Ballyvaloon
Townland in the civil parish of Grenagh, barony of Barretts, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile Bhallúin
- Area
- 239.8 ha
- 593 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 2,527 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 50
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvaloon, from 8 m² to 525,698 m² (52.57 ha, 129.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ballyvaloon 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
14 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation
Permission to construct a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2141
26 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a cubicle house with slatted tank, extension to cattle shed with slatted tank, effluent tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6590
20 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission for elevational changes, extension to existing dwelling house, installation of wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4941
29 Jul 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5799
25 Apr 2022Withdrawn
The construction of a dwelling, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4938
1 Apr 2022Incompleted application
The construction of a new dwelling, a new site entrance, a new waste water treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4711
23 Mar 2021Conditional
(a) an extension to existing cubicle house to include a slatted feeding passage and cubicles. (b) collection yard to rear of milking parlour and (c) calf house
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4731
20 Mar 2018Conditional
Construction of an extension to existing dwelling as well as to carry out minor alterations to the existing dwelling and to carry out all associated site works including the installation of treatment unit and soil polishing filter, as well as the modification of an existing field entrance to from a vehicular entrance to the site, to replace the existing entrance, which is to be closed off.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4671
28 Oct 2015Conditional
Construction of milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6421
26 Jun 2015Conditional
Proposed two-storey dwelling, entrance and septic tank.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5389
30 Jan 2015Conditional
Construction of single-storey extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4159
17 Dec 2014Conditional
The construction of new two storey dwellinghouse, domestic garage and new entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6715
22 Aug 2014Refused
Two-storey dwelling, entrance and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5786
1 Feb 2012Withdrawn
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4133
19 Oct 2011Incompleted application
Retention of a domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6241
18 May 2011Conditional
Construction of a new milking partlour, dairy , pump house, wash room, office, dairy washings tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5071
17 May 2011Conditional
Construction of a milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5057
20 Apr 2011Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/4826
2 Nov 2010Conditional
Retention of garage and carport to rear of existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 10/8363
18 Oct 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, treatment unit, vehicular entrance and all assoicated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8238
31 Aug 2010Incompleted application
Retention of existing garage and carport to rear of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/6166
21 Nov 2008Conditional
Retention of dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9793
15 Oct 2008Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9301
24 Sept 2008Conditional
Retention of revised entrance and driveway to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9020
27 Aug 2008Incompleted application
Retention of revised entrance and driveway to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8601
The 25 most recent of 50 applications.
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 Ballyvaloon.
Recorded monuments
- CO051-119 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on SSW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 106m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2m). Shallow dip outside bank to N and NE may indicate fosse. Breaks in bank to SW and W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO051-120 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (33.4m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by two earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 1.4m; outer bank: max. H 2.1m) with intervening fosse; outer fosse (D 0.35m) survives to S. Entrance (Wth c. 4.5m) to SSE, with causeway; smaller gaps in banks to E. Enclosure planted with coniferous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO051-121 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by earthen bank (H 2.2m). Entrance (Wth 5m) to SSE; gaps in bank to N, WSW and NNW. Interior under long grass; surrounding field ploughed up to base of bank. Aerial photograph shows bank partially levelled (CASAP, September 1991). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO051-122 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on SSW-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps. According to local information, levelled during field fence clearance c. 1988. Arc formed by earthen bank (int. H 2m) survives SW->NW; incorporated into field fence system. Slight rise to N and S appears to mark line of levelled bank. Greater concentration of stones visible in field to E of arc. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO051-123 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked as single standing stone on 1938 OS 6-inch map. In tillage, on SSW-facing slope. Removed; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Ballyvaloon.
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 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 Ballyvaloon.
- 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 Ballyvaloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvaloon · Baile Bhallúin
- Area
- 2,398,071 m² (239.81 ha, 592.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Grenagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barretts
- Electoral division
- Greenfort, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Greenfort electoral division: 807 people in 256 households; 94% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyfadeen More, Ballyfireen, Ballymorisheen, Glancam, Grenagh South, Kilmona, Knocknabehy
- Placenames
- Ballyvaloon 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.