# Ballyhesty, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunbulloge, barony of Cork, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Hoiste. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,014,308 m² (101.43 ha, 250.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,635 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Green Infrastructure, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 19 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunbulloge, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/dunbulloge.md - Barony: Cork - Electoral division: Whitechurch, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,050 people lived in 646 households in the Whitechurch electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9667 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40534 - Centre: latitude 51.978699, longitude -8.473071 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhesty, from 59 m² to 240,487 m² (24.05 ha, 59.43 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5367015: 240,487 m² (24.05 ha, 59.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5367015.md - Parcel 2209288: 212,719 m² (21.27 ha, 52.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209288.md - Parcel 2279793: 191,118 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279793.md - Parcel 2648432: 74,580 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2648432.md - Parcel 4690269: 52,642 m² (5.26 ha, 13.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690269.md - Parcel 2279887: 43,307 m² (4.33 ha, 10.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279887.md - Parcel 4690295: 28,217 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690295.md - Parcel 2209375: 26,936 m² (2.69 ha, 6.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209375.md - Parcel 5945057: 21,672 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945057.md - Parcel 3227206: 16,322 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3227206.md - Parcel 4690264: 14,042 m² (1.4 ha, 3.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690264.md - Parcel 2279791: 12,980 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279791.md - Parcel 2209290: 12,825 m² (1.28 ha, 3.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209290.md - Parcel 2279788: 4,342 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279788.md - Parcel 4944434: 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4944434.md - Parcel 2648586: 3,356 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2648586.md - Parcel 2209291: 3,275 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209291.md - Parcel 2279792: 3,051 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279792.md - Parcel 5349075: 2,797 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5349075.md - Parcel 5349157: 2,768 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5349157.md - Parcel 5664267: 2,615 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664267.md - Parcel 2209287: 2,549 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209287.md - Parcel 2117460: 2,542 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2117460.md - Parcel 2648532: 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2648532.md - Parcel 4690221: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690221.md - Parcel 2279789: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279789.md - Parcel 2279886: 1,908 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279886.md - Parcel 2279888: 1,875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279888.md - Parcel 2279783: 1,760 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279783.md - Parcel 2209286: 1,686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209286.md - Parcel 4571024: 1,635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4571024.md - Parcel 2279782: 1,596 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279782.md - Parcel 2279790: 1,595 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279790.md - Parcel 2279785: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279785.md - Parcel 2279784: 1,491 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279784.md - Parcel 2117457: 1,444 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2117457.md - Parcel 2279787: 1,406 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279787.md - Parcel 2209372: 679 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209372.md - Parcel 2209285: 675 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209285.md - Parcel 5165285: 629 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5165285.md - Parcel 2209373: 555 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209373.md - Parcel 2279884: 554 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279884.md - Parcel 2209289: 540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209289.md - Parcel 5778112: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5778112.md - Parcel 2279885: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279885.md - Parcel 2279796: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279796.md - Parcel 2402038: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2402038.md - Parcel 2209376: 432 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209376.md - Parcel 2693150: 431 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693150.md - Parcel 2279797: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279797.md - Parcel 2279795: 423 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279795.md - Parcel 2279794: 419 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279794.md - Parcel 2501092: 413 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501092.md - Parcel 5664444: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664444.md - Parcel 2209377: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209377.md - Parcel 2209374: 394 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209374.md - Parcel 2209284: 387 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2209284.md - Parcel 2279798: 384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279798.md - Parcel 5733103: 323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5733103.md - Parcel 2279786: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2279786.md - Parcel 4897163: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4897163.