Ballyhandle

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhandle, from 1,191 m² to 360,705 m² (36.07 ha, 89.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhandle 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.

• 28 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Full planning permission for a) the demolition of an existing rear extension and outbuildings, b) the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling c) alterations to the existing elevations, d) the construction of a new treatment system and percolation area, e) all associated site works at Ballyhandle, Innishannon, Co. Cork.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1425

• 30 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  A 10 Year planning permission for a 100% carbon negative renewable energy c.600 Panel, 420 Kilo Watt (c1875m2) ground mounted solar PV array and all associated works. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive(EU)2023/2024) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0801

• 12 Mar 2026Application withdrawn

  A 10 Year planning permission for 100% Carbon Negative Renewable Energy c.600 panel, 420 Kilo Watt (c.1875m2) Ground mounted solar PV array and all associated works. This development is covered by the provisions of the renewable energy directive III (Directive(EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisionS of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0616

• 28 Oct 2025Invalid - case closed

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for a 100% Carbon Negative Renewable Energy c.600 panel, 420 Kilo Watts (c.1875m2) ground mounted solar PV array and all associated works. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive(EU)2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6300

• 19 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for 100% Carbon Negative Renewable Energy c.600 panel, 420 kilowatt (c.1875m2) ground mounted solar PV array and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5970

• 25 Aug 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for a 100% carbon negative renewable energy c.600 panel, 420 kilo watt (c.1875m2) ground mounted solar PV array and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5693

• 29 Nov 2021Incompleted application

  (a) Retention of an existing cubicle shed, straw bedded area and underground slatted tanks (b) Retention of a calf rearing shed (c) Extension of existing cubicle shed to include additional cubicles and 1 no. underground slatted tank (d) Construction of a double silage pit (e) Erection of a meal bin and water storage tank (f) Construction of a milking parlour, handling area, dairy, waiting yard, flow channel and underground slatted tank along with all associated siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7207

• 15 Oct 2019Withdrawn

  Revised site boundaries for dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6480

• 30 Aug 2019Incompleted application

  Revised site boundaries for dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6161

• 26 Jul 2019Incompleted application

  Revised site boundaries for dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5894

• 13 Jun 2019Incompleted application

  Alteration to site boundary.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5556

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  To erect a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4772

• 4 Mar 2019Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4508

• 10 Dec 2018Conditional

  Retention of dwellinghouse as constructed (original planning Reg. No. 00/0609) and a detached domestic garage and associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7239

• 24 Mar 2017Conditional permission

  The development will consist of continued use and extension (c.6 hectares) of the existing quarry over a total extraction area of c.10 hectares and to a final floor level of c.57mOD; screening berms; final restoration; and related ancillary works; all within an overall application area of c.12.6 hectares.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4497

• 15 Dec 2015Conditional

  Permission to waive Condition No. 3 of planning ref: 05/5026 to allow for the continuance of use for the duration of quarry extraction operations at the site, of the existing asphalt plant previously permitted under planning ref: No. 05/5026 with associated aggregate storage areas and settlement lagoons within an overall application area of c.2.75 hectares. Planning ref: 05/5026 was previously permitted for the installation and operation of an asphalt plant (with an overall stack height of 27 meters).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6842

• 19 Nov 2015Incompleted application

  Permission to waive Condition No. 3 of planning ref: 05/5026 to allow for the continuance of use for the duration of quarry extraction operations at the site, of the existing asphalt plant previously permitted under planning ref: No. 05/5026 with associated aggregate storage areas and settlement lagoons within an overall application area of c.2.75 hectares. Planning ref: 05/5026 was previously permitted for the installation and operation of an asphalt plant (with an overall stack height of 27 meters).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6608

