Ballyporeen

121 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyporeen, from 10 m² to 308,578 m² (30.86 ha, 76.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 May 2026Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660455

• 7 May 2026N/a

  construction of an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660411

• 27 Apr 2026N/a

  construction of an extension to a height of 4850mm with two en suite bedrooms. The front will be in line with existing buildings and will comprise a door and window, including a flat roof. There will be a single story extension to the kitchen at the rear of the existing house with access to the two bedrooms. total area 83.4 meters squared

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660361

• 24 Mar 2026N/a

  to construct an extension to a height of 4850mm with two unsuite bedrooms. The front will be in line with existing buildings and will comprise of a door and window including a flat roof. There will be a single story extension to the kitchen at the rear of the existing house with access to the two bedrooms, total area 83.4 meters squared 1

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660256

• 29 May 2025Conditional

  the construction of a spectator stand to serve existing playing field with all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560483

• 9 May 2025N/a

  a spectator stand to serve existing playing field with all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560394

• 15 Jul 2024Refused

  the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 24160

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling. The extent of the works consists of a rear lobby bedroom and bathroom

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 24102

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  1) the coversion of the existing out-building for domestic use on both floors, 2) a new single and two storey extension to rear of dwelling connecting existing dwelling and out-building, 3) internal and external alterations to existing dwelling and out-building to suit new layouts, 4) and all associated works, all served by existing site entrance and sewer

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2460329

• 9 Apr 2024Unconditional

  the demolition of 5 no. partially constructed dwellings as well as planning permission for 20 no. new dwellings together with the completion of roads, footpaths, underground services, foul and surface water networks and all boundary treatments on part of the site of the previously granted planning permission 18600959

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 2482

• 22 Jan 2024N/a

  an extension to their dwelling consisting of a ground floor bedroom and bathroom

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 248

• 23 Aug 2023Conditional

  the following: 1) demolish existing dwelling house & agricultural sheds, 2) construct 4no. 3 bedroom terraced dwellings, 3) new site entrance, 4) roadside boundary works, 5) public sewer connection, 6) and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360649

• 6 Jul 2023N/a

  1) demolish existing dwelling house & agricultural sheds, 2) construct 4 no. 3 bedroom terraced dwellings, 3) new site entrance, 4) roadside boundary works, 5) public sewer connection, 6) and all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360496

• 1 Jun 2023Conditional

  the extension and renovation of existing dwelling and permission to raise the walls and roof of the dwelling to develop first floor accommodation and permission to demolish part of existing shed to the rear of dwelling and permission to remove existing chimneys and permission to connect to public sewage system and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360371

• 13 Jan 2023Conditional

  the refurbishment of Balllyporeen Old Boys National School. Erect new fencing segregating Old from New school and replace neighbouring fence with screen fence. Construct 1.8 m walkway path on East side with entrance at Lower Main Street Ballyporeen. Extend parking bays to include two electric charging points. Construct a new store room (11.8 m wide X 1.7 m long and 5m high) utilising existing hurling wall structure

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 236

• 6 Dec 2022N/a

  the refurbishment of Ballyporeen Old School Boys National School (2 no. rooms) to modern standard. Erect new fencing segregating old from new school and replace neighbouring fence with screen fence. Construct 1.8m walkway path on side with entrance on Lr. Main Street. Widen GAA Church Street entrance to accommodate car and walkway. Extend parking bays to include two electric charging points. Construct a new storeroom (11.8m x 1.7m) utilising existing Hurling Wall Structure.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22663

• 12 Oct 2022N/a

  the refurbishment of Ballyporeen Old School Boys National School (2 no. rooms) to modern standard. Erect new fencing segregating old from new school and replace neighbouring fence with screen fence. Construct 1.8m walkway path on side with entrance on Lr. Main Street. Widen GAA Church Street entrance to accommodate car and walkway. Extend parking bays to include two electric charging points. Construct a new storeroom (11.8m x 1.7m) utilising existing Hurling Wall Structure.

