Ballyrub
Ballyrub is a townland in the civil parish of Ringrone, barony of Courceys, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Roib.
- Area
- 23.2 ha
- 57 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 2,319 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrub, from 87 m² to 177,760 m² (17.78 ha, 43.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ballyrub 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
28 Apr 2022Conditional
Demolition of existing storage buildings attached to a dwelling house, the construction of new extension to the dwelling house, the modifications to all elevations and layout and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4969
7 Feb 2019Conditional
Retention of a packaged waste water treatment system and sand polishing filter as installed and Permission to alter the existing splayed entrance on the site, all to an existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4268
1 Feb 2016Conditional
Internal alterations and refurbishments, elevational changes, partial conversion of existing attached garage to new bedroom accommodation, provision of a new bathroom accommodation at first floor level, new projecting bay window, two new dormer roof windows, new Velux roof windows, full replacement of all existing windows and doors, all to an existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4155
4 Jul 2008Conditional
Extensions to side and rear and front porch extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7683
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 Ballyrub.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyrub.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrub.
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 Ballyrub, about 1 in 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyrub.
- 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 Ballyrub with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyrub · Baile Roib
- Area
- 231,578 m² (23.16 ha, 57.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ringrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Courceys
- Electoral division
- Ballymackean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 138 households in the Ballymackean electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolbane, Crohane, Dooneen Upper, Kilcolman, Oldcourt
- Placenames
- Ballyrub 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.