Ballymacaw
Ballymacaw is a townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhic Dháith.
- Area
- 80.7 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 1,086 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacaw, from 22 m² to 353,102 m² (35.31 ha, 87.25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacaw 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
10 Dec 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a 4-bedroom bungalow dwelling, a single storey garage and all associated site works associated with the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6359
7 Feb 2024Refused
Permission for the construction of a 4-bedroom bungalow dwelling, a single storey garage and all associated site works associated with the development.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4191
2 Sept 2021Conditional
Cow shed with slatted slurry tanks and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6412
18 Jun 2020Conditional
Planning retention for cattle shed, planning permission for the construction of 1) cattle shed to include slatted slurry tank, cubicle area and straw bedded area, 2) silage pit, 3) slurry channel 4) slurry storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5239
10 Mar 2020Incompleted application
Planning retention for cattle shed, planning permission for the construction of 1) cattle shed to include slatted slurry tank, cubicle area and straw bedded area, 2) silage pit, 3) slurry channel 4) slurry storage tank and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4502
23 Dec 2013Conditional
Demolition of existing garage forecourt and construction of a dwelling house and all associated site works including waste water treatment system and percolation area and an entrance at the public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6484
17 Dec 2013Incompleted application
Demolition of existing garage forecourt and permission for construction of a dwellinghouse and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system and percolation area and an entrance at the public road
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6401
26 Apr 2011Conditional
Shed for storage of agricultural produce
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4878
26 Jan 2009Conditional
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/4192
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of extension to existing cow shed with underground storage, overground steel slurry tank, milking parlour and collecting yard incorporating separate soiled water storage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9208
22 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of underground slurry storage tanks, overground slatted house and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6295
11 Dec 2006Conditional
Reclamation of land for agricultural use to include infilling of land with subsoil and topsoil from construction sites
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13172
4 Feb 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/582
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 Ballymacaw.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacaw.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacaw.
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 Ballymacaw, about 1 in 10 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 Ballymacaw.
- 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 Ballymacaw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacaw · Baile Mhic Dháith
- Area
- 807,332 m² (80.73 ha, 199.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinsale
- Electoral division
- Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,605 people lived in 1,855 households in the Kinsale Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Ardkilly, Ballynabooly, Ballynidon, Coolyrahilly, Knockgorm, Ringrone
- Placenames
- Ballymacaw 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.