Ballycommane

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycommane, from 130 m² to 648,058 m² (64.81 ha, 160.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G1Green Infrastructure (Open space, park)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Sept 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Construct a cattle house with slated slurry tank, construct a straw storage shed and carry out all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 26/2303

• 31 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Retention of 1) alterations & extension to dwelling house consisting of a side extension including modifications to original roof pitch as part of works, 2) a detached rear garage

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1454

• 1 May 2026Invalid - case closed

  Retention of 1) Alterations & extension to dwelling house consisting of a side extension including modifications to original roof pitch as part of works, 2) A detached rear garage.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1147

• 14 Jul 2021Conditional permission

  Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank, construct a straw storage shed and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/491

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  To construct an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/732

• 26 Sept 2019Incompleted application

  To construct an entrance and access road to a forestry block and all associated site services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/622

• 2 Nov 2018Conditional

  Permission to retain change of use of part of former creamery to metal fabrication workshop

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/645

• 9 Oct 2018Incompleted application

  To retain change of use of part of former creamery to metal fabrication workshop

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/600

• 12 Jul 2016Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/444

• 10 Jun 2016Incompleted application

  Construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/365

• 9 May 2016Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house and installation of a waste water treatment system to serve same. Extension of existing site entrance to accommodate proposed new dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/281

• 21 Apr 2016Incompleted application

  Construction of a dwelling house and installation of a waste water treatment system to serve same. Extension of existing site entrance to accommodate proposed new dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/237

• 16 Apr 2013Conditional

  (I) Restoration of 3 no. existing outbuildings for use as (a) Interpretive display building (b) Plant Nursery (c) Tea room (II) Upgrading of existing vehicular entrance and access road, (III) Carparking area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/228

• 4 Jun 2010Conditional

  Retain four dormer windows to rear of house under construction and to retain front, rear and gable end window fenestrations to same dwelling (dwelling as previously granted under planning reg. 06/11)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 10/399

• 16 May 2008Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, installation of mini-treatment plant and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/911

• 29 Feb 2008Conditional

  Dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/378

• 21 Aug 2006Conditional

  (a) Demolition of existing dwelling (b) construction of new dwelling (c) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1662

• 15 Feb 2006Conditional

  (1). Permission for the enclosure of existing farm yard, by way of an A-roof structure for use as a cattle yard; (B). Detached farm building for cattle to include slatted pit & all other associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/228

• 26 Jan 2006Conditional

  Retention of extension to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/83

• 9 Jan 2006Conditional

  Treatment plant and retention and completion of dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11

• 12 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Retention and completion of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9193

• 12 Dec 2005Conditional

  Retention of renovations to building for use as dwelling and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9203

• 14 Nov 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8376

• 3 Oct 2005Conditional

  Demolition of porch and single storey ruined extension and construction of two storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7197

• 1 Nov 2004Incompleted application

  Construction of dwellinghouse and retention of foundations/blockwalls and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8101

The 25 most recent of 40 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycommane.

Recorded monuments

• CO131-005001 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  To S and c. 50m W of bend of Four Mile Water river. Stones, aligned NNE-SSW, stand 2.9m apart. NE stone is 0.8m L, 0.6m T and 0.85m H. SW stone is 0.9m L, 0.8m T and 0.95m H. Boulder burial (CO131-005002-) 2.2m to WSW. (O Nualláin 1978, 93, no. 27; 1988, 248, no. 137) See O'Brien 1990, 14-15 - 'Excavations 1989'. 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

• CO131-005002 Boulder-burial
  Description

  On top of a low E-W ridge overlooking pasture to S of Four Mile Water river. Quartz conglomorate (1.8m x 1.6m; T 0.8m) resting above three supportstones. Pair of standing stones (CO131-005001-) 2.2m to ENE and boulder burial excavated in 1989 (pers. comm. Dr. W.F. O'Brien). No pit, human remains or finds recovered. (O Nualláin 1978, 93, no.27) See O'Brien 1990, 14-15 - 'Excavations 1989'. 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

• CO131-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on crest of hillock. Circular area (25.5m N-S; 24.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m) SSW->NW; defined by scarp (H 1.55m) elsewhere; shallow external fosse to NW. Gap in bank (Wth 1m) to SW. Cultivation ridges cross interior on N-S axis. Field boundary skirts enclosure NNW->SE. 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

• CO131-063 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. A recent collapse of earth resulted in a roughly circular opening (0.45m NNE-SSW; 0.43m ESE-WNW) which gives access to a roughly oval earth-cut chamber (0.86m x 0.74m; min. D 0.9m). A creepway (L c. 0.33m; min. Wth 0.2m) leads to the SSW from the chamber but it was inaccessible due to an accumulation of spoil from the collapse. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1910–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey farm house, built c.1920, comprising three-bay house with two-bay outbuilding having external steps leading to first floor, to south. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with raised render reveals, stone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to entrances with timber panelled and battened doors. Three-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding attached to rear (east) elevation. Rubble stone enclosing wall with recent ornamental concrete capping to front garden.

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).

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, 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 Ballycommane.

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.

• Ballycommane, Durrus8 sales

Name

Ballycommane · Baile Uí Chomáin

Area

5,458,796 m² (545.88 ha, 1,348.9 acres)

Civil parish

Durrus, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Durrus East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Durrus East electoral division: 283 people in 105 households; 91% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrigboy, Cloonee, Cloonee, Crottees, Dromataniheen, Dromreagh, Glanlough, Letterlicky West, Maulinward

Placenames

Ballycommane 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.