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-4-south-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 19 applications, newest first. - 26 Oct 2021, Cork County Council 21/6899: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a ground floor and first floor extension to rear of dwelling house (change of design to Planning No. 19/04629), the alterations of elevations to rear of dwelling. Also permission to alter canopy to side of dwelling house from a hip roof to a flat roof.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6899 - 6 Jul 2021, Cork County Council 21/5846: Conditional permission. Permission. To construct a new dwelling house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/5846 - 4 Jun 2021, Cork County Council 21/5561: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a single storey dwelling and detached single storey domestic garage, the provision of a wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, the provision of a new recessed entrance and driveway and ancillary site development works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/5561 - 13 Mar 2019, Cork County Council 19/4629: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a ground floor and first floor extension to rear of dwelling house and the alterations of elevations to dwelling and retention for canopy to side of dwelling house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/4629 - 21 Oct 2013, Cork County Council 13/6005: Conditional. Permission. Extension to sun room to side of dwellinghouse and retention of conversion of attic for storage and installation of 3 no. rooflights and retention of stone finish to dwelling and front of garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/6005 - 10 Oct 2013, Cork County Council 13/5947: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for extension to sunroom to side of dwelling and retention of conversion of attic for storage and installation of 3no. rooflights and retention of stone finish to dwelling and front of garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/5947 - 12 Jun 2013, Cork County Council 13/5106: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage and associated site development works including new entrance and waste water treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/5106 - 18 Jul 2011, Cork County Council 11/5554: Conditional. Permission. Alterations to elevations and roof and construction of a one storey extension to the side of the existing dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5554 - 7 Jul 2011, Cork County Council 11/5465: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Completion of 3 no. detached dwellings and 1 no. detached domestic garage/store building containing 3 no. garages permitted under Planning Reg No. 06/7783. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/5465 - 22 Dec 2009, Cork County Council 09/8029: Withdrawn. Permission. Construction of 4no. dwelling houses & associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/8029 - 11 Dec 2009, Cork County Council 09/7876: Incompleted application. Permission. 4 no. dwellinghouses and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=09/7876 - 17 Jan 2008, Cork County Council 08/4186: Conditional. Permission. Alterations and single storey extensions to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/4186 - 1 Jun 2007, Cork County Council 07/8347: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/8347 - 2 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/7783: Conditional. Permission. 3 no. detached dwellings and 1 no. detached domestic garage/store building containing 3 no. garages. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7783 - 20 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7699: Refused. Permission. 3 no. detached two storey dwellings with 1no. detached garage/store building. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7699 - 20 May 2005, Cork County Council 05/3457: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/3457 - 11 Jan 2005, Cork County Council 05/64: Refused. Permission. 3 no. dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/64 - 7 Oct 2004, Cork County Council 04/7595: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/7595 - 11 Dec 2003, Cork County Council 03/6345: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse & garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/6345 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhesty. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO052-062: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO052-062----. S of Carrignavar village, c. 20m downriver from c. 1820 bridge in use today. Remains of possible 17th-century bridge, crossing the Cloghnagashee river, which serves as the boundary between Carrignavar and Ballyhesty townlands, so that the N half of the bridge is in Carrignavar, and the S half of the bridge is in Ballyhesty. The bridge was first reported to NMS by Mary Ryan. The bridge is oriented NNE-SSW. It is in a ruinous state and currently used as a footbridge, but it used to be the main bridge crossing, and is locally known as ‘the old bridge’. The new bridge was built in the 1820s, together with a new road going in a hairpin shape around the hill to the S of the river, known as ‘Chapel Hill’, which is also where the old village was located (Ó Donnchadha 1946). When the new bridge was built in the early 19th century, a new village developed to the N of the river, with a new church, school and constabulary barracks. According to Mary Ryan (pers. comm.) the old bridge was the link with the old castle and mansion house of the McCarthys of Carrignavar, which was part of the vast estates of the McCarthys, Lords of Muskerry and Earls of Clancarty. A ‘Court of Poetry’ flourished in the area during the first half of the 18th