# Bessborough, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymackey, barony of Ormond Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish Bessborough. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 101,233 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 1,104 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymackey, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/ballymackey.md - Barony: Ormond Upper - Electoral division: Ballygibbon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46197 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 210518 - Centre: latitude 52.885851, longitude -8.046069 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Bessborough, from 1,104 m² to 1,104 m²; 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 554017: 1,104 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/554017.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Bessborough in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bessborough. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bessborough. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bessborough House, house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 22402102, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN®no=22402102. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/bessborough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/bessborough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/bessborough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bessborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghveny: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballaghveny.md - Falleen: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/falleen.md - Woodville: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/woodville-213165.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/bessborough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/bessborough