Ballyhubbo

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhubbo, from 966 m² to 136,641 m² (13.66 ha, 33.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Jul 2021Refused

  The construction of new 45-unit housing development consisting of the following: 26 No. 3-bedroom townhouses, and 19 no. 2-bedroom townhouses, 2 no new vehicular entrances, storm and surface water sewers including attenuation system, public lighting, boundary walls, footpaths, public footpath, open spaces together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5885

• 20 Jun 2011Conditional

  Construction of a new vehicular entrance to service forestry land

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5335

• 21 Mar 2011Refused

  Construction of a new vehicular entrance to service forestry land

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4554

• 9 Sept 2008Conditional

  Construction of single storey extension to rear of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8806

• 13 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of single storey extension to rear of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8369

• 24 Sept 2007Conditional

  Single and two storey extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11172

• 31 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Extension to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10638

• 25 Aug 2006Conditional

  Alterations, extension and change of use of dwelling to daycare/respite centre

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10060

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 Ballyhubbo.

Recorded monuments

• CO002-110 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured semicircular arc S->N, abutting W side of N-S field boundary on 1842 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. Circular area (23.5m E-W; 20m N-S) bisected by N-S field boundary (Wth 3.5m) with drain on each side. Interior enclosed on W side by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (D 0.9m) and on E side by low earthen bank (int. H 0.18m; ext. H 0.55m) with shallow external fosse (D 0.25m). Breaks in bank to NW (Wth 1.5m and 1m). Interior to W planted with deciduous trees. 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

• CO002-111 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In SW corner of garden of Ballyhubbo Villa; spring close by to NE. Horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (H 0.8m); opening (5.8m N-S; 3.2m E-W) faces E. South and part of W sections of mound either incorporated into or destroyed by field fences. 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

Architectural heritage

• Ballyhubbo House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1830, with entrance porch to front, single-bay two-storey addition and two-bay single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lean-to artificial slate roof to porch, with gablet to front. Pitched slate roof to two-storey extension. Painted smooth rendered walls with plinth and decorative render quoins. Painted smooth rendered walls to sill level of porch. Square-headed window openings, with render hood-mouldings to first floor, rendered pilasters to ground floor having corbelled caps supporting dentillated cornices, all windows having painted stone sills and mullioned frames with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Rear elevation has six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor, timber casements to ground floor, and pivoted timber six-pane windows to addition. Glazing to porch comprising square-headed fixed timber lights having coloured glass overlight. Square-headed door opening with half-glazed timber panelled door. Door to interior is double-leaf and timber panelled with spoked fanlight. Outbuildings around yard to rear with pitched slate roofs and roughcast rendered walls, that to north having segmental-headed openings with multiple-pane fixed timber windows, that to west having square-headed openings with stained-glass windows. Sited alongside avenue to Fortlands House with rendered gate piers and boundary walls having ornate cast-iron railings to entrance from road.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_918 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyhubbo · Baile Hobac

Area

466,798 m² (46.68 ha, 115.35 acres)

Civil parish

Rathgoggan, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Rathluirc, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathluirc electoral division: 4,446 people in 1,732 households; 56% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballypierce, Fortlands, Kiltoohig, Knockardamrum, Rathgoggan Middle, Rathgoggan South

Placenames

Ballyhubbo 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.