Ballybrowney Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach
- Area
- 67.4 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 4,319 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrowney Upper, from 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 667,233 m² (66.72 ha, 164.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballybrowney Upper 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
21 Apr 2026Awaiting f.i. response
To construct 2No. Silage Pits, Agricultural Shed containing a Milking Parlour, Cubicle House with Slatted Tanks, Straw Bedded Area and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1012
30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for :- a) Construction of a new detached single-storey dwelling house together with the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works and B) Retention of mobile home erected on site and permission for its temporary use during the construction phase of the proposed dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6985
16 Jan 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a milking parlour with effluent tank, feeding passage with slatted tank, dairy with feed bin and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4050
3 Sept 2015Conditional
Extension to side of existing dwelling, incorporating change of use of existing detached garage to residential accommodation
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5974
18 Aug 2015Incompleted application
Retention of an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, incorporating the change of use of the existing detached garage to residential accommodation.
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5831
11 Feb 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/740
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 Ballybrowney Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybrowney Upper.
Architectural heritage
- Ballybrowney Bridge, bridge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over tributary of River Bride, built c. 1830. Roughly coursed limestone and sandstone with lightly tooled voussoirs to elliptical arch, having cut-stone impost courses. Cast-iron mooring ring to south side of arch. Weir to downstream side. Rendered and coursed rubble stone wall to embankment.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1255 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballybrowney Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybrowney Upper · Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach
- Area
- 673,609 m² (67.36 ha, 166.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Rathcormack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathcormack electoral division: 2,643 people in 884 households; 74% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrowney Lower, Ballybrowney-Mountain, Glanakip, Lisnagar Demesne, Maulane East, Maulane West
- Placenames
- Ballybrowney Upper 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.