Ballyhane West
Townland in the civil parish of Toem, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Béal Átháin Thiar
- Area
- 44.1 ha
- 109 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 27,188 m² (2.72 ha, 6.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhane West, from 1,492 m² to 173,298 m² (17.33 ha, 42.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballyhane West 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
No planning application touches the townland of Ballyhane West 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.
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 Ballyhane West.
Recorded monuments
- TS050-008 Enclosure
Description
On a slight rise of ground in wet marshy terrain in an upland region with good views in all directions. The enclosure, which is depicted as a circular area defined by a scarp (int. diam. c. 23m) on the 2nd (1906) ed. OS 6-inch map, is not visible at ground level. Two field boundaries to the NE of the enclosure, which are also depicted on the 2nd ed. map, may also have been removed at the same time. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS050-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a low rise of ground in poorly drained countryside with good views in all directions. A raised circular (diam. 32m E-W) enclosed by two earth and stone banks and an intervening fosse (Wth 3-4m; ext. D 0.7m) best visible from SE through S. A poorly preserved inner bank (top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 2.7m; int.H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) has been reduced to a scarp in places while the better preserved external bank (top Wth 1.5m; base Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) is best visible from N to E. There is a possible causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) at the E. The interior follows the natural slope of the hillock rising from S to N. 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 Ballyhane West.
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 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 Ballyhane West.
- 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 Ballyhane West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhane West · Béal Átháin Thiar
- Area
- 441,298 m² (44.13 ha, 109.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Toem, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Cappagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappagh electoral division: 1,006 people in 371 households; 76% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ayle, Ballyhane East, Cahernahallia
- Placenames
- Ballyhane West 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.