Ballinvoher
Townland in the civil parish of Cloyne, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bhóthair
- Area
- 109.8 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,933 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvoher, from 175 m² to 207,478 m² (20.75 ha, 51.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballinvoher 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
30 Mar 2026Refused
Construction of a machinery shed for the storage of agricultural machinery and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0790
19 Dec 2023Refused
Permission for retention of (1) Engineering workshop as constructed, (2) Existing generator store as constructed, (3) Vehicular entrance as constructed and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/6527
27 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a new domestic storage shed and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5939
13 Apr 2022Conditional
The construction of a new detached one and a half storey dwelling, a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, including all associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4820
9 Sept 2020Conditional
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5952
31 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5636
3 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5378
19 Jun 2020Conditional
To demolish an existing derelict dwelling house and garage, and to erect a 2 storey dwelling house in it's place, install an on-site sewage treatment system, and carry out all other associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5252
23 Nov 2009Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse as constructed
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7699
2 Apr 2009Conditional
One-and-a-half-storey traditional style dwellinghouse, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5018
13 Aug 2007Conditional
Construction of carport and domestic stores and installation of 2 no. velux windows to rear of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10247
9 Jul 2007Incompleted application
construction of carport and domestic stores buildings and the addition of 2 no. velux windows to the rear roof of the existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9439
24 Jan 2007Conditional
Dormer bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4403
6 Jul 2005Refused
Construction of one and a half storey dwellinghouse and detached garage with separate dwelling unit over
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4797
7 Jun 2005Incompleted application
Dwellnghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3943
22 Dec 2004Conditional
Construct a 5 bed detached dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9582
8 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6847
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 Ballinvoher.
Recorded monuments
- CO088-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on S-facing slope. Arc (C 35m) formed by earthen stone faced bank (H 1.4m) NW->ENE; part of and similar to surrounding field fences. According to local information field called "fort field". 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinvoher.
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 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 Ballinvoher.
- 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 Ballinvoher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvoher · Baile an Bhóthair
- Area
- 1,098,166 m² (109.82 ha, 271.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Inch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inch electoral division: 624 people in 211 households; 85% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinwillin, Ballycroneen West, Ballyfin, Ballymacandrick, Coolbea, Shanahee, Tullagh
- Placenames
- Ballinvoher 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.