Ballingohig
Ballingohig is a townland in the civil parish of Killaspugmullane, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Ghochaigh.
- Area
- 156.9 ha
- 388 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingohig, from 219 m² to 448,209 m² (44.82 ha, 110.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballingohig 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
21 Sept 2026Awaiting admin validation
Permission for 1) Retention for construction of the detached domestic garage to the rear of the dwelling (used solely in connection with the main dwelling for recreation/store purposes). 2) Retention for alterations to the existing dwelling & front boundary wall that differ from granted permission under (planning ref-713/85), which include (i) Minor alterations to elevations including the location & style of windows/doors, (ii) change of use of the originally granted attached garage space to the front of the dwelling to a domestic laundry room and replacing the garage metal door with 2no. windows (iii) the conversion of the attic to ancillary/storage use along with the installation of Velux roof lights to the front & rear and (iv) stone facing & capping the original boundary wall & piers to the front. And, 3) Permission is sought to decommission the existing septic tank serving the existing dwelling and install a new wastewater treatment system & percolation area along with all ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/2455
7 Mar 2019Conditional
Construct a cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4558
14 Dec 2015Conditional
Construct a cattle shed with slatted tanks and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6833
8 Jul 2010Refused
Dwelling, treatment unit & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5692
17 Jun 2009Conditional
Dwelling house, septic tank & percolation area, bored well & ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5981
19 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10733
8 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10433
7 Apr 2006Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6225
4 Jul 2005Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling and retention of alterations and pitched roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4741
31 Mar 2005Conditional
First floor extension to bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2005
7 Mar 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1333
6 Oct 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7546
17 Sept 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7095
16 Sept 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7028
6 Sept 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/6746
6 Sept 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse, bio-cycle treatment plant and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6768
22 Jun 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/4553
27 Jan 2004Conditional
Alterations and first floor extension to bungalow and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/371
22 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6801
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 Ballingohig.
Recorded monuments
- CO064-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope; Butlerstown river to S. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 175), 'There was one circular lios of medium size on Delaney's farm, but it was demolished about forty years since'. Levelled ringfort (CO064-011---) c. 240m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Ashtongrove, country house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1810, with single-bay two-storey stair return and multiple-bay two-storey extension at right angles to rear (north) elevation. Skirt artificial slate roof with overhanging sheeted eaves, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with painted rubble stone walls to rear. Square-headed openings with six-over-six and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed stairlight to rear with nine-over-six pane with spoked fanlight timber sliding sash window. Square-headed openings to extension with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening to front elevation with recessed timber panelled half-glazed door and overlight having render door surround comprising fluted pilasters and cornice. Approached by flight of limestone steps. Elliptical-arched carriage arch to north-west leading to rear yard surrounded by rubble stone walls. Gable-fronted outbuilding to north-west of yard with bellcote to front gable, pitched slate roof with recent roof lights, rubble stone walls, square-headed opening and elliptical-arched openings with timber fittings. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding with external staircase attached to taller three-bay two-storey outbuilding to north of yard, having pitched slate roofs, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings.
- Ballingohig Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge, built c. 1820, carrying road over river. Rubble stone walls with rendered copings to parapet walls. Round arch with cut stone voussoirs.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballingohig, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballingohig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballingohig · Baile an Ghochaigh
- Area
- 1,569,293 m² (156.93 ha, 387.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaspugmullane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Riverstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 822 people lived in 276 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvinny South, Blossomgrove, Butlerstown Great, Coolguerisk, Coolnacaha, Gogganstown, Kilquane, Kilrussane
- Placenames
- Ballingohig 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.