Ballygroman Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Desertmore, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Bhromáin Uachtarach
- Area
- 238 ha
- 588 acres
- Land parcels
- 55
- registered freehold, median 2,626 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 27
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygroman Upper, from 43 m² to 434,463 m² (43.45 ha, 107.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Ballygroman Upper 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
27 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission for single storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6427
26 Aug 2021Incompleted application
Permission for two detached two storeyed dwellinghouses along with ancillary residential facilities.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6354
9 Jul 2021Conditional
Permission for new dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5925
9 Jul 2020Incompleted application
Two deatched two-storeyed dwellinghouses, along with ancillary residential facilities.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5435
6 Mar 2020Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, on site sewerage treatment and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4477
13 Oct 2017Refused
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6677
21 Dec 2016Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7245
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
3 May 2012Conditional
Two storey extension to side of existing dwelling incorporating a sun lounge on ground floor and bedroom to first floor
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4926
23 Dec 2011Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and all assoicated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6711
1 Jul 2011Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse, garage for domestic purpose, installation of proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5432
18 Aug 2010Conditional
Single storey domestic double garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6070
16 Dec 2008Conditional
Cattle underpass
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10136
16 Nov 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12425
18 Oct 2007Conditional
Alterations and sunroom extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11761
24 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Alterations and sunroom extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11183
13 Feb 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5008
19 Jul 2006Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9013
26 May 2006Conditional
Construction of livestock shed (slatted house) with underground slurry tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7522
8 Sept 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6477
23 Dec 2004Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse and proprietary waste treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9656
19 May 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse and biocycle treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/3500
14 Jul 2003Conditional
Attic conversion to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3467
27 Jun 2003Conditional
Bungalow and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3178
The 25 most recent of 27 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 Ballygroman Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO085-005001 Graveyard
Description
In grounds of Desertmore House (9641). Roughly square graveyard (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) enclosed by ruinous stone wall. No longer in use; latest inscribed headstones noted dated 1905; partially overgrown. Contains altar tomb of Madras family, large vault of Hawkeses family and several inscribed 19th-century headstones (Henchion 1969a, 34). Unusually, though graveyard is probably ancient site of parish church of Desertmore, it was'used solely by Protestant families during the past two hundred years at least' (ibid.); Roman Catholics of the parish used Kilcrea (9540) for burial, though Henchion (ibid.) notes tradition of burial ground 'just outside the north wall of the churchyard'. The 1842 OS 6-inch map shows a small rectangular church, long axis SW-NE, standing in centre of graveyard; this was erected as C of I parish church of Desertmore in 1815 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 76) but 'taken down' in 1872 when parish united with Athnowen (Cole 1903, 37); described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 457) as 'a plain modern building'; no visible surface trace. Hurley (1980, 58) lists Desertmore as 'well attested early ecclesiastical site ... probably a hermitage'. 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
- CO085-005002 Church
Description
Though graveyard (CO085-005001-) is probably ancient site of parish church of Desertmore, it was 'used solely by Protestant families during the past two hundred years at least' (ibid.); Roman Catholics of the parish used Kilcrea (9540) for burial, though Henchion (ibid.) notes tradition of burial ground 'just outside the north wall of the churchyard'. The 1842 OS 6-inch map shows a small rectangular church, long axis SW-NE, standing in centre of graveyard; this was erected as C of I parish church of Desertmore in 1815 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 76) but 'taken down' in 1872 when parish united with Athnowen (Cole 1903, 37); described by Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 457) as 'a plain modern building'; no visible surface trace. Hurley (1980, 58) lists Desertmore as 'well attested early ecclesiastical site ... probably a hermitage'. 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
- CO085-005003 Country house
Description
Abandoned L-shaped house, 2-storey over basement. Entrance front (E) of 3 bays; central door, with fanlight, approached by flight of steps. Hipped roof. Stone-built farm buildings to rear. Erected as Glebe House in 1830s (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 75-6). Site of church and graveyard to N (9515). 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
- CO085-006 Quarry
Description
Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 29 January 2015
- CO085-007 Fulacht fia
Description
In coniferous plantation, on E bank of stream. Shown on 1940 OS 6-inch map as mound. Inaccessible. 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
- Desertmore House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c.1830, having single-storey lean-to extension to rear (south-west). Now in use as private house. Hipped artificial slate roof with timber clad over-sailing eaves on paired carved timber brackets, rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Diminishing square-headed window openings with limestone sills throughout, having replacement timber casement windows to front (north-east) and rear (south-west) elevations, six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor of side (south-east) elevation. Tripartite timber-framed windows to ground floor of side (south-east) elevation, having central six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window flanked by two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with replacement glazed timber door surmounted by single-pane fanlight, having tooled limestone stepped approach. Set within own grounds with recent square-profile sandstone piers to south of site. Recent farmyard to rear of site.
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 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 Upper.
- 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 Ballygroman Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygroman Upper · Baile Bhromáin Uachtarach
- Area
- 2,380,347 m² (238.03 ha, 588.2 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
- Ballincourneenig, Ballygroman Lower, Clashanaffrin, Garranewaterig, Knockaneamealgulla, Knockatreenane, Mylane
- Placenames
- Ballygroman Upper 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.