Ballymacus

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacus, from 39 m² to 491,175 m² (49.12 ha, 121.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballymacus 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.

• 21 Jan 2025Conditional

  Permission for construction of extensions and alteration to bungalow for detached domestic garage for ancillary purpose, for new waste water treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4055

• 5 Dec 2016Conditional

  Retention of existing dwelling & shed as constructed. Permission to construct new entrance & close up existing entrance, demolition of existing conservatory to rear elevation, construction of new porch to front elevation, alterations to ground floor windows, removal of roof light and replace with new dormer window, replacement of existing roof light with larger unit & installation of one additional roof light to rear roof.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7030

• 30 May 2008Conditional

  Demolition of single storey dwelling and construction of dormer style dwelling and installation of treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7035

• 21 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Demolition of dwellinghouse & construction of dwellinghouse & wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6198

• 17 Jul 2006Withdrawn

  One and a half storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8964

• 26 May 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of one and a half storey extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7539

• 23 Dec 2004Conditional

  Integrated tourism resort comprising of hotel, a conference building, a resort centre building with guest reception, offices, restaurant, bar and ancillary facilities, 3 storey spa building,overlapping terraced car parking facilities, hotel support services building, 18 hole golf course and driving range, golf academy building, starter hut,golf clubhouse, 4 no. maintenance buildings, equestrian centre with 19. no. lodges around the outdoor arena, indoor arena,amenity block with 2nd indoor arena,stables,workshop,feedstore bld., 192 no. resort lodges/apartments, car parking, 3 no. ESB sub-stations, demolition of 1. residential property, wastewater treatment facility, underground biocycle treatment plant, irrigation tank, foul pumping station, site development and landscaping works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9262

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 Ballymacus.

Recorded monuments

• CO125-016 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  Situated at edge of steep slope above cliff at Ballymacus Point. Monument consists of oblong cairn (L 8.5m; Wth 2.5m) with oblong depression, abutting old fence. Remains of gallery, at W end (L 3.6m), aligned E-W; represented by three orthostats and a prostrate slab to S, single orthostat to W. Cremen (1924, 73) records that, in 1872, a party of soldiers dug into the monument and removed a 'covering slab'. The remains appear to be last vestiges of a megalithic tomb. 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 Ballymacus.

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 Ballymacus.

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

Name

Ballymacus · Baile Mhic Coise

Area

1,025,098 m² (102.51 ha, 253.31 acres)

Civil parish

Ringcurran, and its townlands

Barony

Kinsale

Electoral division

Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Preghane, Rathmore

Placenames

Ballymacus 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.