Ballyholahan East
Townland in the civil parish of Emly, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Uí Uallacháin Thoir
- Area
- 172.2 ha
- 425 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 46,318 m² (4.63 ha, 11.45 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyholahan East, from 1,241 m² to 354,754 m² (35.48 ha, 87.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballyholahan East 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
3 Sept 2025Conditional
a slatted tank and PERMISSION FOR the construction of a cattle shed over existing slatted tank (to be retained) and ancillary works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25182
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 Ballyholahan East.
Recorded monuments
- TS065-021 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
On a very slight E-facing slope, under rough pasture, at the centre of a circular clearing (diam. c. 60m) in c. 15 year old coniferous forestry. Circular area (diam. 6.8m) defined by a shallow fosse (overall Wth 2.4m; Wth at base 0.8m; D 0.1m). The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-027 Ring-ditch
Description
In low-lying level rough pasture. Visible as a faint circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on an aerial photograph (OS 2430/1). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-028001 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In low-lying level rough pasture to the W of another possible ring-barrow (TS065-028002-). Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on an aerial photograph (OS 2429/30/31). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2014
- TS065-028002 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In low-lying level rough pasture to the E of another possible ring-barrow (TS065-028001-). Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on an aerial photograph (OS 2429/30/31). Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2014
- TS065-029 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In gently undulating wet pasture with two possible barrows (TS065-028001- and TS065-028002) located 200-250m to the W and another (TS065-074----) c. 100m to the NW. Identified on an aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey 2430/1). Faint traces of a circular area (diam. c. 5m) defined by a shallow fosse (overall Wth c. 1m; D 0.05m) are visible at ground level. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2014
- TS065-030 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
On top of a very slight rise at the centre of a circular clearing (diam. c. 60m) in c. 10 year old coniferous forestry. Identified on an aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey 2430/1). Circular area (diam. 8m) defined by a shallow fosse (overall Wth 1.8m; Wth at base 0.6m; D 0.15m) with traces of an external earthen bank (overall Wth 1.7m). The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2014
- TS065-031 Ring-ditch
Description
In gently undulating improved pasture with moderate to good views in all directions. Not visible at ground level. Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 10m) on an aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey 2431/2). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 May 2014
- TS065-031001 Enclosure
Description
In gently undulating improved pasture with moderate to good views in all directions. Not visible at ground level. Identified as a circular enclosure on an aerial photograph (Bruff 58, 2095) but is unclear. It is possibly immediately NE of ring-ditch (TS065-031----). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 9 September 2014
- TS065-044 Ring-ditch
Description
In gently undulating low-lying wet pasture. Visible as a circular enclosure (diam.c.10m) on an aerial photograph (OS 2431/2). No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-056 Field system
Description
In gently undulating low-lying wet clearing (diam. c. 60m) in c. 10 year old coniferous forestry. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but visible in an aerial photograph (Bruff 5/2095) as a series of parallel linear SW-NE orientated divisions spaced. c. 20m apart. No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-061 Enclosure
Description
In gently undulating c. 10 year old coniferous forestry. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map but visible in an aerial photograph (Bruff 5/2095) as a roughly rectangular area (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW). No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS065-074 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In low-lying level rough pasture. Visible as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m) on an aerial photograph (OS 2429/30/31). A ditch barrow (TS065-029----) is located c. 100m to the SE and two ring-barrows (TS065-028001- and TS065-028002-) are located c. 200m and c. 160m to the SW respectively. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 16 September 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyholahan East.
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 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 Ballyholahan East.
- 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 Ballyholahan East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyholahan East · Baile Uí Uallacháin Thoir
- Area
- 1,721,737 m² (172.17 ha, 425.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Emly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Emly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Emly electoral division: 682 people in 258 households; 75% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyholahan West, Bartoose, Corbally (Co. Limerick), Drumcomoge, Lackelly West (Co. Limerick), Moanmore
- Placenames
- Ballyholahan East 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.