Ballyrusheen

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrusheen, from 348 m² to 320,052 m² (32.01 ha, 79.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyrusheen 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.

• 20 Apr 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1000

• 21 Jul 2022Conditional

  Permission for retention of the following: (1) for alterations to existing dwelling previously permitted under Planning Reference 10/4992 consisting of an attic conversion including an increase in the roof height and consisting of 6 no. rooflights and 2 no. first floor windows and (2) for existing domestic garage and all associated site works and services.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5722

• 23 Jun 2017Incompleted application

  Processing of the extracted rock using primary crushing plant on the quarry floor and for the construction of a crusher house (196sq.m), electrics container (15sq.m) and stone building (370)sq.m) office/canteen (37sq.m) weighbridge, bunded fuel store (15sq.m), ESB sub-station (37sq.m), proprietary wastewater treatment system and raised percolation area, perimeter landscaped berms (up to5m high) and all associated works on a c. 1.7ha. application site at a registered quarry [Ref. No. QY-072]. Access will continue at the existing quarry entrance and no increase in the rate of extraction is proposed.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5574

• 27 Apr 2016Withdrawn

  (1) Construction of building used for crushing and sorting of ground limestone, (2) construction of ramp to facilitate access to reception hopper, (3) construction of ESB control box, and (4) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4979

• 30 Oct 2012Unconditional

  Dwellinghouse, extension of duration to permission granted under planning Ref.No. 07/9567

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/6244

• 26 Apr 2010Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling (Amendments to proposed design from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 09/6175)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4992

• 27 Oct 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7450

• 23 Sept 2009Incompleted application

  Dwelling house & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7136

• 1 Jul 2009Conditional

  Demolition of existing garage and shed and demolition of front extension to existing dwelling and alter and extend same dwelling to include attic accommodation with 4 no. first floor rooflights to the rear and to replace existing septic tank and installation of new treatment plant and percolation area and construction of domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6175

• 6 May 2009Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5422

• 1 Apr 2009Withdrawn

  Demolition of dwelling, construction of two-storey dwellinghouse, septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4991

• 24 Feb 2009Incompleted application

  Demolition of dwelling, construction of new two-storey dwelling, septic tank & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4559

• 27 Nov 2008Conditional

  Demolition of existing garage, alterations to dwelling & construction of a one-and-a-half storey extension

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9856

• 29 Oct 2008Incompleted application

  Demolition of existing garage, new plaster finish to front of existing dwelling and one-and-a-half storey extension

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9476

• 13 Mar 2008Conditional permission

  (1) Lateral extension to the existing limestone quarry (9.6 ha.extraction area) (2) proposed landscaped soil/overburden storage areas and screening berms (3)creation of wetland attenuation area (4) demolition of agricultural buildings (5) continued use of and extraction from the existing quarry(5.7 ha.extraction area)and continued use of existing access road and all ancillary operations including existing weighbridge, wheel wash, portakabin office/amenity block, lagoon settlement system, fuel tank ,proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, soil/overburden storage areas, screening berms, product stocking areas and all ancillary activities/works;all granted planning ref no. 02/4415 (pl.04.201516) (6) existing & proposed internal haul roads and all ancillary site works. Extraction of aggregates using blasting and hydraulic excavators and screening and crushing using mobile plant prior to stockpiling. Restoration of site to amenity/wildlife use.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5429

• 10 Mar 2008Refused

  Construction of autograss event facility for motor cars for occasional use, observation hut and temporary parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5313

• 4 Jan 2008Incompleted application

  Development of autograss event facility for motor cars, observation hut and temporary parking for occasional use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4034

• 30 Nov 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of autograss event facility for motor cars, construction of observation hut and temporary parking

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12761

• 13 Jul 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9567

• 4 Oct 2006Refused

  bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11150

• 13 Sept 2006Incompleted application

  Bungalow

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/10557

• 10 May 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/7061

• 8 May 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6952

• 14 Mar 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/5507

• 3 Mar 2006Conditional

  Retention of domestic garage and extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5246

The 25 most recent of 31 applications.

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 Ballyrusheen.

Recorded monuments

• CO024-067 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope. Circular area (62m NNW-SSE) enclosed by heavily overgrown earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 0.7m). Break in bank to SSE (Wth 5m) and NNW (Wth 4.5m), joined by farm trackway across interior. Fosse skirted by overgrown field boundary E->W. Interior partially overgrown with bushes. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NNW-facing slope above Awbeg River. Circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by three earthen banks with intervening fosses; shallow external fosse to NE. Inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) SE->SW; scarp to N. Middle bank (int. H 0.9m) broken to NW (Wth 3m) and NNW (Wth 3m). Outer bank (H 0.7m) low NW->NNE, with break to NW (Wth 2.5m) and NNW (Wth 6m). Banks to W and interior heavily overgrown and inaccessible. Bank depicted as forming continuous spiral from interior outwards on 1842 OS 6-inch map. According to Bowman (1934, 424), Lisatouragh 'more probably means Lios na Teamhrach - Fort of the Royal Palace'; he described triple ramparted fort with annexe to N (21yd x 19yd); foundations of hut sites, visible as grass-covered mounds, in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Bowman (1934, 425) records levelled fort in D. Lenehan's in field called ''Poll Ratha'' and stated that 'it may be inferred from this name that a souterrain was in the fort...both the fort and the hole have disappeared'. Field located; according to local information hollow which once existed in field infilled; no local memory of fort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO024-070 Quarry
  Description

  Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 12 September 2014

• CO024-249 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  A test excavation, in advance of the construction of a dwelling-house, was carried out in 2003 in the vicinity of a rath (CO024-068----). Excavation revealed a small pit-like feature of unknown date. (Cleary 2006b, 37) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyrusheen.

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 Ballyrusheen.

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.

• Ballyrusheen, Castlecor6 sales

Name

Ballyrusheen · Baile Roisín

Area

1,534,172 m² (153.42 ha, 379.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbrin, and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Castlecor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlecor electoral division: 464 people in 172 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygiblin, Ballyhest East, Ballyhest West, Ballymacpierce, Dromin, Kilgilky North, Kilgilky South, Subulter

Placenames

Ballyrusheen 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.