Ballydague
Ballydague is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcummer, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Dhabhag.
- Area
- 455.8 ha
- 1,126 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 10,756 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydague, from 314 m² to 531,837 m² (53.18 ha, 131.42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballydague 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
11 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for Retention for alterations to existing dwelling previously permitted under planning reference number 1611/72 consisting of the following: (1) Retention of extension to the side of the existing dwelling. (2) Retention of porch extension to the front of existing dwelling. (3) Retention of alterations to the site boundaries from those permitted under 1611/72 and all associated site work and services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5712
25 Apr 2017Conditional
The construction of a cattle underpass and effluent storage tank under public road and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4998
9 Mar 2017Incompleted application
The construction of a cattle underpass and effluent holding tank under the public road and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4558
1 Jun 2016Refused
Outline Permission for dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, vehicular entrance and all ancillary works.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 16/5314
5 Dec 2014Conditional
Demolition of existing disused dwelling and construction of a new two-storey dwelling, an on-site treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6609
31 May 2012Conditional
Retention of a domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5186
9 Mar 2012Incompleted application
Retention of dog kennels
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4434
25 Apr 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6309
28 Sept 2007Conditional
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11296
27 Sept 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11257
3 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10700
23 May 2007Conditional
Construction of silage slab, dungstead and 2 no. slatted tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8048
4 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Construction of silage slab and slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4066
10 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9673
12 Jul 2005Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse, biocycle unit and entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4957
30 Dec 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and biocycle unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9751
14 Dec 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and bio-cycle unit in lieu of dwellinghouse 'springhill' (demolished)
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9174
5 Jun 2003Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/2740
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Kilcummer) 001794
Recorded monuments
- CO034-053 Cairn - unclassified
Description
In commanding position, on summit of hill. Roughly circular cairn (24m N-S; 22m E-W; H 3.5m) with some stones removed on N side. 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
- CO034-056 Cairn - unclassified
Description
On scrub-covered rounded hilltop; no visible surface trace of cairn. Depicted as cairn and named 'Seehaunnamnafinna' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; 1905 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps show no antiquity at this spot but on adjacent hilltop (which overlooks site), c. 800m SSE, both editions depict a cairn named 'Seehaunnamnafinna' (see 11796). 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
- CO034-070 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). 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
- Woodville, country house, 1770–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached Z-plan country house, comprising five-bay two-storey blocks of c. 1790 and c. 1870. Currently facing south-east, having five-bay front and north-east elevations, two-bay projection of front having canted-bay window to ground floor, three-bay south-west elevation having one-bay three-storey addition under same roof at north-west end, two-bay projection to north-east end of front elevation with canted-bay window on ground floor, porch to angle of front elevation. Built on site of earlier house. Hipped artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystacks, moulded render eaves course, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Flat roof to porch and canted-bay window. Exposed rubble limestone walls to rear elevation, rendered elsewhere, and having render quoins. Render cornice to porch. Square-headed openings to ground floor and camber-headed openings to first floor having diminishing two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Round-headed window opening in south-west side of porch with similar timber sliding sash window. Segmental-headed door opening to porch, with stepped render surround, timber panelled door, overlight and approached by limestone steps. North-east elevation has central Venetian-style window having coloured glass to fanlight, over segmental-headed door opening flanked by sidelights and having timber panelled door with overlight approached by limestone steps. Single-storey building attached to rear, converted to garage, having cut red sandstone walls, with vehicular entrance flanked by pilasters. Approached by avenue to south with double-leaf cast-iron gates and square-profile inner and outer rendered piers with plinths.
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 Ballydague, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballydague.
- 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 Ballydague with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballydague · Baile Dhabhag
- Area
- 4,558,192 m² (455.82 ha, 1,126.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcummer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Kilcummer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 283 people lived in 103 households in the Kilcummer electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bridgetown Lower, Castleblagh, Glandonohoe, Gortroche, Grange, Kilcummer Lower, Knockdoorty, Kylenahoory, Lackendarragh North, Renny Lower
- Placenames
- Ballydague 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.