Ballymountain
Townland in the civil parish of Inishannon, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Mhontáin
- Area
- 216.1 ha
- 534 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 5,162 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymountain, from 232 m² to 283,053 m² (28.31 ha, 69.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 76 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission construction of dwelling and detached domestic garage (change of plans from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No.23/5091) and permission to change boundaries and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4923
30 May 2023Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house incorporating a car-port and garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5091
24 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission to alter site boundaries to serve existing dwelling permitted under Planning Ref. No. 18/4866
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4320
21 Dec 2022Conditional
Construction of a livestock under pass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6853
23 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to alter & extend dwelling house, construct domestic garage/store, demolish existing domestic garage/store and install replacement waste water system within the site & carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6150
28 Oct 2021Conditional
Alterations to existing dwelling house including (1) the conversion of existing garage and utility room to bedroom and en-suite bathroom (2) the conversion of existing bedroom to utility room and (3) elevation alterations and new pitched roof over proposed bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6930
15 Mar 2021Conditional
To carry out alterations to dwellinghouse including two storey extension to side and single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4653
27 Oct 2020Conditional
(i) Retention of conversion of attic of dwelling (permitted under Ref. No. 13/4283) to living space, revised boundaries and location of vehicular entrance, (ii) retention of detached single-storey domestic garage, (iii) permission to install three dormer windows on the front elevation and (iv) associated site works, all to dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6355
9 Apr 2018Conditional
Demolish existing dwelling and construct a new dwelling with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4866
30 Sept 2015Refused
Construction of two agricultural storage sheds
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6171
27 Aug 2015Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and conversion of existing dwellinghouse to a domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5923
16 May 2014Conditional
Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage, septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5003
22 Aug 2013Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, site entrance, septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5634
21 Feb 2013Conditional
Dwellinghouse, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4283
24 Aug 2012Unconditional
Two storey dwellinghouse, stables with garage and store, extension of duration to permission granted under planning permission reg. 07/5528
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5841
1 Jul 2010Conditional
Dwelling house, detached domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area, site entrance & all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5618
11 Feb 2008Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4665
22 Aug 2007Withdrawn
Demolition of existing dwelling and construction of two storey dwellinghouse, garage and entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10440
28 Feb 2007Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse, stables with garage and store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5528
29 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse and stables/garage/store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4541
26 May 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7525
26 May 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7530
1 Jul 2005Withdrawn
Installation of proprietary treatment unit to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4669
29 Jun 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/4604
21 Jun 2005Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4352
The 25 most recent of 28 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymountain.
Recorded monuments
- CO111-001 Standing stone
Description
In tillage on N-facing slope. Irregular stone aligned E-W (H 1.05m; 1.04m x 0.37m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO111-002 Enclosure
Description
In tillage on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24m N-S); defined by bank (H 1.1m) and inner ditch (D 1.1m) SE->NW; field fence NW-SE. Not depicted on 1st or 2nd ed. O.S. maps. Heavily overgrown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1910, having two-storey addition to rear (south). Pitched slate roof, with timber clad eaves, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout. Slightly camber-headed window openings with render sills to front (north) and side (west) elevations, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with render sills to attic level of side (east) elevation and rear elevation. Margined three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window to attic level of side (east) elevation. Timber framed two-pane window to attic level of rear elevation. Square-headed door opening to front (north) elevation having timber battened door set beneath remains of timber canopy on carved brackets with pitched slate roof and carved timber bargeboards.
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 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 Ballymountain.
- 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 Ballymountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymountain · Baile Mhontáin
- Area
- 2,161,211 m² (216.12 ha, 534.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knockroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockroe electoral division: 767 people in 254 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigcannon, Clashafree, Dromkeen, Farranagow, Knocknacurra
- Placenames
- Ballymountain 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.