Ballydaw
Ballydaw is a townland in the civil parish of Knockmourne, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Dháith.
- Area
- 72.1 ha
- 178 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,574 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydaw, from 76 m² to 502,903 m² (50.29 ha, 124.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballydaw 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
21 May 2025Refused
Permission to construct an agricultural entrance with a 287 metre long by 5 metre wide passageway to access farmyard
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4958
3 Jan 2024Refused
Permission for the construction of the following: a) 1 no. agricultural building to include straw storage, straw bedded livestock housing along with livestock easi feed. b) installation of solar panels along with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6633
22 Nov 2017Conditional
Construction of a cattle underpass with soiled water tank, a new entrance onto pubic road and a new milking parlour complex incorporating milking parlour, holding yard, drafting area, dairy washing tank, dairy, plant room, chemical store and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7036
1 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of an animal house incorporating floatation channel and roofed slatted tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5998
2 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/7476
8 Feb 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/4844
16 Nov 2005Refused
2 no. dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8420
16 Dec 2003Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6470
10 Jun 2003New application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2815
24 Feb 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/746
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
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydaw.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballydaw.
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 Ballydaw, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1391 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballydaw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballydaw · Baile Dháith
- Area
- 721,391 m² (72.14 ha, 178.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockmourne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kilcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 408 people lived in 152 households in the Kilcor electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardra, Ballyhamsherry, Ballynella, Ballyrobert, Ballyvolane, Kilcor North, Kilcor South
- Placenames
- Ballydaw 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.