Ballythomas
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 80 ha
- 198 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 57,736 m² (5.77 ha, 14.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballythomas, from 32 m² to 172,447 m² (17.24 ha, 42.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballythomas 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
11 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
The decommissioning of an existing septic tank and the putting in place of a replacement wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0311
3 May 2019Refused
The construction of dwellinghouse, entrance, installation of waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5118
15 Jul 2008Refused
Importation of inert fill to raise a depression in a field
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7885
24 Jun 2008Incompleted application
Importation of inert fill to raise a depression in a field
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7441
30 May 2008Incompleted application
Raising levels of land by importation of inert fill
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7017
21 Apr 2005Conditional
Dwelling and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2617
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 Ballythomas.
Recorded monuments
- CO032-025 Country house
Description
Two-storey house of 18th-/early-19th century appearance. Entrance front (NE) of 5 bays; central door ope with rectangular fanlight; sash windows with glazing bars on 1st floor; two tripartite windows on ground floor which are probably insertions. Gable-ended with chimneys on gables; attic window In SE gable; brick cornice under eaves. Gabled addition to rear, at SE end. According to owner, built in 1720s. Range of 1-storey farm buildings to S with pigeon nesting boxes. 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
- CO032-026 Fulacht fia
Description
In pasture, on barely discernible platform (c. 28m E-W). The platform is indicated on the First Edition of the OS maps as a hachured enclosure. Irregular spread of burnt material (11m N-S; 9m E-W). Probably the levelled fulacht fiadh recorded on P. O'Callaghan's land by Bowman (1934, 26). Enclosure (CO026-273----) lies just over 113m to the 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
- CO032-273 Enclosure
Description
On a broad SE slope. A circular enclosure (overall diam 52m) identified from aerial imagery appearing as a low platform or mound with a broad levelled bank and concave interior. First reported by Jean Charles Caillére and seen on Google Earth maps on the 24/01/2018. Also visible on the Digital Globe when compiled. CO032-026----, a fulacht fia, lies beyond an adjacent field boundary upslope to the NE. Compiled by: Margaret Keane Uploaded on: 14 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballythomas.
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 10 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballythomas.
- 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 Ballythomas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballythomas · Baile Thomáis
- Area
- 799,543 m² (79.95 ha, 197.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyclogh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Ballyclogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyclogh electoral division: 794 people in 256 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinookery, Blossomfort, Kilpatrick, Kilroe, Lohort East, Rosnagussane
- Placenames
- Ballythomas 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.