Ballymacadam (Austin)
Townland in the civil parish of Caher, barony of Iffa and Offa West, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Baile Mhic Ádaim
- Area
- 1 ha
- 2 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacadam (Austin). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Ballymacadam (Austin) 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
19 Jul 2022Conditional
amendment to a permitted Solar Farm (Tipperary County Council Reg. Refs. 16/600565, 20/46, 21/446 and 22/152) at Monaraha, Cahir, County Tipperary. The development will consist of the provision of 2 No. weather stations, provision of additional CCTV and associated electrical ducting and amendment of Condition No. 2 of the permission (Tipperary County Council Reg. Ref. 20/46) to provide for the substation compound and associated infrastructure as a permanent development which is not required to be removed from site after 35 years from the date of commencement
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260376
23 Feb 2022Conditional
To amend the solar farm permitted on the site under Tipperary County Council Reg. Ref. 20/46 and consists of a revised solar PV panel arrangement resulting in an increase in the overall panel footprint extent; a reconfigured internal – access route network resulting in a decrease to the overall network length; the reduction in the number of transformer stations from 16 No. to 5 No. and the provision of string inverters to the rear of panel arrays. It is also proposed to reduce the previously permitted maximum export capacity to 19 MW.
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22152
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 Ballymacadam (Austin).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacadam (Austin).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacadam (Austin).
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacadam (Austin).
- 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 Ballymacadam (Austin) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacadam (Austin) · Baile Mhic Ádaim
- Area
- 9,633 m² (0.96 ha, 2.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caher, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Electoral division
- Caher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caher electoral division: 1,230 people in 483 households; 66% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacadam West, Monaraha
- Placenames
- Ballymacadam (Austin) 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.