Ballygiblin

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygiblin, from 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 326,306 m² (32.63 ha, 80.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballygiblin 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.

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  To construct new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, installation of waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4284

• 22 Dec 2020Incompleted application

  To construct new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, installation of waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6946

• 27 Nov 2020Conditional

  A single storey extension to the rear of dwelling, demolition of existing conservatory, alterations to dwelling and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6668

• 21 Jan 2019Conditional

  Car park and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4088

• 22 Dec 2016Incompleted application

  The construction of a new unit for use as lorry maintenance and repairs and all associated site works in association with the existing haulage business on site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7254

• 4 Feb 2016Awaiting recommendation

  Redevelopment of Ballygiblin Manor, stables, orangery and Stewards House into a 40 no. bed hotel and spa with associated ancillary dining, 18-hole golf course to include artificial lake, golf clubhouse, golf academy, driving bays, cart storage, 16 no. holiday homes and 101 no. residential units, maintenance facility, installation of waste water treatment plant, foul storage tank, 3 no. pumping stations, water storage tank, 2 no. wells, provision of 573 no. parking spaces, landscaping and all associated site works and services – Extension of Duration of Permission granted under planning ref: 08/4403

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/4186

• 3 Sept 2008Conditional

  Retention of second floor extension to dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8713

• 16 Apr 2008Withdrawn

  Removal of ground floor bathroom, alterations and construction of porch, first floor and two storey extensions to single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6082

• 19 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Removal of ground floor bathroom, alterations and construction of porch, first floor and two storey extensions to single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5547

• 28 Jan 2008Conditional

  Redevelopment of Ballygiblin Manor, stables, Orangery and Stewards House into a 40 no. bed hotel and spa with associated ancillary dining, 18-hole golf course to include artificial lake, golf clubhouse, golf academy, driving bays, cart storage, 16 no. holiday homes and 101 no. residential units, maintenance facility, installation of waste water treatment plant, foul storage tank, 3 no. pumping stations, water storage tank, 2 no. wells, provision of 573 no. parking spaces, landscaping and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4403

• 23 Oct 2007Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse, garage and installation of waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11863

• 3 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Two storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10066

• 5 Dec 2006Conditional

  Dormer type dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12989

• 28 Nov 2006Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12734

• 9 Aug 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9621

• 1 Jun 2006Refused

  Dormer type dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7743

• 28 Apr 2004Conditional

  Retention of extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2852

• 2 Apr 2004Conditional

  Continuance of use of the existing development comprising (a) general store and office building (b) a utilities store (c) 2 no. magazines for the storage of commercial explosives (d) security fencing (e) effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2192

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygiblin.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope, below crest of hill. Depicted as hachured oval raised area (c. 20m by c. 28m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map; circle of trees marks site on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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

• CO024-081 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, in an area which was then part of Two Gneeves. Levelled; slight rise visible in area of site. May be same fort (CO024-192---) described by Bowman (1934, 49) on land of E. Finn in townland of Two Gneeves. 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

• CO024-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In coniferous plantation, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (45m N-S; 45m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 2m; ext. H 2.2m); external fosse (D 1.3m). Causewayed entrance (Wth 3.75m) to SSE. Low earthen bank, NNW->ESE, outside fosse appears to be remains of field boundary. Roadway skirts site to E. Rectangular area enclosed by low bank adjoins S side of monument; within N end of this enclosure and immediately outside fosse is slightly raised platform with a central circular depression (diam. c. 3m; D 0.5m), with vertical sides. Entire site planted with 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

• CO024-083001 Church
  Description

  In demesne of Ballygiblin House (14853). Former C of I parish church of Castlemagner. Shown on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps as rectangular ruin (c. 22m E-W; c. 8m N-S) with a projection (c. 8m N-S; c. 8m E-W) near E end of N wall, and named 'Monastery (in ruins)'; similarly depicted on 1937 OS 6-inch map but named 'Church (in ruins)'. Entire structure removed during quarry operations in 1957/58. Photograph in Grove White (1905-25 vol. 1, opp. 172) shows ruin with ivy covering upper part; random-rubble construction; possibly two pointed lights in E gable; projection to N visible. According to local tradition intended to replace Castlemagner Church (14405), but never completed (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 303). Bowman (1934, 52) refers to it as 'a ruined Protestant church', and noted local tradition that it went out of use when new church built at Castlemagner (14405). Latin inscription on door jamb read "DO. DV. IN DEI NOMINE AMEN 1613" (Grove White, ibid., 181). 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

• CO024-083002 Graveyard
  Description

  In the 1930s Bowman (2000, 31) mentions a 'burial ground' associated with the church (vol. 4, no. 14699) at Ballygiblin but does not give any details about it. The church was removed due to quarrying in the 1950s and there are now no visible remains of the graveyard. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO024-084 Country house
  Description

