Kyleballygalvan
Kyleballygalvan is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), barony of Slievardagh, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is Coill Bhaile Uí Ghealbháin.
- Area
- 165.5 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 8,181 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Amenity
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kyleballygalvan, from 150 m² to 158,154 m² (15.82 ha, 39.08 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Amenity (Open space, park)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Social and Public (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Feb 2026Conditional
synthetic Astro-Turf training pitch, associated flood lighting and perimeter steel fencing, ball catch netting, Hurling ball wall, all associated site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660148
15 Dec 2025N/a
the construction of synthetic astro-turf training pitch, associated flood lighting and perimeter steel fencing, ball catch netting, hurling ball wall and all associated site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2561299
6 Dec 2024Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, private bored well, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2461050
28 Oct 2022Conditional
a pedestrian walkway and lighting including assoicated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 22618
3 Dec 2019Conditional
alterations to existing entrance including associated site works
Retention · Tipperary County Council, 19601350
2 May 2018Conditional
to demolish existing farm buildings on site, build a 1.5 storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, bore well, install waste water treatment system including associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600548
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 Kyleballygalvan.
Recorded monuments
- TS049-025 Enclosure
Description
On flat grassland in upland area at edge of shallow river valley overlooking river to W, good views in all directions. Barely visible outline of a large circular enclosure (diam. 80m N-S; 81m E-W) defined by a slight bank which has been mainly reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) and possible shallow outer fosse (Wth 3.5m; ext. D 0.1m) best visible at NE. The scarp and fosse appears to run onto the edge of a slight fall in ground down to the river along the W edge of the enclosure. Depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map as a large semi-circular enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS049-028 Burial
Description
On a S-facing slope of rising pasture in grassland which has been recently reseeded. Good views in all directions. No surface remains of any burials visible in roughly rectangular area (dims. 80m N-S; 10m E-W) marked on the 1903 ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS049-029 Moated site
Description
On a NW-facing slope of rising unimproved wet marshy land in upland area with good views in all directions. Nearby moated site (TS049-050----) 115m to SE. Overgrown moated site in good condition consists of a square-shaped area (36.6m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) enclosed by an earthen bank (base Wth 2m-3.5m; top Wth 1.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) and wet waterlogged outer fosse (base Wth 3.5-5m; top Wth 5m; ext. D 1.2m). Cattle gap (Wth 4m) in centre of bank at SW and in W angle of bank, with evidence of cattle poaching causing damage to external face of bank along SW side. Possible evidence of a smaller enclosure (NW-SE 17m x 13m NE-SW) in W corner of interior which is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.2m), could be remains of a possible house or may be a more recent construction. Waterlogged gap (Wth 5m) which may be an entrance feature located at the centre of the NE bank. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- TS049-050 Moated site
Description
On a SW-facing slope of rising ground in upland area under grass. Good views in all directions. Located on the edge of a ravine which forms the enclosing element to the moated site from SE to S, nearby moated site (TS049-029----) 150m to NW. Monument consists of a square-shaped area (dims. 31m NW-SE x 23m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 1.3m; base Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) and wet waterlogged flat-bottomed outer fosse (top Wth 5m; base Wth 3.6m; ext. D 1m) both of which are not present on the ravine side from SE to S. Cattle gap (Wth 2m) in centre of SE bank, cattle gap in bank at E corner of bank and N corner of bank. No clear entrance feature visible. Agricultural roadway has recently been constructed to the N of the monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kyleballygalvan.
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 Kyleballygalvan, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kyleballygalvan.
- 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 Kyleballygalvan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Kyleballygalvan · Coill Bhaile Uí Ghealbháin
- Area
- 1,655,263 m² (165.53 ha, 409.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry (Slievardagh Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Electoral division
- Farranrory, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 453 people lived in 166 households in the Farranrory electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Blackcommon, Blackcommon, Bolintlea, Farranrory Upper, Garrynagree, Gortnasmuttaun, Williamstown
- Placenames
- Kyleballygalvan 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.