# Ballina, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Béal an Átha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 294,953 m² (29.5 ha, 72.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,391 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmichael, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmichael.md - Barony: Muskerry West - Electoral division: Teerelton, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 650 people lived in 220 households in the Teerelton electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9935 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40209 - Centre: latitude 51.855976, longitude -8.989341 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 283,791 m² (28.38 ha, 70.13 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2136792: 283,791 m² (28.38 ha, 70.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2136792.md - Parcel 2345530: 8,391 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2345530.md - Parcel 2136793: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2136793.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballina in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 8 Dec 2025, Cork County Council 25/6718: Grant with conditions. Permission. Permission to construct a calf shed and all assocaited site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6718 - 5 Jun 2008, Cork County Council 08/1055: Conditional. Permission. Construction of Extension to existiong dwelling house and associated services. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/1055 - 30 Apr 2008, Cork County Council 08/828: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of extension to existing dwelling house and associated services. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/828 - 16 Apr 2007, Cork County Council 07/1034: Withdrawn. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/1034 - 8 Nov 2006, Cork County Council 06/2339: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted house with underground tanks. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/2339 - 16 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/2136: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/2136 - 3 Oct 2006, Cork County Council 06/2019: Incompleted application. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/2019 - 8 Nov 2002, Cork County Council 02/4926: Refused. Outline permission. 2 no. dwellings. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/4926 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballina. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO082-110: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO082-110----. In pasture, on a N-facing slope overlooking a stream valley. This souterrain was discovered in 1999 when the ground collapsed. It consists of five earth-cut chambers and an annexe. The collapse (diam. 1m) allowed access through the roof at the SSW end of chamber 1. This chamber (2.8m NNE-SSW; 1m NNW-SSE; H 0.8m) is roughly oval in shape with a slightly pointed roof. At the SSW end is a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.6m) and immediately to the E of this is an opening (Wth 0.6m; H 0.54m) into a small annexe (1.2m N-S; 1m E-W; H 0.7m) with a possible air-vent in its SE corner. Much of the SSW end of the chamber is occupied by the collapsed earth and stones from the roof collapse. At the NNE end of chamber 1 is a creepway (L 0.2m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.54m) into chamber 2. This chamber (2.7m NW-SE; min. Wth 0.85m; H 0.85m) has a rounded roof and is roughly rectangular in plan but its NW end bulges out into an oval shape (Wth 1.3m) and contains a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.7m; H 0.8m). At its SE end is another blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m), c. 0.3m above the floor of the chamber. There is a creepway (L 0.36m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) in its SW wall which gives access to Chamber 3. This chamber (2.75m E-W; 1.17m N-S; H 0.87m) is roughly rectangular and has a rounded roof. Its floor is at a slightly lower level than that of chamber 2. A blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 1.1m) is visible towards the centre of its N wall. It is raised above the floor level and set back from the chamber wall. This is probably the same construction shaft that is visible at the NW end of chamber 2. At the W end of the chamber is a creepway (L 0.56m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.43m) into chamber 4. This chamber (2.5m N-S; 1.27m E-W) has a straight N end and a curved S end. At the N end of the W side is a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.8m; H 0.35m). The NW corner of the chamber is strewn with stones. A creepway (L 0.55m; Wth 0.36m; H 0.4m) in the centre of the W wall leads into chamber 5. This chamber (dims of main section: 2.13m NW-SE; 1.18m NE-SW; H 0.8m) is irregular in plan. A blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 0.85m) is visible in the NE side of the chamber. The NW end of the main section of chamber 5 constricts (Wth 0.89m; H 0.56) and slopes up into a curving extension (1.66m E-W; 1.13m N-S; H 0.66m) with a blocked-up construction shaft (Wth 1.1m; H 0.58m) at its W end. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballina. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballina, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballina. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballina.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballina.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballina.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Gortacurrig: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortacurrig-42938.md - Moneycusker: https://everytownland.com/cork/moneycusker.md - Mountmusic: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountmusic.md - Teerelton: https://everytownland.com/cork/teerelton.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballina - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballina