Billeragh

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billeragh, from 432 m² to 444,244 m² (44.42 ha, 109.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Billeragh 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.

• 13 Mar 2008Conditional

  Construction of a conservatory to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/470

• 18 Feb 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of conservatory to existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/287

• 26 Apr 2007Conditional

  Retention of change to window design; retention of conversion of attic space to living accommodation and installation of 6no. roof lights to rear elevation; permission for construction of detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1112

• 4 Mar 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and new site entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1278

• 28 Nov 2002Conditional

  Alterations & extensions to dwelling & installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5253

• 9 Nov 2001Conditional

  Alterations, refurbishment and extensions to dwellinghouse and installation to septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6150

• 9 Oct 2000New application

  Installation of septic tank to serve existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6067

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kenmare River SAC 002158
• Special Protection Area: Beara Peninsula SPA 004155
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Garinish Point 001986

Recorded monuments

• CO126-031 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  The stone (H 0.4m; 0.25m x 0.15m) is cemented onto a stone wall. It has a lip around its base and a rounded head, underneath which is a hollowed angle. It narrows towards the top but there is a slight ridge around its midpoint. Locally it is considered to represent the human form and it is known as 'the holy stone' or 'the godstone'. A coffin-resting stone (CO126-031001-) lies c. 70m to the E. (O'Shea and Crowley 1972, 91) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO126-031001 Coffin-resting stone
  Description

  On the S side of a road which leads to Dursey Sound. A flat-topped boulder (2m N-S; 1.2m E-W; H 0.7m) on which coffins were temporarily rested during funeral processions to the now closed burial ground (CO126-013----) c. 300m to the SW in Ballaghboy. A holy stone (CO126-031----) lies c. 70m to the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Billeragh, 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 high, 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 Billeragh.

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

Name

Billeragh · An Bhiolrach

Area

908,888 m² (90.89 ha, 224.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Bear

Electoral division

Kilnamanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

380 people lived in 153 households in the Kilnamanagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Garinish

Placenames

Billeragh 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.