Ballintober

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober, from 242 m² to 545,007 m² (54.5 ha, 134.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballintober 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.

• 29 Aug 2014Conditional

  Construct a cattle underpass beneath the public road and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5838

• 30 Jul 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5861

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintober.

Recorded monuments

• CO112-055 Country house
  Description

  Scant remains of late 17th century house described by Bence-Jones (1978,19) as of '2 storeys with a dormer attic....7 bay centre with gable-ended projecting wings; pediments over 1st floor windows; tall chimneys. Long 2 storey service range at side'. An 18th century print shows ornamental gardens with cut stone pillers fronting house (ffolliott 1974, fig. 9). House demolished in 1940s. Short section of overgrown 2-storey wall still stands; cut limestone column (H 4m) with bird (?) holding shield lying close by. Mature parkland; farmbuildings modernized. 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

• Ballintober House, gates/railings/walls, 1700–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of gateways, c.1725, on symmetrical plans including (west): pair of pilaster-detailed drag edged limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on overgrown plinths having ogee-detailed cornices on blind friezes on stepped entablatures; and (east): pair of drag edged rusticated limestone ashlar piers on moulded cushion courses on benchmark-inscribed plinths having ogee-detailed cornice capping on blind friezes on "Cavetto"-detailed stringcourses. Road fronted at entrances to grounds of Ballintober House.

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

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballintober.

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.

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

Name

Ballintober · Baile an Tobair

Area

1,011,276 m² (101.13 ha, 249.89 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymartle, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballymartle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymartle electoral division: 1,409 people in 453 households; 79% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoo South, Dooneen South, Durah, Farranamoy, Garravesoge, Mellifontstown

Placenames

Ballintober 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.