Ballyskerdane
Ballyskerdane is a townland in the civil parish of St. Michael's, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Sceardáin.
- Area
- 65.8 ha
- 163 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyskerdane, from 59 m² to 307,444 m² (30.74 ha, 75.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballyskerdane 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
13 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a single-storey extension to the side and the rear of existing dwelling, partial conversion of adjoining garage to habitable space, changes to existing dwelling elevations, new entrance gates and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0346
24 Apr 2023Refused
A) Retention of site development/clearance works including alterations/reduction of original ground levels and B) construction of dwelling house including domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and additional site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4795
3 Oct 2022Withdrawn
(a) Retention of site development/ clearance works including alterations/ reduction of original ground levels and (b) construction of dwelling house including domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and additional site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6229
16 Aug 2021Refused
Permission for (A) Retention of site development/clearance works including alterations/reduction of original ground levels and (B) construction of dwellinghouse including domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and additional associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6262
15 Mar 2021Incompleted application
(a) Retention of site development clearance works and (b) construction of dwelling house including domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and additional site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4655
21 Dec 2020Incompleted application
(a) Retention of site development clearance works and (b) construction of dwelling house including domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and additional associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6922
31 Mar 2008Refused
Split level dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5763
15 Oct 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and and installation of treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11665
19 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, Domestic garage, & associated site works including sewage treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11095
8 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of cubicle house with feeding passage and slatted tanks, effluent tank, resurfacing of existing silage slab and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13090
1 Jul 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4680
20 Apr 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2637
27 Feb 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1203
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 Ballyskerdane.
Recorded monuments
- CO052-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Levelled; roughly circular area (31m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by low rise (H 0.5m); gap to NNW. Interior level. According to local information, levelled prior to c. 1953. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Ballyskerdane.
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 Ballyskerdane, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Ballyskerdane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyskerdane · Baile an Sceardáin
- Area
- 657,830 m² (65.78 ha, 162.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Michael's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 688 people lived in 213 households in the Killeagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballythomas, Coolgreen, Knockboy, Templemichael
- Placenames
- Ballyskerdane 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.