Ballymartin
Townland in the civil parish of Grenagh, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mháirtín
- Area
- 143.1 ha
- 354 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 7,782 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartin, from 546 m² to 244,865 m² (24.49 ha, 60.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballymartin 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
12 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4620
21 Mar 2024Incompleted application
Permission to construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4486
25 Jan 2024Conditional
a) change of use of attached garage to living accommodation, b) retention of detached domestic garage, c) retention of velux window to front elevation, d) retention of stone to part of front elevation, e) retention of 2 no. doors to side elevation, f) retention of lean-to roof to rear elevation of dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4109
17 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6102
9 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission for new single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance and install a new waste water treatment unit & percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5611
31 May 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, install a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5250
20 Dec 2013Conditional
Waive condition no. 2 of Planning Reference No. 13/4568 (to allow the continuance of existing shed for the storage of timber fencing) originally granted under Planning Reg. No. 09/7412, namely construction of a shed for the storage of timber fencing
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/6438
3 Apr 2013Conditional
Waive condition no. 2 of Planning Reg. No. 09/7412 (construction of a shed for storage of timber fencing) and to allow the continuance of this existing shed for the storage of timber fencing
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4568
5 Apr 2012Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse with attached carport, treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4674
16 Aug 2010Withdrawn
Dwelling, garage, treatment system & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6049
22 Oct 2009Conditional
Construction of a shed for the storage of timber fencing
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7412
10 Mar 2008Conditional
Raising levels of existing low lying agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil, construction of vehicular entrance from public road, an access road and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5315
19 Nov 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12465
12 Oct 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11626
24 Aug 2007Conditional
Raising levels of agricultural land with surplus construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10520
24 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Raising levels of agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9814
26 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of a cattle shed with underground slurry tank and an underground dairy wash tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8998
30 Apr 2007Conditional
Raising of levels of low lying agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil and alterations to existing entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7394
19 Feb 2007Refused
Raising levels of low lying agricultural land by placing on site of surplus construction materials i.e. inert soil/rock and topsoil and alterations to existing entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5196
12 Oct 2005Refused
Installation of proprietary treatment unit and irrigation area and retention of chalet, 3 no. separate stable buildings, hay barn/tackroom storage, entrance, timber fencing along road side boundaries and hard standing areas
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7470
15 Aug 2003Conditional
Retention of bungalow & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4103
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 Ballymartin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymartin.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Single-span dressed limestone railway bridge, built c.1845, carrying Cork-Mallow railway line over road. Rock-faced walls and abutments with cut limestone stringcourse and spandrels. Concrete parapet wall over segmental-headed arch with margined rock faced voussoirs.
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 Ballymartin.
- 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 Ballymartin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymartin · Baile Mháirtín
- Area
- 1,431,371 m² (143.14 ha, 353.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Grenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Electoral division
- Blarney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Blarney electoral division: 683 people in 213 households; 88% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynaraha, Farranastig, Garrycloyne, Kilmona, Knocknabehy, Tullig
- Placenames
- Ballymartin 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.