Ballyourane

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyourane, from 159 m² to 341,101 m² (34.11 ha, 84.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyourane 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.

• 28 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to demolish existing old cattle house, permission to construct a larger replacement cattle house with three no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/291

• 12 Mar 2025Incompleted application

  Permission to demolish existing old cattle house, permission to construct a larger replacement cattle house with three no. slatted slurry tanks and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/129

• 27 Jun 2022Refused

  Construct a shed to store hay and farm machinery and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/422

• 16 Mar 2011Conditional

  Erection of dwelling house, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/155

• 7 Dec 2009Conditional

  Permission to demolish existing dwelling house and construct a new dwelling house immediately to the west of same. Permission is also being sought to construct a new detached garage, new septic tank with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/2152

• 8 Jun 2009Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/657

• 25 Jun 2008Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1196

• 18 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of cubicle/slatted house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2768

• 20 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Construct cubicle/slatted house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2431

• 6 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of cubicle/slatted house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2319

• 8 May 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/807

• 1 Jul 2004Conditional

  Dwelling

  Approval · Cork County Council, 04/4939

• 17 Jun 2002Conditional

  Slatted cubicle house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/2584

• 11 Dec 2000Conditional

  Dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/7454

• 24 Apr 1998Conditional

  Dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1713

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 Ballyourane.

Recorded monuments

• CO132-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in NE-facing slope. Hachured circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1902); arc of earthen, stone-faced bank (H 1.7m) survives in field fence system to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO132-008 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Children's Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In grassland. Raised subrectangular area (L 14.5m; Wth 10.5m) defined by scarp (H 0.5m). Numerous grave markers noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO132-009001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Though marked clearly as T-shaped structure on OS 6-inch map there are no remains on ground of any fortification, nor is there any local tradition that one ever stood here (Healy 1988, 169). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO132-009002 Sweathouse
  Description

  In low overgrown sub-rectangular mound (3.6m NE-SE; 4m NW-SE) to S of Ballyourane Castle (CO132-009001-). Indicated on OS 6-inch map (1842) as rectangular structure. Dry stone-lined circular chamber (diam. 1.42m; H 0.8m) with corbelled roof; entered by low lintelled passage (Wth 0.45m; L c. 1m) on SE side of mound. Second parallel passage occurs to NW, interior of which has collapsed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Ballyourane.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyourane, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Ballyourane.

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.

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

Name

Ballyourane · Baile Uí Óráin

Area

2,164,899 m² (216.49 ha, 534.96 acres)

Civil parish

Caheragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Caheragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

298 people lived in 111 households in the Caheragh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barna, Clooncugger, Coolboy, Dromcorragh, Garrane

Placenames

Ballyourane 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.