Ballyhenry

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhenry, from 67 m² to 246,447 m² (24.64 ha, 60.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballyhenry 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.

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  a new entrance and driveway, mobile home with connection to existing septic tank on site and permission to carry out renovations to existing derelict house including removal of fire damaged walls and roof and reconstruction of same and alterations to proposed retained entrance and all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 211499

• 29 Apr 2021N/a

  of a modular home, driveway and entrance

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21587

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  the erection of an agricultural structure containing milking parlour and store, extension of existing collecting yard, provision of meal silo, including associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18600888

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 Ballyhenry.

Recorded monuments

• TN017-056001 Church
  Description

  Located on a natural hill in undulating hilly terrain. An eighteenth-century Protestant church situated on the highest point in a subrectangular graveyard (TN017-056002). Tombstones date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the earliest noted being 1772. No earlier features evident in the graveyard although it is referred to in OS Letters as 'ancient Churchyard' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 80-81). 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

• TN017-056002 Graveyard
  Description

  Located on a natural hill in undulating hilly terrain. An eighteenth-century Protestant church situated on the highest point in a subrectangular graveyard . Tombstones date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the earliest noted being 1772. No earlier features evident in the graveyard although it is referred to in OS Letters as 'ancient Churchyard' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 80-81). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Saint Burchin's Church (Bourney), church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Church of Ireland church, built 1814, having three-bay nave elevation, three-stage tower to west end and single-bay gabled vestry to northeast, the latter recently extended. Pitched artificial slate roofs and rendered chimneystack. Exposed sandstone rubble walls having roughly-dressed quoins and corner pilaster buttresses to tower, topped with pyramidal pinnacles. Pointed-arch openings with sandstone quoins and sills and traceried windows having coloured glass. Louvred pointed-arched openings to tower. Pointed-arch door opening in tower, with chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, replacement timber double-leaf door and coloured glass over-light. Square-headed door to sacristy accessed by flight of steps. Trussed braced timber roof to interior. Graveyard to site. Rendered plinth with cast-iron railings and gates to site boundary.

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey glebe house over basement, built 1814. Now in use as private house, with lean-to porches to front and rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed openings having timber sliding sash windows, one double sash and round-headed sash to rear, all six-over-six pane except for some one-over-one pane to rear and three-over-three pane to south gable, and some timber casement, all with cut-stone sills. Timber panelled main entrance door approached by limestone steps and has decorative cast-iron bootscraper. Single and two-storey outbuildings to site with pitched slate and mono-pitch corrugated-iron roofs.

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 Ballyhenry, about 1 in 5 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhenry.

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 Ballyhenry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Ballyhenry · Baile an Hanraígh

Area

840,366 m² (84.04 ha, 207.66 acres)

Civil parish

Bourney, and its townlands

Barony

Ikerrin

Electoral division

Bourney West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

411 people lived in 146 households in the Bourney West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygorteen, Behaghglass, Boola, Dangansallagh, Lismakin

Placenames

Ballyhenry 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.