Ballyglissane
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Uí Ghliasáin
- Area
- 82.5 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 13,514 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglissane, from 306 m² to 122,950 m² (12.3 ha, 30.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballyglissane 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 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5597
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO044-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Levelled c. 1973. According to local information, circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (Hc.1m). Outline of bank still visible as low undulation. 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
- CO044-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Shown as sub-circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map (c. 40m N-S; c. 45m E-W). No visible surface trace. House foundations sunk in area of site. 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
- CO044-062 Souterrain
Description
According to local information, a passage running N was found c. 350m NW of levelled ringfort (CO044-034---). 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
- CO044-065 Souterrain
Description
In pasture c. NNE of possible souterrain (CO044-062---). According to local information 'passage covered by slabs and running E-W' was found. 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
- Ballyglissan House, country house, 1770–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1790, having bowed ends with three-bay elevations, two-bay two-storey return, projecting porch to front elevation, and having extension to rear. Hipped slate and artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks, moulded limestone eaves course and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls having coursed rubble stone plinth course. Square-headed window openings, some blind to return, having timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to first floor and nine-over-six pane to ground floor, having tooled limestone sills and hinged timber panelled shutters throughout, some with two-part shutters. South elevation has round-headed three-over-three pane window to basement, with spoked fanlights and metal bars, and round-headed nine-over-six pane window with spoked fanlight. Curved windows to bows. Porch is flat-roofed, with overhanging eaves, corners supported on tapering engaged columns with vegetal capitals and moulded bases and flanking projection containing square-headed nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed doorway to south side of porch, having double-leaf timber panelled door with surround comprising panelled pilasters with vegetal detail, moulded capitals and cornice, and cut limestone plinth and threshold, approached by steps. Attached three-bay double-height addition to rear, with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls having cut-stone impost course, round-headed openings to north elevation with cobweb fanlights and twelve-pane fixed timber windows. Rendered walls to southern elevation having square-headed window openings to first floor and segmental-headed door opening to ground floor. Attached four-bay two-storey coachhouse to rear having square-headed window openings to first floor and square-headed door openings to north side of ground floor with two elliptical-arched vehicular entrances to south side. Attached four-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear having hipped roof, painted rendered walls and square-headed window and door openings. Detached roofless five-bay outbuilding to rear having round-headed double-height window openings flanking central elliptical-headed door opening with occulus window opening over.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1256 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyglissane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyglissane · Baile Uí Ghliasáin
- Area
- 825,413 m² (82.54 ha, 203.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Gortroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortroe electoral division: 815 people in 273 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyda, Ballynagore, Ballyready, Gneeves, Scartbarry
- Placenames
- Ballyglissane 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.