Ballyvorane

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvorane, from 1,008 m² to 234,432 m² (23.44 ha, 57.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Ballyvorane 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.

• 28 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, 26/2253

• 5 Jun 2026Application withdrawn

  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, 26/1502

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a single dwelling house, the upgrading of an existing site entrance, the installation of a private well, the installation of a wastewater treatment unit and associated soil polishing filter, and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4594

• 4 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Raising levels of poor agricultural land with inert soil/rock and topsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5840

• 2 Nov 2007Refused

  Raising the levels of poor land to improve agricultural output by placing on site of surplus construction materials i.e. inert soil/rock and topsoil

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12104

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 Ballyvorane.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyvorane.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvorane.

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 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 Ballyvorane.

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 Ballyvorane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballyvorane · Baile Uí Bhioráin

Area

708,536 m² (70.85 ha, 175.08 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyfoyle, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Nohaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Nohaval electoral division: 345 people in 113 households; 86% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindeasig, Ballyvorane North, Ballyvorane South, Farranbrien West

Placenames

Ballyvorane 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.