• 21 Oct 2015Conditional

  Retention of extension to existing quarry (granted under planning ref 01/3907) including an extraction area of c.2.35 hectares, washing and screening plant, associated aggregate storage areas, settlement lagoons, stone cutting shed (114sq.m), machinery storage shed (180sq.m), all overburden storage areas, use of blasting, internal access roads and ancillary development beyond that permitted under planning reg.ref.no 01/3907, all within an overall quarry area of c.8.7 hectares

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6357

• 9 Oct 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of extension to existing quarry (granted under planning ref 01/3907) including an extraction area of c.2.35 hectares, washing and screening plant, associated aggregate storage areas, settlement lagoons, stone cutting shed (114sq.m), machinery storage shed (180sq.m), all overburden storage areas, use of blasting, internal access roads and ancillary development beyond that permitted under planning ref: 01/3907 all within an overall quarry area of c.8.7 hectares.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6253

• 18 Sept 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of extension to existing quarry (granted under planning ref 01/3907) including an extraction area of c.2.35 hectares, washing and screening plant, associated aggregate storage areas, settlement lagoons, stone cutting shed (114sq.m), machinery storage shed (180sq.m), all overburden storage areas, internal access roads and ancillary development beyond that permitted under planning ref: ref: 01/3907 all within an overall planning area of c.8.7 hectares. Permission is also sought for the continuance of use of blasting at the quarry as previously permitted under planning ref: 03/3458

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6088

• 4 Aug 2015Incompleted application

  The continuance of use and retention with a planning application area of c.8.7 hectares of: [a] the existing quarry extraction area of c.2.35 hectares beyond that permitted under planning permission ref. nos. S/01/3907 and S/03/3458; [b] the existing washing and screening plant and associated aggregate storage areas and settlement lagoons located beyond that permitted under planning permission ref. S/05/5026; [c] machinery storage shed of 180 sq.m.; [d] stone cutting shed of 114 sq.m., and [e] all overburden storage areas, internal access roads and all other ancillary development beyond that permitted under planning permission ref. S/01/3907, S/03/3458 and S/05/5026

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5723

• 2 Mar 2012Unconditional

  construction of one and a half storey dwelling, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg.no. 07/4899

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4364

• 10 Jun 2011Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to side of dormer dwelling and construction of a detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5255

• 9 Feb 2007Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4899

• 5 Jan 2007Incompleted application

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4083

The 25 most recent of 30 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 Ballyhandle.

Recorded monuments

• CO097-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (35.7m N-S; 36.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (Int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.35m); external fosse (D 1.8m) NE->SW. Entrance (Wth 4m) to NW; gap (Wth 3m) to ESE. 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

• CO097-009 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  Straddling terrace between steep drop to stream on S side and rising S-facing slope to N; rectangular area (40m E-W; 35m N-S) enclosed by fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 3m) on W, N and E sides, steep drop on S side; causeway at NW corner (Wth 7m). N of centre is overgrown fragmentary ruin of rectangular structure (8m E-W; 6m N-S). Walls now stand only to one storey, NE and SW corners fallen. Tower at least one floor higher as upper parts of N and S walls incline inwards as the springings for a vault now fallen. Broken remains of three double-splayed window opes in W, S and E walls. Part of wall (L c. 1.5m) runs N from E end of N wall. Ruin stands in cairn of fallen masonry. Barry Oge castle (Collins 1940, 45); tower probably late medieval in date but enclosing fosse is more typical of 13th/14th century moated site. 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

• CO097-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (33m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by low earthen bank; external fosse (D 1.2m) W->N; farm building adjacent to bank to SW. Interior saucer-shaped and raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; planted with conifers. 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 Ballyhandle.

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 Ballyhandle.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyhandle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyhandle · Baile Shandair

Area

1,610,119 m² (161.01 ha, 397.87 acres)

Civil parish

Knockavilly, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballymurphy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymurphy electoral division: 994 people in 309 households; 88% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurphy North, Ballymurphy South, Belrose, Kill, Killeen, Lissagroom, Lissanisky, Russelhill

Placenames

Ballyhandle 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.