Ballybeg
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbrittain, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish An Baile Beag
- Area
- 104.9 ha
- 259 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 14,136 m² (1.41 ha, 3.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 119 m² to 257,485 m² (25.75 ha, 63.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ballybeg 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
5 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for detached ancillary accommodation unit, for new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works, to existing family dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0243
17 Oct 2016Conditional
The development will consist/consists of raising the levels of poor agricultural land by placing on site of surplus construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6569
23 Dec 2015Conditional
Alterations to existing dwelling comprising (a) extension to existing sunroom on the southern elevation including remodelling of the roof structure, elevational alterations and increase in floor area, (b) construction of a two storey extension to the rear of dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6977
14 Jan 2011Conditional
Alterations, single storey and two storey extensions to dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4039
9 Dec 2010Incompleted application
Two storey extension to existing dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8682
18 Aug 2008Conditional
Revised site boundaries for dwelling permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 2094/83
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8451
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 Ballybeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybeg.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybeg.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybeg.
- 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 Ballybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybeg · An Baile Beag
- Area
- 1,049,415 m² (104.94 ha, 259.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbrittain, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilbrittain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilbrittain electoral division: 646 people in 223 households; 74% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymore, Baltinakin, Kilbrittain, Knoppoge
- Placenames
- Ballybeg 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.