Ballyherkin Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Nohaval, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Thuircín Uachtarach
- Area
- 15.6 ha
- 39 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 7,031 m² (0.7 ha, 1.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyherkin Upper, from 1,499 m² to 57,347 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Ballyherkin 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 Dec 2025F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation
Permission for the construction of a commercial/light industrial shed and all associated site works. The shed is to be used for the storage of raw materials and production materials in relation to existing metal fabrication business and as a final painting and drying area of fabricated metal products.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6848
24 Sept 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a horticultural building to provide storage for apple crates and machinery along with driveway and associated vehicle access & wastewater treatment
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5807
23 Jul 2024Incompleted application
Permission for construction of horticultural building to provide storage for apple crates and machinery along with driveway & associated vehicle access
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5399
14 May 2021Conditional
Change of use of grain drying / grain store to light engineering workshop, alterations to elevations, steel storage rack, wastewater treatment plant and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5308
23 Nov 2007Conditional
Two storey extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12577
21 May 2007Conditional
Partial demolition, alterations and construction of one and half storey extension to single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7968
29 Sept 2006Refused
Partial demolition and construction of one and half storey extension to single storey dwelling and alterations to same
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11009
10 Nov 2005Refused
Dormer dwellinghouse with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8289
11 Oct 2005Incompleted application
Dormer dwelling with garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7435
30 Jun 2005Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4615
7 Jun 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3914
24 Nov 2004Refused
Renovations to dwelling to include alterations to elevations and internal changes and closing of existing entrance and opening of new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8657
28 Oct 2004Incompleted application
Refurbish cottage, close entrance and open new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8006
4 Oct 2004Conditional
Dwelling and agricultural outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7464
10 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Dwelling and agricultural outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6914
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 Ballyherkin Upper.
Recorded monuments
- CO112-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
On S-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m). Levelled 1934; no visible surface trace. 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 Ballyherkin 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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyherkin Upper.
- 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 Ballyherkin Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyherkin Upper · Baile Thuircín Uachtarach
- Area
- 155,832 m² (15.58 ha, 38.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Nohaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Nohaval, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Nohaval electoral division: 345 people in 113 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinwillin, Ballyherkin Lower, Curravohill, Springfield
- Placenames
- Ballyherkin 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.