Ballymacotter

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacotter, from 121 m² to 797,399 m² (79.74 ha, 197.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacotter 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.

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  To construct a single storey dwelling house, install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6888

• 20 Nov 2020Conditional

  To extend and alter existing dwellinghouse.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6575

• 21 Oct 2016Conditional

  Retention of dwelling as constructed (changes to site layout plan, elevations and plans submitted under previous planning application 06/12739) and Permission to install a new treatment unit and percolation area to service dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6639

• 30 Jan 2014Conditional

  Amendments to and completion of entrance and boundaries to dwelling granted under Planning Ref. No. 00/7621 and 02/5338

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4162

• 20 Jan 2014Incompleted application

  Amendments to and completion of entrance and boundaries to dwelling granted under planning permission ref S00/7621 and 02/5338

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4085

• 23 Dec 2013Incompleted application

  Amendments to and completion of entrance and boundaries to dwelling granted under Planning Reg. Nos. S/00/7621 and 02/5388

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6485

• 11 Nov 2011Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, site entrance, well, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6391

• 8 Mar 2011Refused

  Extension to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4449

• 7 Sept 2007Conditional

  Bungalow, detached garage and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10852

• 28 Nov 2006Conditional

  Demolition of shed and construction of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12739

• 1 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Demolition of existing shed and construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11882

• 21 Mar 2006Refused

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5696

• 6 Mar 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5318

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 Ballymacotter.

Recorded monuments

• CO089-048 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on the summit of a low hill c. 750m N of the coastline at its closest point (Ballyandreen Bay) and c. 6.3kms SSE of the town of Cloyne (OD c. 83m). Located on an area of level terrain with land that slopes gently away from site in all directions. The surrounding area consists of enclosed pasture and arable fields defined by linear field boundaries. The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain were\are located at Fort Carlisle (CO087-058---- for fortification; CO087-058001- for signal station), located c. 13.3kms to the W (now Fort Davis; exact site of station unknown), and at Knockadoon (CO078-015----), located c. 15.1kms to the ENE, which survives in relatively good condition. This signal station\tower at Ballymacotter is located c. 1.75kms SE of a church (CO089-045002-) and associated graveyard (CO089-045001-) at Churchtown (Ballintemple Parish Church) and c. 2.5kms WSW\W of a coastal promontory fort (CO089-054----) at Ballytrasna. An early-nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) two-storey over partial raised basement square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.85m NW-SE x c. 5.85m NE-SW), built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. The walls of the signal tower face, NE, SE, SW, and NW. The signal tower retains its original core form but it has been heavily modified through conversion into a residence in the mid-to-late twentieth century; ground floor level of signal station\tower incorporated into accommodation, upper levels out of use (2020). The exterior walls are almost completed covered in weather-slating; it is of note that this weather-slating does not extend across the machicolation or the corner bartizans. The rear (NW) elevation is now cement rendered. Much of the cut stone coping survives to the parapet walls. The original square-headed doorway is to the centre of the SE elevation at first floor level; this would have been originally accessed via a retractable ladder. The doorway is now infilled\blocked and is now cement rendered. The doorway is protected by a rectangular-plan brick machicolation over that is supported on three rubble stone corbels. A tall rendered chimneystack extends up from the centre of the NW wall. The NE and SW elevations originally featured pairs of square-headed window openings to both the ground floor and first floor levels; window openings at first floor level now infilled and cement rendered, and a modern addition now obscures the window openings to the SW elevation at ground floor level; modern fittings to window openings at ground floor level. The N and E corners of the rear elevation (NE) feature cement rendered (brick?) bartizans each supported by three angled stone corbels. The signal tower features a flat roof protected by the parapet level wall, which is unlikely to be the original roof. Kerrigan established that the signal tower was completed in 1804 (Kerrigan 1995, 277). The signal station\tower is shown inside a small rectangular-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 60m NW-SE x. c. 29m SW-NE) on the Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, with three smaller rectangular-plan buildings\structures sited inside the enclosure to the N of the signal station\tower at this time. The Ordnance Survey second ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1897-1904, shows that the N part of the enclosure had been removed by this time and that a larger rectangular-plan building had been constructed to the NW of the signal station\tower. The Ordnance Survey third ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1926-1937, depicts a single large rectangular-plan building aligned NW-SE to the SW of the original signal station\tower at this time. The Ordnance Survey second and third eds. six-inch maps identify the site as ‘Ballynacotter Castle.’ The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 27/09/22

• CO089-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to Power (1940, 19) ....'the site of a former lios of circular outline and small size'. Known locally as "Pairc a Liosa". No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Ballmacotter Castle, signal tower, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Formerly detached square-plan two-bay two-stage former signal tower, built 1804, now partly in use as house. Projecting bartizans and limestone copings to roof level. Slate hung walls. Red brick and rendered walls to bartizans. Square-headed openings, some infilled, some with replacement uPVC windows.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacotter.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymacotter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballymacotter · Baile Mhic Coitir

Area

1,067,959 m² (106.8 ha, 263.9 acres)

Civil parish

Ballintemple, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Ballintemple, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintemple electoral division: 635 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyandreen, Ballylanders, Maytown

Placenames

Ballymacotter 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.