Bessborough

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Bessborough, from 1,104 m² to 1,104 m². The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Bessborough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bessborough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Bessborough.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bessborough.

Architectural heritage

• Bessborough House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-pile four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with canted bay to southeast, garden block and with extensions to northwest and southwest. Incorporates fabric of earlier building. Pitched slate roof to southeast block, hipped elsewhere, with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, chamfered to north corner of northwest block. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-three pane to first and six-over-nine and three-over-three to rear, with some casement, all with cut limestone sills. Square-headed door opening to northeast gable of north-west block, with paned over-light. Single-storey outbuildings with slightly projecting two-storey part, with hipped and pitched slate roofs, rendered brick walls, square-headed windows and segmental-headed doorways and with brick entrance gateway with flattish segmental arch with pedimented rendered brick bellcote. Cut-stone pedestrian gate to site.

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 Bessborough, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bessborough · Bessborough

Area

101,233 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymackey, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Upper

Electoral division

Ballygibbon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 238 households in the Ballygibbon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghveny, Falleen, Woodville

Placenames

Bessborough 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.