Ballymacraheen

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacraheen, from 6 m² to 68,970 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballymacraheen 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.

• 26 Jan 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation

  Permission for:- a) construction of a private dwelling, b) new treatment system and percolation area, c) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0142

• 2 Oct 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for: a) construction of a private dwelling, b) new treatment system and percolation area, c) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6076

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  The demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house and existing outbuildings, the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5105

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  The construction of extensions and alterations to an existing dwelling house, including demolition of an existing rear extension and porch to the dwelling house, including raising the roof level of the existing dwelling house, construction of a domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works and demolition of an existing shed and 2 no. outbuildings.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5092

• 18 Nov 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2045

• 5 Mar 2001Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1079

• 20 Nov 2000Refused

  Dormer bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6998

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Seven Heads SPA 004191

Recorded monuments

• CO136-094 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Oval area (26m E-W; 22m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m), with external fosse (D 0.6m) to W. Gap (Wth 1m) in bank to W. Interior raised on S side to compensate for hillslope; depression (D 0.75m) running E-W cuts centre; circular depression (diam. 3m; D 0.75m) inside N bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

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

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 Ballymacraheen, 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 Ballymacraheen.

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

Name

Ballymacraheen · Baile Mhic Craithín

Area

464,524 m² (46.45 ha, 114.79 acres)

Civil parish

Lislee, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Courtmacsherry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

905 people lived in 347 households in the Courtmacsherry electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 31% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinluig, Ballylangy, Lackarour

Placenames

Ballymacraheen 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.