# Ballyhindon, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcrumper, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Thoindinigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,067,826 m² (106.78 ha, 263.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,731 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcrumper, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilcrumper.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Glanworth East, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glanworth East electoral division: 456 people in 156 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10159 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40540 - Centre: latitude 52.175356, longitude -8.283704 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhindon, from 11 m² to 233,663 m² (23.37 ha, 57.74 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5102505: 233,663 m² (23.37 ha, 57.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5102505.md - Parcel 2217823: 211,227 m² (21.12 ha, 52.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217823.md - Parcel 2272313: 191,149 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272313.md - Parcel 2272317: 147,340 m² (14.73 ha, 36.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272317.md - Parcel 2272312: 125,730 m² (12.57 ha, 31.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272312.md - Parcel 2217818: 95,888 m² (9.59 ha, 23.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217818.md - Parcel 2217822: 50,615 m² (5.06 ha, 12.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217822.md - Parcel 2217817: 3,220 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217817.md - Parcel 2272316: 2,242 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272316.md - Parcel 3384910: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3384910.md - Parcel 2272315: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272315.md - Parcel 2217821: 1,540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217821.md - Parcel 2217819: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217819.md - Parcel 2217816: 188 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217816.md - Parcel 2272314: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272314.md - Parcel 2217820: 11 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217820.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhindon in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Sept 2004, Cork County Council 04/6659: Conditional. Outline permission. Demolition of existing structure and construction of dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/6659 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 Ballyhindon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO027-106001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO027-106001-. In pasture, atop hillock, towards S end of small triangular field. Depicted as hachured penannular raised area (diam. c. 35m), open to NE, on 1934 OS 6-inch map, with lime kiln indicated immediately outside site to SE. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Locally known as site of 'lios'. According to Windele (1897, 379), while 'looking for the caves of Ballyhindon fort (crypts they were), figured in the Dublin Penny Journal' he was shown 'an erased fort' with its circle marked 'by a collection of fieldstones', about two fields S of Ballyhindon castle (CO027-107---). 'The diameter is small, and no cave appears, nor did the farmer, whose ground it is on, ever remember hearing of it.' (ibid.). 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 - CO027-106002: Kiln - lime, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO027-106002-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. - CO027-107: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO027-107----. On top of a steep-sided descent towards Funshion River to N. No visible surface trace of castle. Site now occupied by ruins of later house (14854) and farm buildings. Down Survey (1655-6) barony map shows house on site. Windele in 1849 noted 'remains of a castle of the elder period...the greater part of the castle has fallen' (Windele 1897, 378). Ballyhindon originally a Condon holding, passed to Roches in 14th century (Nicholls 1993, 186). Castle burned by Condons in late 16th century (ibid., 187). 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 - CO027-126: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO027-126----. On cliff edge, overlooking Funshion River valley, on site of castle (14284). Three-storey house, of late17th/early 18th century appearance, of which only S wall, and short return of W wall (int. L 2.1m), now stands. Random-rubble limestone construction. East end of S wall now butts against 19th century farm buildings. Surviving section 3-bays (int. L c. 11m) wide at ground-floor level but only two westerly bays stand to 3rd-floor level. Central bay on ground floor possibly a door ope. Linteled rectangular window opes, with flat relieving arch immediately over lintels; openings reduced in width by masonry blocking. Dressed limestone quoins on SW corner may be reused from earlier structure. Down Survey (1655-6) barony map depicts a house here. Windele (1897, 378) visited site is 1899 and saw 'remains of a castle of the elder period, and of a strong house of the 17th century...dismantled about 40 years'. Present remains likely to be that of 'strong house', no longer any evident remains of castle. 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 - CO027-184: Mass-rock, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO027-184----. In pasture, c. 60m S of River Funshion. Indicated as rock outcrop on 1906 and 1934 OS 6-inch maps. Natural rock outcrop (2m E-W; T 0.5m; H 1.3m); lower outcrop on N side. Known locally as mass rock and field known as 'altar field'. 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 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 Ballyhindon. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility high, 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 Ballyhindon. - 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/ballyhindon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhindon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhindon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ballyhindon, Fermoy: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyhindon-fermoy.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynacarriga: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballynacarriga-40663.md - Ballynahow (Spiers): https://everytownland.com/cork/ballynahow-spiers.md - Downing South: https://everytownland.com/cork/downing-south.md - Glenwood: https://everytownland.com/cork/glenwood.md - Gortore: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortore.md - Loughnahilly: https://everytownland.com/cork/loughnahilly.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/ballyhindon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballyhindon