Ballyellane
Townland in the civil parish of Templerobin, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Uí Aoláin
- Area
- 69.4 ha
- 171 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,495 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyellane, from 444 m² to 317,129 m² (31.71 ha, 78.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyellane 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
20 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission to install a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area to serve existing dwellinghouse.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5193
4 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house (change of layout and design from that granted under Pl.Reg.No. 21/5758), septic tank and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5861
13 Sept 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct a new dwelling house (change of layout and design from that granted under planning Ref 21/5758).
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5732
6 Mar 2023Refused
Installation of 5 no. camping pods, a reception building, a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4393
24 Jun 2021Conditional
To construct a two storey dwellinghouse, bio-treatment unit, well, and new vehicular entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5758
1 Jun 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of domestic garage to the front of his dwellinghouse and a domestic garden shed to the side and rear of dwellinghouse.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/5537
6 May 2021Incompleted application
Retention planning permission for a domestic garage to the front of his dwellinghouse and a domestic garden shed to the side and rear of his dwellinghouse.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/5212
14 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission for a single storey extension to southern elevation of existing single storey dwelling and elevational changes, consisting of removal of existing chimney stack, glazed sliding doors to the west elevation and glazed double doors with side window to the north elevation with changes to internal layout together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5988
7 Oct 2014Conditional
Retention of single storey side extension, velux windows to front and rear roof, modified vehicular entrance and domestic garage at dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/6143
11 Sept 2014Incompleted application
Permission for retention of single storey side extension, velux windows to front and rear roof, modified vehicular entrance and domestic garage at dwellinghouse
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5945
16 Jun 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7313
8 Nov 2007Conditional
One and half storey dwellinghouse and installation of bio-cycle unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12249
2 May 2007Conditional
Raising the levels of low-lying agricultural land with construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7484
22 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12533
11 Sept 2006Conditional
Alterations and conversion of garage to utility room and retention of extension to same for use as granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10484
2 Dec 2005Conditional
Alterations and first floor extension to bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8897
1 Nov 2005Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8041
14 Oct 2005Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7531
4 Oct 2005Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7203
4 Jul 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse, conversion of attic for habitable use and installation of velux windows and solar panels on roof
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4716
29 Jun 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4605
17 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwelling House with domestic storage garage, treatment plant on site with percolation area off site
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4279
9 Jan 2004Conditional
Retention of attic conversion and timber balcony to side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/58
20 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage & proprietary treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5790
30 May 2003Refused
Dwelling, garage and treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2654
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
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: Great Island Channel SAC 001058
- Special Protection Area: Cork Harbour SPA 004030
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Great Island Channel 001058
Recorded monuments
- CO076-037002 Kiln - lime
Description
Built into natural slope. Front (H 3.7m; Wth 5.25m) N-facing; arched recess (H 2m; Wth 2.4m; D 2.1m), stoking hole evident. Stone-lined funnel partially infilled. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO076-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Power (1923, 199) refers to 'one small lios' in this townland, with bank 'about 6ft high'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Gate lodge, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey with attic accommodation former gate lodge, built c. 1790, having two-bay full-height gabled breakfront to front (north) elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with red brick chimneystack and rooflights. Rubble stone walls with brick eaves course. Square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs having replacement windows and timber battened door with single sidelight. Recent square-headed opening with replacement window to breakfront gable. Rubble stone boundary walls to rear boundary with square-profile 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyellane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyellane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyellane · Baile Uí Aoláin
- Area
- 693,845 m² (69.38 ha, 171.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templerobin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Cobh Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cobh Rural electoral division: 9,050 people in 2,954 households; 73% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ashgrove, Belgrove, Walterstown
- Placenames
- Ballyellane 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.