# Ballycushen, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Chúisín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 777,293 m² (77.73 ha, 192.07 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,672 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyclogh, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ballyclogh.md - Barony: Orrery and Kilmore - Electoral division: Templemary, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12079 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40422 - Centre: latitude 52.196399, longitude -8.758191 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycushen, from 132 m² to 425,101 m² (42.51 ha, 105.04 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4310970: 425,101 m² (42.51 ha, 105.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4310970.md - Parcel 2209105: 219,836 m² (21.98 ha, 54.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209105.md - Parcel 2209104: 123,787 m² (12.38 ha, 30.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209104.md - Parcel 5841050: 4,951 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5841050.md - Parcel 2280090: 4,394 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2280090.md - Parcel 5803826: 2,982 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5803826.md - Parcel 2117468: 143 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2117468.md - Parcel 2209103: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209103.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 27 Jul 2021, Cork County Council 21/6068: Conditional. Permission. To construct a dwelling and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6068 - 31 Oct 2007, Cork County Council 07/12041: Conditional. Permission. Retention of existing machanical horse walker. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/12041 - 22 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6349: Conditional. Permission. Construction of covered dungstead, underground effluent storage tank and stables. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6349 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycushen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO024-090001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO024-090001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO024-090002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO024-206----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO024-207----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO024-216----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycushen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballycushen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballycushen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballycushen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycushen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardskeagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/ardskeagh-40172.md - Derryorgan: https://everytownland.com/cork/derryorgan.md - Garryduff: https://everytownland.com/cork/garryduff-42736.md - Tullacondra: https://everytownland.com/cork/tullacondra.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballycushen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballycushen