Ballydehob

164 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydehob, from 7 m² to 157,485 m² (15.75 ha, 38.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M1Special Policy Area (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Jul 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the demolition of garage/store and for the construction of a new 2 storey detached dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1860

• 29 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  outline permission for construction of dwelling house and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 26/1738

• 27 May 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission for the demolition of garage/store and for the construction of a new 2 storey detached dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1416

• 8 May 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for the retention of the modifications to the development permitted under Ref. No. 23/00680 comprising of 1. the replacement of 1 no. Type A glamping pod unit with a new type glamping pod for holiday/short term letting. 2. An external heat pump and plant room building, 3. All associated modifications to the site layout, and 4. All ancillary site development works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1218

• 5 May 2026Invalid - case closed

  Planning permission for the retention of modifications to the development permitted under Ref. No. 23/00680 comprising of: 1. the replacement of 1 no. Type A glamping pod unit with a new type glamping pod for holiday/short term letting. 2. An external heat pump and plant room building. 3. all associated modifications to the site layout, and 4. all ancillary site development works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1160

• 11 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed

  We, Bryan Higgin & Adrienne Regan are applying to Cork County Council for Full Planning Permission for the demolition of garage/store and for the construction of a new 2 storey detached dwelling and all associated site works at Stabawl Hill, Ballydehob, Co Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0907

• 8 Apr 2026Invalid application

  Permission for Retention of the modifications to the development permitted under Ref. No. 23/00680 comprising of: 1. the replacement of 1 no. Type A glamping pod unit with a new type, 2. an external heat pump and plant room building, 3. all associated modifications to the site layout, and 4. all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0872

• 31 Mar 2026Application withdrawn

  Permission for excavation and alteration to ground levels within curtilage of dwelling house to provide wheelchair access and wheelie bin/bicycle storage and all associated site development

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0808

• 16 Dec 2025Grant permission

  Permission for: (i) change of use of ground floor premises from shop to apartment, (ii) fenestration changes, (iii) installation of external stairway/ landing to rear of building, (iv) demolition of part of rear building and replacement of same with new extension, and (v) associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6813

• 14 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Installation of telecommunications equipment including 1 no. Tri-Sector antennae mounted on a standoff pole fixed to existing chimney, remote radio units (RRU' s), GPS, cabinet and all associated site development works on the building rooftop to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6463

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for: (i) retention of existing shed for agricultural and domestic use, and for all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/432

• 20 Mar 2025Refused

  Removal of rock and changing of ground levels, construction of two storey dwelling house, domestic green house, 2 no. domestic car garages, new road entrance, services connections, external works and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/143

• 27 Feb 2025Incompleted application

  Removal of rock and changing of ground levels, construction of two storey dwellinghouse, domestic green house, 2 no. domestic car garages, new road entrance, services connections, external works and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/93

• 8 Mar 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house and a detached garage / home office including all all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/108

• 5 Dec 2023Conditional permission

  Permission for the construction of holiday accommodation for short-term letting, a new pedestrian / cyclist access onto Sailor's Lane, a bike store, bin store, a wastewater collection tank and pump station and all associated car parking, landscaping and site development works. The proposed holiday accommodation will consist of: (1) the construction of 6 no. glamping pods and (2) the refurbishment, extension and change of use of an existing agricultural building to an activity building ancillary to the holiday use.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/680

• 21 Sept 2023Conditional

  Erection of a dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/530

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse and detached garage, home office including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/476

• 11 Aug 2023Incompleted application

  Erection of dwelling house and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/450

• 10 Jul 2023Conditional

  Extension and alterations to existing dwelling house including: (1) Construction of new single-storey extension to existing dwelling; (2) Construction of new raised external decking area; (3) Elevational changes to existing dwelling; and (4) All other associated ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/381

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  Alterations, extension and change of use of vehicle repair workshop (former Methodist Church, NIAH Record no. 20832025) to dwelling house, works to include installation of heritage roof lights, restoration of original windows and reinstatement of porch

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/321

• 12 May 2023Refused

  Change of dwelling design granted under planning reference 20/157, revised site boundaries and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/253

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for: (i) retention of change of use of former service station to restaurant, (ii) permission for construction of new extension to restaurant and (iii) associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/242

• 13 Apr 2023Incompleted application

  Change of dwelling design, granted under planning reference 20/157, revised site boundaries and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/199

• 9 Mar 2023Incompleted application

  Change of dwelling design, granted under planning reference 20/157 and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/125

• 9 Dec 2022Withdrawn

  Construction of a dwelling house and a detached garage / home office including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/755

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Roaringwater Bay and Islands SAC 000101
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Roaringwater Bay And Islands 000101

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydehob.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two storey house, built c.1900, having shopfront to ground floor and single-storey extension to rear (north-east). Pitched slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to extension. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Square-headed window opening to extension having tripartite window comprising one-over-one timber sliding sash window flanked by one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door and overlight. Timber shopfront comprising pilasters supporting fascia board and carved cornice, with fixed timber framed display window and square-headed door opening. Shopfront now disused.

