Ballymacady

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacady, from 1,155 m² to 184,176 m² (18.42 ha, 45.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacady 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.

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the change of house type under previously permitted governing planning permission reference 2286 together with all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22656

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Tipperary County Council, 2286

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  alterations made to the footprint of the dwelling granted under Planning Ref No. 19/601437 and for Permission for change of garage type from that granted under Planning Ref No. 19/601437 and for Permission to further alter the partly constructed dwelling by the addition of an increased floor area to kitchen area along with all ancillary site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21564

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 19601437

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  Dwelling, Garage, Effluent Treatment System, Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600170

• 22 Dec 2017N/a

  Dwelling, Garage, Effluent Treatment System, Entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 17601440

• 25 Aug 2017N/a

  a two storey dwelling, garage, septic tank, boundaries, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600933

• 18 May 2017N/a

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, garage, septic tank, peroclation area, site entrance, site boundaries and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600559

• 18 May 2017Conditional

  construction of a new vehicular entrance to facilitate forestry works access

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600567

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 Ballymacady.

Recorded monuments

• TS067-026 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, at a spot height of 306ft. Excellent views all around. Oval area (dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 38m E-W) defined by a levelled scarp (H c. 0.5m; Wth c. 5m) E-S-W and very low profile on northern side of monument. Interior slopes gently downwards to SW. Group of four mature beech trees c. 20m to E. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS068-032001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a natural platform which extends eastward, on an E-facing slope, with a hill rising immediately to the W and a natural pond 13m to the SW. Land in 'BallimcKeadee' had been granted to George Sherlock in the 1580s following the attainder of Geoffrey Bwy Bourke (COD VI,107). It was subsequently purchased by Ormond who passed it on to John Cantwell of Moycarkey in 1593 (COD VI, 56). The Civil Survey 1654-56 (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 25) refers to 'a good castle wanting repayre, a good spring water well one Orchard one garden' at 'Ballymckeaddy' and gives 'John Cantwell of Ballymckeady Esqr. Irish Papist' as the proprietor. The remains of a rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 14.22m E-W; 11.14m N-S; int. dims. 11.6m E-W; 6.7m N-S) now stand to two storeys, though it was originally higher. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble (wall T 2.2m) with an external base-batter and good quoins, though at the SW angle the quoins above 2.6m are missing. The tower house was entered through a rounded doorway, now partially blocked, at the N end of the E wall, which was protected by a gun-loop on the S side of the doorway. There was a small entrance lobby with a guardroom to the N, and a second lobby to the S, no trace of which survives except a scar in the E wall. A third lobby to the S, which no longer survives, gave access to a spiral stair in the SE angle, now broken out. The ground-floor chamber is lit by a round-headed single light window in the W wall and there is a wall cupboard on either side of the window embrasure. The N wall has a large niche W of centre and there is a wall cupboard at the W end of the N wall. There is another recess with a largely broken-out vaulted embrasure at the E end of the N wall. There is a broken-out opening midway along the N wall, possibly related to the ground-floor chamber but it appears to be at vault springing level. The S wall has a broken-out embrasure, now forming an entrance, but the outer wall of this embrasure is completely missing. The entrance lobbies were vaulted over to support a first-floor chamber running along the E wall. This chamber was entered from the spiral stairs and was lit by a loop at the N end and another at the S end of the E wall of the chamber. There is an unusual stone hinge positioned over the main doorway which possibly functioned as a socket into which a trap-door for a murder-hole would have been horizontally slotted. It was possibly one of two sockets, the masonry to the S is broken out where a second hinge may have been. The main first-floor chamber was entered from the spiral stairs. It rested on a wooden floor and is barrel-vaulted, though most of the E end has collapsed. The vault has good wicker-centring impression and patches of smooth lime plaster which are also evident in the stairwell. The first-floor was lit by a window in the W wall, now broken out, and possibly by a window at the E end of the N wall where the masonry has collapsed. The spiral stairs was lit by a small flat-headed window at the E end of the S wall and one in the same position between first and second floor level. Most of the E end of the vault has collapsed. There are beam holes in the N and S walls. Externally all four faces of the tower house have a high gable-shaped recess, with gun loop at the apex, positioned centrally in each wall. This feature is quite rare, other examples are in west Cork at Glandore Castle, Aghatubrid More townland (CO142-030----) (Power 1992, vol.1, 321) and Raheen Castle, Raheen townland (C0142-082----) (Power 1992, vol.1, 329); in north Cork at Ballynamona townland (CO018-060----) (Power and Lane 2000, vol.4, 523) and in Co. Clare at Newtown townland (Burren By.) (CL005-034----). These are all late tower houses dating to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. 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 Ballymacady.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacady · Baile Mhic Éadaigh

Area

1,726,846 m² (172.68 ha, 426.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfeakle, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

385 people lived in 146 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglasheen, Ross, Templenahurney, Thomastown Demesne North, Thomastown Demesne South

Placenames

Ballymacady 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.