Ballycushen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycushen, from 132 m² to 425,101 m² (42.51 ha, 105.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycushen 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.

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  To construct a dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6068

• 31 Oct 2007Conditional

  Retention of existing machanical horse walker

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12041

• 22 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of covered dungstead, underground effluent storage tank and stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6349

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 Ballycushen.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-090001 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, on ESE-facing slope. Cropmark of fosse of oval enclosure (diam. c. 45m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, 1984); overlapping at W side with fosse of larger enclosure (13712). No visible surface trace. Within field system (12003). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-090002 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of large subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, 1984); truncated by laneway and field fence on W side. East side overlaps with smaller enclosure (13711). Arc of second concentric outer fosse noted at E side in area of overlap. Within field system (12003). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-206 Field system
  Description

  Fragmented pattern of rectilinear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each other, visible in aerial photographs (CASAP, July 1989). Cropmarks cover area of c. 20ha and indicate relict field system on different axis from present system; some rectangular fields visible. Enclosures (CO024-09001-; CO024-09002-) and circular enclosure (CO024-207---) within field system. Linear series of possible pits (CO024-216---) to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-207 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1987). Within field system (12003). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-216 Pit
  Description

  Roughly L-shaped series of at least 10 circular maculae, visible as cropmarks in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989), extending N-S for c. 200m in centre of field; shorter extension to W at N end. Maculae (diam. c. 10m) morphologically similar to those at Conva (13854) which, when excavated, revealed pits. Two parallel linear cropmarks c. 100m apart, possibly levelled field boundaries, cross field in NW-SE direction. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Ballycushen.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycushen, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycushen.

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.

No address of the register names Ballycushen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballycushen · Baile Chúisín

Area

777,293 m² (77.73 ha, 192.07 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Templemary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

344 people lived in 129 households in the Templemary electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardskeagh, Derryorgan, Garryduff, Tullacondra

Placenames

Ballycushen 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.