Ballylopen
Ballylopen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilquane, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Lóipín.
- Area
- 259.1 ha
- 640 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 4,357 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylopen, from 215 m² to 448,508 m² (44.85 ha, 110.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jul 2018Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house with detached garage, proprietary waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5762
11 Apr 2012Refused
Dwellinghouse, entrance, waste water treatment plant, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4710
1 Nov 2011Conditional
Retention of: [a] extension to existing dwellinghouse comprising of lounge, sittingroom and sunroom, [b] attached garage, and [c] existing entrance
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6312
1 Apr 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4760
15 Apr 2009Conditional
Dwelling, detached garage, entrance, wastewater treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5179
29 Oct 2008Conditional
Dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9459
8 Oct 2008Withdrawn
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9195
30 Sept 2008Incompleted application
Domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9091
22 Apr 2008Conditional
Dwelling,entrance & wastewater treatment system
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/6220
27 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of waste water treatment system
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 08/5688
23 Nov 2007Withdrawn
Slatted Unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12603
12 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Construction of slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11633
12 Apr 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6984
17 Aug 2006Refused
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9825
8 Aug 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9570
7 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8688
11 Apr 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6308
16 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5644
16 Mar 2006Incompleted application
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5590
27 Oct 2005Refused
One and half storey dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7928
20 Aug 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Approval · Cork County Council, 04/6377
14 May 2003Conditional
Windfarm to include 12 no. turbines, 50m anemometer mast, control building/ switchyard,fencing & access tracks
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2263
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
Recorded monuments
- LI055-019 Cairn - boundary cairn
Description
In a modern conifer plantation, on Knockeehavrohinta Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Ballylopen and Ballyshanedehey. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 16 November 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylopen.
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 Ballylopen, 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 Ballylopen.
- 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
No address of the register names Ballylopen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballylopen · Baile an Lóipín
- Area
- 2,590,863 m² (259.09 ha, 640.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilquane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Ardskeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 510 people lived in 170 households in the Ardskeagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardskeagh, Ballymacshaneboy (Co. Limerick), Ballyshanedehey (Co. Limerick), Ballyshonikin (Co. Limerick), Garrane, Rathglassane, Streamhill East
- Placenames
- Ballylopen 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.