Ballyquirk

103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyquirk, from 58 m² to 457,825 m² (45.78 ha, 113.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyquirk 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.

• 14 Sept 2026N/a

  A.) Essential demolition of dilapidated, structurally unsound outbuildings to the rear and South of the existing house; ground clearance and levelling off for the safe traversing on site. B.) Retention permission for refurbishment of the original stone masonry dwelling house and re-roofing off the original wall plate level as per plans submitted. C.) Planning permission to install new generic waste water treatment system with percolation area, site entrance and all ancillary works applicable

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 26132

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  (a) essential demolition of dilapidated, structurally unsound outbuildings to the rear and south of existing house, ground clearance and levelling off for the safe traversing on site and (b) refurbishment of original stone masonry dwelling house and re-roofing of the original wall plate level as per plans submitted and PERMISSION to install new generic waste water treatment system with percolation area, site entrance and all ancillary works applicable thereto

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 26114

• 3 Jul 2026N/a

  (a) 2 no. residential mobile homes on site, (b) essential demolition of structurally unsound outbuildings, ground clearance and levelling off thereto the rear and south side of the existing dwelling house, (c) PERMISSION for the refurbishing of the existing dwelling house as per the plans submitted, new generic waste water treatment system with percolation area, site entrance and all ancillary site works applicable thereto

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2687

• 21 May 2026Conditional

  raised decking area to side of house, roof lights to front, revised roof finish to sunroom and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660484

• 28 Apr 2026N/a

  a raised decking area to side of house, roof lights to front, revised roof finish to sunroom and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660367

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  domestic garage/fuel shed and all associated site works and PERMISSION for RETENTION of existing sheds/stores

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 25163

• 14 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct an unroofed walled silage pit, silage apron, ancillary concrete and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22633

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  construction of livestock housing to include a slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage straw bedded calving and cattle area, a milking robot room and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21643

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of 36 m lattice mobile and broadband tower with delta headframe carrying telecommunications equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4 m palisade fence compound with access track

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 201370

• 20 Mar 2020Conditional

  Dwelling, outbuildings consisting of garage and office, entrance, septic tank and percolation area, access roadway and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20288

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: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011

Recorded monuments

• TN004-030 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on natural rock outcrop on a slight NW-facing slope in undulating countryside. The Calendar of Ormond Deeds, dated 1547-84, refers to a land grant by Thomas Earl of Ormond to Bryen O'Kennedy of Lackyne of the towns and castles of Ballyquirke and Laghensy in Ormond (Curtis 1945, 310). Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'ye castle of Ballyquirke the walls only standing' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 317). 'The Countess of Ormond' is listed as proprietor (ibid.). A four-storey tower house (ext. dims. 12.2m N-S; 10.3m E-W; wall T 2.2m) constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble with chamfered, punch-dressed quoins and slight base-batter. The E wall from first floor upwards has collapsed, the rubble of which is piled up against the E wall obscuring the two-centred doorway located off-centre to the N. This doorway gives access to a lobby which was protected by a murder-hole overhead (now blocked up). The guardroom in the NE angle was accessed off the lobby as were the mural stairs to the SE giving access to first-floor level. The main ground-floor chamber was accessed through a two-centred doorway off the lobby. It is lit by narrow round-headed slit windows set in segmental-arched embrasures with wicker-centring in the centre of the N and S walls. There are timber floor joists in situ over the ground floor, the interior of which is covered in rubble infill. An inserted fireplace in the centre of the W wall may be contemporary with the floor joists which appear to be of eighteenth/nineteenth-century date. The second-floor chamber was accessed from the SE angle which is now destroyed. The floor joists were carried on a wall-plate which was supported on large corbels unlike at ground-floor level where the floor joists sat into the wall without support. A nineteenth-century sash window was inserted into the centre of the N wall at second-floor level, probably contemporary with other insertions. The third floor has a barrel-vaulted roof orientated on a N-S axis and was accessed through a two-centred doorway in the centre of the S wall. The fine punch-dressed limestone doorways are possibly of sixteenth-century date. No windows survive intact. A small lean-to structure built up against the base of the N wall may have acted as a storage area. According to a local landowner the tower house was used for making cider in the nineteenth century. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN004-047 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In tillage. A small circular enclosure (diam. c. 8m), defined by a fosse, identified as a cropmark on Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There appears to be an entrance in the SE quadrant. See attached photograph: TN004-047----_01 Image © Apple Maps satellite imagery (no date) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 8 January 2020

Architectural heritage

• Ballyquirk Castle, country house, 1805–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over basement house, built 1810, having projecting hipped central entrance bay with round eaves-high turrets to corners with slit windows. Square turrets to northeast and northwest corners of rear, with castellations to higher northeast turret. Originally two-storey over basement building with castellated battlements and turret to each corner, and re-modelled c.1870. Hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves and carved eaves board to front and northeast turret, having two rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lime render to coursed squared rubble limestone walls with brick dressings under render to openings and cut-stone string course at basement level. Double horizontal two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and various timber sash and replacements to rear, all with limestone sills. Turrets have round-headed timber sliding sash and blocked windows. Timber panelled door with sidelights and overlight in segmental-headed opening approached by flight of limestone steps. Original inner glazed doors and screen retained. Retaining interior features. Extensive complex of outbuildings, built c.1810, comprising rubble limestone single and two-storey buildings, many retaining slate to pitched roofs and with brick and cut-stone dressings to openings. Main building is two-storey structure which housed dairy, laundry and grain store, and has milking parlour adjoining to south. Other structures include cow byres, barn, carriage house, machinery store and large walled orchard.

• Ballyquirk Castle, farmyard complex, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Extensive complex of outbuildings, c.1810, comprising rubble limestone single and two-storey buildings, many retaining slate to pitched roofs and with brick and cut-stone dressings to openings and cut stone copings to some buildings. Main building is two-storey structure which housed dairy, laundry and grain store, and has milking parlour adjoining to south. Other structures include cow byres, barn, carriage house, machinery store and large walled orchard.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyquirk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyquirk · Baile Uí Chuirc

Area

4,175,464 m² (417.55 ha, 1,031.78 acres)

Civil parish

Lorrha, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Lorrha West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

321 people lived in 125 households in the Lorrha West electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Firmount, Garryclohy, Kilcommon, Kilfadda, Lehinch, Lorrha

Placenames

Ballyquirk 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.