Ballyshonock

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonock, from 29 m² to 219,141 m² (21.91 ha, 54.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshonock 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.

• 3 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for Retention of slatted agricultural building for the housing of cattle including feed and machinery storage areas and associated site works.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/6655

• 10 Mar 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to construct dwelling house, vehicular entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4408

• 7 Apr 2022Withdrawn

  To construct a single storey extension to side of dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4776

• 18 Jan 2022Conditional

  Permission to alter and extend existing dwelling incorporating the following works : Demolish the existing front porch and existing rear extension and outbuilding on the site. Construct single storey extension to the rear, construct new septic tank and percolation area and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4062

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  To demolish existing extension to existing dwelling, construction of new extension to existing dwelling and permission for retention of front porch to existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4797

• 16 Sept 2020Conditional

  Retention of relocated septic tank and percolation area on the dwelling site.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6013

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  Construction of dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, effluent treatment system, including all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5320

• 24 Apr 2019Incompleted application

  Construction of dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, effluent treatment system, including all associated site development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5011

• 8 Apr 2019Conditional

  Retention of two storey dwelling house as constructed on site, Permission for upgrade of septic tank system and percolation area serving existing dwelling house with new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter to ensure compliance with EPA Code of Practice 2009 standards and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4866

• 12 Jan 2018Conditional

  Demolish single storey extensions to the front and side of a dwelling, construct 2 storey extensions to front and side of dwelling, alterations and additions to windows on front elevation of dwelling and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4063

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  To construct a single storey extension to side of dwelling and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5275

• 9 Jun 2015Conditional

  Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, septic tank and percolation area along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5200

• 17 Oct 2011Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural extension to existing agricultural building consisting of cubicles, slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6217

• 15 Nov 2010Conditional

  Dwelling, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment unit and polishing filter, bored well, entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8447

• 22 Dec 2009Conditional

  Retention of vehicular entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8015

• 30 Nov 2009Incompleted application

  Retention of vehicular entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7774

• 31 Aug 2009Conditional

  Retention of dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6855

• 21 Aug 2009Incompleted application

  Retention of dormer dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6777

• 15 Jul 2009Conditional

  Extension to side & rear of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6346

• 10 Mar 2008Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary waste water treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5307

• 6 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4589

• 12 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13014

• 26 Oct 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11958

• 7 Nov 2006Conditional

  Retention of changes to front elevation of dwelling and retention of front boundary entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12060

• 18 Sept 2006Conditional

  Construction of milking parlour, dairy, collection yard, cattle crush, walkway, calving shed, cubicles, easyfeed, slatted tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10669

The 25 most recent of 35 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 Ballyshonock.

Recorded monuments

• CO018-002 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular platform (22m N-S; 20m E-W) raised c. 0.4m above surrounding field; overgrown with hawthorn 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

• CO018-003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, c. 50m E of stream. Low mound of burnt material, partially cut by passageway. Depression immediately to WSW may be trough area. 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

• CO018-004 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In farmyard, c. 60m NE of Farahy River. Site of castle indicated within circular enclosure defined by broken line on 1842 OS 6-inch map; named 'Castle Dairy on site of Farahy Castle' on 1905 map. Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 116-7) noted in 1907 that some of the remains formed the hall and kitchen at the W end of Walsh's farm house; he noted walls 'three feet to four feet thick and...about 25 feet in height...There is an old ceiling in the kitchen showing three cross beams, cross joists, and boards. This is probably the original ceiling'; the castle was 34 feet 6 inches long by 19 feet 7 inches in breadth; portion of it was taken down about 1860 (ibid.). House no longer exists and no visible trace of castle was noted in remaining farm buildings. Castle of the Roches, later granted to Bowen by Cromwell (Healy 1988, 413). 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

• CO018-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (43m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.5m) N->S; low earth and stone bank S->SSW; earth and stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) SSW->N, incorporated into field fence system. Interior slightly raised; slopes down gently to E. 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

• CO018-118 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level pasture, in flood plain on E side of Farahy River. Circular spring well (diam. 1.1m; D 1.1m) lined with stone walling and open on top. Known locally as St Gregory's well where sore eyes were cured. According to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 113), water from well 'has the reputation of curing bad sight, etc. People from the surrounding country come here and pay rounds when suffering from any disease'. Photograph in 1905 (ibid., opp. 113) shows well in good condition with stone slabs edging sides at ground level and two cups on one of these slabs. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyshonock, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ballyshonock · Baile Sheonac

Area

2,160,342 m² (216.03 ha, 533.83 acres)

Civil parish

Farahy, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Farahy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

498 people lived in 157 households in the Farahy electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyguyroe North, Ballyguyroe South, Ballynoe, Farahy, Quitrentmountain, Tankardstown

Placenames

Ballyshonock 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.