Ballaghanure
Ballaghanure is a townland in the civil parish of Kinneigh, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Bealach an Iúir.
- Area
- 84.6 ha
- 209 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,303 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 32
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghanure, from 133 m² to 380,066 m² (38.01 ha, 93.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghanure 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
30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Planning Permission for the retention of A) detached garage/home gym B) detached shed/garage for domestic storage, garden equipment and cars
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6991
12 May 2023Conditional
Construct loose house for equines and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/252
22 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission to construct dressing rooms and installation of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/414
17 May 2022Incompleted application
Construct dressing rooms and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/334
25 Nov 2016Conditional
Permission to convert grass covered soccer pitch to astro turf surface, construct dressing rooms, gym and permission to install flood lighting and all associated site works at existing soccer pitch
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/725
4 Aug 2016Withdrawn
Permission to convert grass covered soccer pitch to astro turf surface, construct dressing rooms, gym and flood lighting and all associated site works at existing soccer pitch and auto grass race track
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/495
8 Jul 2016Incompleted application
Permission to convert grass covered soccer pitch to astro turf surface, construct dressing rooms, gym and flood lighting and associated site works at existing soccer pitch and auto grass race track
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/434
8 May 2012Incompleted application
Extending the existing playing field, the provision of 24 no. external floodlights and columns and the associated site works to existing soccer pitch and autograss race track
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/308
14 Feb 2011Incompleted application
The provision of external floodlighting and associated site works to the existing soccer pitch and autograss race track
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/75
8 May 2009Refused
Construct agricultural storage building, additional hardstanding and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/536
20 Mar 2007Conditional
Construct cattle house with slatted slurry tanks, silage slab, dry yards and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/771
24 Aug 2006Withdrawn
Construction of 1. no single storey dwelling, septic tank and percolation area
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1707
26 Jul 2006Incompleted application
Single storey dwellinghouse, septic tank and percolation area
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1456
25 Nov 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8710
10 Oct 2005Conditional
Retention of elevational alterations to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7375
19 Sept 2005Incompleted application
Retention of alterations to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6809
16 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5894
24 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4463
19 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/5542
3 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4935
4 Nov 2002Conditional
Bungalow
Approval · Cork County Council, 02/4859
20 Dec 2001Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6873
31 May 2001Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3097
16 May 2001New application
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2741
18 Oct 2000Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/6269
The 25 most recent of 32 applications.
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 Ballaghanure.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghanure.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghanure.
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 Ballaghanure, about 1 in 5 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 Ballaghanure.
- 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 Ballaghanure with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghanure · Bealach an Iúir
- Area
- 846,388 m² (84.64 ha, 209.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinneigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 500 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardkilleen, Ballyvelone East, Castletown, Garland, Paddock, Sleenoge
- Placenames
- Ballaghanure 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.