Ballyhest West

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhest West, from 1,929 m² to 188,175 m² (18.82 ha, 46.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 West 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

• 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

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 West.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhest West.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhest West.

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 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 Ballyhest West.

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

Name

Ballyhest West · Baile Hoiste Thiar

Area

354,870 m² (35.49 ha, 87.69 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 East, Ballyrusheen, Castlecor Demesne, Curragh, Marybrook, Subulter

Placenames

Ballyhest West 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.