Ballyquane
Ballyquane is a townland in the civil parish of Dunmahon, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Chuáin.
- Area
- 76.4 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,166 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyquane, from 23 m² to 205,376 m² (20.54 ha, 50.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyquane 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
6 May 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a cattle shed over an existing slatted tank, effluent tank, dungstead and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1177
30 Dec 2019Conditional
Construction of a silage slab, concrete apron, animal house, milking parlour complex and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7109
10 Jul 2018Conditional
Agricultural entrance, access laneway and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5811
7 Sept 2012Conditional
Alterations and first floor extension to existing dwelling consisting of 2 no. dormer windows and 1 no. rooflight
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5918
16 Jun 2008Conditional
Demolition of existing dwelling & construction of new dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7310
26 Sept 2006Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10955
21 Dec 2005Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9545
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 Ballyquane.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyquane.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct-entry vernacular house, built c. 1800. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted render sills. Square-headed entrance doorway with half-glazed timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof, painted rubble limestone walls and square-headed timber battened doors. Square-profile painted rendered piers with recent timber gates set to painted rendered walls terminating in second pair of piers.
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 Ballyquane, 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 Ballyquane.
- 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 Ballyquane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyquane · Baile Uí Chuáin
- Area
- 763,874 m² (76.39 ha, 188.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmahon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Glanworth West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,156 people lived in 415 households in the Glanworth West electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Dunmahon, Farranlaheshery East, Farranlaheshery West, Glanworth, Laharan, Manning, Rathdaggan
- Placenames
- Ballyquane 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.