Ballinvredig
Ballinvredig is a townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Courceys, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhairéadaigh.
- Area
- 100.6 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvredig, from 832 m² to 244,472 m² (24.45 ha, 60.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinvredig 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
16 May 2025Conditional permission
a) permission for retention of a pre-school development which consists of; 1) main classroom building containing two classrooms, sleeping rooms, stores, office, changing, play areas and toilets, 2) second classroom building containing a classroom, store and toilets, 3) ten kids playhouses/structures, 4) six kids swing sets, 5) disused caravan and 6) polytunnel. B) Permission to install a treatment unit and percolation area to serve this pre-school, c) permission for retention of three storage buildings, all for domestic use and ancillary to the existing dwelling, d) permission to install a treatment unit and percolation area to serve the existing dwelling.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4925
23 Apr 2025Incompleted application
(A) Permission for Retention of a pre-school development which consists of:- (i) Main classroom building containing two classrooms, sleeping rooms, stores, office, changing, play areas and toilets. (ii) Second classroom building containing a classroom, store and toilets. (iii) Ten kids playhouses/structures. (iv) Six swing sets. (v) Disused caravan. (vi) polytunnel. (B) Permission to install a treatment unit and percolation area to serve this pre-school. (C) Permission for Retention of three storage buildings, all for domestic use and ancillary to the existing dwelling. (D) Permission to install a treatment unit and percolation area to serve the existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4749
13 Jan 2021Conditional
A detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and associated site works including waste water treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4044
30 Nov 2020Incompleted application
A detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and associated site works including waste water treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6675
6 Jul 2020Withdrawn
A detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and associated site works including waste water treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5392
5 Jun 2020Incompleted application
A detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and associated site works including waste water treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5133
14 May 2020Incompleted application
Detached dwelling, detached domestic garage and associated site works including waste water treatment plant.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4965
28 Sept 2016Refused
Change of use from domestic garage to granny flat to include a first floor extension & all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6403
9 Sept 2014Unconditional
Four bed dormer dwelling, garage and installation of biocycle sewage treatment system, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg. no. 10/5042
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5918
14 Aug 2012Conditional
Construction of garge (change of layout to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 11/4527) and permission for retention of entrance and driveway as constructed
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5737
17 Jul 2012Incompleted application
Changes to the design approved under planning reference number 11/4527 including: (a) retention of permission to use the temporary site access as the permanent site entrance, (b) permission to move the location of the garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5560
12 Dec 2011Incompleted application
Alterations to previous planning permission for a dwelling, garage, site entrance and associated site works permitted under Pl. Reg. No.11/4527. The alterations involve locating the dwellinghouse, garage and site entrance on a different part of the site and as a consequence moving the percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6574
4 Oct 2011Conditional
Construction of an extension to both sides of existing dwelling, extension to rear, new bay window to front elevation, sundry elevational alterations, extension to existing detached domestic garage/store and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6118
16 Mar 2011Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 11/4527
4 Mar 2011Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 11/4425
15 Nov 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8450
26 Oct 2010Conditional
Retention of existing stables and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8298
30 Apr 2010Conditional
Four bed dormer dwelling, garage and installation of biocycle sewage treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5042
26 Jun 2009Refused
Dormer dwelling, garage, septic tank and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6100
29 May 2009Incompleted application
Dormer dwelling, garage & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5778
22 May 2009Conditional
Construction of general purpose shed, slatted tank within existing open tank, shed to cover open tank, proposed slatted tank and adjacent feed passage, and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5677
25 Feb 2008Conditional
Permission for retention of existing dwellinghouse, septic tank & Associated site works as constructed on existing site
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4982
30 Jan 2008Incompleted application
Retention of dwelling, septic tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4458
19 Dec 2007Conditional
Installation of treatment unit replacing existing septic tank and retention of garage as constructed and retention of conversion of same to living accommodation ancillary to main dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13226
23 Oct 2007Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of proprietary waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11876
The 25 most recent of 31 applications.
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 Ballinvredig.
Recorded monuments
- CO124-037 Enclosure
Description
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as arc of hachures in NE-SW field fence. Site identified as scarped-up area; contains large spread of stones. 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
- CO124-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m); as slight curve in NNE-SSW field fence on 1902 OS 6-inch map. Levelled c. 1974; raised platform remains, most noticeable to S (H 1.8m). 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 Ballinvredig.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinvredig, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinvredig.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballinvredig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvredig · Baile an Bhairéadaigh
- Area
- 1,005,516 m² (100.55 ha, 248.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Courceys
- Electoral division
- Ballinspittle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 727 people lived in 257 households in the Ballinspittle electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurrig, Ballinroe, Carrigavulleen, Coolbane, Oldcourt
- Placenames
- Ballinvredig 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.