Ballynella
Ballynella is a townland in the civil parish of Knockmourne, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Iallaigh.
- Area
- 68.7 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 4,752 m² (0.48 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynella, from 497 m² to 262,181 m² (26.22 ha, 64.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballynella 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 Mar 2020Conditional
Permission for the retention of dwelling with attached store and retention of detached building containing 3 attached domestic stores.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4625
20 Feb 2020Incompleted application
The retention of an as built existing storey and a half type dwellinghouse and extensions, and as-built existing detached store.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/4331
20 Aug 2012Conditional
Construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with single storey detached storage shed/carport/garage including a new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5788
20 Jul 2012Incompleted application
Construction of a new part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with single storey detached storage shed and garage including a new waste water treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5597
18 Jul 2011Refused
Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 11/5544
15 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2412
24 Mar 2005Incompleted application
Dwelling and garage
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/1838
8 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwelling and septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/6833
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
- CO045-069 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Marked as circular enclosure (diam. c. 18m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low undulation visible; field fence to NE curves to respect enclosure. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynella.
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 Ballynella, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynella.
- 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 Ballynella with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynella · Baile an Iallaigh
- Area
- 686,974 m² (68.7 ha, 169.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockmourne, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Kilcor, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 408 people lived in 152 households in the Kilcor electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardra, Ballydaw, Ballyhamsherry, Ballyrobert, Knocknagapple, Pellick
- Placenames
- Ballynella 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.