Ballygroman Lower

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygroman Lower, from 2 m² to 370,399 m² (37.04 ha, 91.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Permission for the construction of new detached 2-storey dwelling house, site entrance, on site treatment system, new domestic garage and all associated ancillary site development works. (This is a change of plans and elevations from that permitted under Plg. Ref. no. 22/6614).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2225

• 31 Mar 2025Conditional permission

  Séard a bheidh sa bhforbairt seo ná 1) teach nua scoite aon stóir a thógáil, 2) aonad cóireála fuíolluisce nua agus limistéar síothlaithe, 3) bealach isteach nua don láithreán, agus na hoibreacha suímh go lir a bhaineann leo. /Permission for :1) Construction of new single storey detached dwelling. 2) New wastewater treatment unit and percolation area 3) New site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4552

• 15 Aug 2024Refused

  Chead chun teach nua scoite aon stóir a thógáil lena n-áirítear aonad nus cóireála fuíolluisce agus limistéar síothlainte, bealach isteach nua don láithreán, agus gach oibreacha láithreáin gaolmhara. / Permission to construct a new single storey detached house including a waste water treatment unit, percolation area, new entrance to site, and all other associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5541

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional permission

  Permission for the demolition of an existing single storey sunroom and the construction of a new single storey ground floor extension to the existing kitchen all to the existing detached two storey dwelling including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5333

• 24 Nov 2023Conditional

  Permission for the development of new proposed Yoga & Wellness Centre at site located at Ballygroman Lower, Ovens, Co. Cork. Proposed works to include: 1) Refurbishment and change of use of existing disused old stone outbuildings from agricultural and domestic use to Yoga & Wellness Centre (Which will comprise 3 no. treatment rooms and ancillary storage area); 2) Removal off site of existing storage container; 3) Construction of new stand-alone single-storey building on site (to accommodate a yoga studio, ancillary WC and changing area, office and kitchenette) ; 4) Provision of car parking and bicycle spaces and network of pathways to serve the proposed Yoga & Wellness Centre: 5) Installation of new waste water treatment system to serve the proposed Yoga & Wellness Centre; 6) All associated ancillary site works, including new boundary treatment and landscaping works. Planning permission is also sought for the retention of the existing site entrance and road boundary treatments, as constructed (from that permitted under Plg. Ref. no. 066692), serving the existing family farm and dwelling on site, from the local public road (L2216). Planning permission is sought for the existing site entrance, to be used as a shared entrance to access both the existing adjacent family farm & dwelling and the new proposed Yoga & Wellness Centre.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6366

• 25 Nov 2022Conditional permission

  Permission to construct a Dwelling House, on site sewerage treatment and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6614

• 1 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for alterations to dwelling house to include single storey side, front and rear extension to dwelling house for use as granny flat and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6458

• 4 Nov 2021Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse, including raising of roof, conversion of roof space for habitation, placing of dormers and velux rooflights and alterations.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6989

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  The construction of 72 no. dwelling houses, crèche and all associated development works including access, parking, footpaths, drainage, landscaping and amenity areas. The proposed development will modify part of the residential development previously permitted under An Bord Pleanála Ref: 302638-18 (Cork County Council Ref: 17/7165) and includes the same access arrangements/roundabout at the junction of the Killumney Road (L2216) and the Crossbarry Road (L2218) previously permitted under 302638-18.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6894

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  Construction of a single storey extension to existing children’s day care and permission for retention of a single storey WC extension and 1 no. ancillary storage shed.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5829

• 4 Dec 2017Conditional

  Construction of 75 no. dwelling houses, 14 no. residential serviced sites, a crèche and all associated ancillary development works including a roundabout at the entrance to the site at the junction of Killumney Road (L2216) and the Crossbarry Road (L2218); closure of existing vehicular entrance and provision of new vehicular entrance/access from new internal access road to serve the existing dwelling adjoining the eastern boundary of the site, parking, footpaths pedestrian crossings, lighting, foul and surface/storm water, drainage, landscaping and amenity areas.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7165

• 7 Mar 2017Conditional

  To demolish existing single storey extension and to construct new single storey extension in its place to side of existing single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4522

• 26 Aug 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, domestic garage and carport, new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6140

• 5 Aug 2016Conditional

  The construction of a two storey dwellinghouse with attached garage, installation of a waste water treatment plant and percolation area, a new site entrance, all necessary landscaping and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5964

• 2 Dec 2015Conditional

  Construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling with detached single storey garage, new entrance and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6732

• 24 Jul 2015Conditional

  Construction of a new single storey “Granny Flat” type extension to the western gable of cottage incorporating all necessary ancillary works including upgrading bio treatment plant and to construct a new splayed vehicular entrance to replace existing gateway

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5649

• 9 Mar 2015Withdrawn

  To construct a new two storey extension to the western gable of existing cottage incorporating all necessary site ancillary works and to construct a new vehicular entrance to replace the existing gateway

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4451

• 3 Feb 2015Conditional

  Retention of extension to side of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4191

• 4 Mar 2013Unconditional

  Dwellinghouse, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/8617

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4346

• 8 Sept 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works (change of plan and site boundary for Site No. 1 from that previously granted under Pl. Reg. No.09/4357)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6973

• 6 Feb 2009Conditional

  Demolition of 2 no. existing semi-detached dwellinghouses and construction of 2 no. detached one and half storey dwellinghouses, installation of wastewater treatment units and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4357

• 28 Aug 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8617

• 27 Jun 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7561

• 1 Nov 2007Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12082

• 11 Apr 2007Conditional

  Retention of agricultural entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6933

The 25 most recent of 53 applications.

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 Ballygroman Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CO085-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, at N end of narrow gravel ridge. Circular raised area (diam. 42m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse (D 1.2m) along SW quadrant; edge truncated elsewhere due to quarrying especially to N and E where it extends into interior. 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

• CO085-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular raised area and circular raised area (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps, respectively. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 158), outline was 'clearly traceable' suggesting 'single-ramparted ringfort 165 feet in overall diameter'. 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

• CO085-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on natural platform to N of farmyard. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, truncated on S side byfarm yard and building. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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

• Bridge, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span limestone railway bridge, built c.1850, spanning former railway line. Now disused. Dressed limestone walls and parapets with rendered copings. Margined rock-faced voussoirs to segmental-headed arch.

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, having gabled bays with canted bay windows flanked projecting flat-roofed porch and with gable-fronted projecting end-bay. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with exposed rubble stone in places. Square-headed window openings with render sills having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to first floor of central-bay and front elevation of porch. Bipartite timber-framed window to projecting end-bay, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to porch, having timber battened door. Single-storey outbuildings to west of site having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs, rendered walls and square-headed window openings with replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash widows. Roughcast rendered boundary wall to front of site with square-profile piers having render capping stones, cast-iron pedestrian gate and wrought-iron vehicle gate. Set back from road within own grounds.

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 high, 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 Ballygroman Lower.

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.

• Ballygroman Lower, Ovens7 sales

Name

Ballygroman Lower · Baile Bhromáin Íochtarach

Area

2,000,384 m² (200.04 ha, 494.31 acres)

Civil parish

Desertmore, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Ballygroman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballygroman electoral division: 1,789 people in 594 households; 86% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygroman Upper, Garryhesty, Killumney, Knockaneamealgulla, Knockanemore, Mylane

Placenames

Ballygroman Lower 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.