# Ballymacraheen, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lislee, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhic Craithín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 464,524 m² (46.45 ha, 114.79 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,334 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lislee, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/lislee.md - Barony: Ibane and Barryroe - Electoral division: Courtmacsherry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9017 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40613 - Centre: latitude 51.596262, longitude -8.706136 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacraheen, from 6 m² to 68,970 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2221589: 68,970 m² (6.9 ha, 17.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221589.md - Parcel 2268884: 40,372 m² (4.04 ha, 9.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268884.md - Parcel 2380301: 32,371 m² (3.24 ha, 8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2380301.md - Parcel 2221586: 30,450 m² (3.04 ha, 7.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221586.md - Parcel 2221588: 27,938 m² (2.79 ha, 6.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221588.md - Parcel 2221595: 25,644 m² (2.56 ha, 6.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221595.md - Parcel 2221590: 25,212 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221590.md - Parcel 5749187: 24,023 m² (2.4 ha, 5.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749187.md - Parcel 2221583: 21,575 m² (2.16 ha, 5.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221583.md - Parcel 2117818: 20,705 m² (2.07 ha, 5.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2117818.md - Parcel 5805017: 19,419 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5805017.md - Parcel 5749167: 15,183 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749167.md - Parcel 5045767: 10,106 m² (1.01 ha, 2.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5045767.md - Parcel 2268882: 9,773 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268882.md - Parcel 2268886: 9,571 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268886.md - Parcel 2268887: 8,296 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268887.md - Parcel 2221587: 7,929 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221587.md - Parcel 2268889: 7,062 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268889.md - Parcel 5791178: 6,468 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791178.md - Parcel 4363593: 6,403 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363593.md - Parcel 6017924: 3,689 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6017924.md - Parcel 3830969: 3,660 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3830969.md - Parcel 3751888: 3,411 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3751888.md - Parcel 5749131: 3,256 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749131.md - Parcel 4363412: 3,238 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363412.md - Parcel 4363912: 3,078 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363912.md - Parcel 2221591: 3,068 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221591.md - Parcel 2268885: 3,054 m² (0.31 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268885.md - Parcel 4363713: 3,002 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363713.md - Parcel 2221585: 2,464 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221585.md - Parcel 2221593: 2,370 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221593.md - Parcel 4363167: 1,650 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363167.md - Parcel 2221594: 1,132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221594.md - Parcel 2268883: 1,103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268883.md - Parcel 2268888: 1,103 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2268888.md - Parcel 2221592: 1,024 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221592.md - Parcel 2221584: 779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2221584.md - Parcel 5749132: 763 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749132.md - Parcel 5791192: 751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5791192.md - Parcel 4363596: 687 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363596.md - Parcel 4363893: 643 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363893.md - Parcel 5755535: 386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755535.md - Parcel 4363913: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4363913.md - Parcel 5755461: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755461.md - Parcel 5755531: 20 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755531.md - Parcel 5755522: 6 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755522.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 26 Jan 2026, Cork County Council 26/0142: F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation. Permission. Permission for:- a) construction of a private dwelling, b) new treatment system and percolation area, c) all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0142 - 2 Oct 2025, Cork County Council 25/6076: Invalid - case closed. Permission. Permission for: a) construction of a private dwelling, b) new treatment system and percolation area, c) all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6076 - 26 Apr 2021, Cork County Council 21/5105: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/5105 - 26 Apr 2021, Cork County Council 21/5092: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/5092 - 18 Nov 2008, Cork County Council 08/2045: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/2045 - 5 Mar 2001, Cork County Council 01/1079: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=01/1079 - 20 Nov 2000, Cork County Council 00/6998: Refused. Permission. Dormer bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=00/6998 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Protection Area: Seven Heads SPA, site code 004191, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004191 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO136-094: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO136-094----. 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 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 Ballymacraheen. ## 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 Ballymacraheen, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/ballymacraheen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacraheen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacraheen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacraheen 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) - Ballinluig: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballinluig.md - Ballylangy: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballylangy.md - Lackarour: https://everytownland.com/cork/lackarour.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. --- 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/ballymacraheen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballymacraheen