Ballaghboy

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghboy, from 38 m² to 98,536 m² (9.85 ha, 24.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Ballaghboy 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.

• 25 Apr 2013Withdrawn

  Permission for (i) conversion of existing hostel to museum, (ii) construction of car park (iii) connection to existing waste water treatment system and (iv) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/245

• 25 Feb 2009Conditional

  Renovate and extend existing building presently used as garage/store/glasshouse and convert same to dwelling unit with attached domestic garage together with installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/191

• 2 Feb 2009Incompleted application

  Renovate and extend existing building presently used as garage/store/glasshouse and convert same to dwelling unit with attached domestic garage together with installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/86

• 7 May 2008Refused

  Renovate and extend existing building presently used as garage/store/glasshouse and convert same to dwelling unit with attached domestic garage, installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/843

• 20 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Renovate and extend existing building presently used as garage/store/glasshouse and convert same to dwelling unit together with installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/516

• 31 Mar 2006Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse, garage and glasshouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/553

• 10 Jan 2006Withdrawn

  Retention of conservatory extension to dwelling house, retention of glasshouse and extension to garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13

• 24 Nov 2005Incompleted application

  Retention of conservatory extension, glasshouse and extension to garage/store

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8672

• 18 Oct 2005Incompleted application

  Retention of extensions to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7603

• 5 Mar 2004Conditional

  Demolition of stone outbuildings and construction of 4 no. dwellinghouses for short term letting and installation of mini treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1443

• 14 Aug 2002New application

  Alterations, extension and change of use of premises to hostel and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3614

• 19 Jul 2002Refused

  Demolition of stone out- buildings & construction of 4 no. dwellings for short term letting & installation of mini-treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3207

• 9 Mar 2001Refused

  Demolition of existing stone buildings & construction of 4 no. dormer dwellings for short term letting, treatment plant & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1215

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Special Protection Area: Beara Peninsula SPA 004155
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Garinish Point 001986

Recorded monuments

• CO126-013 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on S-facing slope. Irregular area enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank. Modern gate on S side. Many grave-markers noted. Souterrain (CO126-021---) within burial ground. 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

• CO126-021 Souterrain
  Description

  In burial ground (CO126-013---). Underground chamber discovered; closed in recent past (O'Shea and Crowley 1972, 101). 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

• CO126-043 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gently sloping terrace, on a W-facing hillslope overlooking Dursey Sound. An irregularly shaped mainly pasture area (c. 140m N-S; c. 120m E-W) is defined by the remains of a collapsed stone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.4m), the base stones of which protrude from a low bank of peat and earth (Wth 0.7-1m). On the W side taller stones, set at right angles to the line of the wall, occur intermittently and lower similarly set stones occur in between. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghboy.

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 Ballaghboy, 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 high, 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 Ballaghboy.

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 Ballaghboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballaghboy · An Bealach Buí

Area

969,716 m² (96.97 ha, 239.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Kilnamanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

380 people lived in 153 households in the Kilnamanagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarriga, Billeragh, Garinish

Placenames

Ballaghboy 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.