Ballybranagan
Townland in the civil parish of Titeskin, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Uí Bhranagáin
- Area
- 127.2 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,547 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 31
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybranagan, from 155 m² to 397,317 m² (39.73 ha, 98.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballybranagan 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
28 Apr 2026Application withdrawn
Permission to retain existing sun-room annex, and the development of attic roof space providing additional domestic accommodation, including roof windows as well as external modifications to original elevations of existing dwelling.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1087
3 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for construction of animal house incorporating slatted cubicle area, slatted area, straw bedded area and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5035
19 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission for retention of a) demolition of a ruinous single storey out building, b) a cottage formerly used as a farm outbuilding, c) a waste water treatment unit. Also, Permission for d) change of use of said cottage to ancillary residential accommodation comprising a pilates studio/office/domestic storage area ancillary to the proposed new dwelling, e) demolition of a disused agricultural shed, f) construction of new single-storey dwelling with car port and associated site works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4930
30 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for construction of an animal house incorporating slatted cubicle area, slatted area, straw bedded area and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4811
24 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for retention of a) cottage formerly used as a farm out-building, b) a waste water treatment unit. Also, permission for c) change of use of said cottage to ancillary residential accommodation comprising a Pilates Studio/Office/Domestic storage area ancillary to the proposed new dwelling, d) construction of new single-storey dwelling with car port and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4775
31 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for a single storey type dwelling along with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, well, access to main roadway, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6061
10 May 2024Refused
Permission for retention of: 1) Demolition of existing ruinous single storey outbuilding on site and reconstruction of the building for use as a family dwelling, 2) Erection of 1 no. prefabricated, 1 bedroom unit for habitable use as ancillary guest accommodation, 3) Erection of 1 no. prefabricated glamping pod for ancillary domestic use, 4) Installation of 2 no. domestic waste water treatment systems. Permission for: 1) Demolition of existing agricultural shed and construction of a single storey dwelling with detached single storey garage, 2) Change of use of existing converted outbuilding from dwelling to 1 no. unit for short-term let, 3) Change of use of existing glamping pod from ancillary domestic use to short-term let, 4) All associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4842
7 Nov 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of the rear extension as constructed to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6490
18 Oct 2022Incompleted application
Retention of the rear extension as constructed to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6350
15 Sept 2021Refused
The change of use of a single storey disused stone farm building to a dwelling house to include alterations to elevations of the said stone farm building along with a new single storey dwelling extension linked to the said stone farm building, a new treatment unit with percolation area, a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6538
19 Aug 2021Incompleted application
The change of use of a single storey disused single storey stone farm building to domestic use with a new single storey domestic extension linked to the said stone farm building, a new treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6293
29 Apr 2021Conditional
Construction of machinery shed/store and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5145
12 Feb 2021Conditional
To construct dormer bungalow and detached domestic garage, together with domestic effluent treatment plant, site entrance and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4338
13 Feb 2020Conditional
Installation of a cattle underpass incorporating a soiled water storage tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4267
23 Dec 2019Conditional
Bungalow, domestic effluent treatment plant, site entrance and associated site development works.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/7083
18 Jul 2018Conditional
Retention of extension to a cattle shed and permission to construct a cattle shed with slatted tank and straw bedded area and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5890
23 May 2018Conditional
Installation of a cattle underpass incorporating a soiled water storage tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5325
10 May 2018Conditional
Construction of dwelling, garage, new site entrance, waste water treatment unit, percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5189
23 Mar 2018Conditional
Demolition of stables with loft, domestic garage, cow stalls, partially built single storey extension to rear of dwelling and erect single and two storey extensions to side, front and rear of existing dwelling and alterations to elevations of said dwelling, internal alterations to change layout, convert calf house to studio for domestic use ancillary to the use of the dwelling and alterations to elevations of same, install new treatment system, bored well and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4719
28 Apr 2017Conditional
To construct a cubicle house with slatted tank, cattle shed with slatted tank, silage slab, effluent tank, feed bin and ancillary.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5037
6 Jul 2012Conditional
Construction of [a] cubicle house, [b] silage slab with effluent tank, [c] extension to existing cubicle house, [d] extension to existing milking parlour, and [e] extension to open slurry tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5473
1 May 2012Incompleted application
To construct a) Cubicle House b) Silage Slab with effluent tank c) extend existing cubicle house d) extend existing milking parlour e) extend open slurry tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4893
11 Apr 2012Incompleted application
Construction of (a) cubicle house (b) silage slab with effluent tank (c) extend existing cubicle house (d) extend existing milking parlour (e) extend open slurry tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4697
1 Oct 2008Conditional
Construction of haybarn and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9112
18 Mar 2008Conditional
Retention of 2no. agricultural entrances from public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5480
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 Ballybranagan.
Recorded monuments
- CO100-030 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark (GSI, W254) shows penannular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); position of bank and fosse clearly visible except to SE. 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
- CO100-044 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
Description
In tillage overlooking sea to S. Found during field walking (1983-1985). "Scatter of Later Mesolithic material" (pers. comm. Prof. P. Woodman, UCC). 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
- CO100-057 Enclosure
Description
Crop mark (CUCAP, APB 44) shows roughly circular bivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 57m; ext. diam. c. 88m); outer defences truncated by field fence and farm to S and SE respectively. 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
- House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with glazed-roofed gabled porch to front elevation and single-bay two-storey extension to south-east elevation. Now disused. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, decorative ceramic chimneypots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first storey and eight-over-eight pane to ground floor. Square-headed opening to interior of porch having overlight and timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to east elevation of porch with timber panelled half-glazed door. Single-bay two-storey former carriage house attached to south with pitched artificial slate roof, rendered walls, square-headed opening with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and segmental-headed carriage arch with timber battened double-leaf doors.
- House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey house, built c. 1860, having gabled porch to front (east) elevation. Hipped and pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched artificial slate roof to porch. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door openings to north and south elevations of porch, having timber panelled half-glazed door to north and timber battened door to south elevation. Rendered boundary walls to site with square-profile piers to site.
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 high, 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 Ballybranagan.
- 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 Ballybranagan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybranagan · Baile Uí Bhranagáin
- Area
- 1,271,951 m² (127.2 ha, 314.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Titeskin, 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
- Ballycroneen West, Ballyshane, Coolbea, Lugfree, Shanahee, Tullaheen More
- Placenames
- Ballybranagan 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.