Ballyfin
Townland in the civil parish of Inch, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Uí Fhinn
- Area
- 146.6 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,958 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 40
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfin, from 33 m² to 473,534 m² (47.35 ha, 117.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballyfin 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 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a new detached single storey granny flat, install a new wastewater treatment unit & percolation area to serve both existing dwelling onsite & proposed new granny flat and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1351
22 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for Retention of dwelling house as constructed, detached domestic garage with attached domestic store and all ancillary site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6930
24 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permssion to construct a new dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, domestic garage, install a new wastewater treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6288
4 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house, install a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, new vehicular entance & all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5856
23 Aug 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, new site entrance and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5602
22 Jan 2024Conditional
Permission for construction of a garage/store for use ancillary to the dwelling and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4075
23 Mar 2023Conditional
Construction of a straw bedded shed and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4530
28 Mar 2022Conditional
The construction of a single storey dwelling, single storey detached garage, wastewater treatment plant and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4659
21 Dec 2021Conditional
Retention of a domestic garage along with retention of alterations and changes to the original design of the dwelling house permitted under Planning Reg.No. S/01/3488 including a porch to the front elevation entrance and window fenestration changes.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/7453
12 May 2021Refused
The construction of a single storey dwelling, single storey detached garage, wastewater treatment plant and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5281
7 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission to retain the demolition of an existing cottage, and to retain and complete the construction of a new dormer type dwelling house, which will be substantially similar in appearance to the structure permitted on the site under planning No 18/7375, together with all associated site development works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6747
27 Nov 2020Unconditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and detached garage, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works - Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 16/5936
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 20/6658
9 Sept 2020Conditional
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5952
31 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5636
3 Jul 2020Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling with effluent treatment unit and percolation area, detached garage, access to main roadway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5378
18 Dec 2019Conditional
The demolition of an existing single storey detached storage shed and the construction of a new single storey extension to an existing single storey detached dwelling including alterations to the existing elevations and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7011
21 Nov 2019Incompleted application
The demolition of an existing single storey detached storage shed and the construction of a new single storey extension to an existing single storey detached dwelling including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6775
20 Mar 2019Refused
Construct a single storey dwelling, single storey detached garage, waste water treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4689
19 Dec 2018Conditional
To erect a dormer type extension to an existing single storey cottage. The development also includes re-structuring the roof on the cottage to provide habitable space in attic, modification to windows and doors on the cottage, modification of existing vehicular entrance, construction of a domestic storage building, installation of a sewage treatment system to replace existing septic tank, and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7375
11 Oct 2018Conditional
Renovation and extension to existing dwelling, construction of a new entrance, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6692
3 Aug 2016Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and detached garage, a new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5936
23 Dec 2014Conditional
Two-storey dwellinghouse, a garage, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6797
29 May 2012Conditional
Construction of a dormer style dwelling house, garage, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5155
2 Apr 2009Conditional
One-and-a-half-storey traditional style dwellinghouse, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5018
20 Jan 2009Withdrawn
Replacement of existing septic tank with sewage treatment unit to serve existing cottage
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4109
The 25 most recent of 40 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyfin.
Recorded monuments
- CO088-020002 Kiln - lime
Description
In quarry, built against rock. Kiln has collapsed; section of stone-linedf unnel (H 0.4m) visible. Remains of ramp on S side. 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
- CO088-060 Kiln - lime
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfin.
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, 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 Ballyfin.
- 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 Ballyfin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyfin · Baile Uí Fhinn
- Area
- 1,466,180 m² (146.62 ha, 362.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Cloyne, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloyne electoral division: 4,730 people in 1,639 households; 72% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvoher, Ballinwillin, Ballydavid, Ballyfin, Ballyknock, Ballyroe, Carriglusky, Kilboy, Kilcrone, Lickane, Tullagh
- Placenames
- Ballyfin 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.