Ballinlough
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacabea, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Locha
- Area
- 80.9 ha
- 200 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 4,191 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 102 m² to 89,965 m² (9 ha, 22.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballinlough 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
17 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission to construct sunroom extension to existing dwelling. Permission is also sought to retain conversion of attic space to habitable space; permission to retain alterations to fenestrations and minor alterations from those granted in planning ref. 18/243 also to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/467
17 Nov 2021Conditional
Permission to construct agricultural building for the storage of farm machinery and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/795
25 Jun 2020Conditional
Erection of dwellinghouse, garage and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/327
27 Apr 2018Conditional
To construct dwelling, domestic garage, to install waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/243
13 Jul 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and ancillary facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1918
1 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and ancillary facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1439
6 Feb 2007Conditional
Demolish existing dwelling and construct new dwelling with waste water treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/315
6 Jul 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and ancillary facilities
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1293
27 Jul 2004Conditional
Bungalow
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/5771
17 Sept 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/4668
25 Feb 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/773
23 Jul 2002Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3267
19 Oct 2001Conditional
Retention of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/5757
5 Feb 2001Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 01/415
1 Sept 2000Conditional
Extension to dwelling for use as granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5331
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 Ballinlough.
Recorded monuments
- CO133-055 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rolling pasture. Oval, raised area (28.1m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m) S->N, stone-faced in parts; scarp (H 1.8m) N->S. External fosse silted up. Mound (L 8m; Wth 6m; H 2m) of earth and stone inside N bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO133-056 Barrow - mound barrow
Description
In marshland, overlooking Ballin Lough to NW. Circular earthen mound (H 2.3m; diam. 20.5m) presently covered by growth of grass. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Ballinlough.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinlough.
- 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 Ballinlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinlough · Baile an Locha
- Area
- 808,837 m² (80.88 ha, 199.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacabea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knockskagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockskagh electoral division: 555 people in 222 households; 81% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Bawnfune, Cappanabohy, Gurteenaduige, Keamore, Knockskagh, Mealisheen
- Placenames
- Ballinlough 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.