Ballynacourty
Townland in the civil parish of Cullen (Kinsale Ra), barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile na Cúirte
- Area
- 247.6 ha
- 612 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 3,248 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 36
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacourty, from 16 m² to 617,570 m² (61.76 ha, 152.6 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynacourty 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
27 Jan 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a proposed new detached dwelling house, detached garage, provision of a septic tank and percolation area and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0155
11 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for Retention of alterations to dwelling constructed under PP Ref: 91/3013, namely; as-built domestic entrance.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/5921
27 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct slatted shed with loose area and covered feeding area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5940
16 Jan 2023Conditional
Retention of elevational changes including a change to the ridge height to the dwelling house granted under Planning Permission 15/6019.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4033
3 Sept 2021Conditional permission
The construction of a new dwelling, a new garage and all associated site works including a new waste water treatment system and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6422
25 May 2021Conditional
The demolition of existing fire damaged dwelling house and garage and construction of new single storey dwelling house, new treatment unit and polishing filter, decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, and including all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5427
22 Feb 2021Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house and attached domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4431
29 Jan 2021Withdrawn
The construction of a dwelling house and attached domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4180
27 Oct 2020Conditional
The construction of a new part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling, a new site entrance, a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works and new shared entrance to proposed and existing dwelling and removal of existing entrance and amendments to driveway of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6349
16 Sept 2020Incompleted application
The construction of a new part storey and a half, part single storey dwelling, a new site entrance, a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works, including the removal of the existing site entrance and amendments to existing driveway.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6019
11 Nov 2019Unconditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage and associated site works. Extension of Duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 14/05841.
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 19/6674
14 May 2019Conditional
Construction of two storey and part single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling house, installation of wastewater sewerage treatment system in lieu of existing conventional septic tank, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5213
20 Feb 2019Unconditional
Permission for (a) removal of the existing external water storage tank and associated concrete base. (b) removal of the existing stainless-steel milk bulk tank. (c) erection of a new milk bulk storage silo. (d) all associated site works to the above development. (e) retention for the erection of an external concrete water storage tank and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4399
6 Mar 2018Refused
Construction of two storey and part single storey extension to existing single storey dwelling, installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, site entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4530
8 Feb 2018Incompleted application
Extension to existing dwellinghouse, installation of a waste water treatment system and polishing filter, site entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4331
14 Sept 2015Conditional
(1) Demolition of part of existing agricultural straw bedding house, (2) construction of extension to existing agricultural livestock cubicle housing with feed passage, internal cow collection yard, underground slatted slurry holding tanks and concrete aprons, and (3) associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6055
9 Sept 2015Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, well, new entrance, replacement of existing neighboring septic tank and percolation area with waste water treatment system with associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6019
29 Aug 2014Conditional
Construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5841
26 Nov 2012Unconditional
Continuane of use of an existing 30 metre lattice support structure with antennas, transmission dishes, associated equipment containers, fencing and associated works as previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 07/13000 which forms part of an existing cellular and broadband communications network
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6414
9 Sept 2011Conditional
Construction of detached storey and half dwellinghouse, detached garage, biocycle treatment unit and soil polishing filter system, formation of new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5945
18 Jan 2011Refused
Construction of detached one and half storey dwellinghouse, detached garage, bio-cycle treatment unit and soil polishing filter system, formation of new entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4058
20 Dec 2010Conditional
Single storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8749
13 May 2010Conditional
Bungalow and biocycle waste treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5161
7 Apr 2010Incompleted application
Bungalow & biocycle waste treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4796
10 Sept 2009Refused
Storey and a half dwelling house & detached garage with biocycle treatment unit, formation of new entrance & all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7006
The 25 most recent of 36 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 Ballynacourty.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacourty.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynacourty.
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 10 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 Ballynacourty.
- 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 Ballynacourty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynacourty · Baile na Cúirte
- Area
- 2,476,207 m² (247.62 ha, 611.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cullen (Kinsale Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Kilmonoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmonoge electoral division: 1,337 people in 416 households; 82% of households own their home; 62% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballady, Ballindresrough, Ballinvragnosig, Ballywilliam, Coolcarron, Cullen, Lackenacummeen
- Placenames
- Ballynacourty 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.