Ballaghadown North
Townland in the civil parish of Caheragh, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Bealach an Dúin Thuaidh
- Area
- 94.6 ha
- 234 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 1,592 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghadown North, from 8 m² to 317,138 m² (31.71 ha, 78.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballaghadown North 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
3 Feb 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling and domestic garage with associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/73
22 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling and domestic garage with associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/777
11 Jul 2017Conditional
Construct a calf house, roofed holding yard with slatted slurry tank, soiled water collecting shore, extend existing cattle holding yard, alter and raise the roof of existing milking parlour and carry out associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/452
11 Dec 2006Conditional
Demolition of existing farm open slurry pit and erection of new slatted cowhouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2678
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 Ballaghadown North.
Recorded monuments
- CO119-081 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, E of Ruagagh River on crest of low lying NE-SW ridge. Oval slightly raised area (38m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. H 1.8m); stone-faced externally; with silted-up external fosse. Break in bank to NW. Possible souterrain (CO119-100---) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO119-100 Souterrain
Description
Tradition of souterrain in N half of ringfort (CO119-081---). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghadown North.
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 Ballaghadown North.
- 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 Ballaghadown North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghadown North · Bealach an Dúin Thuaidh
- Area
- 945,994 m² (94.6 ha, 233.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caheragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Killeenleagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeenleagh electoral division: 371 people in 132 households; 86% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Angram, Ballaghadown South, Caheragh, Garranes South, Kilmore, Maulnaskeha
- Placenames
- Ballaghadown North 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.