Ballyhennessy
Ballyhennessy is a townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Aonghasa.
- Area
- 57.6 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 75,450 m² (7.54 ha, 18.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhennessy, from 1,186 m² to 206,871 m² (20.69 ha, 51.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyhennessy 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 2016Conditional
Construction of 2 new fire escape dormer windows in lieu of permitted roof-lights to dwelling house under construction which was permitted under planning ref no. 15/4806
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4673
21 Apr 2015Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling and permission to construct a two storey dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4806
8 Aug 2008Conditional
Dwelling, garage & treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8307
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 Ballyhennessy.
Recorded monuments
- CO061-065 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture. Rectangular stone (H 3.4m; 1.4m x 0.6m), long axis NNE-SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Ballyhennessy.
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 Ballyhennessy, about 1 in 5 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 low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhennessy.
- 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 Ballyhennessy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhennessy · Baile Uí Aonghasa
- Area
- 576,182 m² (57.62 ha, 142.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore (Macroom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Gowlane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,326 people lived in 436 households in the Gowlane electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygirriha, Bunkilla, Fornaght, Monavanshere, Scarteen
- Placenames
- Ballyhennessy 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.