Ballyshehan
Townland in the civil parish of Carrigleamleary, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Uí Fhiacháin
- Area
- 111.1 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 3,305 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshehan, from 48 m² to 361,883 m² (36.19 ha, 89.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 34 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
4 Jan 2018Withdrawn
Demolition of the existing dwellinghouse and domestic garage, construction of a dwelling with garage, new site entrance in place of the existing site entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4011
26 Jun 2015Conditional
1) Retention of existing dwelling, adjacent domestic garage, septic tank and retention of alterations to existing entrance from public road, 2) retention of 2 no. agricultural buildings for the use as stabling of horses and related storage of straw and feedstuffs, and 3) Permission for alterations to existing elevations and construction of an extension to the existing dwelling as well as replacing the existing garage with a new garage and replacing the existing septic tank with a propriety treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5388
10 Jun 2015Incompleted application
(1) Permission for Retention of existing dwelling, adjacent domestic garage, septic tank and alterations to existing entrance from the public road, (2) Permission for Retention of 2no. agricultural buildings for use as stabling of horses and related storage of straw and feedstuffs, and (3) Permission for construction of extension to existing dwelling as well as replacing the existing garage with a new garage and replacing the existing septic tank with a proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5221
6 Oct 2014Refused
Construction of an extension to an existing dwelling including replacing of existing garage with a new garage and replacement of existing septic tank with a treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6152
10 Jul 2014Conditional
Retention of communications site as constructed, the development consists of existing 24m telecommunications structure carrying associated telecommunications equipment, associated equipment cabin, (previous Planning Ref. No. 09/7333, and also Permission for proposed telecommunications equipment and associated cabinets, all within existing secure compound and existing access track. The development will continue to form part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd’s existing GSM and 3G Broadband telecommunications network
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5480
10 Sept 2013Withdrawn
Permission for retention for telecommunications site as constructed, the development consists of existing 24m telecommunications structure carrying associated telecommunications equipment, associated equipment cabin, (previous Planning Ref. No. 09/7333), and also Permission for proposed telecommunications equipment and associated cabinets, all within existing secure compound, and existing access track. The development will continue to form part of Vodafone Ireland Ltd’s existing GSM & 3G broadband telecommunications network
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5751
30 Jan 2013Conditional
(a) Construction of extension to existing office building, (b) installation of ancillary proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, and (c) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4153
28 Dec 2012Incompleted application
Construction of extension to existing office building, installation of ancillary proprietary treatment unit and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6639
22 Jun 2012Conditional
[a] Construction of 3 no. bull sheds, each to contain individual semen collection areas and ancillary underground storage tanks, [b] construction of new entrance from public road to serve proposed and existing facilities, [c] closing up two existing entrances from public road which serve existing facility, [d] provision of bored well, and [e] all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5372
13 Dec 2011Conditional
Demolition of existing dwellinghouse and domestic garage and construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new domestic entrance in place of an existing domestic entrance, septic tank with percolation area and all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6584
4 Nov 2011Conditional
(a) Construction of 3 no. bull sheds, each to contain individual semen collection areas, dungsteds and ancillary underground storage tanks, (b) construction of utility building with ancillary septic tank ,(c) erection of a liquid nitrogen storage tank, (d) construction of new entrance from public road, (e) provision of bored water well, and (f) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6352
25 Oct 2011Incompleted application
(a) Construction of 3 no. bull sheds, each to contain individual semen collection areas, dungsteds and ancillary underground storage tanks. (b) construction of utility building with ancillary septic tank, (c) erection of a liquid nitrogen storage tank, (d) construction of new entrance from public road, (e) provision of bored water well and (f) all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6278
14 Oct 2009Conditional
24m high telecommunications antennae support structure with associated equipment attached & equipment cabinets within a palisade fenced compound using an existing access
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7333
4 Mar 2008Conditional
Installation of velux windows to rear and construction of ground and first floor extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5179
20 Dec 2007Conditional
Sunroom extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13242
7 Apr 2006Incompleted application
2 no. dormer dwellinghouses
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/6194
22 Aug 2005Conditional
Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6031
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 Ballyshehan.
Recorded monuments
- CO025-082 Ringfort - rath
Description
Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Access denied; bivallate circular enlcosure (diam. c. 20m) visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R525) as cropmark of banks and external fosses. 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
- CO025-083 House - vernacular house
Description
At end of passage, to N of road. Late 17th/early 18th- century two-storey, gable-ended house. Rectangular structure (15.66m NE-SW; 6.18m NW-SE), of random-rubble limestone construction. Front elevation (SE) of five bays, window opes on end bays blocked; sash windows with glazing bars appear to be inserted; central rectangular door ope; two small 1st-floor sash windows. Outbuildings attached to NE gable blocking door ope on SE end of gable and small attic window overhead. Attic window in SW gable. Small ground floor central window in rear elevation. Brick chimney atop internally projecting stone chimney breasts. Thatched roof in poor repair; thatch of wheaten straw atop oaten straw, reeds used at rear (pers. comm. J. Letts). Central hall provides access to parlour at SW end, kitchen at NE end and small central bedroom. Large open fireplace on NE side of kitchen, with crane and bellows; circular brick-domed bread oven (diam. 0.68m; H c. 0.4m) on NW side of fireplace. Wooden stairs in NW corner of kitchen rises to 1st-floor landing, gives access to three bedrooms. Vacant. (Sleeman et al. 1998) 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
- CO033-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on E side of farmyard. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 and 1935 OS 6-inch maps; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1905 OS 6-inch map. Circular area (21m N-S) enclosed by worn earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.35m) E->W; low rise visible W->N. Bank heavily overgrown to SE; incorporated into field fence system to SW. Slurry pit built up against external face of bank to W. Interior surface cut up by cattle. 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
- CO033-028001 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
- CO033-028002 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
- CO033-095 Fulacht fia
Description
In tillage, on SE side of Poulduff (waterlogged hollow). Slightly raised arc of burnt material (L 28m; Wth 10m; H 0.4m) encloses SE side of hollow. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyshehan.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_983 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyshehan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyshehan · Baile Uí Fhiacháin
- Area
- 1,110,522 m² (111.05 ha, 274.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Carrigleamleary, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrig electoral division: 225 people in 87 households; 96% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyviniter Lower, Ballyviniter Middle, Ballyvorisheen, Carrigoon, Lackanamona, Lissanisky, Mountnagle
- Placenames
- Ballyshehan 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.