Ballyshurdane

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshurdane, from 1,259 m² to 341,697 m² (34.17 ha, 84.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyshurdane 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.

• 1 Apr 2020Conditional

  To construct a cubicle house with slatted tank and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4672

• 4 Mar 2008Withdrawn

  Dwelling and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5183

• 8 Feb 2007Conditional

  Construction of round tower slurry store receptor tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4867

• 9 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3105

• 20 Apr 2005Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2562

• 29 Sept 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7374

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 Ballyshurdane.

Recorded monuments

• CO010-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (19m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.1m) SW->N; stone wall N->NE; faint trace of bank elsewhere. Bank partially overgrown with trees, bushes and briars. Interior clear of overgrowth, slopes gently down to SE. 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

• CO010-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured, roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; hachured as circular and oval area respectively, enclosed by fosse on 1903 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace; according to local information levelled c. 1972. Surrounding field fences removed. 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

• CO018-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular platform (22m N-S; 19m E-W; H 0.5m) enclosed by fosse (D 0.5m; Wth c. 10.5m) within larger oval area (c. 60m NW-SE; c. 50m NE-SW) defined by earthen grass-covered bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m); fosse and bank concentric NW->SE. Slight causeway across fosse to S. Waterlogging in fosse to SW. Break in bank to NE and S. Stone (H 0.5m; 0.3m x 0.95m) stands outside fosse to NE; aligned approx. E-W. 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

• CO019-001001 Standing stone
  Description

  Not marked on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, c. 50m to WNW of short cist (11940). Stone (H 1.5m; 0.9m x 0.46m) is subrectangular in plan and irregular in shape, long axis NE-SW. 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

• CO019-001002 Cist
  Description

  In pasture c. 100m ESE of standing stone (CO019-00101-). Discovered by farmer when ploughing between 1900 and 1905 (Doody 1986, Cork No. 11; Waddell 1990, 60). 'Three cinerary urns were found...enclosed in what appeared to be a grave, it had flags at the top, bottom and sides; two of the urns were in fragments and the third unbroken contained ashes.' (Kavanagh 1976, 358). Unbroken urn taken to America; described by Kavanagh from photograph (ibid., 359) as carrying 'three widely spaced cordons, with incised decoration in oblique lines occasionally intersecting, arranged from the rim to base. The rim is apparrently flat'. Present whereabouts of all three urns unknown. Waddell (ibid.) wonders whether this is same burial as alleged cist in nearby Aghacross (CO019-114---). No visible surface trace. 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 Ballyshurdane.

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 Ballyshurdane, 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 moderately high, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyshurdane · Baile Shiurdáin

Area

1,536,484 m² (153.65 ha, 379.67 acres)

Civil parish

Templemolaga, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Templemolaga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

337 people lived in 123 households in the Templemolaga electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghacross, Graigue, Kilclooney, Knockanevin, Marshalstown

Placenames

Ballyshurdane 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.