Ballyhamsherry
Townland in the civil parish of Castlelyons, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Aimséir
- Area
- 154.6 ha
- 382 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhamsherry, from 199 m² to 505,567 m² (50.56 ha, 124.93 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhamsherry 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
9 Mar 2022Conditional
Dwelling as constructed and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4520
11 Dec 2012Conditional
Extend and modify existing house by changing the use of the adjoining farm buildings to form part of the house, raising the roof level and widening existing barn, construction of new extensions and alterations to elevations
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6520
25 Feb 2009Refused
Dwellling house, proprietary treatment system & percolation area, entrance, boundary treatments & all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4576
21 Dec 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse (change of site boundaries)
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/13698
7 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of livestock house, open slurry store, reception tank, extension to silage slab, slatted tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13064
21 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Alterations to site boundaries of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12485
9 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Construction of livestock house, open slurry store, reception tank, extension to silage slab, slatted tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12124
6 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Construction of livestock house, open slurry store, reception tank, extension to silage slab and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7829
1 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8871
16 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4360
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO045-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
In flat pasture. Arc (SSW->NNW) formed by earthen bank (H 0.8m); fieldboundary 5m to outside is concentric with bank. Mound (H 0.5m; 7m N-S; 5.5m E-W) on inside of bank to W; centre quarried into; foundation of wall extends N from side of mound. Locally known as "lios". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO045-012 Standing stone
Description
In pasture with a good view in every direction. Sub-rectangular stone (H 1.82m; 0.74m x 1.24m) narrowing towards top; long axis NNE-SSW. Some packing stones exposed at base. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Ballyhamsherry.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1390 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyhamsherry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhamsherry · Baile Aimséir
- Area
- 1,545,955 m² (154.6 ha, 382.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlelyons, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Coole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Coole electoral division: 1,210 people in 405 households; 82% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyarra, Ballydaw, Ballynella, Ballyrobert, Coole Lower, Grange, Kilcor North, Mohera
- Placenames
- Ballyhamsherry 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.