# Ballyhander, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Courceys, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Shandair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,231,361 m² (123.14 ha, 304.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 71,622 m² (7.16 ha, 17.7 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ringrone, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ringrone.md - Barony: Courceys - Electoral division: Ballinspittle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 727 people lived in 257 households in the Ballinspittle electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10864 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40515 - Centre: latitude 51.689157, longitude -8.596776 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhander, from 2,688 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 293,649 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2276280: 293,649 m² (29.36 ha, 72.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2276280.md - Parcel 2213227: 262,754 m² (26.28 ha, 64.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2213227.md - Parcel 2213228: 222,505 m² (22.25 ha, 54.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2213228.md - Parcel 2276281: 156,459 m² (15.65 ha, 38.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2276281.md - Parcel 2276279: 133,667 m² (13.37 ha, 33.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2276279.md - Parcel 2213229: 114,728 m² (11.47 ha, 28.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2213229.md - Parcel 2213230: 28,516 m² (2.85 ha, 7.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2213230.md - Parcel 3307688: 5,535 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3307688.md - Parcel 3361171: 5,164 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3361171.md - Parcel 3307061: 3,575 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3307061.md - Parcel 4667583: 3,053 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4667583.md - Parcel 2537335: 2,688 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2537335.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhander in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 26 Jan 2024, Cork County Council 24/4123: Unconditional. Permission. Permission for the construction of single storey extension to side of existing dwelling, conversion of integrated garage to futher living accommodation and various alterations to the existing elevations/interior and roof. New and altered landscaping and drainage in connection with the works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4123 - 10 Nov 2023, Cork County Council 23/6258: Conditional. Permission. Permission for the demolition of 2 No. sheds and the construction of a new domestic storage shed.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6258 - 17 Oct 2023, Cork County Council 23/6097: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for the demolition of 2 No. sheds and the construction of a new storage shed.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/6097 - 3 Sept 2021, Cork County Council 21/6435: Conditional. Permission. To construct a new dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, to construct a new site entrance, waste water treatment unit and percolation area, new rainwater soakpits, new bored well, with ancillary works and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6435 - 30 Jul 2009, Cork County Council 09/6549: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance & septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/6549 - 29 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/9245: Conditional. Permission. Construction of underground open slurry pit, general purpose livestock shed to cover soiled yard, silage slab and concrete apron and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/9245 - 19 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/7314: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of ruined dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7314 - 9 Jun 2005, Cork County Council 05/4036: Refused. Permission. Demolition of dwelling(in ruins) and construction of dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/4036 - 9 Sept 2004, Cork County Council 04/6848: Withdrawn. Permission. Dwellinghouse and domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/6848 - 1 Jun 2004, Cork County Council 04/3907: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/3907 - 16 Mar 2004, Cork County Council 04/1743: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and sewage disposal unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/1743 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhander. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO124-012: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO124-012----. In pasture, below crest of ridge. Shown on 1842 and 1902 OS 6-inch maps as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). Levelled; bank survives WNW->NNE (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m). External fosse visible as depression to NNE. Spread of stone in interior. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Farm house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 20912416, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20912416. Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1820, having later single-bay single-storey pitched roofed extension to side (north), currently vacant. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and gable copings. Render over rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with stone sills throughout, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash and timber casement windows to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed door opening with render surround to front elevation having uPVC door. Single-bay single-storey pitched corrugated-iron roofed outbuilding to rear. Rendered boundary wall to front with gate piers and wrought-iron gates. Set within own grounds. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyhander, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Ballyhander. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhander.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhander.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhander.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhander with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Currahoo: https://everytownland.com/cork/currahoo.md - Dromdough: https://everytownland.com/cork/dromdough.md - Kilgobbin: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilgobbin.md - Kilkerran North: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilkerran-north.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhander - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballyhander