Ballyre

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyre, from 522 m² to 489,268 m² (48.93 ha, 120.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyre 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.

• 26 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for the renovation and extension to an existing gate lodge dwelling, along with new garage, new wastewater treatment system and any associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1395

• 30 Apr 2026Invalid - case closed

  Renovation and extension to an existing gate lodge dwelling, along with new wastewater treatment system and any associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1123

• 5 Sept 2018Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well, new site entrance and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6355

• 1 Jun 2011Conditional

  Retention of 1 no. domestic garage (change of plan from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 01/514) and 2 no additional domestic garages

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/5190

• 28 Apr 2011Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of alterations to 1 no. domestic garage (granted under previous planning permission reg. no. 01/0514) and permission for retention for retention of 2 no. additional domestic garages

  Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4909

• 16 Aug 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10313

• 3 Aug 2007Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10092

• 4 Jul 2007Conditional

  Two storey extension to existing single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9334

• 14 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8696

• 5 Jun 2007Withdrawn

  Single storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8357

• 29 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of overground slurry storage tank, reception tank and dairy washings/soiled water tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6561

• 22 Jan 2007Refused

  Dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4319

• 9 Oct 2006Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11271

• 15 Mar 2006Refused

  Two storey dwellinghouse and one and a half storey garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5533

• 26 Jan 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/316

• 24 Jun 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/4640

• 22 Mar 2004Conditional

  Dormer bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1877

• 4 Nov 2003Conditional

  Construction of shed to house brood mares

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5475

• 21 Aug 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4202

• 15 Aug 2003Refused

  Dormer bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4123

• 22 Jan 2003Conditional

  Retention of 1 no. window on side of dwelling and 3 no. velux windows to rear of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/182

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 Ballyre.

Recorded monuments

• CO055-020 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Upright stone (H 2.82m; 1.4m x 0.52m) with long axis ENE-WSW; packing stones exposed at base. Second stone (L 1.9m; 0.6m x 0.4m) lies immediately to E; according to local information once standing. 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

• CO055-024 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Front (S) of 5 bays; off-centre doorway to right; hipped-roof of thatch. End chimney to right. Occupied. 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

• CO055-046 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshland, on S side of stream. Irregular grass-covered mound of burnt material (L 12m; Wth 10m; H 0.6m), surrounding waterlogged area connected to stream by gully (Wth 1.4m) running northwards. Most of burnt material on W side of waterlogged area. 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

• CO055-047 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Front of 4 bays (long axis N-S); off-centre doorway to left; hipped-roof of thatch. Off-centre brick chimney to right. Off-centre doorway to left. Only surviving dwelling of Ballyre settlement cluster shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Occupied. 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

• CO066-045 Bridge
  Description

  Hump-backed road bridge (Wth 5.6m) over Dissour river. Three semicircul ararches with roughly cut voussoirs; low pointed breakwaters. 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820, with recent four-bay extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped reed thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Pitched thatched roof to extension. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with timber battened half-door. Single-bay single-storey with attic accommodation outbuilding to site with pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls and timber windows and door. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to site with flat and pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls and timber windows and doors. Square-profile piers with wrought-iron double-leaf gates to site entrance.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820. Now disused. Hipped corrugated metal roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened half-door. Single-storey outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings to rear of house. Rendered boundary walls with square-profile concrete piers.

• Dangan Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch rubble stone built humpbacked bridge, built c. 1800, carrying road over Dissour River. Render copings to parapet walls. Round-headed arches with roughly dressed voussoirs and V-cutwaters to north elevation.

• Ballyre, country house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan five-bay two-storey over half-basement with dormer attic former country house, built c. 1780, comprising front (south) block with full-height pitched-roofed blocks to rear (north). Half-glazed lean-to porch to front (south) elevation, with projecting portico supported by Doric columns, barrel-roofed dormer windows to rear pitch of main block, single-bay two-storey lean-to extension between rear blocks, and two-bay single-storey extension with hipped slate roof to east side of rear elevation. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof, pitched to rear blocks, with cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with render string course and plinth. Square-headed openings throughout, with timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills to front and side elevations, six-over-six pane to ground and first floors, six-over-three pane with metal sill guards to basement. Timber sliding sash windows with two-over-two, three-over-six, four-over-four and six-over-six panes, metal casement windows and replacement uPVC window to rear elevation. Square-headed opening with timber panelled half-glazed double-leaf doors flanked by traceried sidelights, the whole surmounted by traceried overlight and flanked by Doric pilasters. Sixteen pane fixed timber windows flanked by Doric pilasters to side elevations of porch. Doric columns supporting replacement canopy. Limestone steps to front entrance. Yard immediately to rear of house. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to east range having hipped slate roof with red brick and rendered chimneystacks, rendered walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding to north range having hipped slate roof, brick chimneystack, rendered walls, lunette window openings to first floor and segmental-headed carriage arches and square-headed doors and window openings to ground floor, having remains of timber fittings. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to west range, having pitched corrugated-iron roof with brick chimneystack and rubble stone bellcote with metal bell having harp motif in relief and cut limestone dressings, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Rubble stone walls and square-profile piers to site entrance. Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge to site entrance with hipped corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and pointed arch openings.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyre.

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.

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

Name

Ballyre · Baile Íomhair

Area

2,678,818 m² (267.88 ha, 661.95 acres)

Civil parish

Dangandonovan, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Dangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dangan electoral division: 266 people in 87 households; 92% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock South, Ballynalahagh, Barradaw, Corbally, Kilcounty, Knockacool, Monavarnoge

Placenames

Ballyre 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.