Ballyroan
Ballyroan is a townland in the civil parish of Glenkeen, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Baile Ruáin.
- Area
- 32.2 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,633 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroan, from 211 m² to 148,705 m² (14.87 ha, 36.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyroan 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 Apr 2026Conditional
the as built location of dwelling house & garage, retention is also sought for first floor accommodation, revised garage plans, revised location of entrance together with all associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 2660333
12 Jan 2024Conditional
change of use of garage and carport to habitual use and retain permission for extensions and elevation changes to that previously granted under planning ref: 06510280 with all associated siteworks
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 244
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 Ballyroan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyroan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyroan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyroan, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyroan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyroan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyroan · Baile Ruáin
- Area
- 322,271 m² (32.23 ha, 79.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Glenkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Borrisoleigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,257 people lived in 487 households in the Borrisoleigh electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolaun, Curraghfurnisha, Glenkeen, Knockanevin, Knockinure, Shanballycleary
- Placenames
- Ballyroan 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.