Ballyheens
Townland in the civil parish of Ballysheehan, barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Beilchín
- Area
- 53.9 ha
- 133 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 3,009 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheens, from 106 m² to 323,113 m² (32.31 ha, 79.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballyheens 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
20 Jul 2026Conditional
a) Extension to the existing dwelling consisting of a stairs access into a storey and a half structure with open archway access at ground floor level and a plant room at first floor level. b) Foundations and sub floor for an agricultural use building and all associated site works and Permission is also being sought for the following agricultural development: a) Completion of the agricultural use building which will form a courtyard and contain the following accommodation; stables, store rooms, tack room, feed stores, machinery store & W/C. b) Outdoor Horse Arena. c) Horse Walker d) Dungstead and all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660704
29 May 2026Conditional
a) demolish the existing garage and plant room and b) construct a single storey extension, shed and car port to the side and rear of dwelling house including all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660528
27 May 2026N/a
a) demolish the existing garage and plant room and to b) construct a single storey extension, shed and car port to the side and rear of our dwelling house including all associated site development works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660513
10 Mar 2026N/a
1. Demolition of existing garage and plant room; 2. Single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling; 3. Shed to the rear of Single Storey extension linking it with carport; 4. The development will include all associated drainage, site development and landscaping
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660218
9 Mar 2026N/a
1. Demolition of existing garage and plant room 2. Single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling 3. Shed to the rear of Single Storey extension linking it with carport 4. The development will include all associated drainage, site development and landscaping
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660211
25 Aug 2025N/a
1. Demolition of existing garage and plant room 2. Single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling 3. Shed to the rear of Single Storey extension linking it with carport 4. The development will include all associated drainage, site development and landscaping
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560825
1 Aug 2025N/a
1. demolition of existing garage and plant room 2. single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling and 3. the development will include all associated drainage, site development and landscaping
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560753
4 Mar 2024Conditional
a 10 year planning permission for development consisting of the construction of a solar PV development on a c129 ha site consisting of: - The erection of solar panels on ground-mounted galvanised steel frames, string inverters attached to selected ground-mounted galvanised steel frames, 16 no. transformer units, underground cabling, security fencing, CCTV system with pole mounted cameras and landscaping; - 6 no. site entrances with access gates utilizing existing farm field entrances which will be upgraded and internal accesses; - the installation of underground cables, including cables under public roads; - 2 no. temporary construction compounds; and all associated ancillary development works. The operational lifespan of the solar PV development will be 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement will accompany the planning application
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460156
25 Jul 2023Conditional
(1) a domestic shed (2) a domestic garage, including all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 23201
18 Oct 2022Conditional
a cattle underpass under the R691, together with ramps, effluent storage tank and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260560
15 Oct 2022N/a
a cattle underpass under the R691, together with ramps, effluent storage tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260558
5 Jul 2022N/a
a cattle underpass under the R691, together with ramps, effluent storage tank and ancillary works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260344
21 Dec 2020N/a
construction of a cattle underpass with effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201563
17 Dec 2018Conditional
demolish existing dwelling and build a replacement 2 storey dwelling using existing shared entrance, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18601476
28 Nov 2018N/a
demolish existing dwelling and build a replacement 2 storey dwelling using existing shared entrance, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601408
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 Ballyheens.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheens.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyheens.
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 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 Ballyheens.
- 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 Ballyheens with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyheens · Beilchín
- Area
- 538,651 m² (53.87 ha, 133.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballysheehan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Electoral division
- Magorban, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Magorban electoral division: 717 people in 242 households; 77% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boscabell, Dually, Meldrum, Rathclogh South
- Placenames
- Ballyheens 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.