Ballyhoura
Ballyhoura is a townland in the civil parish of Imphrick, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Bealach Eabhra.
- Area
- 339.7 ha
- 839 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 15,525 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 60
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoura, from 105 m² to 856,643 m² (85.66 ha, 211.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhoura 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
19 Mar 2024Withdrawn
Permission to construct a roofed animal shed with permission to retain as constructed underground slatted slurry storage tank unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4464
21 Feb 2024Conditional permission
Permission for retention of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage, water well house, wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and entrance, all as constructed with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/4278
20 Feb 2024Incompleted application
Permission to constructed roofed animal shed with permission to retain as constructed underground slatted slurry storage tank unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4273
9 Feb 2024Incompleted application
Permission for retention of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage, water well house, wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and entrance, all as constructed with all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4202
24 Jan 2024Incompleted application
Permission for retention of the existing dwelling house, domestic garage, water well house, wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and entrance, all as constructed with all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4087
21 Aug 2023Withdrawn
Permission to construct a roofed animal shed with underground slatted unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5689
24 Jul 2023Incompleted application
To construct a roofed animal shed with underground slatted unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5505
30 Jun 2020Conditional
Construction of a slatted shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5343
9 May 2018Conditional
Construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, for the installation of a new well and a waste treatment plant with percolation area, for all associated site works and for assistance by way of the carrying out of work involving the improvement of the existing private road with a public right of way serving as the access road to the proposed site and to the existing farmland
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5172
6 Apr 2018Incompleted application
Construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, installation of a new well and a waste treatment plant with percolation area, all associated site works and assistance by way of the carrying out of work involving the improvement of the existing private road with a public right of way serving as the access road to the proposed site and to the existing farmland
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4849
5 Mar 2018Incompleted application
Construction of a one and a half storey dwelling, for the installation of a new well and of a waste treatment plant with percolation area, for all associated site works and for assistance by way of the carrying out of work involving the improvement of the existing private road with a public right of way serving as the access road to the proposed site and to the existing farmland.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4527
13 Jun 2017Withdrawn
Construct a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all other site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5490
2 Jun 2017Withdrawn
To construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all other site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5376
10 May 2017Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all other site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5141
22 Mar 2017Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all other site works,
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4689
8 Feb 2017Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all other site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4268
1 Mar 2013Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse and garage and installation of septic tank, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 08/4445
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4338
26 Sept 2012Conditional
Retention of a double domestic garage and retention of changes to the front elevation of the dwellinghouse (previous Planning Reg. Nos. 05/9324 and 07/12292)
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/6041
5 Sept 2012Incompleted application
Retention of double domestic garage and retention of changes to front elevation of dwellinghouse (previous planning ref:- 05/9324 & 07/12292)
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/5901
20 Aug 2012Unconditional
Dwellinghouse and garage, extension of duration of permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/7672
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5786
20 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of slatted cubicle house, millking parlour, soiled water storage tank and bored well
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4823
19 May 2011Unconditional
Completion of one and half storey dwellinghouse and garage permitted under 06/10712
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/5081
23 Feb 2011Conditional
Relocate existing vehicular domestic entrance to existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4357
20 Sept 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit and sand polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8003
26 Aug 2010Conditional
Construction of extension to existing dwellinghouse consisting of extension to sides and rear of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6125
The 25 most recent of 60 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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoura Mountains 002036
Recorded monuments
- CO008-053 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, c. 10m NE of spring. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, mound levelled recently. Second fulacht fiadh (10324) c. 110m to SSW; third (10325) c. 200m to S. 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
- CO008-054 Fulacht fia
Description
In reclaimed pasture, to E of drain. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). Hachured as arc on 1937 OS 6-inch map and named fulacht fiadh. Arc now levelled; burnt material noted under grass in area of site. Second fulacht fiadh (10323) c. 110m to NNE; third (10324) c. 100m to SE. 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
- CO008-055 Fulacht fia
Description
In farmyard. Shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as mound adjacent to farm buildings. Area of site now covered by concrete yard. Second fulacht fiadh (10324) c. 100m to NW; third (10323) c. 200m to N. 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
- CO008-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S slope of Cashlaunowen Hill at western extent of Ballyhoura mountain range. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. 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
- CO008-073 Fulacht fia
Description
In level re-seeded pasture, c. 200m to the SSW of higher ground which is planted with coniferous trees. A large horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia was noted here in 2007 (pers. comm. Mary Sleeman). When visited in 2008, however, the mound had been levelled and only a spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil surrounding a pond (4m N-S; 8m E-W) was visible. The concentration of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil (c. 20m N-S; c. 20m E-W) is most noticeable to the NW of the pond where the grass is sparser. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
- Ballyhoura Lodge, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having gable-fronted projecting bays towards ends of façade. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roofs, with timber brackets to gable-fronted bays. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with block-and-start surrounds having replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed opening with glazed overlight over remains of half-glazed timber panelled door with flanking sidelights. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding with dormer attic to north, having pitched roof, rubble limestone and sandstone walls and square-headed window openings, with oculus to west gable, and square-headed door opening and round-headed integral carriage arch, and having cast-iron ties to west elevation. Recent piers and gates to west.
- Ballyhoura Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Triple-arch limestone road bridge over stream, built c. 1820, having rubble stone walls and parapets with vertical stone copings, cut limestone and sandstone voussoirs to segmental arches, with impost course. Built at skew to stream.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyhoura, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhoura.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Ballyhoura, Buttevant7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhoura · Bealach Eabhra
- Area
- 3,396,530 m² (339.65 ha, 839.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Imphrick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Imphrick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 376 people lived in 134 households in the Imphrick electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvonear, Ballycoskery, Castlewrixon South, Lisballyhay, Loughlea
- Placenames
- Ballyhoura 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.