Ballynafeaha
Ballynafeaha is a townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile na Féithe.
- Area
- 67.5 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 77,177 m² (7.72 ha, 19.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynafeaha, from 10,250 m² (1.03 ha, 2.53 acres) to 144,105 m² (14.41 ha, 35.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynafeaha 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
22 Dec 2004Conditional
Alterations to and an extension to the rear of Longueville House Hotel, alteration, refurbishment, conversion and change of use of existing ancillary storage buildings, the demolition of 590 sq.m of additional buildings including the part demolition and change of use of an existing habitable residential unit, and the construction of 5181 sq.m. of additional buildings all to facilitate the provision of 60 additional hotel bedrooms, 21 suites, 18 staff bedrooms with laundry, a spa facility, an additional restaurant/bar and an oratory to the existing hotel. Provision of additional car parking areas and extension of existing car park to provide in total 140 spaces, upgrading of existing access at the public road including alterations to the existing entrance walls. Provision of a new sewage treatment plant and sand filter/percolation system and an underground storm water attenuation tank to the west of the site and all associated development works and landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9504
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO032-275 Enclosure
Description
In tillage field, cropmark of possible circular enclosure (diam. c. 66m N-S), ditch visible SE->N. First identified on Bing maps by Jean-Charles Caillére. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillére Date of upload/revision: 25 March 2022 See attached aerial image CO032-275----_01.jpg
Architectural heritage
- Longueville House, gate lodge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1780, with portico to front and recent two-bay hip-roofed extension to re-entrant angle at rear. Hipped slate overhanging roof with limestone ashlar chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots. Projecting eaves with carved timber brackets. Coursed sandstone rubble walls with tooled limestone quoins and plinth course. Blind round-headed windows to east elevation with brick surrounds. Tetrastyle Doric portico having triangular pediment and moulded cornice, painted timber columns with limestone plinths and set on limestone plinth. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills, brick surrounds and timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to front elevation and double six-over-four pane timber sliding sash window to west elevation, and replacement timber windows elsewhere. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled double-leaf door with overlight. Decorative wrought-iron gate attached to south-west corner leading to yard to rear.
- Longueville House, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch estate bridge, built c.1780, over Finnow Stream. Coursed squared snecked limestone parapet walls with peck-dressed flat limestone copings and string courses, terminating in square-plan piers. Round arch having tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs.
- Longueville House, gate lodge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1780, having tetrastyle Doric portico to front and single and three-bay additions to rear. Hipped slate roof to main block with rendered chimneystack having terracotta chimney pots. Pitched slate roof to additions. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Portico having triangular pediment and painted columns with limestone plinths. Square-headed windows throughout having tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening having half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door with coloured glass.
- Longueville House Hotel, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Quadrant entrance gateway to Longueville House, erected c. 1780, having vehicular entrance gates, with pedestrian gate to north side, and gate lodge to north-west, inside gateway. Comprises S-curve limestone ashlar walls having moulded limestone plinths, cut limestone copings and decorative spearheaded cast-iron railings, terminating in square-plan limestone ashlar piers with moulded plinths and moulded caps surmounted by wrought-iron lanterns. Decorative cast-iron gates to entrances.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynafeaha, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_889 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballynafeaha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynafeaha · Baile na Féithe
- Area
- 674,767 m² (67.48 ha, 166.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 794 people lived in 256 households in the Ballyclogh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dromaneen, Gortnagross, Kilgobban, Longueville
- Placenames
- Ballynafeaha 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.