Ballycaskin
Ballycaskin is a townland in the civil parish of Whitechurch, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Cháiscín.
- Area
- 93.4 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,139 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycaskin, from 181 m² to 220,360 m² (22.04 ha, 54.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Green Infrastructure (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
17 Dec 2025Grant permission
Permission (1) To construct a part single storey, part storey and a half, split level dwelling-house (2) To construct a detached single storey shed (3) Installation of a wastewater treatment system (4) All ancillary sitework. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 21/4584
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 25/6838
9 Mar 2021Conditional
(1) To construct a part single storey, part storey and a half, split level dwelling-house (2) to construct a detached single storey shed (3) installation of a wastewater treatment system (4) all ancillary sitework.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4584
11 Feb 2021Incompleted application
(1) To construct a part single storey part storey and a half, split level dwelling-house (2) to construct a detached single storey shed (3) installation of a wastewater treatment system (4) all ancillary sitework.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4317
20 Nov 2020Incompleted application
To construct 3 Townhouses.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 20/6577
4 Apr 2016Conditional
The construction of 2 no. agricultural sheds, one measuring 20sq.m for use as a dry store for produce and plant and a toilet, the other measuring 80sq.m, for use as an open machinery shed, the provision of a septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4741
3 Mar 2016Incompleted application
The construction of 2 no. agricultural sheds, one measuring 20 sq.m the other measuring 80.sq.m, the provision of a toilet, septic tank and percolation area and ancillary site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4486
10 Dec 2013Conditional
Retention of domestic garage as constructed within site boundary
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/6342
8 Nov 2013Unconditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment system, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/8051
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/6124
30 Mar 2010Conditional
Alterations to existing bungalow & extension to form a storey-and-a-half dwelling including the construction of a front porch & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4715
3 Mar 2010Incompleted application
Alterations to existing bungalow and extension to form a storey and half dwelling including all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4478
17 Feb 2009Conditional
Detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4463
30 Dec 2008Incompleted application
Single storey detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10390
23 Jul 2008Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8051
28 Mar 2008Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse and installation of wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5734
24 Jul 2007Withdrawn
Demolition of dwellinghouse, public house and outbuildings and construction of three storey building comprising of public house and retail unit on ground floor and residential development of 8 no. apartments on first and second floors and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9830
22 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Demolition of existing dwelling, public house and outbuildings and construction of three storey building comprising of public house and off-licence retail unit on ground floor, 8 no. apartments on first and second floors and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8935
24 May 2007Withdrawn
Alterations and two storey extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8055
29 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of roofed silage pit , roofed feed area, slatted slurry storage and install cubicles in existing sheds
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6574
27 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Alterations and two storey extension to bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6473
18 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4255
6 Feb 2004Conditional
4 no. 10 metre high flood lights at existing tennis court
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/665
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 Ballycaskin.
Recorded monuments
- CO052-024 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on NE-facing slope. Condon (1916, 62, no.11) records irregular stone here (H 28-36in; Wth 5ft 2in; T 8in). No visible surface trace. 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
- Carrignavar Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, built c. 1820. Carved limestone string course, cut stone piers and render copings to parapet walls. Round-headed arch with rusticated dressed stone voussoirs. Single-arched rubble limestone bridge to south-west having round-headed arch. Three-arched rubble limestone pedestrian bridge to south having round-headed arches, roughly dressed voussoirs, and V-cutwaters to north elevation.
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 Ballycaskin, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Ballycaskin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycaskin · Baile Cháiscín
- Area
- 933,722 m² (93.37 ha, 230.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Whitechurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Carrignavar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,325 people lived in 426 households in the Carrignavar electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhesty, Carrignavar, Gormlee, Knockaneag, Laharan, Ryefield East, Whitechurch
- Placenames
- Ballycaskin 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.