Ballyhest East

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhest East, from 2,883 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres) to 219,301 m² (21.93 ha, 54.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhest East 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.

• 27 Apr 2016Withdrawn

  (1) Construction of building used for crushing and sorting of ground limestone, (2) construction of ramp to facilitate access to reception hopper, (3) construction of ESB control box, and (4) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4979

• 18 Jan 2010Conditional

  Installation of proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4061

• 1 Dec 2009Incompleted application

  Installation of proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7788

• 13 Mar 2008Conditional permission

  (1) Lateral extension to the existing limestone quarry (9.6 ha.extraction area) (2) proposed landscaped soil/overburden storage areas and screening berms (3)creation of wetland attenuation area (4) demolition of agricultural buildings (5) continued use of and extraction from the existing quarry(5.7 ha.extraction area)and continued use of existing access road and all ancillary operations including existing weighbridge, wheel wash, portakabin office/amenity block, lagoon settlement system, fuel tank ,proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, soil/overburden storage areas, screening berms, product stocking areas and all ancillary activities/works;all granted planning ref no. 02/4415 (pl.04.201516) (6) existing & proposed internal haul roads and all ancillary site works. Extraction of aggregates using blasting and hydraulic excavators and screening and crushing using mobile plant prior to stockpiling. Restoration of site to amenity/wildlife use.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5429

• 10 Mar 2008Refused

  Construction of autograss event facility for motor cars for occasional use, observation hut and temporary parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5313

• 4 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Development of autograss event facility for motor cars, observation hut and temporary parking for occasional use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4034

• 30 Nov 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of autograss event facility for motor cars, construction of observation hut and temporary parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12761

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 Ballyhest East.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-009001 Burial ground
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. On W side of possible early ecclesiastical enclosure (13896). Levelled; no visible surface trace of burials. According to Bowman (1934, 418), burial ground was 'rough, uneven patch of ground in field called The Mainistir' and covered 'a space 25 yards by 15 yards'. 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

• CO024-009002 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted on 1937 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m), bisected by roughly N-S laneway. On E side of laneway, enclosure defined by single line of hachured, indicating lower ground, from N->S, with D-shaped area (c. 20m N-S; c. 10m E-W) abutting E side of laneway in SE quadrant, named 'monastery (remains of)'. On W side, enclosure defined by broken line S->N and named 'Burial ground (Disused)' (14068). Levelled; no visible surface trace of enclosure; in SE quadrant, 'Monastery (remains of)' evident as subrectangular raised platform (13m N-S; 9m E-W; H c. 0.5m). Site inspection by OPW on 28/2/1974 describes enclosure as having a 'circular wide fosse with level interior' (diam. 44m) with possible outer defaced bank, large scarped embankment 'extending to E from NE corner of site...other defaced earthworks (fosses) extending away from site to WSW'. According to Bowman (1934, 418), '...it is said locally that a Monastery was in this field...Part of a wall of masonry - which is 4ft thick - forms part of a boundary fence'. May be location of 'Villa Rogeri Calvi' noted by Brady (1863, 115, 245) as part of Kilbrin parish in 1615, and placed in this townland by MacCotter and Nicholls (1996, 210). 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 Ballyhest East.

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 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 Ballyhest East.

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 Ballyhest East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyhest East · Baile Hoiste Thoir

Area

225,419 m² (22.54 ha, 55.7 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbrin, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Castlecor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlecor electoral division: 464 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhest West, Ballyrusheen, Castlecor Demesne, Dromin

Placenames

Ballyhest East 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.