Ballinkeen

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinkeen, from 966 m² to 525,738 m² (52.57 ha, 129.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinkeen 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to: 1) Construct a new slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted unit to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, straw bedded area & underground slatted slurry storage tanks with external agitation & ancillary external concrete, 2) Construct a silage slab & concrete apron. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6192

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of 1 no. livestock underpass, and 1 no. effluent holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6316

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5347

• 18 Aug 2016Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse and domestic garage served by septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6070

• 9 Mar 2016Conditional

  Retention of: (1) extension constructed to dairy, (2) calving shed constructed to south side of existing cattle shed, (3) walled silage slab and silage effluent storage tank, and Permission for: (4) cubicle House onto north side of existing cubicle house with slatted unit (underground tank), and (5) construct new straw shed and slatted unit (underground tank) to east of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4533

• 3 Oct 2008Conditional

  Dwelling and wastewater treatment unit

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/9150

• 12 Jun 2008Conditional

  Construction of agricultural access onto public road, construction of private agricultural access road, overbridge over Mallow-Tralee railway line and all associated roadworks, embankments, walls, drainage, fencings and safety barriers to facilitate the closure of Iarnrod Eireann level crossings XT052 & XT053

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7249

• 20 May 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of agricultural access onto public road, construction of private agricultural access road, construction of overbridge over Mallow-Tralee Railway line and all associated roadworks, embankments, walls, drainage, fencings and safety barriers to facilitate the closure of Iarnrod Eireann Railway level crossings XT052 & XT053

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6807

• 26 May 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/7501

• 1 Jun 2005Refused

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/3802

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinkeen.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinkeen.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballinkeen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Ballinkeen.

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.

No address of the register names Ballinkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballinkeen · Béal Átha an Chinn

Area

982,918 m² (98.29 ha, 242.88 acres)

Civil parish

Drishane, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Rathcool, the unit of the census

Census 2022

563 people lived in 201 households in the Rathcool electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drishane Beg, Garrane South, Keale South, Killowen, Laght, Prohus

Placenames

Ballinkeen 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.