# Ballymacsimon, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghern, barony of Kinatalloon, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhic Shíomoin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,724,810 m² (172.48 ha, 426.21 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 39,470 m² (3.95 ha, 9.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghern, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/aghern.md - Barony: Kinatalloon - Electoral division: Aghern, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 239 people lived in 84 households in the Aghern electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9952 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40618 - Centre: latitude 52.060631, longitude -8.160233 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacsimon, from 1,547 m² to 826,207 m² (82.62 ha, 204.16 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2498527: 826,207 m² (82.62 ha, 204.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2498527.md - Parcel 2258856: 331,924 m² (33.19 ha, 82.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258856.md - Parcel 3215586: 183,227 m² (18.32 ha, 45.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3215586.md - Parcel 2233006: 137,515 m² (13.75 ha, 33.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233006.md - Parcel 2233002: 97,458 m² (9.75 ha, 24.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233002.md - Parcel 2233000: 45,318 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233000.md - Parcel 2233001: 45,078 m² (4.51 ha, 11.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233001.md - Parcel 2258855: 33,863 m² (3.39 ha, 8.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258855.md - Parcel 2258857: 5,878 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258857.md - Parcel 2233004: 5,188 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233004.md - Parcel 2233003: 4,468 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233003.md - Parcel 5137133: 3,299 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5137133.md - Parcel 2233005: 2,877 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2233005.md - Parcel 2258858: 1,547 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258858.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacsimon 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. - 11 Apr 2023, Cork County Council 23/4659: Conditional permission. Permission. Renovation and modification of existing derelict dwelling house to include construction of single storey extension to rear of dwelling, detached garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, upgrade to existing entrance and all ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4659 - 22 Oct 2021, Cork County Council 21/6887: Conditional. Permission. To construct a dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/6887 - 13 Jul 2012, Cork County Council 12/5539: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, on-site waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5539 - 22 Jun 2012, Cork County Council 12/5359: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a single story dwelling house, on-site treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5359 - 21 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/7711: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/7711 - 4 Nov 2003, Cork County Council 03/5481: Conditional. Permission. Extension to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/5481 - 10 Jun 2003, Cork County Council 03/2816: New application. Permission. Extension to dwelling with attic conversion. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/2816 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 Ballymacsimon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO045-067: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO045-067----. In boggy field to S of Ballymacsimon house. Low irregular mound of burnt material; heavily overgrown. 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 - CO045-068: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO045-068----. In pasture, on W-facing slope. Low undulations in field, in area where site marked on OS 6-inch map, of no discernible pattern. Immediately to S level area (c. 20m E-W; c. 16m N-S), scarped up to S and cut into slope to N; possibly remains of garden feature. Ballymacsimon was a Fitzgerald castle, apparently destroyed by a treasure hunter in early 19th century who 'came and effectually destroyed it in one night by undermining' (Waters 1916,167). 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 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 Ballymacsimon. ## 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 Ballymacsimon, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacsimon. - 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/ballymacsimon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacsimon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacsimon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacsimon 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) - Ardra: https://everytownland.com/cork/ardra-40159.md - Ballylusky: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballylusky.md - Garrycaheragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/garrycaheragh.md - Glentrasna North: https://everytownland.com/cork/glentrasna-north.md - Pellick: https://everytownland.com/cork/pellick.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/ballymacsimon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballymacsimon