# Ballymacoo, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Inishcarra, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhic Cua.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 984,530 m² (98.45 ha, 243.28 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,794 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Inishcarra, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/inishcarra.md
- Barony: Muskerry East
- Electoral division: Dripsey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9435
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40605
- Centre: latitude 51.951768, longitude -8.70012 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacoo, from 1,253 m² to 253,447 m² (25.34 ha, 62.63 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2217369: 253,447 m² (25.34 ha, 62.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217369.md
- Parcel 2217367: 236,811 m² (23.68 ha, 58.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217367.md
- Parcel 2217368: 225,687 m² (22.57 ha, 55.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2217368.md
- Parcel 5571270: 120,476 m² (12.05 ha, 29.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5571270.md
- Parcel 2272734: 73,070 m² (7.31 ha, 18.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272734.md
- Parcel 2272735: 29,794 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272735.md
- Parcel 5571281: 23,017 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5571281.md
- Parcel 2272736: 17,986 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272736.md
- Parcel 3730927: 2,145 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3730927.md
- Parcel 4833685: 1,651 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4833685.md
- Parcel 2272737: 1,253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272737.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 14 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6012: Conditional. Permission. Construction of calf and calving shed, dungstead and 2 no. silage slabs with walls. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6012
- 30 Jan 2004, Cork County Council 04/485: Conditional. Permission. Alterations and two storey extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/485

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacoo.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO061-158: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-158----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-159----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-193001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO061-193002-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacoo.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacoo.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacoo.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballymacoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyshoneen: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyshoneen-40815.md
- Carhue: https://everytownland.com/cork/carhue.md
- Gortatray: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortatray.md
- Kilclogh: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilclogh-43334.md
- Lisnashandrum East: https://everytownland.com/cork/lisnashandrum-east.md
- Scarteen: https://everytownland.com/cork/scarteen-44956.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacoo
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