century, under the patronage of the Spáinneach McCarthys, and across the ‘Old Bridge’ was the tavern of Seán Ó Broin, where the Court of Poetry is said to have convened. The remains of the bridge consist of a triple-arched structure (L 10m; Wth 5.62m). The arches survive almost complete, though sections of the central arch to the E and W have collapsed, and the bridge carriageway from the top of the arches, including the parapets, is all but gone. Only a narrow, relatively overgrown path now allows access across the bridge. In the spring and summer time, the vegetation along the banks of the river make the bridge elevations almost completely invisible, and the bridge isn’t visible at all down from the new bridge, as it is during winter time. This dense vegetation, if it is not brought under control, may cause further collapse of masonry. The bridge is built of roughly coursed rubble masonry. It has triangular but uncapped cutwaters upriver (Wth 0.76m; H 0.94 to 0.96m), while there is none downriver, though rectangular stone bases visible in the water indicate that they may have existed downriver too. The river level is very low, but it is relatively fast flowing, and the triangular upriver cutwaters, together with the visible quality of the work (despite the use of uncut stones), support the view that this was a bridge intended to last and to support substantial traffic, which would have been the case if it was part of a local route to and from Cork city. The relatively large width of the bridge is another indication of its – at least local – significance: while the carriageway does not survive, the piers are 5.62m wide; allowing for parapets between 0.50 to 1m (though they are unlikely to have been that wide) in width, the road itself would have been between 3.62 and 4.62m wide. The average width of bridges in Ireland in the 17th century was 4m, increasing to 5.5m in the 18th century (O’Keeffe and Simington, revised edition 2016, 98) – Carrignavar could have therefore been on the larger side, and may have allowed for traffic of single-horse drawn carriages coming from both direction to cross at the same time. Another indication of the existence of the bridge at least in the early 18th century and the relative importance of the road and crossing there is its inclusion on the Moll map of 1714, which shows the ‘principal roads’ of Ireland. The bridge’s three arches are semi-circular; the central arch (H 2.71m; Wth c. 3.84m) is taller and wider than the arches on either side (H c. 2m; Wth 2.33m), indicating that the carriageway was hump-backed. The fact that nothing survive of the parapets and of the road itself, however, make it difficult to judge how pronounced the hump would have been. The arches rest on low piers (H c. 0.95m), the top of which is offset by c. 005 to 0.008m, creating a narrow ledge that continues on all around the central piers and along the side piers. Sections of the central arches have collapsed; to the W, a section of the S half of the arch (c. 1.20m NS by 1.90m EW), and to the E, a larger portion of the N half of the arch (2.5m NS by c. 2m EW) as well as most of the voussoirs (except at the springing points) are gone. The arches voussoirs are thin, uncut and set on edge, and, together with the higher central arch, suggest a 17th-century date for the construction of the bridge. Mary Ryan (pers. comm.) proposes that it is similar in construction to the Cromwell bridges of the late 16th and 17th century, such as Glengariffe bridge, which was originally a five-arched bridge, but of which only a single arch survives. According to local information, Carrignavar bridge is believed to have originally had five arches too. While it was not possible to determine whether further arches did exist due to vegetation and moss, the E face of the bridge at the S end continues on and suggests it is at least possible a further arch existed. There is no evidence that the structure as it stands was ever widened. However, a wall extending off the bridge at the N end, clearly abutting the structure, and wall footing at S end, both on the downriver side, could have supported an extension, which may have been added at some point before it was finally decided to build a larger new bridge upriver. To the S of the bridge, an overgrown length of wall extends in a SSE direction, which may have been originally supporting the road coming onto the bridge from the Chapell Hill, where the village was located, and continuing S towards Cork city. Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye - CO063-021: Standing stone - pair, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO063-021----. On ridge on E side of Glashaboy river valley. One stone lies prostrate. Conlon (1916) recorded both stones as then erect and the former presence of a third stone. Erect stone, aligned ENE-WSW, is 1.55m L, 0.55m T and 2.7m H. Prostrate slab stood 1.9m to W. It is 1.25m L, 0.3m T and stood 2.85m H. (Conlon 1916, 59-60; O Nualláin 1988, 244, No. 100) 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhesty. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyhesty, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: the Geological Survey did not answer. - Terrain model: the Geological Survey did not answer. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhesty.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhesty.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhesty.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhesty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycaskin: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballycaskin.md - Carrignavar: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrignavar.md - Coole West: https://everytownland.com/cork/coole-west.md - Dunbulloge: https://everytownland.com/cork/dunbulloge.md - Killavarrig: https://everytownland.com/cork/killavarrig-43441.md - Knockaneag: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockaneag.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhesty - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballyhesty