Ballinwillin
Townland in the civil parish of Brigown, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 56.1 ha
- 139 acres
- Land parcels
- 200
- registered freehold, median 482 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 72
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
200 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinwillin, from 7 m² to 55,148 m² (5.51 ha, 13.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 178 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M4Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Built up area)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 May 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for retention of an extension constructed to the rear of dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1154
8 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for conversion of existing derelict dwelling house to 2 No. self-contained apartments to include partial demolition of dwelling to rear and construction of new extension to rear and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0884
8 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for conversion of existing derelict dwelling house to 2 No. self-contained apartments to include partial demolition of dwelling to rear and construction of new extension to rear and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0883
17 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey extension to existing bungalow at rear and side including an attached garage to front, canopy over front door and covered rear patio and consequential alterations to existing fenestration and internal layout including the addition of 2 no. rooflights, alterations to side boundary wall and the construction of a new section of side boundary wall & ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5346
16 Jul 2024Conditional
Permission for retention and permission for completion of single storey extension to front, side and rear of two storey dwelling (change of plans previously granted under planning reference number 21/6272) and alterations to rear first floor windows and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5335
22 Nov 2023Withdrawn
Construction of a facility to accommodate 16 number campervan/motor home parking bays and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6335
26 Jul 2023Conditional
The proposed development will consist of the (1) Change of use from Industrial Use (disused cheese production area) for use as a New Laboratory/Testing Facility including ancillary sample management and storage areas, staff changing rooms and sanitary facilities, offices and meeting room on part of the first floor (currently disused) of a 3-storey building. (2) Alterations to the existing south and east elevations of the building including the formation of new window and door opes ancillary to the new laboratory/testing facility. (3) Change of use from industrial use (disused cheese production area) for use as a plant room/services area on part of the second floor (currently disused) for use ancillary to the new laboratory/testing facility at first floor level. (4) Construction of a new internal staircore to service the 3 floor levels of the building, and (5) All associated works required to integrate the proposed works with the existing facilities in the 3-storey building. This application relates to a development which comprises of an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions licence (Reg. No. 00404-02).
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5521
17 Nov 2022Application withdrawn
Permission for the construction of a facility to accommodate 16 no. Campervan/Motor Home parking bays and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6551
16 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission for the following works: a) partial demolition of the existing dwelling house b) construction of a single-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling c) construction of a swimming pool enclosure and ancillary accommodation, including a gym, around the existing swimming pool for domestic use and d) renovation of existing out-building for domestic use and all ancillary site works. Protected structure: Ballinwillin House, Ballinwillin, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, RPS No. 00104.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6093
25 Jul 2022Incompleted application
Permission requested for the following works: a) construction of a single-storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling b) construction of a swimming pool enclosure and ancillary accommodation around the existing swimming pool for domestic use and c) renovation of existing out-building for domestic use and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5755
16 May 2022Conditional
The change of use of part of the service station retail shop area to off licence retail area
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5124
19 Apr 2022Conditional
Permission to demolish existing extensions to the side and rear of dwelling and construct a new extension to the side and rear
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4877
15 Mar 2022Incompleted application
The change of use of part of the service station retail shop area to off licence retail area
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4575
8 Dec 2021Conditional
To demolish existing attached garage to side of dwelling and construct living room extension in its palace and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7282
28 Oct 2021Conditional
(1) Demolition of existing and disused cheese storage building and associated plant rooms, (2) Decommissioning and removal/relocation of existing product silo’s, (3) Decommissioning and removal of existing product valve block and associated plant room, (4) Construction of new concrete product bund/silo area with 10 No. product silo’s associated valve blocks and access stairs, (5) Construction of a new single storey building to enclose the existing milk intake area, (6) Modification to the existing exit from the milk intake yard onto Clonmel Road comprising of the realignment of the footpath, relocation of the access control barrier and the provision of a pedestrian crossing at the exit, (7) All associated site works required to integrate the proposed works with the existing facilities at the Clonmel Road site. This application relates to a development which comprises of an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions License (Reg. No. P0404-02).