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22600

• 25 Feb 2022Refused

  The development consists of; 1) Retention of polytunnel, 2) retention of the open storage of motor vehicles or other objects or substances 3) Retention of a metal storage unit 4) permission to relocate and to extend the metal storage unit

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 22168

• 21 Jun 2021N/a

  construction of a workshop and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21897

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  a) Front porch extension. b) Extension to the side of dwelling house, incorporating Utility Room/Lobby, Domestic Garage & Lean-to covered area. c) Single story extension to rear of dwelling house. D) Detached domestic garage with lean-to shed to front of garage

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21765

• 21 May 2021N/a

  construction of a workshop and associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21732

• 20 May 2021N/a

  1) retention of a polytunnel. 2) The open storage of motor vehicles or other objects or substances (Retention), 3) Retention of metal storage unit. 4) Permission to extend metal storage unit

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21724

• 6 Apr 2021N/a

  1) retention of a polytunnel, 2) the open storage of motor vehicles or other objects or substances (Retention), 3) Development of a metal storage unit

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 21439

• 8 Mar 2021Conditional

  (A) construct a pedestrian walkway to perimeter of existing playing fields with associated fencing, (B) construct an Astroturf playing area, (C) install 6 No. 12m high lighting columns with LED Lamp heads, with surround fencing to playing area (D) all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21281

• 25 Feb 2021N/a

  (A) Construct a pedestrian walkway to perimeter of existing playing fields with associated fencing, (B) Construct an Astroturf playing area, (C) Install 6 No. 12m high lighting columns with LED Lamp heads, with surround fencing to playing area (D) all associated site development works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21226

The 25 most recent of 43 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyporeen.

Architectural heritage

• Russell, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic, built c. 1900, now also in use as shop and post office, having lower two-storey with attic return to rear and with lean-to extension to north elevation of return. Pitched slate roof to main house, pitched artificial slate to return, and lean-to artificial slate to extension, with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered lined-and-ruled walls, with painted quoins to front elevation. Square-headed timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, with replacement uPVC windows to north and south elevations, all with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with timber replacement door, and overlight. Timber shopfront has central door with overlight, flanked by plate glass windows with rendered stall riser, having painted lettering to fascia, and cornice supported by panelled pilasters. Yard to rear has three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west gable of return, having half-hipped slate roof, partly exposed limestone walls, and L-plan multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof, both having square-headed openings with timber fittings. Yard entered through roughcast rendered walls with rendered octagonal-profile piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• Catholic Church of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1870, with altar to west end, single-bay transepts with lean-to porches to gables, two-bay chancel, and with three-bay single-storey sacristy to north-west corner of chancel. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rooflights, rendered chimneystack to west gable, cut limestone copings and cross finials to transept gables, and bellcote to gable-front. Snecked sandstone walls to gable-front, with cut limestone quoins, date plaque, and dressed limestone plinth. Pebbledashed walls elsewhere, with rendered borders and plinth. Pointed arch window openings throughout, all with stained glass, those of gable-front, nave and front elevations of transepts having chamfered limestone surrounds, with hood-mouldings and block-and-start surrounds only to front elevations. East window is two-light with Y-tracery, west window is four-light with trefoil heads and bar tracery. All other windows have timber frames. Oculi to upper gables, blind with render surrounds to transepts and having cut sandstone surround to quartered timber window to gable-front. Blind pointed-arch windows flanking main entrance, having chamfered limestone surrounds and label mouldings. Tudor arch entrance doorway with chamfered cut limestone block-and-start surround and hood moulding, having timber battened double-leaf doors and timber overlight with Y-tracery. Blocked Tudor-arch doorways to front elevations of transepts, with chamfered cut limestone surrounds. Pointed-arch openings to sacristy, render surrounds, timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows and timber battened door. Interior has arcades to transepts with two pointed arches with marble columns and engaged columns having decorative capitals, and sculpted heads as corbels. Low screen wall forward of rear wall of chancel. Timber scissors truss roof, decorative panelled timber gallery supported on clustered columns with glazed timber screen. Marble altar, lectern and tabernacle, carved timber Stations of the Cross and marble wall memorial. Graveyard to site. Rendered boundary walls and quadrant entrance gates with rendered piers, having wrought-iron double-leaf gates, flanked by wrought-iron railing and stile.

