Ballyellis

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyellis, from 143 m² to 531,759 m² (53.18 ha, 131.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention for the following: (1) For elevational changes to existing dwelling previously permitted under planning reference number 1285/75 and all associated site works. (2) For existing site entrance to existing dwelling. (3) For existing domestic unit for hobby use and associated site works. (4) For domestic shed ancillary to main dwelling and (5) For existing domestic garage for the storage of classic cars for domestic use and all associated site works and services.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6586

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  Retention of the as built dwelling as constructed under Planning Ref: 09/6736 and permission for the completion of the dwelling house and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4405

• 30 Aug 2018Conditional

  Retention of a sunroom/extension to side of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6294

• 29 Jul 2016Conditional

  Permission for a new waste water treatment system to serve the existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5910

• 22 May 2015Conditional

  An agricultural shed incorporating a dairy unit, milking parlour, collection yard and slatted tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5068

• 21 May 2014Refused

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, septic tank, entrance & ancillary works - Extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/6736

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5062

• 17 Aug 2009Conditional

  Dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, entrance & ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6736

• 30 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Two storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8166

• 8 Feb 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of waste water treatment plant

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4637

• 4 Apr 2007Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6816

• 5 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted lean-to livestock shed, dungstead, extension to milking parlour, livestock shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12984

• 20 Apr 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6524

• 30 Jan 2006Refused

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4404

• 22 Dec 2004Conditional

  Construction of dwelling with attic space, entrance and effluent treatment unit and the installation of an effluent treatment unit to serve the adjacent dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9510

• 9 Dec 2004Refused

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9023

• 1 Dec 2004Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8803

• 17 Nov 2004Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8480

• 25 May 2004Conditional

  Extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3644

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

Recorded monuments

• CO017-034 Standing stone
  Description

  Not marked on 1842 and 1906 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Stone (H 2.7m; 1.8m x 0.7m) is subrectangular in plan with some packing stones exposed at base, long axis NE-SW. 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

• CO017-074001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground, c. 60m SW of holy well (13941). Heavily overgrown mound of burnt material (H 0.45m). Second fulacht fiadh (10276) c. 110m to 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

• CO017-074002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Now inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. Well was locally known as 'Tubber Lughin' (Jones 1902, 238); translated by O'Reilly (1987, 131) to mean 'Well of the Duck'. Location and name derived from story of Mardhol, the druid who was being swept down the Awbeg River during a flood, he was saved at this spot by catching the leg of a huge drake. According to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 1, 162), masonry buttress built over well, in 18th century, 'surmounted by duck, carved in stone'; also here, a swan and drinking vessels carved in stone with inscription 'James Barre 1746' (ibid.). 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

• CO017-075 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. Second fulacht fiadh (10275) c. 110m to SE. 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

• CO017-076 Enclosure
  Description

  In marshy pasture, c. 20m E of Lougheagle stream which flows S to join Awbeg River. Circular saucer-shaped raised area (14m N-S; 13.4m E-W) defined by low earthen bank (int. H 0.18m; ext. H 0.76m). Interior planted with mature deciduous and coniferous trees. 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

• Ballyellis Lodge, house, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built 1902-3. Hipped porch projection to front (east) and single-storey canted-bay to south gable having door flanked by windows, and having recent conservatory extension. Recent single-storey lean-to additions to north and rear. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge crestings and end finials, brick chimneystacks with decorative copings, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with brick quoins and window surrounds. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and tripartite six-pane side-hung timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to south side of porch with brick surround and glazed timber panelled door. Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding in yard to north, having pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings with red brick dressings, having timber louvers to windows. Limestone boundary wall to site.

• Ballyellis House, country house, 1805–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house over basement, built 1807, having full-height stairs return to rear, flanked by two-bay two-storey symmetrical additions built c. 1900, western having canted-bay window to west elevation, and with corrugated-iron lean-to extension to rear of eastern addition. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills having timber sliding sash windows, six-over six pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor. Blind window openings to original gables of front block and round-headed six-over-six pane window to stairs return, with fanlight and cut limestone voussoirs. One-over-one pane windows to additions, mullioned to first floor camber-headed window openings of western elevation and to one ground floor window of eastern. Round-headed front entrance doorway having carved limestone engaged columns, timber panelled door with glazed fanlight and moulded archivolt, approached by limestone steps. Limestone plaque with Harold Barry coat of arms inset over front door. Steps leading to basement door to west. Yard to rear with single-storey stone-built outbuildings to west and north side. Four-bay two-storey farm building to north having coursed rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings with brick dressings and timber battened doors and louvered windows, also having segmental-arch vehicular entrance with brick voussoirs and date stone inscribed 1905. Stone wall extends from east side of house, having pointed arch pedestrian gateway with cut limestone surround, hood-moulding and ornate wrought-iron gate, and brick piers with wrought-iron gas lamp holder. Cast-iron entrance gates to rear with carved limestone piers. Entrance to tree-lined avenue to north-west. Road entrance gates have cut limestone piers with wrought-iron gates set in curved rendered walls.

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 Ballyellis, about 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyellis.

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

Name

Ballyellis · Baile Eilís

Area

2,282,528 m² (228.25 ha, 564.02 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Doneraile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,555 people lived in 599 households in the Doneraile electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymee, Cahermee, Carrigeen, Kilcolman West, Knockanare, Lougheagle, Rossagh West

Placenames

Ballyellis 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.