Ballynaboola
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhay, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile na Buaile
- Area
- 77 ha
- 190 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,959 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaboola, from 1,994 m² to 79,554 m² (7.96 ha, 19.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 Ballynaboola 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
26 Feb 2026Invalid - case closed
Permission for the construction of dwellinghouse and garage (change of plan from Construction of dwellinghouse and garage (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. Nos. 06/9031 and 11/4264). Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 16/04088 and extended under planning Reference 21/4226.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 26/0462
8 Feb 2021Unconditional permission
Construction of dwellinghouse and garage (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. Nos. 06/9031 and 11/4264). Extension of duration of permission granted under planning reference: 16/04088.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 21/4226
25 Jan 2016Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse and garage (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. Nos. 06/9031 and 11/4264)
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4088
21 Dec 2015Incompleted application
Change of design from that previously granted under planning ref: 06/9031 & 11/4264
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6899
14 Feb 2011Unconditional
Completion of dwellinghouse and garage granted under reg. no. 06/9031
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/4264
24 Sept 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9025
31 Oct 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of effluent treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12055
25 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9853
13 Jun 2007Refused
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8613
8 May 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7594
19 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9031
8 Sept 2005Conditional
Dormer dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6479
26 May 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3634
14 May 2003Conditional
Windfarm to include 12 no. turbines, 50m anemometer mast, control building/ switchyard,fencing & access tracks
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2263
19 Mar 2003Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1220
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 Ballynaboola.
Recorded monuments
- CO008-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, c. 300m to S of Garrane River. Circular area (29.8m N-S; 29.5m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.35m) broken to S (Wth 3m). Intervening fosse mainly waterlogged. Outer bank (H 0.6m) broken to N (Wth 2.5m); berm on inner face of bank to S; incorporated into field fence system to SE and S; to W low and tree planted. Interior planted with trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO008-012001 Cist
Description
In forestry nursery, c. 100m SE of ringfort (CO008-011---); one of three graves (CO008-01203-; CO008-01204-) found close together by workmen in 1978, who dislodged capstone and dug around cist, removing some cremated bone (Doody 1986, Cork No. 5, fig. 36). Rectangular cist (0.58m x 0.32m; D 0.17m; long axis N-S) consisted of four sidestones, covered by capstone; base of paving slabs. Cremated bones found to be undiagnostic. Reconstructed with displaced capstone lying nearby. Second cist (CO008-01203-) 4.6m to SW; badly damaged third grave (CO008-01204-) between the other two. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO008-012002 Standing stone
Description
This standing stone is referred to in the The 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 197) under the entry (no. 11937) for a short cist (CO008-012003-). The reference in the entry reads: 'Standing stone (H 2.4m; 1.2m x 0.65m) (CO008-012002-), dislodged during forestry opertations, erected immediately N of reconstructed cists, in 1978; original location not known.' The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO008-012003 Cist
Description
In forestry nursery, c. 100m SE of ringfort (CO008-011---); one of three graves (CO008-01201-; CO008-01204-) found close together by workmen in 1978 (Doody 1986, Cork No. 5). Rectangular cist (0.45m x 0.19m; D 0.3m; long axis E-W) consisted of limestone sidestones supporting capstone, and paving slabs at base; cremated bone scattered on paving slabs. Cist reconstructed; displaced capstone lies adjacent. Standing stone (H 2.4m; 1.2m x 0.65m) (CO008-012002-), dislodged during forestry opertations, erected immediately N of reconstructed cists, in 1978; original location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO008-012004 Cist
Description
In forestry nursery, one of three graves (CO008-01201-; CO008-01203-) found close together by workmen in 1978. Grave was 'uncovered as a deposit of cremated bone 2m SW of cist [CO008-01201-]...a number of large stones were scattered around the bones indicating the burial had probably been enclosed by a cist' (Doody 1986, Cork No. 5). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO008-013 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO008-014 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO008-015 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynaboola.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballynaboola.
- 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 Ballynaboola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynaboola · Baile na Buaile
- Area
- 770,204 m² (77.02 ha, 190.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Ardskeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ardskeagh electoral division: 510 people in 170 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardskeagh, Ballynaboola West, Garrane, Pruntus
- Placenames
- Ballynaboola 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.