Ballywilliam

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywilliam, from 741 m² to 668,013 m² (66.8 ha, 165.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballywilliam 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 Dec 2022Conditional

  (a) the modification and set back of the existing farm entrance including set back of portion of adjoining field boundary to provide adequate sightlines as previously granted planning (Pl. Ref: 06510969) (b) the demolition of existing derelict milking parlour and farm buildings in the yard (c) the construction of an agricultural shed comprising of milking parlour, dairy, plant & ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard, meal bin, water storage tank & underground slatted parlour washings tanks (d) the construction of agricultural sheds comprising of cubicles, feeding area, calving area with underground slatted slurry storage tanks (e) the construction of 2 no. silage pits and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260697

• 12 Dec 2022N/a

  (a) to modify and set back existing farm entrance including set back of portion of adjoining field boundary to provide adequate sightlines as previously granted planning (Pl. Ref: 06510969) (b) to demolish existing derelict milking parlour and farm buildings in the yard (c) to construct an agricultural shed comprising of milking parlour, dairy, plant & ancillary rooms, drafting & handling facilities, waiting yard, meal bin, water storage tank & underground slatted parlour washings tanks (d) to construct agricultural sheds comprising of cubicles, feeding area, calving area with underground slatted slurry storage tanks (e) to construct 2 no. silage pits and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2260687

• 28 Nov 2018Conditional

  to retain extension constructed to rear of dwelling

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 18601411

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 Ballywilliam.

Recorded monuments

• TN019-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Lough Derg to the W. A nearby enclosure site (TN019-008) and a possible ringfort (TN019-009) lie to the S and SE respectively. Described as a subrectangular area enclosed by a slight bank with no external fosse visible (OPW file, 1968). Destroyed by a land reclamation scheme in the late 1960s. Not visible at ground level. 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

• TN019-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Lough Derg to the W. A nearby enclosure site (TN019-007) and a possible ringfort (TN019-009) lie to the N and E respectively. Destroyed by a land reclamation scheme in the late 1960s. Not visible at ground level. 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

• TN019-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a W-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Lough Derg to the W. An old laneway leads up to a large circular area (diam. 50m N-S) enclosed by a tree-lined earth and stone bank (Wth 0.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5-2m) and wide external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m). No entrance feature visible. A nineteenth-century farmhouse is built into the W face of the enclosure with external stone-facing of bank best visible at E. This may have been a ringfort reused as a garden feature for the nineteenth-century house and later planted with evergreen trees. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywilliam.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballywilliam.

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

Name

Ballywilliam · Baile Mhic Uilliam

Area

871,436 m² (87.14 ha, 215.34 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownarra, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castletown electoral division: 1,497 people in 560 households; 79% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlelough, Castletown, Lackaroe, Landsdown, Shesharoe

Placenames

Ballywilliam 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.