# Ballymacus, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ringcurran, barony of Kinsale, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhic Coise. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,025,098 m² (102.51 ha, 253.31 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,539 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ringcurran, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ringcurran.md - Barony: Kinsale - Electoral division: Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,605 people lived in 1,855 households in the Kinsale Rural electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11066 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40620 - Centre: latitude 51.68628, longitude -8.466679 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacus, from 39 m² to 491,175 m² (49.12 ha, 121.37 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2204097: 491,175 m² (49.12 ha, 121.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204097.md - Parcel 2284547: 131,493 m² (13.15 ha, 32.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284547.md - Parcel 2204093: 94,028 m² (9.4 ha, 23.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204093.md - Parcel 2204096: 92,346 m² (9.23 ha, 22.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204096.md - Parcel 4656279: 83,606 m² (8.36 ha, 20.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4656279.md - Parcel 2204095: 49,545 m² (4.95 ha, 12.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204095.md - Parcel 2284548: 35,536 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284548.md - Parcel 2284545: 21,491 m² (2.15 ha, 5.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284545.md - Parcel 5605438: 3,610 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5605438.md - Parcel 2204099: 2,386 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204099.md - Parcel 2204102: 2,356 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204102.md - Parcel 2204094: 2,341 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204094.md - Parcel 2284546: 1,889 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284546.md - Parcel 2284551: 1,759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284551.md - Parcel 2204100: 1,573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204100.md - Parcel 2204101: 1,543 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204101.md - Parcel 2204103: 1,539 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204103.md - Parcel 2284554: 1,433 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284554.md - Parcel 2204098: 1,339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204098.md - Parcel 2284552: 1,126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284552.md - Parcel 5605474: 923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5605474.md - Parcel 2284549: 907 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284549.md - Parcel 2284553: 804 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284553.md - Parcel 2284550: 475 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2284550.md - Parcel 5886059: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5886059.md - Parcel 5886085: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5886085.md - Parcel 5886110: 354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5886110.md - Parcel 5749253: 339 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749253.md - Parcel 5749379: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5749379.md - Parcel 4959420: 298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4959420.md - Parcel 5886090: 112 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5886090.md - Parcel 2204104: 98 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2204104.md - Parcel 5715488: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5715488.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 21 Jan 2025, Cork County Council 25/4055: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/4055 - 5 Dec 2016, Cork County Council 16/7030: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/7030 - 30 May 2008, Cork County Council 08/7035: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of single storey dwelling and construction of dormer style dwelling and installation of treatment system. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/7035 - 21 Apr 2008, Cork County Council 08/6198: Incompleted application. Permission. Demolition of dwellinghouse & construction of dwellinghouse & wastewater treatment system. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6198 - 17 Jul 2006, Cork County Council 06/8964: Withdrawn. Permission. One and a half storey extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8964 - 26 May 2006, Cork County Council 06/7539: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of one and a half storey extension to dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/7539 - 23 Dec 2004, Cork County Council 04/9262: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/9262 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 Ballymacus. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO125-016: Megalithic tomb - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO125-016----. 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 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 Ballymacus. ## 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 Ballymacus, 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 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 Ballymacus. - 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/ballymacus.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacus.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymacus.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymacus 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) - Preghane: https://everytownland.com/cork/preghane.md - Rathmore: https://everytownland.com/cork/rathmore-44772.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/ballymacus - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballymacus