Ballypierce
Townland in the civil parish of Rathgoggan, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Phiarais
- Area
- 64.8 ha
- 160 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,248 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballypierce, from 275 m² to 367,492 m² (36.75 ha, 90.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 · 28 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
24 May 2017Conditional
Works to connect the permitted Boolard Wind Farm (Reg. Refs. 12/5997 and 15/5521/PL.04.245560) to the existing Charleville 110kv ESBN substation comprising as follows: installation of approximately 5.694 km of 20kv underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable in ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground); access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; the replacement of an existing concrete pipe with a box culvert under an existing agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track; and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The development will consist of alterations to permitted wind farm site layout (as per Reg. Ref. 12/5997 and 15/5521 / PL.04.245560) as follows i) widening of permitted vehicular site entrance, ii) provision of 2 no. turning areas/overrun areas for turbine delivery/construction vehicles off the permitted wind farm site road iii) localized realignment and refinement of internal wind farm site road network, iv) increased crane pad size at both permitted turbine locations, and v) also, construction of control building (minor change of location from Reg. Ref. 15/5521/PL.04.245560).
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5292
25 Nov 2016Withdrawn
The installation of 5.645km of 20kV underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable to be contained within ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground), access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; replacement of an existing concrete pipe with box culvert under an existing agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The works are required to connect the permitted Bollard Wind Farm (Reg. Nos. 12/5997 and 15/5521) to the existing Charleville 110kV ESBN substation
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6938
17 Nov 2016Incompleted application
The installation of 5.645km of 20kV underground electricity cable and fibre communications cable to be contained within ducting; 12 no. joint bays, 12 no. communications chambers and 2 no. earth link boxes (all underground), access covers to chambers and boxes at finished surface level; ancillary marker posts and marker plates as necessary; replacement of an existing concrete pipe with box culvert under an agricultural track and the construction of new parapet walls above the track and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The works are required to connect the permitted Bollard Wind Farm (Reg. Refs. 12/5997 and 15/5521) to the existing Charleville 110kV ESBN substation.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6868
18 May 2012Unconditional
Construction of slatted easy-feed shed, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 07/5747
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/5045
24 Sept 2007Conditional
Single and two storey extensions to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11172
31 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Extension to dwellinghouse and construction of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10638
7 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted easy-feed shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5747
31 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Construction of slatted easy feed shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4615
14 Feb 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/4766
29 Mar 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and waste water treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1908
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 Ballypierce.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballypierce.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballypierce.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_918 (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 Ballypierce with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballypierce · Baile Phiarais
- Area
- 648,135 m² (64.81 ha, 160.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathgoggan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Springfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Springfort electoral division: 636 people in 226 households; 79% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhubbo, Clashganniv, Garrynagranoge, Kiltoohig, Knockardamrum
- Placenames
- Ballypierce 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.