Ballymacsliney
Townland in the civil parish of Templenacarriga, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhic Shleimhne
- Area
- 138.7 ha
- 343 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 4,714 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacsliney, from 104 m² to 248,066 m² (24.81 ha, 61.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacsliney 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct 6 no. detached single-storey buildings comprising: 4 no. glamping cabins for short-term/holiday letting, 1 no. building to be used as a farm shop and event space, and 1 no. building to be used as a social space and laundry; together with the provision of new site access and internal access track connecting to an existing track, parking and turning area, permeable footpaths, secure bicycle storage, recycling/refuse storage, a new wastewater treatment unit, drainage, lighting, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5382
17 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission to construct 6 no. detached single-storey buildings comprising: 4 no. glamping cabins for short-term/holiday accommodation, 1 no. building to be used as a farm shop and event space, and 1 no. building to be used as a social space and laundry; together with the provision of new site access and internal access track connecting to an existing track, parking and turning area, permeable footpaths, secure bicycle storage, recycling/refuse storage, a new wastewater treatment unit, drainage, lighting, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5172
14 May 2025Incompleted application
Permission for 4 no. accommodation cabins for short term/holiday letting, 1 no. communal unit, 1 no. farm shop, new site access, internal access track, landscaping, drainage, lighting and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4911
3 Aug 2021Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling and a new single storey detached garage, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance and driveway, including all associated site works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6128
1 Jul 2021Application invalid
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling and a new single storey detached garage, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, including all associated site works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5802
2 Jun 2021Conditional
Retention of alterations to elevations and the overall height of a one and half storey extension to dwelling, which was constructed under Planning Reg. No. 07/7044.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/5550
12 Oct 2020Conditional
Retention of dwelling as constructed and detached domestic garage,
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6218
3 Sept 2019Conditional permission
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6152
4 Dec 2018Conditional
A 10 MW solar farm comprising approximately 44,400 photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 19.72 hectares, 4 no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1 no. single storey delivery station, security fencing, CCTV, and all associated ancillary development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7164
18 Nov 2015Conditional
Construction of a wind farm of up to seven wind turbines with a maximum ground to blade tip height of up to 140m, upgrade of existing tracks and provision of new site tracks, three borrow pits, all associated drainage, construction of an electrical substation including a control building, with welfare facilities, electrical infrastructure, fencing and landscaping, 1 no. construction site compound, underground electrical cabling, underground grid connection electrical cabling, 1 no. permanent meteorological mast up to 90m in height, permanent signage, minor junction accommodation works for the proposed turbine delivery route and associated all ancillary infrastructure located at the townlands of Ballyogaha West, Peafield, Portavarrig, Oldcourt, Ballynona North, Walshtown More (West), Walshtown Beg, Shanavougha, Glenreagh, Glenawillin, Ballyreardon, Ballytrasna, Rathgire, Oldcourt East, Templenacarriga South, Knocknamouragh, Ballymacsliney, Ballyedmond and Carrigogna.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6587
11 Jan 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4091
16 Apr 2007Conditional
Construcion of extensions to dwelling and retention of one and half storey extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7044
5 Jan 2007Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4078
21 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12514
1 Sept 2006Withdrawn
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10231
4 Jul 2006Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8590
19 May 2006Conditional
Alterations and single storey extension to dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7329
4 May 2006Incompleted application
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6892
27 Apr 2006Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6723
19 Apr 2006Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6497
16 Jan 2006Application finalised
Construction of a storey and a half extension to dwelling (change of plan)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4128
13 Jun 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse and retention of existing extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4094
23 Dec 2004Conditional
Retention of extension to dwelling and 2 no. out buildings
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9703
21 Jan 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/259
20 Jan 2004Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/209
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacsliney.
Recorded monuments
- CO065-069 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on SE-facing slope. Indicated as irregular rectangular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular enclosure on 1936 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; differential crop growth defines circular area (max. diam. 21m N-S). Ringfort (CO065-070---) c. 130m to ENE. 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
- CO065-070 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.2m). Gaps in bank to E and NW. Interior raised on ESE side and cut into higher ground on WNW side to compensate for hillslope; 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
- CO065-071 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop knoll. Levelled; low undulations define circular area (22.5m N-S; 23m E-W). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacsliney.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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 Ballymacsliney.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballymacsliney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacsliney · Baile Mhic Shleimhne
- Area
- 1,386,709 m² (138.67 ha, 342.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templenacarriga, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Templenacarriga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templenacarriga electoral division: 619 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyedmond, Carrigogna, Elfordstown, Gortacrue, Killeendooling, Knocknamouragh, Rathgire
- Placenames
- Ballymacsliney 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.