Ballykenly

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykenly, from 772 m² to 150,873 m² (15.09 ha, 37.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykenly 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.

• 10 Feb 2016Conditional

  The importation of soil and stone for the raising of an agricultural field/railway line in order to improve the agricultural output of the field and recessed and splayed entrance, access road and turning area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4264

• 23 Dec 2015Incompleted application

  The importation of soil & stone for the raising of an agricultural field/railway line in order to improve the agricultural output of the field.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6979

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 Ballykenly.

Recorded monuments

• CO019-142 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Circular enclosures (13470, 13471) c. 80m to NW and c. 180m to N respectively. 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

• CO019-143 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Circular enclosures (13469, 13471) c. 80m to SE and c. 150m to NE respectively. 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

• CO019-144 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Circular enclosures (13470, 13469) c. 150m to SW and c. 180m to S respectively. 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

• CO019-148 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In low-lying marsh. Circular, stone-lined well (diam. 0.6m; D 0.5m) containing plastic barrel. Landowner uncovered well recently, having been told of its location by his father; locally called 'Tobairínmára' and known for all sorts of cures, especially of eye ailments. 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

• CO027-012 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Remains of frontal support beam for two-flume mill unearthed during drainage operations in early 1970s, c. 150m N of River Funshion. Investigated by C. Rynne (1988, 324-5) in 1983 when possible remains of low dams were identified. According to Rynne (ibid.), original area of pond appears to have exploited steep slope of an adjacent river bluff as a boundary and the feeder stream (which was modified by having its original course re-directed) now flows into the River Funshion. 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

• Viaduct, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of limestone viaduct, built 1891, over River Funshion. Square-profile rusticated limestone piers with rusticated buttresses and having buttresses with limestone copings.

• Ballykenly Bridge, bridge, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch, slightly hump-backed limestone road bridge, dated 1820, over River Funshion. Rubble masonry walls with dressed string courses. Render copings to parapet walls, with limestone date plaque and benchmark to west parapet. Cut limestone voussoirs to round arches, arches springing from ashlar limestone plinths with U-cutwaters to west elevation and V-cutwaters to east.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballykenly, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballykenly.

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.

No address of the register names Ballykenly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballykenly · Baile an Chindéalaigh

Area

568,226 m² (56.82 ha, 140.41 acres)

Civil parish

Glanworth, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Kilphelan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

557 people lived in 195 households in the Kilphelan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindangan, Ballintantassig, Ballydeloughy, Ballynamona, Curraghoo Beg, Kilnadrow, Newgrove

Placenames

Ballykenly 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.