Ballyhooleen
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinaboy, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Húilín
- Area
- 248.3 ha
- 614 acres
- Land parcels
- 212
- registered freehold, median 1,223 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
212 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhooleen, from 8 m² to 264,318 m² (26.43 ha, 65.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Ballyhooleen 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
7 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation
Demolish existing agricultural buildings on the farm, construct a new agricultural building to replace the existing agricultural buildings for use in the maintenance and cultivation of his farm lands and all other associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2099
5 Jun 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission to demolish existing agricultural buildings on the farm, construct a new agricultural building to replace the existing agricultural buildings for use in the maintenance and cultivation of his farm lands and all other associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1495
27 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a detached split-level two-storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0770
12 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for Retention of (i) Extended lounge, toilets and smoking area to lounge / bar, (ii) Detached utility building and (iii) Detached lounge building, all to serve the existing licenced premises.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6142
3 May 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4807
12 May 2023Conditional
Construct an extension to their existing dwelling house and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4950
9 Sept 2022Conditional
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6042
28 Jun 2022Conditional
1) The construction of a part single storey/ part two storey extension to the front/south elevation; 2) elevational alterations to the existing dwelling façade; 3) the placement of solar panels on the roof of the new extension; all to the existing one and a half storey dormer type detached dwelling; 4) the construction of a new detached single storey garage ancillary to the domestic dwelling; and including all associated site works and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5517
28 Jun 2022Incompleted application
Permission for change of house design from that granted under planning file 17/07098 from two semi-detached dwellings (known as type 1 house on the southern side of the site, onto the public road) to four number one bedroom apartments and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5515
4 Feb 2022Conditional
(A) Retention permission to retain the change of use of an existing structure from that of an agricultural machinery store to use as a workshop and storage ancillary to the family pneumatics business, (B) Construct a new agricultural machinery store abutting the aforementioned existing structure and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4218
20 Sept 2021Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling house (change of plan to that permitted under 17/7098) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6572
25 Aug 2021Incompleted application
Permission for change of house design from that granted under planning file 17/07098 (known as type 3 house on the western side of the site) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6336
22 Jul 2021Refused
The construction of a single dwelling house, the construction of a detached domestic garage, the construction of a site entrance, the installation of a private well, the installation of a septic tank and associated percolation area and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6023
26 Feb 2021Conditional
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4486
28 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission for works to an existing dwelling house to include the following a) retention of attic conversion to habitable space b) retention of two number rooflights on the northern elevation. c) retention of window on the eastern elevation. Permission for d) alterations to southern elevation e) alterations to internal layouts f) construction of a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6104
25 Sept 2020Incompleted application
Construct an extension to the existing agricultural machinery store and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6089
24 Aug 2020Incompleted application
The retention of a) attic conversion to habitable space b) retention of two number rooflights on the northern elevation c) retention of window on the eastern elevation. Planning permission for a) alterations to southern elevation b) alterations to internal layouts c) construction of a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5817
12 Mar 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse (change of house design and layout from that permitted under PL. Reg. No. 14/5854), together with installation of new waste water treatment unit and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4606
22 Feb 2019Withdrawn
To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4424
8 Feb 2019Incompleted application
Change of plan of house design to that granted under Planning Ref: 14/5854 including modified front and rear elevation window arrangement, omission of rear sunroom and repositioning of house on site, together with installation of new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated ancillary siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4278
5 Dec 2018Conditional
Retention of (1) conversion of attic to habitable accommodation and (2) rooflights to front and rear elevations of existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7194
23 Mar 2018Refused
Construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4726
5 Mar 2018Conditional
Construct a storey and a half dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4522
28 Nov 2017Conditional
Demolition of two existing unused agricultural buildings, the erection of three 3-bedroom and one 2-bedroom dwellings and ancillary site works and external spaces which include a connection to the existing main drainage and water infrastructure and provision of two car parking spaces per dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7098
11 Aug 2017Refused
Construct a dwellinghouse with a domestic waste water treatment system, to install a domestic waste water treatment system to serve the existing dwellinghouse, and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6100
The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.
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 Ballyhooleen.
Recorded monuments
- CO097-024 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture. According to local information, mound of burnt material levelled c. 1981. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO097-025 Enclosure
Description
In pasture. Depicted as rectangular field on 1842, 1902 and 1942 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly rectangular field (30m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by earthen fence (H 1.4m). Known locally as "fort". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO097-086 Enclosure
Description
In large tillage field, circular cropmark (diam c. 85m) identified from aerial photographs by Jean-Charles Caillere. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload/revision: 27 February 2023 Attached image uploaded courtesy of Jean-Charles Caillere
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhooleen.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), 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 Ballyhooleen.
- 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
- Ballyhooleen, Ballinhassig6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhooleen · Baile Húilín
- Area
- 2,483,042 m² (248.3 ha, 613.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinaboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Dunderrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dunderrow electoral division: 1,734 people in 558 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyheedy, Ballyleigh, Corran, Gogganshill, Gortnaclogh, Rigsdale
- Placenames
- Ballyhooleen 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.