Ballyquirk
Ballyquirk is a townland in the civil parish of Killeagh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Choirc.
- Area
- 80.6 ha
- 199 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 12,110 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyquirk, from 324 m² to 241,920 m² (24.19 ha, 59.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballyquirk 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
1 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for demolition of existing dwelling house with attached garage and single storey detached shed, and construction of a new two-storey dwelling house with attached ancillary family accommodation, along with a single storey detached garage, new waste water treatment system, and all other associated landscaping and ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4153
2 Jul 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system and new site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9265
16 Oct 2006Conditional
Renovations, extension and change of use of disused farm building to dormer type dwelling and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11473
5 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6114
18 Feb 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and waste water treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/631
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyquirk Pond 001235
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyquirk.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyquirk.
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 Ballyquirk, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1535 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyquirk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyquirk · Baile Uí Choirc
- Area
- 806,134 m² (80.61 ha, 199.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,588 people lived in 538 households in the Killeagh electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballindinis, Clashdermot West, Curraghishal, Garranejames, Knocknaskagh, Mountbell
- Placenames
- Ballyquirk 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.