Ballinvarrig East
Townland in the civil parish of Gortroe, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bharraigh Thoir
- Area
- 8.6 ha
- 21 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvarrig East. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 Ballinvarrig East 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
3 Sept 2024Conditional permission
Retention permission of dwelling house. Permission for partial demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of 2 storey extension with granny flat, which will include incorporating part of existing dwelling house into proposed granny flat, external patio area and landscaping and the installation of a new septic tank and associated percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/5663
14 Aug 2024Incompleted application
Retention Permission of dwelling house. Permission for partial demolition of existing dwelling house and construction of 2 storey extension with granny flat, which will include incorporating part of existing dwelling house into proposed granny flat, external patio area and landscaping and the installation of a new septic tank and associated percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5537
12 Jul 2024Incompleted application
Retention permission for (a) an existing dwelling comprising kitchen, dining, living, 4 no. bedrooms and a bathroom. Permission for (b) part demolition of the existing single storey dwelling and construction of a 2 storey extension with granny flat at the rear of the dwelling, comprising of (c) kitchen, dining and living area, pantry, laundry, play room and storage at ground floor level. (d) 4 no. bedrooms and 3 no. bathrooms at first floor level, (e) portion of the ground floor to be granny flat with kitchen/dining/living area, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom, (f) external patio area and landscaping, (g) septic tank and associated percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5320
28 Jun 2024Conditional permission
Permission for 10-year permission for a solar farm consisting of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 4 single storey transformer stations, 4 single storey spare parts storage containers, 1 single storey MV electrical kiosk, a 38kV substation compound with 1 single storey substation building, underground electrical ducting, cabling and joint bays within the development site and within the L-1520-11, L1520-39, L-1518-0, L5789-0 and L-1517-0 public roads to connect the solar farm field parcels, a new entrance off the L-5720-11, a new entrance off the L-5170-0, upgrading of an existing agricultural entrance off the L-1520-11, internal access tracks, security fencing, CCTV, landscaping and all associated development site works at corrin, Kill Saint Anne North, Clykeel North, Ballinvarrig East, Ballinvarrig West, Deerpark, Knockaduff, Kill Saint Anne South, Ballyarra, Mohera, Spurree (townlands), Castlelyons, Fermoy, Co. Cork. The solar panels are arranged within a site area covering approximately 41.72ha, the site area within the public road is approximately 4.9ha. The total development area (including ancillary works) amounts to approximately 46.66ha. A Natrua Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application. The Natrua Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the office of the Planning Authority.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5211
10 Jun 2016Conditional
A 5 MW solar farm comprising approximately 22,200 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 8.86 hectares, 2 no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV and all associated ancillary development works including separate temporary construction and operational accesses
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5414
27 May 2016Incompleted application
A 5 MW solar farm comprising approximately 22,200 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 8.86 hectares, 2 no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV and all associated ancillary development works including separate temporary construction and operational accesses
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5284
12 Feb 2016Refused
A 5MW solar farm comprising approximately 22,200 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 8.57 hectares, 2 no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV, and all associated ancillary development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4290
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 Ballinvarrig East.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinvarrig East.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinvarrig East.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1328 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballinvarrig East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvarrig East · Baile an Bharraigh Thoir
- Area
- 85,798 m² (8.58 ha, 21.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Gortroe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Gortroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortroe electoral division: 815 people in 273 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvarrig West, Deerpark, Kill-Saint-Anne South
- Placenames
- Ballinvarrig East 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.