  Near brow of hill, with commanding views to S. House now a roofless ruins (see photograph in Knight of Glin et al. 1988, 48). Built c. 1836 in Tudor Baronial style, designed by William Vitruvius Morrison (Bence-Jones 1978, 22) on site of, and possibly incorporating part of, an 'elegant mansion of some antiquity' (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 303). Front section (E) 2-storey and built of coursed limestone ashlar; rear 3-storey and mostly of random-rubble limestone with brick detail. Entrance front (E) has 2-storey tower at S end topped by ornate octagonal belfry-like turret; pointed entrance door covered by hood moulding, with coat of arms overhead (see photograph Grove White 1905 - 25, vol. 1, opp. 184). Photograph (ibid.) shows N end of front elevation with 2-bay gabled projections topped with chimney stacks (gables now fallen) on either side of central 1-bay recess. Windows have stone mullion and transom divisions and hood mouldings in Tudor style. View front (S) has 2-storey bay window topped with embattled parapet. Roofline features shouldered gables and gablets, topped by pinnacles. Roof now entirely fallen as have most of the panelled Tudor chimney stacks. Rear elevation (N) of 3-storeys, 6-bays wide; gable-ended; fenestration symmetrical with round-headed and Venetian stairway windows. This is possibly remodeled section of the earlier house. Three-bay, 2-storey addition on W side of rear elevation. Court yard to rear enclosed by ornate 2-storey farm buildings to N and W, and by 6-bay, 2-storey stone-built building to E, now residence of present owner. Immediately to W of house is 7-bay, 1-storey orangery, built in similar Tudor style to house: rectangular (long axis E-W), slim pointed window opes with intervening pinnacled buttresses; modern opes in E end and in N wall. Now covered by corrugated-iron roof supported on iron trusses. Remains of walled garden to W. Ice house (14960) to N. Imposing classical tripartite entrance gateway into demesne, to SE. Site of C of I church (14699) on demesne. Bowman (1934, 52) refers to field names on demesne, including 'brick field' and 'kennel field'. 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

• CO024-085 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, to E of Ballygliblin House. According to local information, rectangular "fort" overgrown with trees, levelled in 1960s which had an enclosing bank c. 2 to 3ft high. No visible surface trace of site noted in field of corn. 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

• CO024-167 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CO024-168 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CO024-169001 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CO024-169002 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• CO024-171 Icehouse
  Description

  In limestone quarry, c. 35m N of Ballygiblin House (14853) on NW side of demesne. Inaccessible due to overgrowth; according to owner, icehouse (c. 2m deep; c. 2m square) cut into rock face of quarry and enclosed by wall (H c. 2m). 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

• Ballygiblin House, gates/railings/walls, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Quadrant entrance gateway to Ballygiblin House, built c. 1830, comprising elliptical triumphal arch vehicular entrance flanked by elliptical arch pedestrian entrances. Vehicular entrance having moulded archivolt and flanked by limestone pilasters with plinths having moulded copings and moulded capitals supporting moulded entablature and cornice and bearing double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Pedestrian entrances with moulded limestone surrounds and decorative wrought-iron gates, set in curving coursed rubble stone boundary walls having cut limestone plinths and copings and terminating in square-profile ashlar limestone piers. Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer former gate lodge to east, inside gates, now in use as private house, having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack, painted rendered walls and square-headed replacement uPVC windows and doors.

• Ballygiblin House, country house, 1740–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan country house, now in ruins, comprising five-bay two-storey over basement south-facing block, built c. 1750, two-bay end gables modified 1836 and one-bay two-storey projection with water tank above added to rear elevation Two-pile five-bay three-storey block, facing east, added 1836, at right angles, façade having three-bay three-storey block, flanked by two-bay east end elevation of earlier block and by three-stage square-plan entrance tower and two-bay two-storey block to south, latter having two-storey canted-bay to south gable end. Remains of two-bay two-storey block to north-west. Roofless, having remains of gablets to top floor windows in east, west and south elevations, limestone ashlar chimneystack to west gable of earlier block with six circular-profile limestone ashlar chimney pots. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Limestone pinnacle to gablets and to gables. Entrance tower has hipped roof to second stage and octagonal-plan lantern above, latter having moulded cornice, round-headed lancet windows with hood-mouldings, string course above, and conical slate roof with cast-iron weather vane. Cut limestone walls to rear elevation of earlier block, with moulded limestone eaves course, sill course and platband between basement and ground floor, both courses terminating at each side of middle bay. Rendered walls to gables, snecked cut limestone to projection, ashlar limestone to entrance tower and south end of later block, and rendered walls to later additions, latter with moulded limestone eaves course having consoles to each end, and having plinth. Entrance tower has moulded string course between lower stages and moulded coping to plinth. Rear elevation of earlier block has slightly cambered heads to end bay windows and tripartite windows set at half-levels to middle bays, with square-headed sidelights flanking segmental-headed upper window and round head lower window, with continuous sills and all windows having brick block-and-start surrounds. Windows of east gable remodelled to square-headed blind windows having label-mouldings. Square-headed window openings to later block and to west elevation, having label-mouldings. Round-headed loop windows to south end of first floor of east and west elevations of later block. Double-light mullioned and transomed window opening to ground floor façade of same block, similar triple-light windows to south elevation and to canted bay, all having four-centred lights except for square-headed lights to upper floor of canted bay, with tooled limestone surrounds and limestone label-mouldings. Mullioned two-light windows to west elevation with label-mouldings. Remains of two or three-light window to façade of later block, with label-moulding. Four-centred arch door opening to front elevation of entrance tower having moulded limestone surround with carved quatrefoil motifs to spandrels, and heraldic plaque above with carved coat of arms, plaque and door head framed by stepped label-moulding.

