Ballykerin

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykerin, from 1,217 m² to 228,865 m² (22.89 ha, 56.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykerin 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 Apr 2020Conditional

  the construction of a cattle underpass and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20380

• 7 Apr 2020N/a

  the construction of a cattle underpass and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20350

• 9 Mar 2020N/a

  the construction of a cattle underpass and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 20217

• 25 Feb 2019N/a

  the construction of a cattle underpass and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600163

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 Ballykerin.

Recorded monuments

• TS054-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On poorly drained grassland on a NE-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views from N through E to S, higher ground to SW and W. Nearby enclosure (TS054-034----) 130m to S. Ringfort consists of a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 38m N-S; overall diam. 55m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (top Wth 3m; base Wth 6m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 1-2.5m) and wet outer fosse (base Wth 1-2m; top Wth 4m; ext. D 0.5-1m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 5m) at NE. Damage to external faces of bank at N, NE and SW, fosse filled in at SW to W elsewhere it is well preserved. Interior is wet and overgrown at time of visit making detailed examination impossible. Damage to external face of bank flanking either side of entrance and cattle damage to bank at S and SW, otherwise ringfort is well preserved. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-025 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland on a N-facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views to W, N and E higher ground to S. No surface remains of levelled enclosure and no trace of field boundary which is indicated on latest ed. OS 6-inch map. Enclosure indicated on 1843 ed. OS 6-inch map as a semi-circular enclosure intersected at E by a field boundary running N-S. This field boundary is also indicated on the 1906 ed. OS 6-inch map but has subsequently been removed. Moated site (TS055-026----) 117m to SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-026 Moated site
  Description

  On poorly drained grassland on E facing slope of rising ground in upland region with good views to N, E and S higher ground to W. Enclosure possible (TS055-025----) 117m to NE. Moated site consists of a slightly raised large rectangular-shaped area (dims. 41m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) mainly reduced to a scarp and waterlogged outer fosse (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 4-7m; ext. D 0.4m) best preserved at E. Possible causewayed entrance gap (Wth 5m) at S and later gap (Wth 3m) in bank at N. Base of fosse intersected at S by a field boundary running on an E-W axis. Interior of moated site slopes from W to E following natural slope of hill. Fosse best preserved at E and mainly filled in elsewhere, attempts have been made to partially reclaim the field the moated site is located in. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-027 Settlement cluster
  Description

  In grassland atop low rise of ground in upland region with good views in all directions. No surface remains of levelled castle (TS055-027001-) or settlement earthworks in field around castle as indicated on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Field was reclaimed and farm road constructed in 1971 when the field was levelled as part of the land reclamation works. Barely visible remains of low earthworks which were levelled may be visible to N of castle, these may be associated settlement earthworks around the castle. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS055-027001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'little old castle wanting repaire, & a thatched house with fower or five cabbins' with William Butler of Ballykeryne listed as proprietor of the castle in 1640 (Simington 1931 , vol. 1, 131). In grassland atop low rise of ground in upland region with good views in all directions. No surface remains of levelled castle or settlement earthworks (TS055-027002-) in field around castle as indicated on the latest ed.OS 6-inch map. Field was reclaimed and farm road constructed in 1971 when the field was levelled as part of the land reclamation works. The castle is described in an earlier field report as being quarried away with the slightest suggestion of a yard with no coherent remains surviving (OPW report 1971). 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 Ballykerin.

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

About 1 in 10 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 Ballykerin.

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.

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

Name

Ballykerin · Baile Uí Chírín

Area

1,412,255 m² (141.23 ha, 348.98 acres)

Civil parish

Crohane, and its townlands

Barony

Slievardagh

Electoral division

Ballyphilip, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyphilip electoral division: 410 people in 147 households; 86% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurry, Broomhill, Crohane Lower, Garrynoe, Garrysallagh, Knockanattin, Tarsna

Placenames

Ballykerin 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.