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of semi-detached three-bay two-storey houses with dormers, built c.1890. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered and roughcast rendered walls with timber battens to dormer tympanums. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened and timber panelled doors.

• AIB, bank/financial institution, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey bank, built c.1950, with flat-roofed porch to front (south) elevation. Single-storey flat-roofed extension to rear (north). Hipped artificial slate roof with overhanging rendered eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls to first floor, lined rendered walls to ground floor and porch and rendered sill course to first floor. Square-headed openings with metal framed casement windows, having painted sills to ground floor. Square-headed door opening to porch with double-leaf timber panelled doors. Rendered boundary walls to site.

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, having shopfront to ground floor and gabled two-storey over basement section to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Shopfront comprising square-headed window opening with fixed timber framed arcade of round-headed display windows with window guard and square-headed door opening (west) with replacement overlight and timber glazed door.

• House, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached single-bay three-storey house, built c.1870, with gabled two-storey over basement section to rear (north) and shopfront to ground floor, added c.1960. Pitched artificial slate roof with rooflight to rear and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Shopfront comprising render cornice, square-headed opening having fixed timber framed display window with metal window guard and square-headed door opening to east with overlight and timber glazed door.

• Wok Inn, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1870, with shopfront to ground floor and gabled two-storey over basement section to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed diminishing window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Timber shopfront comprising square-headed fixed timber framed display windows, canted to recessed central square-headed door opening with overlight and timber glazed door. Overhanging dentillated cornice with battened soffit extending over square-headed door opening to east with overlight and timber panelled door.

• J. O'Farrell, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1890, with integral carriage arch and shopfront to ground floor. Lean-to extension to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and uPVC windows. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters with capitals supporting architrave, fascia board and dentillated cornice. Triple of elliptical-headed display windows with metal window guard. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled door, elliptical-headed overlight and decorative door furniture. Square-headed carriage arch with segmental arch to rear and rubble stone voussoirs.

• J. Daly, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1880, having shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rooflights, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebble dashed walls to first floor with rendered sill course and render horizontal and vertical plat bands. Painted smooth rendered walls to ground floor. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Render shopfront comprising undecorated pilasters, fluted brackets with shamrock motif flanking fascia board and moulded cornice. Square-headed opening with timber casement display window and rendered sill. Square-headed door opening with carved timber panelled door and overlight, with recessed double-leaf timber glazed doors with metal window guards.

• Levis, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace two-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1880, having shopfront to ground floor. Lean-to and pitched roof extensions to rear (south-east). Pitched artificial slate roof, timber bargeboards to dormers, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls with roughcast rendered walls to south-west elevation. Corrugated-steel walls to pitched roof extension. Square-headed openings with uPVC windows and rendered sills. Square-headed opening to rear having paired one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and painted sill. Square-headed openings to pitched roof extension with timber framed casement windows and timber sills. Render shopfront comprising vertical plat bands, fascia board with decorative carved timber lettering and moulded cornice. Square-headed openings with timber framed casement display windows flanking recessed square-headed door opening with overlight and double-leaf timber glazed doors.

• Minihane, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, with shopfront to ground floor, added c.1880. Lean-to extensions to rear (south-east). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with uPVC windows and painted stone sills. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters with capitals supporting architrave, moulded fascia board and dentillated cornice. Square-headed openings with fixed timber framed display windows flanking square-headed door opening with overlight and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Cast-iron columns to interior of display windows.

• The Sandboat, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with shared rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plat bands at sill level. Square-headed diminishing openings with two-over-two timber sliding box sash windows, carved sash boxes and rendered sills. Recent timber shopfront comprising fluted pilasters and brackets supporting fascia board and having square-headed opening with timber casement display window and square-headed door opening with timber panelled door.