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6934
24 Sept 2021Conditional
The alteration and extension of the existing service station forecourt to include the raising of the ground level and amalgamation of the gravel area for the purpose of a car park on the northern side of the site, the relocation and replacement of existing pump islands and canopy, to relocate the existing car wash 2.5m in a northern direction, a paved outdoor seating area, revised signage at the entrance and within the forecourt, additional landscaping along the northern and eastern boundaries, new signage on the northern and western side of the existing forecourt building, alterations to the existing vehicular entrance and exit and all ancillary site development works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6615
17 Aug 2021Conditional
The demolition of an existing front porch and attached garage of a dwellinghouse, the construction of a new two storey extension to the north elevation (side), a single storey extension to the east elevation (rear) reconstruction of porch to west elevation (front), widening of existing vehicular entrance to the west and associated site boundary and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6272
23 Jul 2021Incompleted application
The demolition of an existing front porch and attached garage, the construction of a new two storey extension to the north elevation (side), a single storey extension to the east elevation (rear) reconstruction of porch to west elevation (front) widening of existing vehicular entrance to the west and associated site boundary and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6031
15 Mar 2021Unconditional
To demolish the existing detached domestic storage garage and permission to construct a purpose built single storey extension to side of dwelling. Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 16/6239.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/4661
8 Feb 2021Conditional
Permission for new one and a half storey dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4270
16 Nov 2020Conditional
Construction of a livestock shed with underground slatted storage tank and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6526
14 Oct 2020Conditional
1) To demolish two existing semi-detached dwelling houses. 2) To change the use of the site of these dwelling houses to use as part of adjoining existing commercial garage yard (Molans Garage) and to raise the ground level of the dwellings plot to match the adjoining yard level, and 3) to construct a new 2m high capped road boundary wall with render finish incorporating a relocated, widened entrance from the R513 to the garage yard.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6248
18 Dec 2019Conditional
Demolition of disused weighbridge / sample storage building, reconfiguration of existing car park and extension to same, fencing, covered bicycle parking and all associated site works. This application relates to a development which comprises of an activity requiring an Industrial Emissions License (Reg. No. P0404-02).
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7008
4 Oct 2019Incompleted application
Demolition of disused weighbridge/sample storage building and extension to existing car park and all associated site works. The application relates to an establishment which has an Industrial Emissions License (P0404-02).
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6409
15 Aug 2018Conditional
Construct a 2-storey detached dwelling on existing foundations which were carried out in accordance with Pl. Reg. Nos. 01/5469 & 07/5602 and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6147
The 25 most recent of 72 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 Ballinwillin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinwillin.
Architectural heritage
- The Lodge, house, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey L-plan former house, built c. 1900, having advanced gabled bay to east with canted-bay window, canted-bay window to west, and three-bay east elevation with lower further bay. Now in use as health care centre. Recent seven-bay single-storey extension to west. Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystack with terracotta chimneypots, ridge crestings, carved timber bargeboards and eaves, and finials to gables. Painted rendered walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings, having paired windows to first floor of end bays of front elevation and to middle bay of east elevation, with replacement uPVC windows, painted moulded render surrounds and painted sills. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having moulded shouldered render surround, timber panelled door, decorative ogee-headed sidelights with timber panelled risers and surmounted by quatrefoil overlights, and with plain overlight to door.
- Ballinwillin House, gates/railings/walls, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, erected c. 1890, comprising outer ashlar limestone piers with plinths, carved caps and cast-iron finials to curving ornate cast-iron railings connecting to ornate cast-iron piers with capitals and ball finials, having ornate double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates.
- Ballinwillin House, house, 1775–1780 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement. Two-bay single-storey addition to south-east gable and extension to rear. Hipped roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed tripartite timber sliding sash windows. Recessed round-headed entrance doorway. Outbuildings to house.
- Ard na Gréine, house, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1855, having canted end bays to front elevation, and two-bay side elevations. Half-hipped slate roof with render eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls except for front which has exposed rubble limestone walls, with render plinth course. Square-headed windows to first floor and camber-headed to ground floor, with timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane except for window to middle fo first floor of front elevation which is two-over-two pane and has limestone label-moulding. Doorways to ground floor of canted bays and all openings to same bays have brick surrounds. Elliptical-headed main entrance doorway has cut limestone archiviolt and hood-moulding, and timber panelled door with sidelights and arcaded glazing to fanlight. Outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof. Entrance gateway comprises square-profile inner and outer piers, having limestone caps, and inner piers having terracotta pineapple finials. Cast-iron double-leaf vehicular gates. Approach walls are coursed rubble limestone with cut limestone copings.
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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinwillin.
- 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
- Ballinwillin, Mitchelstown8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballinwillin · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 561,438 m² (56.14 ha, 138.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Brigown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Mitchelstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mitchelstown electoral division: 5,219 people in 2,034 households; 66% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brigown, Coolnanave, Kilshanny, Mitchelstown
- Placenames
- Ballinwillin 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.