Ballard
Townland in the civil parish of Killaconenagh, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish An Baile Ard
- Area
- 78 ha
- 193 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,712 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 37
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 29 m² to 433,475 m² (43.35 ha, 107.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 May 2021Conditional
Single -storey extension to side of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/324
9 Aug 2017Conditional
Close up existing vehicular entrance and construct new vehicular entrance to dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/522
14 Jul 2017Incompleted application
Close up existing vehicular entrance and construct new vehicular entrance to dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/463
14 Oct 2016Conditional
Permission for retention of a single storey extension to dwelling and permission for retention of detached domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/635
23 Sept 2016Incompleted application
Permission for retention of single storey extension to dwelling and permission for retention of a detached domestic garage.
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/595
24 Nov 2015Conditional
Permission to construct two extensions to an existing dwelling, to include; (1) a garage to the west elevation, (2) a conservatory/greenhouse to the south elevation and (3) Additional storage space to the north elevation including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/668
6 Nov 2015Incompleted application
Permission to construct two extensions to an existing dwelling, to include; (1) a Garage to the West Elevation, (2) a Conservatory/Greenhouse to the South Elevation and (3) Additional storage space to the North Elevation including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/621
13 Nov 2014Conditional
Alterations to elevations and for alterations to roof construction of the proposed extension to dwelling house previously granted under planning register reference 13/00392
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/651
8 Jul 2013Conditional
Extension and alterations to existing dwelling, including new foul and surface water drainage, landscaping and associated site ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/392
27 Jun 2013Incompleted application
Extension and alterations to existing dwelling, including new foul and surface water drainage, landscaping and associated site ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/373
17 Jun 2013Incompleted application
Alterations and extension to existing house, including new foul and surface water drainage, landscaping and associated site ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/341
29 Jan 2013Conditional
Retention of and permission for completion of vehicular entrance to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/46
9 Aug 2012Conditional
new dwellinghouse, domestic storey garage, waste treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/514
20 Sept 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and package waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2462
10 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and package waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2155
2 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling house and package waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1790
12 Feb 2007Conditional
Change of plan of dormer dwelling to one and half storey dwelling and change of site layout planning reg: 03/1404
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/389
16 Jan 2007Conditional
Relocate entrance to dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/107
19 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of first floor extension and conservatory extension to my dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2790
18 May 2006Withdrawn
Change of plan of dormer dwelling to one and half storey dwelling and for change of site layout under planning ref 03/1404
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/903
6 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Change of plan of dormer dwelling to one & half storey dwelling & for change of site layout - planning ref: 03/1404
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/151
16 Jan 2006Refused
Renovations, extension and conversion of existing ruin to a dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/24
22 Dec 2005Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9620
14 Dec 2005Incompleted application
Refurbishment and alterations to dwellinghouse and conversion of attached outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9267
25 Nov 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage/games room
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8703
The 25 most recent of 37 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 Ballard.
Recorded monuments
- CO115-075 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, commanding view of Bear Haven. Upright slab (H 1.5m; 0.45m x 0.35m) aligned WSW-ENE, leaning to W. Field called 'Páirc a Ghalláin (CMSS). (pers. comm Connie Murphy) 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 Ballard.
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 high, 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 Ballard.
- 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 Ballard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballard · An Baile Ard
- Area
- 779,617 m² (77.96 ha, 192.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaconenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Curryglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Curryglass electoral division: 427 people in 179 households; 86% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballard Commons, Derrymihin East, Felane West
- Placenames
- Ballard 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.