Ballincourneenig
Townland in the civil parish of Knockavilly, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Chuirnínigh
- Area
- 156 ha
- 386 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 2,690 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 38
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincourneenig, from 4 m² to 242,508 m² (24.25 ha, 59.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballincourneenig 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
4 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6667
3 Nov 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6370
25 Apr 2022Conditional
Construction of single storey dwelling house, to construct new entrance, to install sewerage treatment system, to remove existing septic tank and to install new sewerage treatment system to serve existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4940
31 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission for 1) alterations and extensions to an existing dwelling, 2) the construction of a detached domestic use garage, 3) all other associated site works and 4) permission for retention of an existing single storey extension to the dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4175
25 Jan 2022Conditional
Dwelling house, domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4123
20 Dec 2021Incompleted application
Permission for dwelling house, domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7417
3 Dec 2021Withdrawn
Permission for dwelling house, domestic garage/store, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7263
16 Jul 2020Conditional
The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, septic tank and percolation area together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5493
15 Jan 2018Conditional
To demolish existing single storey dwelling and construct new dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4071
12 Dec 2017Incompleted application
Permission to demolish existing single storey dwelling and construct new dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, sewerage treatment and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7252
24 Nov 2017Withdrawn
Construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7060
29 Apr 2013Conditional
Construction of front porch and installation of velux roof light to front of dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4777
24 Apr 2013Withdrawn
Construction of dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4759
4 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4666
30 Dec 2011Withdrawn
Construction of new dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6724
4 Nov 2011Conditional
Construction of a single dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, site entrance, private well, installation of wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6350
30 Dec 2010Conditional
Alterations to existing garage, to include for the replacement and raising of the roof to same
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8836
27 Feb 2009Conditional
Extension to side of existing bungalow (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 06/5982)
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4602
28 Jan 2009Conditional
Construction of domestic garage to rear of existing dwelling and a 1.2m natural stone wall to front (northern boundary). Retention of a 1.8m concrete post & panel fence to the side (western boundary), and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4225
3 Sept 2008Conditional
Dwelling, garage and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8710
27 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Dwelling, garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8613
27 May 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6952
26 Nov 2007Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12623
16 Nov 2007Conditional
Conversion of attic to living accommodation, installation of 4 no. velux windows to rear of dwelling and retention of increase in ridge height of same
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12405
16 Nov 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12435
The 25 most recent of 38 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 Ballincourneenig.
Recorded monuments
- CO085-053 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture, on N side of stream. Shown on 1940 OS 6-inch map as mound. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Ballincourneenig.
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 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 Ballincourneenig.
- 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 Ballincourneenig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballincourneenig · Baile an Chuirnínigh
- Area
- 1,560,077 m² (156.01 ha, 385.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockavilly, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Knockavilly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockavilly electoral division: 477 people in 145 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygroman Upper, Ballymountain, Ballymurphy North, Belrose, Garranewaterig, Knockatreenane, Raheen
- Placenames
- Ballincourneenig 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.