Ballinphelic
Townland in the civil parish of Liscleary, barony of Kerrycurrihy, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Pheillic
- Area
- 228.4 ha
- 565 acres
- Land parcels
- 104
- registered freehold, median 1,511 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 46
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinphelic, from 6 m² to 496,133 m² (49.61 ha, 122.6 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 Ballinphelic 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
7 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0863
1 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a single-storey extension to the side elevation and to provide a new door to the rear elevation of an existing dwelling, and the construction of new roadside boundary wall, piers and gates for the site entrance, and any associated site works. The application also includes for the retention of a glass-house and garden room on site.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5745
10 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission for a new septic tank and permission for retention of the existing dwelling bungalow, and all the alteration works carried out to date, including a garage conversion for residential use.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5378
3 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission for the importation of clean inert soil & stone for raising of an agricultural field to improve the agricultural output of the field and the construction of a wheel wash, new temporary haul road and widening of the entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5306
25 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the retention of the existing dwelling bungalow for residential use, all alterations made to the dwelling bungalow and a new septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5234
20 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the importation of clean inert soil & stone for the raising of an agricultural field to improve the agricultural output of the field and the construction of a wheel wash, temporary haul road and widening of the entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5196
13 Nov 2024Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of a split level, two storey extension to the rear of their dwelling bungalow and all other ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6150
9 Aug 2024Refused
Permission for the importation of clean inert soil & stone for the raising of an agricultural field to improve the agricultural output of the field and the construction of a wheel wash, new temporary haul road and widening of the entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5504
25 Jul 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the importation of clean inert soil & stone for raising of an agricultural field to improve the agricultural output of the field and the construction of a wheel wash, new temporary haul road and widening of the entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5428
29 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of on-site wastewater treatment system serving a single dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6091
7 May 2021Conditional
To demolish an existing derelict dwelling house and outbuilding and construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5241
14 Apr 2021Incompleted application
To demolish an existing derelict dwelling house and outbuilding and construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4960
2 Jul 2020Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5368
20 Dec 2019Withdrawn
The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7054
12 Feb 2019Conditional
Construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling including a new site entrance, all associated site works, drainage works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4309
12 Jul 2018Conditional
To demolish a derelict dwellinghouse and outbuildings, and construct a new 2 storey dwellinghouse, together with an on-site sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5833
16 May 2017Conditional
Retention of i) conversion of domestic garage to kitchen, ii) part conversion of the attic, iii) changes to the elevations at the front and the sides of the house and iv) roof windows at the front and the side of the house
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5200
4 Aug 2015Conditional
Demolish an existing garage and store, construct a two storey dwelling house with detached garage and access to the public road, installation of treatment unit with percolation area, landscaping and all ancillary site development works and new entrance and the installation of a new treatment unit and percolation area to the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5721
19 May 2014Conditional
Construction of dwelling, entrance, domestic garage, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5037
19 May 2014Conditional
Construction of dwelling, entrance, domestic garage, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5040
12 Aug 2013Refused
Construction of dwelling, entrance, domestic garage, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5574
6 Feb 2013Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4194
26 Nov 2012Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage for domestic purpose, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6423
9 Dec 2011Refused
Construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a sepic tank and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6571
25 Aug 2011Conditional
Construct a conservatory extension to dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5837
The 25 most recent of 46 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 Ballinphelic.
Recorded monuments
- CO086-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, S of Owenboy river. Oval area (53m N-S; 43m E-W) raised c. 1.3m above surrounding field level. Interior defined by earthen bank (int. H0.4m) W->SE; saucer-shaped and clear of overgrowth except SE quadrant. 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
- CO098-006 Brickworks
Description
Late 19th century brickworks known as the Cork Brick Manufacturing Company on site of earlier unmechanized brickworks (The Irish Builder, March 27,1902); closed down in 1913 (Cork Examiner, 1977). Grass-covered foundations of building is all that survives of complex indicated on 1902 OS 6-inch map, except for one range of brick built buildings on W side. These consist of a single-storey structure (long axis N-S) with low brick arch in N wall ofinterior flanked by doors which lead to lean-to (L 2.75m; Wth 2.4m). According to local information, this lean-to was 'drying house'. Also noted were brick entrance piers, several ornate ceramic tiles and a hand bellows. In 1901 aerial ropeway constructed to transport bricks cross-country to Ballinhassig railway station 3 miles to NW; some of the support piers survive. 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
- Fivemile Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch road bridge, built c.1840, spanning the Owenboy River. Rubble stone walls, having round-headed arches with ashlar limestone voussoirs. U-cutwaters to west elevations. Dressed limestone parapet walls with coping stones and pyramidal piers.
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 20 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 Ballinphelic.
- 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 Ballinphelic with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinphelic · Baile an Pheillic
- Area
- 2,284,471 m² (228.45 ha, 564.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Liscleary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kerrycurrihy
- Electoral division
- Liscleary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Liscleary electoral division: 5,124 people in 1,620 households; 81% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Adamstown, Ballygarvan, Ballynabearna, Glinny, Lisfehill, Meadstown
- Placenames
- Ballinphelic 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.