Ballynaraha

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaraha, from 12 m² to 279,661 m² (27.97 ha, 69.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynaraha 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0793

• 6 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for retention of existing detached home office and gym and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/0248

• 29 Aug 2025Refused

  Permission for Retention of existing two bedroom apartment and all associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5735

• 12 Jul 2017Incompleted application

  The construction of dwellinghouse, proprietary treatment unit and polishing filter (change of plan to that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 08/5903 and 13/5514)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5789

• 24 Jun 2016Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling house with detached garage, a new site entrance and all associated site works including a new septic tank system.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5562

• 2 Aug 2013Unconditional

  Dormer bungalow, garage and associated works including new treatment unit, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg. no. 08/5903

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/5514

• 21 May 2010Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/5252

• 6 May 2010Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, garage and proprietary treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/5090

• 8 Apr 2008Application finalised

  Dormer bungalow, garage & all associated works including new treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5903

• 11 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Dormer style dwellinghouse, garage and installation of waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5361

• 10 Mar 2008Conditional

  Raising levels of existing low lying agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil, construction of vehicular entrance from public road, an access road and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5315

• 24 Aug 2007Conditional

  Raising levels of agricultural land with surplus construction materials i.e inert soil/rock and topsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10520

• 24 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Raising levels of agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9814

• 17 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9654

• 4 May 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6876

• 24 Sept 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7263

• 28 Apr 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse with waste water treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2859

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynaraha.

Recorded monuments

• CO062-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight rise visible in area of site. According to Hartnett (1939, 213) fort was 'clearly traceable....approximately 50 yards in diameter'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-062 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In waste ground, on W bank of stream. Overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 8m; H 0.6m); opening (Wth 2.2m) faces NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage. According to local information, site of ringfort; levelled c. 1950. Slight rise visible in area of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-064 Standing stone
  Description

  Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1937 OS 6-inch map as single standing stone. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in angle formed by two roads. Circular area (diam. 42m) defined by earthen bank (int. H 2.6m). Roadway skirts site to E and W; fosse surviving to N used as laneway linking both roads. Entrance to SSE. Bank levelled SE->SW in August 1985; elsewhere inner face of bank cut back and material dumped to outside. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-067001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on W bank of stream. Spread of burnt material noted. Second fulacht fiadh (CO062-067002-) c. 20m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO062-067002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, on W bank of stream. Spread of burnt material noted. Second fulacht fiadh (CO062-067001-) c. 20m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

• Ballynaraha House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, having pitched roof porch to front (south-west) and attached two-storey barn with stable block to side (south-east). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered sill band to first floor. Square-headed window openings with render sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to porch. Single- and two-storey outbuildings having pitched slate roofs to farmyard, having rubble whitewashed walls. Square-headed openings with remains of timber fittings. Square-profile rendered piers to front of site with wrought-iron gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Ballynaraha.

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.

No address of the register names Ballynaraha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballynaraha · Baile na Rátha

Area

1,122,080 m² (112.21 ha, 277.27 acres)

Civil parish

Garrycoyne, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Blarney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Blarney electoral division: 683 people in 213 households; 88% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygibbon, Ballymartin, Farranastig, Garrycloyne, Knocknalyre

Placenames

Ballynaraha 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.