Ballymacoo

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacoo, from 1,253 m² to 253,447 m² (25.34 ha, 62.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballymacoo 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.

• 14 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of calf and calving shed, dungstead and 2 no. silage slabs with walls

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6012

• 30 Jan 2004Conditional

  Alterations and two storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/485

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 Ballymacoo.

Recorded monuments

• CO061-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, c. 150m E of Owennagearagh River. Hachured as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; northern arc survives on 1903 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. Arc (C 26m) formed by earthen bank (H 1.25m) and topped by stone wall survives W->ESE, incorporated into field fence system. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO061-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing land, immediately to N of farmyard. Circular area (diam. 31m) defined by earthen bank (H 1.4m). Interior planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO061-193001 Burial
  Description

  O'Sullivan (1955, 2) noted 'a saint's grave' in this townland. He described it as a 'coffin shaped enclosure surrounded by low mound in North, East and West'. He gives its location as 'across the river from Tobairín Beannuighthe' (9259). Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO061-193002 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  O'Sullivan (1955, 2) mentions an early monastery or hermitage, possibly associated with St Mochua, which he located on the E side of the Owennagearagh River. There are now no visible remains of any ecclesiastical site here; this area is swampy and covered with overgrowth. There is a holy well (vol. 3, no. 9259), named 'Tobairin Beannuighthe' on the W side of the river. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacoo.

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 Ballymacoo, 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 Ballymacoo.

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 Ballymacoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballymacoo · Baile Mhic Cua

Area

984,530 m² (98.45 ha, 243.28 acres)

Civil parish

Inishcarra, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Dripsey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,618 people lived in 519 households in the Dripsey electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshoneen, Carhue, Gortatray, Kilclogh, Lisnashandrum East, Scarteen

Placenames

Ballymacoo 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.