Ballinvarrig

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvarrig, from 98 m² to 380,646 m² (38.06 ha, 94.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballinvarrig 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 Apr 2026Refused

  Construction of a new single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1098

• 14 Apr 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for retention of the following : a) agricultural building for the storage of straw, agricultural machinery & dry goods, b) agricultural building for the storage of agricultural machinery & dry goods along with associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0932

• 7 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission for construction of a new single storey dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment plant and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0860

• 13 Mar 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  The development will consist of planning permission for • Demolition of rear annexes to existing dwelling; • Construction of single-storey extensions to the rear; • Refurbishment and alteration of the existing dwelling; • Change of use of adjacent outbuilding from agricultural to residential use, to be incorporated and connected to existing house to form a single dwelling; • Demolition of detached shed; • Change of use of detached outbuilding from agricultural to ancillary residential use, incidental to the dwelling, to provide a garden room • Construction of a new vehicular entrance onto the public road; • Installation of a new domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0632

• 7 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of Domestic Garage

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6409

• 19 Apr 2024Refused

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4674

• 13 Jun 2023Refused

  Construction of a new detached dwelling house and ancillary detached domestic garage together with the installation of proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5207

• 28 Apr 2020Conditional

  A change of use from domestic tuition room/playroom to granny flat with extension to northern elevation, and alteration to elevations of same and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4860

• 2 Apr 2020Incompleted application

  A change of use, to an apartment (Granny Flat) with alteration to elevations, and permission for an extension to north elevation, to create one ancillary family residential unit, with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4679

• 29 Aug 2018Conditional

  Storey and a half dwellinghouse, waste water treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6280

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  Extensions and changes to elevations of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6665

• 27 Apr 2016Conditional

  Partial change of use of existing dwelling and construction of extension to same for use as granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4968

• 23 Mar 2016Incompleted application

  Construction of single storey granny flat to rear of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4661

• 21 Feb 2013Conditional

  Retention of dwelling as constructed, waste water treatment unit and raising of site levels, and permission for sand polishing filter percolation area and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4286

• 8 Jan 2013Unconditional

  Construction of granny flat and extension to dwelling, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/10364

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4012

• 3 Aug 2012Unconditional

  Bungalow and garage - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/4061

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5696

• 16 Jul 2012Unconditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse, garage and ancillary works - Extension of duration of permission granted under Planning reg. No. 06/13118

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5557

• 7 Dec 2007Conditional

  Retention of detached domestic tuition room/playroom

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12919

• 20 Nov 2007Incompleted application

  Retention of detached domestic tuition room/playroom

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12494

• 25 Oct 2007Incompleted application

  Retention of single storey detached tuition unit for private use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11929

• 14 Sept 2007Conditional

  Dwelling and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11010

• 17 Aug 2007Conditional

  Construction of granny flat and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10364

• 4 Jan 2007Conditional

  Bungalow and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4061

• 8 Dec 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse, garage & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13118

• 30 Nov 2006Conditional

  Construction of sunroom extension to side of dwellinghouse, indoor swimming pool and alterations to junction of permitted garage/store with dwellinghouse and relocation of septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12820

The 25 most recent of 33 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Cork Harbour SPA 004030

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvarrig.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1820, having gable-fronted bays and gable-fronted porch to front (north-east). Central gable-fronted bay and single-storey addition to rear (south-west). Pitched slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, timber clad eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, having two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with some replacement timber casement and uPVC casement windows. Square-headed door openings having replacement glazed timber and timber battened doors. Three-bay double-height outbuilding to rear having corrugated-iron roof with rendered ridges and gable copings. Rendered walls. Square-headed door openings having timber lintels, timber and corrugated-iron doors. Roughcast rendered enclosing walls having limestone coping. Square-profile tooled limestone gate piers with moulded string course and limestone plinth, surmounted by cut limestone cap with double-leaf cast-iron gates.

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 Ballinvarrig.

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

Name

Ballinvarrig · Baile an Bharraigh

Area

1,595,647 m² (159.56 ha, 394.29 acres)

Civil parish

Tracton, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Farranbrien, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Farranbrien electoral division: 532 people in 194 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annacarriga, Britfieldstown, Doonavanig, Kilbeg, Knocknamanagh

Placenames

Ballinvarrig 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.