Ballincourlea
Townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Choir Léith
- Area
- 58.3 ha
- 144 acres
- Land parcels
- 12
- registered freehold, median 5,043 m² (0.5 ha, 1.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincourlea, from 1,695 m² to 200,299 m² (20.03 ha, 49.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballincourlea 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
14 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a two storey detached dwelling, a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6465
9 Feb 2023Conditional
The demolition of sheds and the partial demolition and renovation, which will include a two-storey extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4218
11 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Demolition of sheds and the partial demolition and the renovation, which will include a two-storey extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6524
16 Sept 2022Incompleted application
The partial demolition and renovation and extension works to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6094
11 Dec 2017Incompleted application
Change of plan and elevations to that granted under planning permission reference 07/11083 and extended under planning permission reference 13/4440.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7232
4 Apr 2014Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and attached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4684
15 Mar 2013Unconditional
Two-storey dwelling house and detached garage, associated site works and wastewater treatment system, extension of duration to permission granted under planning Ref. No. 07/11083
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4440
19 Sept 2007Conditional
Two-storey dwelling house and detached garage, associated site works and wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11083
30 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of waste treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10635
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 Ballincourlea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballincourlea.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballincourlea.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1537 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballincourlea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballincourlea · Baile an Choir Léith
- Area
- 583,141 m² (58.31 ha, 144.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ightermurragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Garryvoe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garryvoe electoral division: 699 people in 236 households; 87% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garryvoe Upper, Knockglass, Moanroe, Monacreagh, Rathhaha, Schoolgardens
- Placenames
- Ballincourlea 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.