Ballyknock
Townland in the civil parish of Cloyne, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 46.9 ha
- 116 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 22,508 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 1,478 m² to 299,611 m² (29.96 ha, 74.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballyknock 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
18 May 2017Conditional
Retention for elevational alterations incorporating new windows to the gable and rear elevation of the existing single storey detached dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/5226
29 Aug 2016Conditional
The construction of a new first floor extension in the existing roof of an existing single storey detached dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6162
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 Ballyknock.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknock.
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 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 Ballyknock.
- 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
No address of the register names Ballyknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 469,010 m² (46.9 ha, 115.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloyne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintemple electoral division: 635 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfin, Ballyonane, Ballyroe, Kilbarraree, Kilcrone
- Placenames
- Ballyknock 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.