Ballyhane Upper
Ballyhane Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Fhiacháin Uachtarach.
- Area
- 67.3 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 73,538 m² (7.35 ha, 18.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhane Upper, from 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 374,906 m² (37.49 ha, 92.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballyhane 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
17 Sept 2019Conditional
Construction of a new milking parlour including drafting area, collection yard, and all associated site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6276
14 Aug 2019Incompleted application
To construct a new milking parlour including drafting area, collection yard and all associated site work
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6035
4 Sept 2015Conditional
Construction of a slatted cubicle house with feeding passage and calf pens and an extension to existing milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5992
3 Apr 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted, silage base and effluent storage tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6059
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 Ballyhane Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO001-005 Moated site
Description
In level pasture. Trapezoidal area (max. L 51.2m E-W; max. L 49.6m N-S) enclosed by low bank (max. int. H 0.7m; max. ext. H 1.65m) with external fosse (D 0.85m). According to local information, bank lowered and material spread over interior. Surviving bank highest at SW corner. Fosse waterlogged in parts (max. D 1.1m on N side). Break (Wth 3.1m) in bank on S side at SW corner. Interior level and used for grazing. Listed by Barry (1981, 82, no. 9). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO001-006 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on W side of drain. Grass-covered spread of burnt material; burnt material visible in section in drain. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Ballyhane Upper.
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 Ballyhane Upper, about 1 in 20 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_741 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyhane Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhane Upper · Baile Uí Fhiacháin Uachtarach
- Area
- 673,335 m² (67.33 ha, 166.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbolane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Milford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 692 people lived in 248 households in the Milford electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhane Lower, Kilbolane, Laragh, Moanroe, Scart
- Placenames
- Ballyhane 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.