Ballinvard

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvard, from 201 m² to 223,747 m² (22.37 ha, 55.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballinvard 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.

• 17 Nov 2020Conditional

  Construct a perimeter fence to existing grass training area, construct six no. flood lights to said training area, and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/660

• 12 Aug 2011Conditional

  Retention of material change of use of existing first floor attic storage area to habitable rooms and permission also sought for the installation of 2 no. velux rooflights to the rear roof of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/502

• 8 Jul 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of material change of use of existing first floor attic storage area to habitable rooms and permission for the installation of 2 no. velux rooflights to the rear roof of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/413

• 17 Jul 2002Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3129

• 12 Mar 1999Conditional

  Construction of extension to dwellinghouse, relocation of septic tank and retention of demolition of extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1245

• 11 Jan 1999Conditional

  Demolition of barn & construction of ancillary dwellinghouse for guest accommodation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/67

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 Ballinvard.

Recorded monuments

• CO121-048 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Four-storey tower-house standing on bedrock in rough grazing; surrounded by higher ground except to SW. Entered at ground level by door in E wall with bluntly-pointed arched head. Vaulted lobby (vault now fallen) gives access to main chamber to W; spiral stone stairs in SE corner; vaulted guardroom in SE corner (with gun loop covering front door). Stairs rise full height of tower giving access to all rooms and to wall-walk atop S wall. Area over lobby occupied by four rooms set one above the other. Internal partition wall contains number of fireplaces, serving both main chambers to W and smaller chambers to E; stack on gable atop wall. Window embrasures covered by segmental vaults; few lights survive. Gun loops through windows flank most lights. Square-set bartizans atop NE and SW corners; narrow machicolation atop E wall over door. Exterior elevations heavily ivy-clad. Castle of O'Hurley clan, known as Ballinvard (Ballinward) or Rossmore Castle (Ó Murchadha 1985, 252-3; Coleman 1924, 46-7); probably built in late 16th century. 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 Ballinvard.

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 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 Ballinvard.

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 Ballinvard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballinvard · Baile an Bhaird

Area

809,990 m² (81 ha, 200.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Clonakilty Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Rossmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rossmore electoral division: 370 people in 131 households; 78% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherkirky, Coolnaconarty, Derreen, Gortnadihy, Kilmeen, Lisnabrinny

Placenames

Ballinvard 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.