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former parochial house, built c. 1900, with two-bay side elevations, gable-fronted entrance porch, slightly-lower two-storey lean-to addition to rear with lean-to porch. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls and rendered plinth. Segmental-headed window openings to front elevation, square-headed elsewhere, with timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows to main block and barred two-over-two pane to return, all with limestone sills. Segmental-headed door opening with moulded render surround, half-glazed timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight, having square-plan glazed timber porch to front, with pitched glazed roof having decoratively-carved timber bargeboards, panelled rendered plinth sides with timber fixed and casement windows with rendered sills and coloured glass cross motifs, and half-glazed timber panelled door with pivoting overlight. Eight-bay single-storey with attic outbuilding to south-east of site, with pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings, battened to pitching door. Recent flat-roofed garage to north of site. Rendered boundary walls with decoratively-rendered spired piers with pointed-arch motif and decorative cast-iron pedestrian gate. Double-leaf metal vehicular gates to south, set to painted cut-stone piers with caps and plinths.

• House, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, with shopfront to ground floor, three-bay single-storey house to south, and with later two-storey lean-to extension to south gable of larger and rear of smaller building. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls to front and south elevation, having render quoins and plinth to front, and roughcast render to rear. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds and painted sills, having timber sliding sash one-over-one panes, double to end bays of first floor. Shopfront has panelled timber pilasters with rendered plinths and supporting consoles, having plain fascia with moulded cornice and rendered stall riser. Recessed doorway with double-leaf timber panelled door with leaded coloured glass overlight and timber battened double-leaf gate, and vertically-divided display windows with leaded coloured glass overlights. Three-bay single-storey house to south having pitched artificial slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, being double flanking timber battened door.

• Water pump, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c. 1870, having fluted neck and domed finial, banded cylindrical shaft, long straight handle with knob end, foliate detail to junction of neck and spout and with ram's head bucket grip to spout. Set on rubble sandstone plinth.

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey house, built c. 1840, having two-bay end elevations and recent timber portico to front entrance. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Smooth rendered walls with render quoins and having render platband at first floor sill level. Square-headed windows throughout, those of front elevation being double timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows, top floor windows being narrower than those of lower floors. Replacement uPVC windows elsewhere, all with painted sills. Square-headed uPVC door and overlight fronted by timber portico with fluted columns. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east gable and two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east, both with pitched artificial slate roofs, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with lined-and-ruled rendered piers and decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

• Ballyporeen Bridge, bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch sandstone road bridge over River Duag, dated 1845, having segmental arches. Coursed snecked rusticated walls, dressed stone parapets to centre of bridge, rubble stone parapets with rendered coping to each end, cut-stone voussoirs to arches, and roughly dressed V-cutwaters to upstream (west) side. Carved limestone plaque to west parapet. Covered well to south end of west parapet of bridge.

• Convent of Mercy, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-bay single-storey former teacher's or caretaker's house built c.1930, to south of convent and school, having single-storey lean-to extension to east and single-storey pitched-roof extension to west. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack to east gable and metal vent to middle of roof, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with rendered plinth. Square-headed double timber sliding sash one-over-one pane windows and timber battened door with overlight, set into segmental-headed openings with painted decorative render surrounds, and painted sills. Similar windows to lean-to extension, without decorative surrounds.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyporeen.

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

Name

Ballyporeen · Béal Átha Póirín

Area

612,570 m² (61.26 ha, 151.37 acres)

Civil parish

Templetenny, and its townlands

Barony

Iffa and Offa West

Electoral division

Ballyporeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyporeen electoral division: 964 people in 362 households; 82% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dangan, Glenacunna, Gorteeshal, Lyrefune, Moher, Newcastle

Placenames

Ballyporeen 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.