Ballyroe

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe, from 340 m² to 155,711 m² (15.57 ha, 38.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballyroe 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.

• 17 Dec 2024Withdrawn

  Permission for retention for 3 no. shepherd huts used for short-term letting. Also planning permission is sought for the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit to service the aforementioned shepherd huts, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/695

• 22 Nov 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for retention for 3 no. shepherd huts used for short-term letting. Also planning permission is sought for the installation of a new wastewater treatment unit to service the aforementioned shepherd huts, along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/646

• 30 Apr 2012Conditional

  to construct a slatted cattle house, (extension to existing farm building) & all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/287

• 11 Dec 2006Refused

  Dwelling and domestic garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2667

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 Ballyroe.

Recorded monuments

• CO133-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Circular area (19.2m N-S; 19.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.8m), stone faced in parts; shallow fosse to SW. Low inner bank face low W->ENE, where interior raised to compensate for hillslope. Gap (Wth 1.4m) in bank to S. 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

• CO133-089 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In flat pasture, on N side of low hill overlooking Roury river valley and Corran lake. Cover-stone (1.3m x 1m; 0.9m T) displaced, 1988/89, from above three support stones. Second possible boulder burial (CO133-090----) stands 65m to SE. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 11; pers. comm. Paul Walsh) 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

• CO133-090 Boulder-burial
  Description

  In flat pasture, on N side of low hill overlooking Roury river valley and Corran Lake. Pyrimidal boulder (2.5m x 1.4m; 1.35m T) rests above at least two support stones. Fence which abutted N and S now removed. Boulder burial (CO133-089----) stands 65m NW. (Roberts 1988, Ch. 2, no. 11) 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 Ballyroe.

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 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyroe · An Baile Rua

Area

1,096,912 m² (109.69 ha, 271.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacabea, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (West Division)

Electoral division

Knockskagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockskagh electoral division: 555 people in 222 households; 81% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooladerreen, Corran South, Cullane East, Gurteenaduige, Killinga, Knockanenacrohy, Madranna, Three-Gneeves

Placenames

Ballyroe 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.