Ballysteena

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysteena, from 205 m² to 177,813 m² (17.78 ha, 43.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysteena 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.

• 21 Mar 2024Conditional

  the temporary placement of a mobile home and ancillary services during the restoration and extension of the existing dwelling house, including all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460198

• 16 Jul 2018Conditional

  dwelling, garage, entrance and wastewater treatment system including associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600906

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 Ballysteena.

Recorded monuments

• TN010-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of an E-W ridge in an upland area. A natural rise of ground scarped to form a large round-topped, slightly flattened mound (diam. 31m N-S; 38m E-W). The mound is defined by a scarp (H 3.5m at W) from S through W to N with a possible entrance gap at E where the slope of the ground is level with the interior. 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

Architectural heritage

• Modreeny, gate lodge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to Modreeny, built c.1850, having pedimented entrance portico. Hipped slate roof with cut-stone chimneystack. Dressed limestone walls with ashlar limestone portico in antis. Timber margined mullioned casement windows with replacement uPVC windows to west elevation. Timber panelled doors. Quadrant gateway with ornamental cast-iron gates flanked by railings on cut-stone plinth.

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 Ballysteena, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballysteena, Cloughjordan5 sales

Name

Ballysteena · Baile an Stiabhnaigh

Area

742,506 m² (74.25 ha, 183.48 acres)

Civil parish

Modreeny, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Cloghjordan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,195 people lived in 462 households in the Cloghjordan electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhasty, Killurane, Knockanacree, Modreeny, Mullenkeagh, Oxpark

Placenames

Ballysteena 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.