Ballagharea

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagharea, from 1,932 m² to 238,749 m² (23.87 ha, 59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballagharea 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.

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  The construction of an underground slatted tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4864

• 30 Nov 2018Withdrawn

  To construct a Poultry Shed, with feed storage bin, underground discharge tank and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7133

• 15 Mar 2018Conditional

  Retention of garage and store and permission to demolish the same garage and store and permission for front elevation changes and single storey extension to front and two storey split level extension to an existing single storey dwellinghouse with single storey link to same, a new garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4634

• 25 Nov 2015Conditional

  Construction of machinery shed and cattle holding yard with crush

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6673

• 9 Feb 2015Conditional

  Construction of silage base and extension to existing slatted unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4217

• 12 Sept 2014Conditional

  Calf house, milking parlour and slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5950

• 11 Jul 2014Withdrawn

  Construction of calf house and milking parlour

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5487

• 20 Dec 2013Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6455

• 18 Feb 2013Conditional

  Construction of machinery shed, slatted unit and silage pit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4260

• 8 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted feeding passage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8497

• 24 Oct 2006Conditional

  Construction of walled concrete yard, walled silage storage yard and underground effluent storage tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11692

• 7 Feb 2006Refused

  Two storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4595

• 19 Dec 2005Withdrawn

  Two storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9436

• 10 Nov 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8268

• 25 Aug 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6135

• 2 Nov 2004Conditional

  Demolition of cubicle house and construction of slatted easy feed cubicle house and soiled water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8108

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballagharea.

Recorded monuments

• CO006-007 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Roadside. Front (NE) of 4 bays, door off-centre to SE. Hipped roof with thatch; off-centre chimney stack removed. Abandoned. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO006-024001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured penannular enclosure (diam. c. 70m), open to ESE, on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Townland boundary, extending NW-SE, bisects enclosure of-centre to NE. Fosse (D 0.35m) survives NNW->N, with scarp continuing line of enclosure N->ENE; not visible at ground level elsewhere. According to local information, enclosure (SE->NNW) to SW of townland boundary levelled c. 1964. Depression on edge of enclosure to N is all that remains of lime kiln marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO006-025 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  In farmyard, to rear of 19th-century Fortwilliam house. Square 3-storey tower attached to NW end of 2-storey outbuilding, each floor divided by string courses. Door in SW elevation on farmyard side. Blocked windows on 1st floor, two slim lancets on NE and SW elevations. Embattled parapet, with pseudo-bartizans. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO006-026 Urn burial
  Description

  Discovered in 1960 during gravel quarrying operations; extensive damage occured before investigation by O'Kelly and Murphy (1961). Pit (diam. c. 0.74m) contained inverted Encrusted Urn covering cremated bones of young adult; excavator suggests bones wrapped in organic material. Pit backfilled with loose sandy soil. Kavanagh 1973, 535) describes urn as having 'rim flattened, bevelled internally...decorated with finger-nail impressions; externally urn decorated...with closely set scored vertical lines; two perforations in...neck area; joint between neck and body carries applied discs; below neck are...two cordons...upper applied, other pinched up; grooves created by cordons ornamented with...obliquely set scores; below this are vertical grooves giving ribbed effect; next zone filled with...wide incised chevron pattern; lowerpart of urn carries long shallow grooves set obliquely; made of coarse...well-fired...bright orange ware'. (Kavanagh 1973, 535); Waddell 1990, 58; Doody 1986, Cork No. 4). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Fortwilliam, country house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan five-bay single-storey with attic house, built c. 1880, now disused. Gabled end bays to front elevation, that to south-west projecting, both with canted-bay windows. Two-storey elevation to rear of main block. Multiple-bay two-storey return to north-west, partly outbuilding, and three-bay return to south-west, with gabled porch to front elevation. House apparently incorporating fabric of earlier dwelling. Projecting stair block to rear elevation, flanked by sinle-storey lean-to additions. Pitched slate roof with overhanging rendered eaves, timber bargeboards, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Slate roof to south-east canted bay window and felt to north-east, with cat-slide slate roof to rear stair block. Roughcast rubble limestone rendered walls, exposed to two-storey return. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills. Mainly replacement uPVC windows to front, and mainly timber sliding sash windows to rear, sash windows being one-over-one pane, some with timber internal shutters. Round-headed door opening to porch having timber panelled door and fanlight. Yard to north-west with multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-west, with pitched and hipped slate roof, remains of roughcast render to rubble limestone walls, segmental-arch carriage entrances and square-headed windows with brick surrounds. Two-bay three-stage castellated folly, possibly originally dovecote, to north-east, having flat-roof with rubble limestone and red brick castellated parapet, rubble limestone walls with dressed limestone string courses between stages, with pointed arch openings having red brick surrounds. Roughly dressed limestone gate piers to south-west entrance to yard, with cut limestone caps.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballagharea, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_700 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballagharea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballagharea · Bealach Aimhréidh

Area

1,278,109 m² (127.81 ha, 315.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbolane, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Milford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

692 people lived in 248 households in the Milford electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Castlelishen, Kyle, Seeds, Sheskin, Shronepookeen, Trienieragh

Placenames

Ballagharea 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.