Ballynahina
Townland in the civil parish of Rathcormack, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile na hEidhne
- Area
- 360.2 ha
- 890 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 4,513 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 32
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahina, from 31 m² to 458,310 m² (45.83 ha, 113.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 · 39 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C7Special Policy Area (Other commerce/industrial/enterprise uses)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 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
1 Jul 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a domestic garage to side/rear of existing dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1773
19 Aug 2025Conditional permission
Extension to domestic garage being used as a general storage area and for fire wood.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5659
16 Oct 2023Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6080
30 Mar 2022Conditional
To construct a cattle shed with slatted tanks and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4698
23 Feb 2021Conditional permission
The construction of a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4410
24 Jan 2018Conditional
Retention of existing entrance.
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4180
5 Feb 2014Conditional
Retention of dwelling house (change of house type from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 1631/81)
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4207
29 Jan 2014Incompleted application
Retention of dwellinghouse (change of house type from that permitted under Planning Ref. No. 1631/81)
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4153
12 Apr 2010Conditional
Alterations and construction of single storey side and rear extensions to dwelling together with ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4850
30 May 2008Conditional
Retention of conversion of attic of dwellinghouse to living accommodation
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7022
6 May 2008Incompleted application
Retention of attic conversion
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6543
17 Apr 2008Conditional
Livestock housing with slatted slurry tank and concrete apron
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6126
11 Jan 2008Conditional
Construction of garage, sunroom, porch and extension to rear of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4095
4 Dec 2007Conditional
Construction of domestic garage and retention of conversion of attic
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12840
17 Oct 2007Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling and retention of conversion of attic to living accommodation
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11715
8 May 2007Conditional
Renovations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7604
5 Apr 2007Conditional
Construction of livestock house with slatted slurry tank, slatted slurry channel, extension to silage slab and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6852
2 Apr 2007Incompleted application
Renovations and extension to side of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6770
30 Mar 2007Withdrawn
Dwelling, garage, treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6666
8 Feb 2007Refused
Construction of a storey and a half dwelling, dormer dwelling, wastewater treatment units and revised site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4882
18 Aug 2006Conditional
Erection of 6m high mesh fence at 15th hole
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9868
16 Aug 2006Refused
2 no. one and half storey dwellinghouses and 2 no. dormer dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9790
29 Jun 2006Incompleted application
4 no. dwellinghouses comprising of 2 no. one and half storey dwellings and 2 no. dormer dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8486
28 Jun 2006Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8461
1 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7711
The 25 most recent of 32 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 Ballynahina.
Recorded monuments
- CO035-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
In Fermoy golf course, on ESE-facing slope, on W end of Corrin ridge. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as sub-rectangular area planted with trees; marked on 1903 and 1935 OS 6-inch map as circular area (diam. c. 30m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Windele (1897, 375) 'fort on Corrin ridge to the West looks down on Ballinahina, Barry's place'. 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
- CO044-078 Fulacht fia
Description
This fulacht fia was excavated in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass (Quinn 2006a, 33-4). It consisted of a mound (12m E-W; 8m N-S) of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil and 43 associated features including two troughs, a possible third trough and a number of shallow pits. (Murphy 2004, 87, Ballynahina 1) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
- Ballynahina House, folly, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-stage folly, built c. 1800. Castellated roof with crenellations, supported on corbel table. Rendered coursed rubble sandstone walls. Camber-headed window opening with render sill. Camber-headed doorway with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs, with rendered steps.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1253 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballynahina with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynahina · Baile na hEidhne
- Area
- 3,602,181 m² (360.22 ha, 890.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathcormack, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Rathcormack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rathcormack electoral division: 2,643 people in 884 households; 74% of households own their home; 65% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballynahina 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.