Ballyhamsane
Ballyhamsane is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyfeard, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Amsáin.
- Area
- 106.2 ha
- 262 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 65,582 m² (6.56 ha, 16.21 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhamsane, from 1,388 m² to 225,313 m² (22.53 ha, 55.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballyhamsane 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
24 Mar 2025Conditional permission
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4503
20 Jun 2012Conditional
Construction of a cubicle house with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5346
7 Mar 2008Conditional
Alterations, porch extension to front and one and half storey extension to side of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5260
29 Mar 2007Conditional
Single storey extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6555
23 Feb 2007Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5360
4 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of dairy unit with slurry storage, soiled water tank, roofed collecting yard and silage pits
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12911
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 Ballyhamsane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhamsane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhamsane.
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 Ballyhamsane, about 1 in 10 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 Ballyhamsane.
- 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 Ballyhamsane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhamsane · Baile Amsáin
- Area
- 1,061,728 m² (106.17 ha, 262.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyfeard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Ballyfeard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 408 people lived in 138 households in the Ballyfeard electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingarry East, Ballingarry Middle, Ballingarry West, Ballinluig West, Ballintrideen, Fartha, Kilboy
- Placenames
- Ballyhamsane 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.