# Ballymartle, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymartle, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Mhoirtéalaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,303,213 m² (130.32 ha, 322.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,917 m² (1.29 ha, 3.19 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymartle, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ballymartle.md - Barony: Kinalea - Electoral division: Ballymartle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballymartle electoral division: 1,409 people in 453 households; 79% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/10920 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40637 - Centre: latitude 51.767045, longitude -8.509689 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartle, from 460 m² to 255,039 m² (25.5 ha, 63.02 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2210651: 255,039 m² (25.5 ha, 63.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210651.md - Parcel 2210647: 231,387 m² (23.14 ha, 57.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210647.md - Parcel 2210648: 223,897 m² (22.39 ha, 55.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210648.md - Parcel 2210645: 195,985 m² (19.6 ha, 48.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210645.md - Parcel 2278616: 167,380 m² (16.74 ha, 41.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278616.md - Parcel 2210643: 56,859 m² (5.69 ha, 14.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210643.md - Parcel 2278618: 52,886 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278618.md - Parcel 2278619: 44,015 m² (4.4 ha, 10.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278619.md - Parcel 3125279: 22,768 m² (2.28 ha, 5.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3125279.md - Parcel 2278613: 17,051 m² (1.71 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278613.md - Parcel 2210650: 8,783 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210650.md - Parcel 2210644: 3,128 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210644.md - Parcel 2278614: 3,014 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278614.md - Parcel 2210649: 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210649.md - Parcel 3447630: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3447630.md - Parcel 6032264: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6032264.md - Parcel 2210646: 1,548 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2210646.md - Parcel 2278615: 1,459 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278615.md - Parcel 2278617: 906 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2278617.md - Parcel 6032288: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6032288.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymartle 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) 11 applications, newest first. - 5 Mar 2026, Cork County Council 26/0534: Grant with conditions. Permission for retention. Permission for Retention of alterations to an existing detached dwelling, namely: 1) Ground floor rear extension, 2) Conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation, 3) Rooflights to the front and rear elevations, 4) First floor window and ground floor double doors to the front elevation, 5) Porch to front of dwelling, 6) Detached 2-storey garage with first floor office space and all associated site development works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/0534 - 22 Dec 2025, Cork County Council 25/6939: Invalid - prepare letters. Permission for retention. Permission for Retention of alterations to an existing detached dwelling, namely 1) Ground floor rear extension, 2) Conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation, 3) Rooflights to the front and rear elevations, 4) First floor window and ground floor double doors to the front elevation, 5) porch to front of dwelling, 6) detached 2-storey garage, and all associated site development works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6939 - 17 Jul 2020, Cork County Council 20/5523: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a new dwelling house, a new domestic garage, a new potable well, a new vehicular entrance, a new wastewater treatment and disposal system and all ancillary site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/5523 - 22 Jul 2016, Cork County Council 16/5838: Conditional. Permission. The construction of a split level two-storey dwellinghouse, new waste water treatment unit and percolation area. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=16/5838 - 13 Mar 2008, Cork County Council 08/5413: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5413 - 15 Feb 2008, Cork County Council 08/4799: Incompleted application. Permission. Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of proprietary treatment unit. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/4799 - 9 Aug 2007, Cork County Council 07/10198: Refused. Permission. Dwelling and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10198 - 21 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6274: Withdrawn. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6274 - 28 May 2004, Cork County Council 04/3791: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/3791 - 8 Oct 2003, Cork County Council 03/5003: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/5003 - 27 Jan 2003, Cork County Council 03/275: Conditional. Permission. Dwelling. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/275 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 Ballymartle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO098-029001: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO098-029001-. Ruined late 18th/early 19th century 2-storey house over sunken basement; 4 bays deep. Entrance front (NE) of 3 bays; central door ope with concave stone surround and remains of Ionic columns supporting semicircular fanlight; steps up to door. Tall round-headed stairway window over small oval window in NW elevation. Rear and NW elevations weatherslated. Hipped roof with central valley. Two off-centre chimneys. Farm buldings (CO098-029002-) and walled garden to NW. 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 - CO098-029002: Building, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO098-029002-. Farm buildings and walled garden to NW of Ballymartle House (CO098-029001-). 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) - Ballymartle House, gate lodge, 1810–1850, Regional interest, registry number 20909807, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20909807. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1830. Multiple lean-to additions to side (east) and rear (north). Hipped slate roof with rendered eaves course, red brick chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Single pitch slate and corrugated-iron roofs to additions. Rendered walls with plinth. Pointed arch window openings having rendered sills and reveals to front (south) and side (west) elevations with historic multi-pane timber-framed pivoting windows. Square-headed window openings having render sills to rear elevation with timber and iron-framed casement windows to later additions with single two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to rear elevation. Pointed arch door opening to front elevation having timber battened door with brass fittings and rendered stepped approach. Concrete block boundary walls with square-profile piers and wrought-iron gate to south. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymartle. - 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/ballymartle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymartle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballymartle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymartle 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) - Ballindresrough: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballindresrough.md - Coolcarron: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolcarron-41733.md - Corruragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/corruragh.md - Curra: https://everytownland.com/cork/curra-42015.md - Mill-Land: https://everytownland.com/cork/mill-land.md - Mullagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/mullagh-44529.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/ballymartle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/ballymartle