Baulbrack
Baulbrack is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Ball Breac.
- Area
- 129.2 ha
- 319 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 13,046 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Baulbrack, from 1,748 m² to 431,712 m² (43.17 ha, 106.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Baulbrack 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
2 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for Retention of works done to existing two storey dwelling house which includes construction of single and two storey extensions, internal room alterations and the upgrading of the existing septic tank and percolation area to private wastewater treatment system.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6290
22 Aug 2014Conditional
Construction of a calf/calving shed, 2 no. silage pits with aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/499
23 Jul 2014Incompleted application
Construction of a calf/calving shed, 2no. silage pits with aprons and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/444
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of cubicle shed to include slatted tanks and easy feed and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1742
5 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1280
22 May 2006Conditional
Slatted house with underground tank, ancillary concrete apron works and silage slab.
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/933
27 Jul 2005Withdrawn
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5373
28 Jan 2005Conditional
Calf shed and milking parlour
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/365
16 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5491
9 May 2001Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2597
20 Apr 2000Conditional
Dormer type dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2371
31 Mar 2000Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1871
20 Jul 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse with garage and detached stable/barn
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/3957
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 Baulbrack.
Recorded monuments
- CO082-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on edge of break in SW-facing slope. Circular area (36m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by earthen bank (int. H 1.4m). Externally bank lowest on NE side (H 1.4m) and highest to SW where natural fall of ground gives external bank height of 4.2m. External fosse survives as slight depression to N. Entrance (Wth 4m) to SSE. Interior slopes gently down to S; crossed by remains of cultivation ridges on N-S axis; rock outcrop visible in Shalf. Ringfort (CO082-075001-) c. 300m to 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Baulbrack.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Baulbrack, about 1 in 5 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 Baulbrack.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Baulbrack with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Baulbrack · An Ball Breac
- Area
- 1,291,975 m² (129.2 ha, 319.25 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Carrigboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 536 people lived in 174 households in the Carrigboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigboy, Clashbredane, Cooldorragha, Deshure, Reanacaheragh
- Placenames
- Baulbrack 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.