Ballyvolock

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvolock, from 222 m² to 177,835 m² (17.78 ha, 43.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvolock 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.

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  Retention of extension to side of dwelling house and attached garage/store as constructed (for uses incidental to the use and enjoyment of the dwelling), and permission for new treatment system and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6815

• 16 May 2017Conditional

  The development will consist of the demolition of the existing sheds and construct a two storey dormer dwelling with new sewage treatment plant and percolation area, alterations to the existing entrance, landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5203

• 12 Oct 2015Conditional

  Demolition of existing single storey detached storage shed and the construction of a new single storey extension to the eastern gable of the existing detached single storey dwelling with converted attic and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6276

• 12 Mar 2012Conditional

  Installation of 2 no. velux roof lights to front of roof of existing dwelling and extension to existing detached garage on site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4454

• 23 Dec 2009Conditional

  Demolition of existing derelict cottage and construction of dormer dwelling in place of it, to connect with existing septic tank and to carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8073

• 24 Aug 2007Withdrawn

  Installation of additional septic tank to rear of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10516

• 10 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Installation of additional septic tank to connect to the existing percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9473

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of 2 no. pig fattening houses with underground slurry tanks and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9147

• 18 Apr 2007Conditional

  Retention of renovations and extensions to dwelling including new roof, 7 no. velux windows, first floor and ground floor extensions, installation of septic tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7094

• 17 Apr 2007Incompleted application

  Replace existing septic tank and percolation area with a wastewater treatment unit and new irrigation area to serve existing dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7072

• 12 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construction of livestock housing, silage slab, dairy wash tank, concrete apron and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6955

• 29 Mar 2007Conditional

  Change of use of silage slab to loose house, construction of dairy washings/soiled water tank, silage slab, concrete apron and animal house incorporating slatted tank, feed rail and feed passage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6581

• 14 Dec 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse and detached garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/13309

• 15 Sept 2004Conditional

  Alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7011

• 20 Apr 2004Conditional

  Renovations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2623

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 Ballyvolock.

Recorded monuments

• CO027-155 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. Recorded as mound of burnt material (Lehane 1988, 83). No visible surface trace. Second fulacht fiadh (10258) immediately to W. One of a group of 10 fulachta fiadh (10256; 10257; 10258; 10259; 10260; 10261; 10262; 10729; 10264). 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

• Ballyvolock House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, facing south, having gable-fronted east end bay, four-bay east elevation, single-bay two-storey additions to north-east and to re-entrant angle at rear, with recent glazed porch to front elevation. Pitched slate roof with decorative cast-metal valence to front elevation, and rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course. Blank lancet with sill to gable-fronted end bay. Square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows, one-over-one pane to front and east elevations, tripartite to front east end bay, double three-over-three pane to north gable and two-over-two pane to re-entrant addition, all with painted render sills. Square-headed entrance doorway with replacement half-glazed timber panelled door, overlight and sidelights. Recent square-profile piers to road entrance at north.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyvolock, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvolock.

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.

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

Name

Ballyvolock · Baile Bhólac

Area

596,691 m² (59.67 ha, 147.45 acres)

Civil parish

Glanworth, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Glanworth East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 156 households in the Glanworth East electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclogh, Ballynahow (Spiers), Downing North, Downing South

Placenames

Ballyvolock 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.