Ballyskibbole
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacdonogh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Sciobóil
- Area
- 34.4 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 4,699 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyskibbole, from 110 m² to 50,369 m² (5.04 ha, 12.45 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyskibbole 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
24 Sept 2025Awaiting clarification f.i. response
Permission for development that relates to a building on the record of Protected Structures, the works consist of the demolition of existing rear lean-to extension & portion of existing derelict stone outhouse, construction of new dormer style rear extension of existing dwelling house, external stairs to access first floor music room and enclosed covered link from the dwelling to outhouse, provision of a new water treatment package & all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6019
18 Jul 2025Awaiting f.i. response
Permission for the alteration and elevational changes of an existing Protected Structure, to include the partial demolition of existing rear and side extensions, the construction of a new storey and a half extension, demolition of a number of ruinous outhouse buildings, the installation of a bored well, wastewater treatments system and percolation area, creation of a new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5443
6 Sept 2024Withdrawn
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5695
4 Jun 2021Conditional
To construct a storey and half style dwelling house with car port, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5562
18 May 2021Conditional
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling including a detached single storey garage, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, including all associated site works, and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5355
19 Apr 2021Incompleted application
The construction of a new part single storey, part two storey, detached dwelling including a detached single storey garage, a new waste water treatment unit and percolation area, a new site entrance, including all associated site works, and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5019
14 May 2019Conditional
The construction of single storey detached dwelling with associated single storey detached garage and including all associated site works, drainage works and associated landscaping.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5205
6 Oct 2014Unconditional
Erection of dormer type bungalow and septic tank, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg. no. 09/6086
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/6145
25 Jun 2009Conditional
Dormer type bungalow and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6086
8 Aug 2008Conditional
Dwelling & septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/8315
9 Jul 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7772
8 Jul 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7739
21 Dec 2007Refused
Dwelling, garage and installation of septic tank
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/13395
11 Dec 2007Refused
Dwelling, treatment unit and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/13001
5 Sept 2007Withdrawn
Single storey dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10770
3 Sept 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/10686
31 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9982
18 Jul 2007Incompleted application
Single storey dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9684
7 Mar 2007Refused
Residential development of 5 no. holiday cottages and treatment unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/5721
20 Apr 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2577
16 Mar 2005Conditional
Extension and conversion of disused farm building to dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1593
12 Nov 2004Refused
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8369
30 Aug 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6560
28 Jul 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5805
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 Ballyskibbole.
Recorded monuments
- CO078-012001 House - vernacular house
Description
Roadside. Front of 4 bays; off-centre doorway to left. Gable ended roof, formerly thatched but now slated. Off-centre chimney to right. Occupied. 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
- CO078-012002 House - vernacular house
Description
Roadside. Front of 2 bays; off-centre doorway to right. Hipped-roof of thatch. Off-centre chimney to left. Occupied. 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
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan thatched house, built c. 1800, with single-bay flat-roofed extension, to rear (west) elevation. Hipped reed thatched roof with red brick and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings, with fixed pane timber window to rear (north) elevation and replacement timber windows to other elevations. Unglazed slit opening to front elevation. Square-headed openings with replacement timber battened doors, that to east elevation having sidelight. Rendered square-profile piers with wrought-iron pedestrian gate and double-leaf metal vehicular gates to site entrance.
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 high, 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 Ballyskibbole.
- 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 Ballyskibbole with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyskibbole · Baile an Sciobóil
- Area
- 344,013 m² (34.4 ha, 85.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacdonogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Kilmacdonogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmacdonogh electoral division: 1,034 people in 370 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glenawilling, Knockadoon, Ring
- Placenames
- Ballyskibbole 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.