Ballygriffin

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygriffin, from 74 m² to 466,285 m² (46.63 ha, 115.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygriffin 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.

• 8 Jul 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1833

• 30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for Retention of existing relocated dwelling previously permitted under planning reference number 98/1272, existing domestic garage and all associated site works and Permission to replace existing unauthorised septic tank and percolation area with a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6986

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and services.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5750

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an extension (for dry storage use) onto the existing dry storage agricultural shed and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6240

• 15 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of an extension (for dry storage use) onto the existing dry storage agricultural shed and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6168

• 22 Oct 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of an extension (for dry storage use) onto the existing dry storage agricultural shed and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5998

• 2 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention for alterations to the windows, doors and front porch from the plans permitted under planning ref: 01/1522, including the provision of three roof light windows to the rear of the dwelling, and the as built site entrance and road side boundary wall and piers

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4001

• 22 Sept 2021Withdrawn

  To construct a 2-storey dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6591

• 9 Apr 2021Withdrawn

  To construct a 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4911

• 18 Aug 2020Withdrawn

  To construct a detached domestic garage , to include domestic storage, home gym and home office and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5765

• 22 Jun 2018Refused

  Permission is sought for new works including additional surface water pipes and collection infrastructure and provision of Class 1 Full Retention Interceptor draining to existing percolation areas new bunding walls for diesel tanks and molasses tanks and relocation of site entrance. Retention is sought for a series of buildings/building extensions (including one agricultural store, one farm maintenance garage, and three no. grain stores each of which is an extension to a pre-existing grain store structure), a concrete apron (used for deposition of grain prior to processing/storage) as part of commercial operations on the site, a gravel hard standing area for car parking and a concrete set down area all of which serve and form part of an established rural agricultural enterprise.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5614

• 14 May 2018Incompleted application

  Permission is sought for new works including additional surface water pipes and collection infrastructure and provision of Class 1 Full Retention Interceptor draining to existing percolation areas and relocation of site entrance. Retention is sought for a series of buildings/building extensions (including one agricultural store, one farm maintenance garage, and three no. grain stores each of which is an extension to a pre-existing grain store structure), a concrete apron (used for deposition of grain prior to processing/storage) as part of commercial operations on the site, a gravel hard standing area for car parking and a concrete set down area all of which serve and form part of an established rural agricultural enterprise.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5214

• 15 Mar 2016Conditional

  Full planning permission is sought for new works including additional surface water pipes and collection infrastructure and provision of Class 1 Full Retention interceptor draining to existing percolation areas. Retention planning permission is sought for a series of buildings/building extensions (including one agricultural store, one farm maintenance garage, and three no. grain stores each of which is an extension to a pre existing grain store structure), a concrete apron (used for deposition of grain prior to processing/storage) as part of commercial operations on the site, a gravel hard standing area for car parking and a concrete set down area all of which serve and form part of an established rural agricultural enterprise

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4596

• 17 Feb 2015Conditional

  Construction of an extension (for dry storage use) onto the existing agricultural dry storage shed, and Retention of mobile home on site 9used for security purposes).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4297

• 5 Dec 2014Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated services

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6614

• 29 May 2012Conditional

  Extension to existing agricultural dry storage shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5151

• 20 Apr 2011Conditional

  Retention of agricultural storage shed as built

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4831

• 12 Apr 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of agricultural storage shed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4751

• 16 Mar 2011Incompleted application

  Retention of agricultural shed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4520

• 26 Nov 2010Conditional

  Construction of a two storey extension to existing heritage/living quarters building to include heritage icon room, hospitality rooms and first floor meeting room and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8572

• 8 Nov 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of a two storey extension to include a heritage icon room and hospitality rooms

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8399

• 4 Nov 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/9542

• 21 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13294

• 27 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted house with underground tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7359

• 11 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construction of entrance to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6928

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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170

Recorded monuments

• CO026-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Farm building built on site. 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

• CO034-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 35m) on 1935 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low rise visible in area of site; circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (GSIAP, W415). 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

• CO034-079 Railway bridge
  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.

• CO034-080 Railway bridge
  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

• Killavullen Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over River Blackwater, built c. 1780, of random rubble limestone construction with later concrete reinforcement to piers, having chanelled cut limestone voussoirs to round-headed arches. Rubble limestone V-cutwaters with later concrete reinforcement to west elevation.

• Ballygriffin Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span limestone road bridge over disused railway line, built c. 1860. Rock-faced ashlar limestone walls, coursed to parapets and piers and snecked to spandrels, with dressed stone string courses above arch elevations and dressed stone copings to parapets. Segmental skewed arch with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs. Splayed buttressed abutments to corners of bridge. Rubble walling adjacent, forming railway line boundary.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1061 (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.

No address of the register names Ballygriffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballygriffin · Baile Uí Ghrífín

Area

2,164,588 m² (216.46 ha, 534.88 acres)

Civil parish

Monanimy, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Monanimy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monanimy electoral division: 856 people in 296 households; 85% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacmoy, Garranachole, Kilcanway, Killissane, Killuragh, Monanimy Lower, Monanimy Upper

Placenames

Ballygriffin 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.