• Ballygiblin House, farmyard complex, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Courtyard of two-storey outbuildings to north-west of Ballygiblin House, built c. 1830, comprising L-shaped east and south-east range, with rectangular-plan south-west range, having hipped slate roofs, south end of east range having corrugated asbestos, with coursed limestone and sandstone rubble walls.

• Ballygiblin House, building misc, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay single-storey orangery, built c. 1830. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with moulded limestone copings to gables. Limestone ashlar walls, having limestone ashlar buttresses with pinnacles to south elevation. Pointed arch window openings to south elevation, having limestone surrounds, blocked with red brick in facer bond. No fenestration to north (stable yard) side. Lancet loop window near verge to west gable. Open sided to east gable, having limestone square-profile pilasters and recent double-leaf corrugated-iron gates. Cast-iron roof supports internally, having decorate multifoil openings with trefoil openings over. Abutted by lean-to roofed single storey outbuilding to west gable, with rubble limestone walls and flat corrugated-iron roof.

• Ballygiblin House, walled garden, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Series of four rectangular-plan walled gardens associated with Ballygiblin House, built c. 1800, with water tower to north. Garden to north-west of house having red brick walls in English garden wall bond, and having coursed limestone rubble west wall. Garden to north having coursed limestone rubble walls, with camber-arched door opening to east wall having red brick voussoirs and temporary timber gate. Garden to west having coursed limestone rubble walls, with elliptical-headed arch to east wall, and chamfered north-west corner to garden to west, having coursed limestone rubble walls with vertical stone copings, and door opening to west wall leading to courtyard, much overgrown. Freestanding square-plan water tower to north, with coursed limestone rubble walls having cast-iron water tank, and round-headed opening to south elevation having tooled limestone surround.

• Ballygiblin House, stables, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Stable blocks to north of Ballygiblin House, built c. 1830, comprising ranges around three sides of rectangular courtyard. Now in use as outbuildings and house. West range is eleven-bay and single-storey with loft, having gabled dormers to ends and middle of façade, pitched slate roof with decorative limestone ashlar chimneystacks, some clay ridge tiles and some cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone ashlar pediments to gables, coursed limestone rubble walls, square-headed window openings having tooled limestone surrounds with some replacement uPVC window and some replacement timber sliding sash windows, square-headed door openings with tooled limestone surrounds and replacement timber battened doors, round-headed door opening having red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors and four-centered arch vehicular entrances with tooled limestone voussoirs and replacement double-leaf timber battened doors. North range is thirteen-bay and single-storey with loft, having single-bay pitched roof projection to west of north elevation, pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, limestone ashlar chimneystack and limestone ashlar pediments to gables, decorative gable-fronted bay to east of south elevation having tooled limestone brackets, rendered walls with blank limestone heraldic field to gable at east of south elevation, square-headed window openings having timber louvers to loft and some replacement timber sliding sash windows to ground floor, paired round-headed window openings to eastmost bay and set in square-headed limestone surrounds with limestone label-moulding, square-headed door openings having timber battened half-doors. Multiple-bay two-storey range to east, now in use as house, having pitched slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings having replacement windows, and square-headed door openings having replacement glazed and half-glazed timber panelled doors.

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 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 Ballygiblin.

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

Name

Ballygiblin · Baile Ghiblín

Area

2,126,811 m² (212.68 ha, 525.55 acres)

Civil parish

Castlemagner, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Roskeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Roskeen electoral division: 493 people in 168 households; 85% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhass, Ballynamona, Ballyrusheen, Cecilstown, Kilgilky South, Knockardsharriv, Subulter, Two Gneeves

Placenames

Ballygiblin 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.