Ballymacallen
Ballymacallen is a townland in the civil parish of Killathy, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhic Caillín.
- Area
- 86.3 ha
- 213 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,179 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacallen, from 51 m² to 213,997 m² (21.4 ha, 52.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ballymacallen 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
23 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
To construct a cubicle house with slatted tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0714
10 Jul 2025Awaiting f.i. response
Permission to construct a cubicle house with slatted tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5376
12 Jul 2022Withdrawn
Reinstatement of a collapsed section of the southern bank of the River Blackwater. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for these works and will be submitted with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5632
10 Jun 2022Incompleted application
Reinstatement of a collapsed section of the southern bank of the River Blackwater at Ballymacallen, Ballyhooly. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for these works and will be submitted as part of the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5364
6 May 2022Incompleted application
Reinstatement of a collapsed section of the southern bank of the River Blackwater at Ballymacallen, Ballyhooly. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared for these works and will be submitted as part of the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5036
15 Jun 2020Conditional
The construction of a two storey dwelling house and detached garage with associated site works including a new vehicular entrance, driveway, a borehole well and wastewater treatment system.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5211
4 Nov 2010Refused
Construction of dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment plant and associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8374
26 May 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, stables, proprietary treatment unit and new vehicular entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5300
13 May 2010Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, stables, proprietary treatment unit and new vehicular entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5160
3 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction to slatted cubicle house and extension to calf shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11989
3 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Construction of slatted cubicle house and extension to calf shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11103
23 Jan 2003New application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/199
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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackwater Valley (Killathy Wood) 001795
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacallen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacallen.
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 Ballymacallen, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacallen.
- 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 Ballymacallen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacallen · Baile Mhic Caillín
- Area
- 862,829 m² (86.28 ha, 213.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killathy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Killathy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 422 people lived in 144 households in the Killathy electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymaclawrence, Ballynamuddagh, Cregg South, Inchinapallas, Killathy
- Placenames
- Ballymacallen 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.