Ballybrack
Ballybrack is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Baile Breac.
- Area
- 49.4 ha
- 122 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 8,545 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrack, from 45 m² to 86,106 m² (8.61 ha, 21.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 0 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
25 Oct 2022Conditional
Extension of a dwelling house including the demolition of a 13.8 square meter single storey modern (1970s) extension and the construction of a new 51.8 square meter single-storey extension to existing farmhouse. Additionally, the demolition of an 11.3 square meter modern shed structure in poor condition and the conversion and change of use of a traditional stone shed into sleeping accommodation ('granny flat') including a 14 square meter extension and 2 no. roof-lights. And a new wastewater treatment unit to replace existing septic tank, a new percolation area, connection to public mains water supply and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/660
30 Nov 2020Conditional
Retention of detached domestic store/workshop (change of plan to that permitted under 96/4483
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/687
21 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Retention of detached domestic store / workshop
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/588
28 Sept 2020Incompleted application
Retention of detached domestic store / workshop
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/526
1 Feb 2016Conditional
Retention of alterations to elevations of dwellinghouse including fenestration changes
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/57
3 Aug 2007Withdrawn
Retention and completion of dwellinghouse, including revised entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2084
8 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Retention and completion of dwellinghouse, including revised entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1518
26 Feb 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and revised entrance
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 07/535
13 Feb 2006Unconditional
Construction of dwellinghouse & revised entrance
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 06/284
14 Feb 2005Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and site layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/776
11 May 2004Conditional
Construction of revised entrance and revised stie boundaries for dwelling permitted under Reg. No. W/00/2958
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3215
18 May 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2958
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101
Recorded monuments
- CO148-018001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (34m NW-SE) partially enclosed by field fence (H 1.5m) NW->SE; low undulation SE->NW. Entrance (Wth 2.2m) through fence to SE, defined by 2 radially-set stones. Interior slopes gently downhill to NNE; possible souterrain (CO148-018002-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO148-018002 Souterrain
Description
In ringfort (CO148-018001-), according to local information. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Ballybrack.
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 Ballybrack, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Ballybrack.
- 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 Ballybrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybrack · An Baile Breac
- Area
- 493,587 m² (49.36 ha, 121.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Skull, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Lowertown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 244 people lived in 102 households in the Lowertown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballybrack 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.