of existing on site effluent treatment system and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601081

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 Ballyglass Upper.

Recorded monuments

• TS067-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, land gently undulating to N. Circular area (dims. c. 21m N-S; c. 23m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (Wth 2.25m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.0m) W-N-E and low scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 1.0m) E-S-W. External fosse (Wth 3.75m; D 0.3m) covered by briars in places. Possible traces of outer bank SE-S-SW. Mature trees on inner bank and within fosse. Interior slopes downwards to N, trees and bushes within. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a N-facing slope. Circular area (dims. c. 41m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by inner scarp (H 0.4m), shallow intervening fosse (Wth 5.5m; Dth 0.4m), outer bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H. 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) and external fosse (Wth c. 4.7m; D c. 0.35m). Inner scarp and outer bank are uneven in height due to erosion and survive best around base of mature trees. Curvilinear feature adjoins monument to S and is defined by bank (Wth 3m; H c. 0.25m) SE-W-NW extending from SW bank of ringfort. This is a possible annexe. Traces of long, narrow, sinuous depression possibly old watercourse to S and E of ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-069 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on N-facing slope, to NW of public road. Slight trace of external fosse (Wth c. 3m) enclosing slightly raised area (c. 25m N-S; c. 20m E-W). Depicted on current OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (c. diam. 20m), to NW of public road. Gortavoher Wood to S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-070 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a gentle N-facing slope. Circular enclosure (dims. c. 23m N-S; c. 22m E-W) defined by remnants of inner earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H c. 0.6m; ext. H c. 0.5m) NE-E-S-SW. Breach (Wth 3.8m) at E and S. Intervening fosse (Wth 4.5m; basal Wth 1.75; Dth 0.5m). Outer bank (Wth c. 2.78m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.75m) NE-E-S-NW. Traces of outer fosse (Wth 3.58m; basal Wth1.8m; D 0.1m) NE-E-S-SW. Interior slopes downwards to N, mature trees within, on banks and in fosses. Enclosure truncated in N-sector due to modern dwelling and garden, c. 20 years old. Enclosed to E and S by field boundary flanked by public road. Gortavoher Wood on rising ground to S. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-085 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Possible enclosure identified on aerial photograph (GSI 16.4.1974, R. 506/7). Area overgrown with vegetation. Enclosure (TS067-053----) located c. 350m to WSW; enclosure (TS067-070----) located c. 250m to SE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS067-119 Standing stone
  Description

  On a steep N-facing slope, in pasture. Upright conglomerate stone (1.25m x 0.75m; H 1.65m), rectangular in plan and oriented NW-SE. There are small packing stones around base. An enclosure (TS067-068----) lies c. 185m to the NW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyglass Upper, 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 Ballyglass Upper.

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.

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

Name

Ballyglass Upper · An Baile Glas Uachtarach

Area

1,360,394 m² (136.04 ha, 336.16 acres)

Civil parish

Clonpet, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Tipperary Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,159 people lived in 814 households in the Tipperary Rural electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass Lower, Breansha More, Garryduff, Gortaknockeare, Gortavoher East, Gortavoher West

Placenames

Ballyglass Upper 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.