Ballygrogan
Ballygrogan is a townland in the civil parish of Grenagh, barony of Barretts, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Ghrogáin.
- Area
- 194.2 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 51
- registered freehold, median 4,526 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygrogan, from 138 m² to 564,295 m² (56.43 ha, 139.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygrogan 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
30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for retention of existing relocated dwelling and site boundaries previously permitted under planning reference number 94/137 and all associated site works. Retention and completion of existing part built domestic garage and Permission to replace existing unauthorised septic tank and percolation area with a new wastewater treatment system and all assocaited site works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6987
11 Jul 2025Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5388
11 Jul 2025Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5387
11 Jul 2025Application withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5386
5 Feb 2021Conditional
The construction of a detached dwellinghouse, new site entrance, new wastewater treatment system and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4242
6 Mar 2020Refused
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4472
6 Mar 2020Refused
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4476
6 Mar 2020Refused
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4471
11 May 2018Conditional
Construct a cubicle house, open slurry tank, effluent tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5213
11 Dec 2015Withdrawn
Construction of a two storey dwelling house and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6815
8 Apr 2010Conditional
Two-storey dormer style dwelling house & treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4818
16 Sept 2009Refused
Retention of existing palisade fence and earth berms and retention of 1 no. existing portacabin for office use and 2 no. 40' X 8' metal containers for domestic storage use
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7071
22 Jul 2009Incompleted application
Retention of existing palisade fence and earth berms enclosing 1.0052 hectares of overall site of 8.6727 hbectares, retention of 1 no. existing portacabin for office use and 2 no. 40ft by 8ft metal containers for storage use and to change the present land use to horticultural
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6445
30 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Retention of existing palisade fence and earth berms, enclosing 1.0052 hectares of overall site of 8.6727Ha, change of use of land, enclosed by fencing, to horticulture usage, retention of 1 no. portacabin and 2 no. 40' X 8' metal containers for storage use
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6157
8 Oct 2008Refused
Retention of existing yard for the open storage of motor vehicles
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9196
14 Feb 2008Refused
Construction of single storey building for maintenance and repair of own recovery vehicles
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4754
7 Dec 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12916
22 Dec 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13808
12 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of covered slurry tank and open dungstand
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13228
17 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Construction of covered slurry tank and open dungstand
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12380
4 Apr 2006Conditional
Construction of single storey and two storey dormer style extensions to dwelling and installation of bio-cycle treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6098
23 Feb 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5047
23 Sept 2005Conditional
2 storey and single storey extensions to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6922
4 Aug 2005Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5567
29 Mar 2005Conditional
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1878
The 25 most recent of 33 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 Ballygrogan.
Recorded monuments
- CO051-034 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low raised area (diam. c. 26.5m) still visible in field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO051-035 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (36.5m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by earthen bank (max. ext. H 2.2m); shallow external fosse to S. Break (Wth 2m) in bank to N; gaps worn by cattle to E and S. Interior used as dump for old cars and domestic rubbish. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygrogan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballygrogan, about 1 in 5 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 Ballygrogan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballygrogan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygrogan · Baile Ghrogáin
- Area
- 1,941,560 m² (194.16 ha, 479.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Grenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barretts
- Electoral division
- Blackpool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,103 people lived in 346 households in the Blackpool electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Commons, Grenagh North, Lissavoura, Lyradane, Rathduff, Slievedotia
- Placenames
- Ballygrogan 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.