• D. Coughlan, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with integral carriage arch and shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with shared rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Carved timber shopfront comprising paired pilasters with capitals supporting architrave, frieze, dentillated cornice and fascia board with raised lettering. Square-headed openings with elliptical-headed arcade of fixed timber framed display windows over rubble stone stall risers, flanking square-headed door opening with elliptical-headed overlight and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Square-headed carriage arch to west.

• Hobbits, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1880, with shopfront to ground floor. Lean-to extensions to rear (south-east). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls with rusticated render quoins, dentillated render eaves course and render sill course to second floor. Square-headed diminishing openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Moulded render surrounds to first floor opening comprising pilasters supporting cornice. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters with capitals supporting decorative scroll brackets, fascia board and dentillated cornice. Square-headed openings with single fixed pane timber frame display windows canted to recessed central square-headed door opening with overlight and double-leaf timber glazed doors. Square-headed door opening to west with overlight and timber panelled door giving access to upper floors.

• A Nice Old Bookshop, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, altered c.1880 to include half-dormers and shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater good and timber bargeboards and battening to dormers. Painted smooth rendered walls with render block-and-start quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows (second floor) and timber casement windows (first floor), all having rendered sills and block-and-start render surrounds. Two timber shopfronts united under single fascia board and cornice supported by fluted pilasters with decorative scroll brackets. Shopfront to west comprises square-headed opening with round-headed arcade of fixed timber framed display windows, continued to overlight above timber glazed door with sidelight. Shopfront to east comprising square-headed opening with round-headed arcade of fixed timber framed openings, those to centre forming overlight above square-headed timber glazed door. Square-headed opening giving access to upper floors, having timber glazed door with overlight comprising paired round-headed openings.

• C. O'Sullivan Victualler, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1840, altered c.1880 to include half-dormers and shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof, rendered chimneystack and replacement decorative timber bargeboards and battening to dormers. Cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings with aluminium windows and rendered sills. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters on chamfered rendered bases, capitals and supporting architrave, fascia board and dentillated cornice. Square-headed openings with three-pane fixed timber framed display windows. Central square-headed door opening having overlight and double-leaf timber glazed doors. Square-headed door opening to east giving access to upper floors having overlight and timber panelled door.

• Mc Carthy, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced single-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, altered c.1880 to include shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artificial slate roof with rooflight, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted smooth rendered walls. Square-headed opening with two-over-two timber sliding sash window and rendered sill. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters on rendered bases supporting architrave, fascia board and cornice. Square-headed opening with timber framed casement display window and square-headed door opening with overlight and timber panelled door.

• Church/chapel, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted former Methodist church, built c.1860, having four-bay nave. Now in use as store. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Pointed arch openings with leaded stained glass and chamfered render surrounds. Paired pointed arch openings to gable-front having moulded render hood mouldings and block-and-start surrounds. Recent opening added to west nave elevation with sheet metal door.

• South West Properties, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of attached houses, three-bay two-storey with ground floor shopfront to south-east, two-bay two-storey to north-west, built c.1900, having single-storey lean-to extension to north-west and two-storey lean-to extension to rear (south-west). Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floors with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor of north-west house with timber framed casement windows and stone sills. Carved timber shopfront to south-east house comprising pilasters on render bases with capitals supporting architrave, fascia board and cornice. Square-headed openings with fixed timber framed display windows and having metal window guards, flanking square-headed opening with overlight and double-leaf timber glazed doors. Square-headed opening to north-west house, having timber panelled door and overlight.

• Rosie's, house, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with shopfront to ground floor and lean-to extensions to west and rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated asbestos roof to extension (west). Red brick walls to front (south) elevation, painted concrete block work walls to extension. Square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs, rendered sills to first floor, red brick sills to second floor and uPVC windows. Carved timber shopfront comprising pilasters supporting architrave, fascia board and cornice. Square-headed openings with fixed timber framed display windows over red brick stall risers with wrought-metal window guards, flanking square-headed opening with overlight and double-leaf timber panelled doors. Square-headed door opening giving access to upper floors and having carved timber panelled door and overlight.

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 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 Ballydehob.

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.

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

Name

Ballydehob · Béal an Dá Chab

Area

771,448 m² (77.14 ha, 190.63 acres)

Civil parish

Skull, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Ballydehob, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballydehob electoral division: 924 people in 404 households; 75% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolagh Beg, Cooragurteen, Knockroe, Shanavagh

Placenames

Ballydehob 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.