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Ballymaquirk

Ballymaquirk is a townland in the civil parish of Dromtarriff, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhic Cuirc.

Area
145.7 ha
360 acres
Land parcels
25
registered freehold, median 26,881 m² (2.69 ha, 6.64 acres)
Zoning
—
not in a zoned settlement
Planning
27
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BallymaquirkCoolacheeskerDromcummer BegDromalourKilcolmanKilcaskan SouthBanteerGurteen
1,000 m
39 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaquirk, from 574 m² to 294,120 m² (29.41 ha, 72.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymaquirk 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

The 25 most recent of 27 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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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
At the centre of the townland of Ballymaquirk, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
Landslides
The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, low, partly inferred.
Terrain model
LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_608 (ZIP).
Flooding
The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballymaquirk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

The townland

Name
Ballymaquirk · Baile Mhic Cuirc
Area
1,457,218 m² (145.72 ha, 360.09 acres)
Civil parish
Dromtarriff, and its townlands
Barony
Duhallow
Electoral division
Rosnalee, the unit of the census
Census 2022
380 people lived in 146 households in the Rosnalee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Banteer, Dromalour, Dromcummer Beg, Gurteen, Kilcaskan South, Kilcolman
Placenames
Ballymaquirk 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.