Ballycormick
Townland in the civil parish of Sliguff, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow; in Irish Baile Mhic Cormaic
- Area
- 217.5 ha
- 537 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 4,867 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycormick, from 46 m² to 344,608 m² (34.46 ha, 85.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycormick 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Aug 2025Conditional
to construct a part two storey part single storey dwelling, renovation and extension of existing barn to include stables and storage, septic tank and percolation area, use of existing bored well, new entrance off existing access road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560246
18 Jun 2025Conditional
1.) removal of existing front porch, 2.) the construction of a new single storey extension to front and side of existing dwelling, 3.) external and internal alterations and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560178
30 Sept 2024Conditional
for amendments to developments permitted under 21/340 as follows (a) Retention Permission to discharge effluent from the calf shed constructed under 21/340 to an adjacent pre-existing slurry tank and omission of the pre cast concrete effluent tank permitted under 21/340 (b) planning permission to extend the tank of the cubicle shed permitted under 21/340 to ensure all agitation points are external to the roof overhang above, and associated site works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2460308
15 Aug 2022Conditional
for retention of existing conservatory at the front of the dwelling and all associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22267
18 Nov 2021Conditional
To construct a dormer style dwelling, appropriate wastewater treatment system, proposed bored well, new entrance, domestic storage shed and all ancillary site works and landscaping
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21449
9 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for construction of a new slatted cubicle house, a new calf house, a new drafting area and associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21340
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 Ballycormick.
Recorded monuments
- CW019-105 Enclosure
Description
Aerial photograph (GB90.BU.30, 13 July 1990) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse and with an outer fosse on the northern side. A rectilinear annexe is attached to the western side of the enclosure. Compiled by: Dr Gillian Barrett for the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Date of upload: 30 March 2010
- CW019-134 Road - road/trackway
Description
In tillage. A road/trackway consisting of two parallel lines (Wth c. 7m; L c. 140m), running NW-SE, visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018) identified and reported by Simon Dowling. There is another, narrower roadway running c. 56m parallel to the E. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 January 2020
- CW019-135 Road - road/trackway
Description
In tillage. A road/trackway consisting of two parallel lines (Wth c. 3m; L c. 100m), running NW-SE, visible on Google Earth (imagery date 14 July 2018). There is another, wider roadway running c. 56m parallel to the W. See attached Google Earth image (imagery date 14 July 2018) Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 28 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycormick.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 Ballycormick.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballycormick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycormick · Baile Mhic Cormaic
- Area
- 2,174,649 m² (217.46 ha, 537.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Sliguff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Electoral division
- Corries, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Corries electoral division: 560 people in 192 households; 93% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyloughan, Donore, Glannahary, Gormona, Heath, Lorum, Seskinryan
- Placenames
- Ballycormick 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.