Ballyvoddy

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvoddy, from 791 m² to 251,513 m² (25.15 ha, 62.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvoddy 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.

• 16 Jul 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for the following works; demolish existing garage to the rear of the site, the retention of a shed for domestic use and all associated site works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5420

• 27 Jul 2016Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse along with all associated site development works including the installation of a waste water treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5876

• 20 Nov 2015Conditional

  Retention of conservatory to southern gable of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6618

• 21 Oct 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of conservatory to southern gable of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6347

• 4 Aug 2015Conditional

  Construct a ground floor extension with loft space, alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5713

• 13 Jul 2010Conditional

  Two storey extension to rear of existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5745

• 1 Oct 2008Withdrawn

  Dwelling, garage, entrance and treatment unit

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/9116

• 17 Apr 2008Conditional

  Relocation of entrance/driveway to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6139

• 4 May 2007Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, machinery storage shed, wastewater treatment plant and entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7547

• 22 Mar 2007Incompleted application

  One and half storey dwellinghouse and machinery storage shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6336

• 20 Sept 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/10784

• 28 Feb 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5152

• 9 Dec 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and stables

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9112

• 14 Jun 2005Conditional

  Alterations to dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 04/8218 to include the addition of natural stone to part of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4136

• 5 Nov 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/8218

• 11 Aug 2004Conditional

  Retention of elevational changes and sunroom extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6115

• 26 Mar 2003Withdrawn

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/1342

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 Ballyvoddy.

Recorded monuments

• CO018-081 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured semicircular enclosure (straight side c. 25m NE-SW; projecting c. 10m to SE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; 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

• CO018-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (27m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m) SSE->NW; scarp (H 0.7m) elsewhere; external fosse survives SSE->N as slight depression. Break in scarp to SE and in bank to SSW (Wth 3m). Interior appears to be slightly raised above level of surrounding field. 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

• CO018-083 Mound
  Description

  In pasture on N-facing slope. D-shaped mound (straight side c. 20m N-S; projecting c. 10m to E) abutting E side of N-S field fence; heavily overgrown making interpretation difficult. 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

• CO018-084001 Graveyard
  Description

  On SW side of road; at NW end of Rockmills. Rectangular graveyard (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE); enclosed by stone wall except for roadside on NE side where it is enclosed by stone wall atop retaining wall. Headstones date mainly from late 18th and 19th-century: a number of low uninscribed grave markers also noted. Still in occasional use. Tower and steeple of C of I church (14701) on N side. Site of earlier parish church of St Nathlash (14397). 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

• CO018-084002 Church
  Description

  In Rockmills, in N side of graveyard (14545). Former C of I parish church of St. Nathlash. Trigonometrical station indicates position of church on 1842 OS 6-inch map, which is named 'Church'. Built in 1812, on or near ancient parish church of St Nathlash (14397); interior fittings of new church paid for by Richard Aldworth (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 363-6). In 1889, after unification with Farahy (see14715), church demolished except for tower and steeple which still stands. Tower 3-storey, and occurred at W end of church: string course marks each floor on external elevations; walls topped with parapet wall; crowned by octagonal limestone spire. Round-headed entrance door on S side flanked by round headed window, D-shaped niche overhead. Niche for heating stove on internal N wall. 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

• CO018-084003 Church
  Description

  In graveyard (14545). Site of medieval parish church of St Nathlash; earliest mention of church here appears to be in 1591, though church reported 'in ruins' by 1615 and apparently not replaced until 1812 (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, 195-6). No visible surface trace of church. 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

• CO018-093 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage. Circular area (44m E-W; 42m N-S) defined by low scarp SSW->ESE; scarp less clearly defined elsewhere. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of bank and external fosse in aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYP 88). 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

• CO026-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Circular area (32m E-W; 31m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.65m); shallow external fosse (D 0.25m). Break in bank to SSE. Bank partially overgrown with bushes. Interior grass-covered and slopes gently down to S. Claidh Dubh (CO018-001---) lies c. 300m to 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

Architectural heritage

• Meadow Sweet, house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, formerly two two-bay houses, with disused render shopfront to south end. Formerly also in use as post office. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills, with one slightly wider three-over-three pane window to north end. Replacement timber windows to rear. Square-headed recent glazed timber door to north, formerly giving access to post office. Shopfront comprises channelled pilasters on plinths with console brackets, supporting fascia and moulded cornice, having tripartite timber plate-glass display windows, and panelled stall risers, flanking timber panelled and glazed double-leaf door with overlight.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with dormer attic labourer's cottage, built c. 1900, with flat-roof windbreak to central entrance doorway. Pitched slate roof with rendered central chimneystack, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window and door openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills, and recent timber door and overlight. Wrought-iron garden gate to front, set in rubble limestone boundary wall. Two-bays single-storey outbuilding to south-east, having pitched slate roof and rubble limestone walls with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window, formerly a doorway, and recent timber door.

• Saint Nathlash Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1810–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-stage tower and spire, built 1812, formerly west end of St Nathlash Church of Ireland, rest of building demolished 1889. Parapet wall enclosing octagonal spire of ashlar limestone. Roughcast lime render over rubble limestone walls with cut-stone quoins, each stage divided by rendered string course of roughly cut stone. Round-headed and blind Diocletian opening to first stage. Oculus openings to second stage and round-headed openings to third stage, latter having remains of timber louvers. Remains of nave walls project from tower. Round-headed entrance doorway in south side of tower flanked by round-headed shallow recess. Round-headed opening to interior gave access into nave. Set in graveyard. Rubble limestone boundary walls having double-leaf cast-iron gates to south-east.

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

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 Ballyvoddy.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyvoddy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyvoddy · Baile Átha an Mhaide

Area

1,430,547 m² (143.05 ha, 353.5 acres)

Civil parish

St. Nathlash, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Derryvillane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryvillane electoral division: 528 people in 189 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyenahan South, Ballynahalisk, Carrigleagh, Meadstown, Ransborough, Scart

Placenames

Ballyvoddy 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.