Ballydoyle

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydoyle, from 726 m² to 279,818 m² (27.98 ha, 69.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballydoyle 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.

• 11 May 2022Withdrawn

  Permission to demolish the existing store to the side elevation of the existing dwelling and to construct a new textension to the rear of the existing dwelling house with alterations, installation of new wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5071

• 6 Dec 2018Conditional

  (A) Construct a new milking complex incorporating covered holding yard with associated underground slatted slurry storage tank with 4 external agitation points. (B) Construct a new easy feed slatted livestock unit adjacent to existing farm buildings. Proposed slatted house to incorporate underground slatted slurry storage tank with 2 external agitation points. (C) Erect a 16 tonne meal bin. The above to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7208

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  Slatted beef unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5404

• 1 Nov 2016Conditional

  To construct a cubicle house with slatted tanks, cattle shed with slatted tank, machinery shed and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6727

• 12 Nov 2009Conditional

  Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, bored well, proprietary treatment unit & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7625

• 26 Nov 2008Withdrawn

  Construction of agricultural shed for the storage of hay, straw and agricultural machinery

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9843

• 27 Sept 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11256

• 11 Sept 2007Conditional

  Construction of double garage, workshop and private gymnasium with changing room

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10926

• 7 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. underground effluent tanks, 1 no. open lined slurry lagoon and silage slab

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5725

• 22 Apr 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1872

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Castletownroche) 001561

Recorded monuments

• CO026-028 Quarry
  Description

  Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 12 September 2014

• CO026-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In meadow land. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low rise visible in area of site. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R522) as faint cropmark of bank (most clearly visible SE->NW), with external fosse S->NW. 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

• CO026-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.7m). Breaks in bank to E and to W. Bank very low to W where it becomes part of roadside field boundary and is replaced by stone wall. Interior slopes down to W; partially overgrown with briars. 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

• CO026-112 Designed landscape - belvedere
  Description

  Rubble mound of collapsed circular tower, atop steep E side of Awbeg River valley, immediately W of Rockvale House. Tower collapsed after storm c. 1985, leaving mound of limestone rubble (H c. 1.5m; diam. c. 5m). Photograph (CAS, 1984) shows tower (H c. 6m) built of random-rubble limestone, with large 1st-floor window, topped by projecting stones cornice. According to owner, it was 3-storey over basement with door ope to E. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 183) refers to tower as a columbarium; photograph (ibid. opp. 183) taken in 1906 shows circular tower, unroofed, with lintelled ground-floor door. However, present owner does not recall any nesting boxes within tower. Rockvale House, of mid-19th-century appearance; front elevation (N) is 3-bay, 2-storey with Wyatt windows; gable-ended, chimneys on gables; according to owner, replaced earlier house, some walls of which survive on W side of present house. Remains of stone-built tea house (14958) c. 400m to S. 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

• CO026-187 Designed landscape - tea house
  Description

  In woodland, atop steep E side of Awbeg River; immediately E of holy well (CO026-189---) and c. 400m S of Rockvale house and Tower (CO026-112---). Remains of stone-built rectangular structure (6m E-W; 6.6m N-S) with rectangular projection on E end of N side; walls (T c. 0.75m) stand to c. 3.5m high. External wall faced with irregular and unusual stones; internal walls smooth with some plaster fragments; some brick visible in E wall. Remains of possible door ope (Wth. 1.2m) in E wall. Described by Grove White (1905-25, vol. 4, 183) as 'a ruin built of very rude natural undressed stones, the walls being unusually thick. The doorway has a pointed arch...used as a summer house in 1841...erected as a teahouse by a Mrs Nagle. It was then thatched.' According to local information, there was a church site here. 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

• CO026-189 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In woodland, atop steep E side of Awbeg River valley, immediately W of tea house (14958). Well dried up though small stream issues from it. Surrounded by displaced large stones which according to landowner, formerly lined the well. According to O'Reilly (1987, 130), called St Peter's well, no patterns were held there. Not known by landowner as holy well but there is a tradition that tea house is built on site of a church. 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

• CO026-240 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a double ditch visible on Apple Maps imagery. Possible entrance at S. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère See attached image Date of upload/revision: 30 March 2022

Architectural heritage

• Rockvale House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having lower three-bay two-storey block and four-bay single-storey lean-to addition to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to return and flat roofs to extensions. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed tripartite openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-six pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Middle bay of first floor has three-over-six pane window. Two-storey rear addition has three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground floor. Round-headed entrance doorway having spoked fanlight and half-glazed timber panelled door with flanking Doric-style engaged columns having limestone plinths, moulded entablature, and limestone threshold and flagstone paving. Ashlar limestone square-profile piers to road entrance with carved caps and plinths and having double-leaf cast-iron gates. Pedestrian entrance to north and painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinths and copings terminating in second pair of piers.

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 Ballydoyle, 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 Ballydoyle.

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 Ballydoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballydoyle · Baile Uí Dhúill

Area

3,145,488 m² (314.55 ha, 777.27 acres)

Civil parish

Castletownroche, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Castletownroche, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 373 households in the Castletownroche electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annesgrove, Ballinvoher, Ballywalter, Ballywalter Demesne, Lisnagoorneen, Naglesborough

Placenames

Ballydoyle 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.