Billeragh East
Townland in the civil parish of Macroney, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork; in Irish An Bhiolrach Thoir
- Area
- 366.7 ha
- 906 acres
- Land parcels
- 69
- registered freehold, median 22,080 m² (2.21 ha, 5.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 25
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billeragh East, from 352 m² to 320,860 m² (32.09 ha, 79.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Billeragh East 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
17 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to construct a single storey dwellinghouse and detached single storey domestic garage, install secondary treatment unit and soil polishing filter, install bored well, new site entrance and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0976
18 Dec 2024Conditional
Permission to construct a five column shed to house two horse stables, straw & fodder and associated farm implements.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6443
26 Jun 2023Conditional
Permission to construct two livestock underpasses with effluent storage tanks and cow roadways and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5304
9 May 2023Conditional
Permission for retention of the demolition of an existing shed & cottage and the construction of a new single storey dwelling together with septic tank & percolation area; to be completed with further pipework, together with the retention of upgrade work to a slatted effluent tank.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4915
26 Aug 2020Conditional
To construct a dwellinghouse, detached garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5832
1 Oct 2019Conditional
The partial demolition of existing dwelling, the conversion of existing attic storage space to habitable living space, the construction of new extensions to west, south and east elevations of dwelling and all associated site works. Retention is being sought for the existing garage and for the increased ridge height of the existing dwelling (from that granted under Planning Reg. No. 04/4532).
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6373
14 Aug 2019Incompleted application
The partial demolition of existing dwelling, the conversion of existing attic storage space to habitable living space, the construction of new extensions to West, South & East Elevations of dwelling and all associated site works and Permission for Retention is being sought for the increased ridge height of existing dwelling (from that granted under Planning Reg. No. 04/4532).
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6034
14 Mar 2011Refused
Single storey dwellinghouse with domestic attic storage space, domestic garage, treatment unit and site access road to site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4502
30 Mar 2010Refused
Single storey dwelling house with domestic attic storage space, domestic garage, treatment unit & site access road to site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4714
2 Mar 2010Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling house with domestic attic storage space, domestic garage, treatment unit & site access road to site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4464
23 Sept 2009Conditional
Construction of detached domestic garage and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7149
29 Jul 2009Withdrawn
Construction of single storey dwelling with domestic attic storage space, domestic garage, treatment unit, entrances and access road
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6539
25 Jun 2009Incompleted application
Single storey dwelling house with domestic attic storage space, domestic garage, treatment unit and site access road to site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6079
5 Mar 2009Application finalised
Dwelling, proprietary treatment system, bored well, entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4690
2 Jul 2008Refused
Dwelling and wastewater treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7650
22 May 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of proprietary treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6851
28 Feb 2007Conditional
Dormer dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5503
15 Feb 2007Conditional
Construction of slurry store
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5105
24 Aug 2006Conditional
Demolition of derelict outbuildings, refurbishment & extensions to derelict cottage for use as dwelling to include ground and first floor extensions, new entrance and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10029
15 Aug 2006Incompleted application
Demolition of derelict outbuilding and refurbishment and ground and first floor extensions to derelict cottage for use as dwelling, new entrance and installation of proprietary treatment unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9774
17 Jul 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse and garage
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8953
13 Sept 2005Conditional
Conversion of attic and alterations to dwelling under construction
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6636
5 Jul 2005Conditional
Bungalow and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4771
22 Jun 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4532
11 Aug 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/4010
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Billeragh East.
Architectural heritage
- Church of the Immaculate Conception, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1860, facing north-east, having four-bay nave, porch to south elevation, single-bay chancel to south-west, and recent lean-to and pitched-roof sacristy extension to north-west. Pitched slate roofs with moulded brackets to eaves, limestone openwork bellcote to gable-front, and cut limestone copings. Pitched artificial slate roof with brick chimneystack to extension. Painted rendered walls with render plinth, and having cut limestone buttresses to corners of gable-front and between windows of nave. Render quoins to porch. Alternating single and double-light lancet windows to nave with chamfered limestone surrounds and latticed stained-glass windows. Five-light lancet window to gable-front, having cut limestone surround and stained glass. Pointed arch four-light window to chancel with moulded limestone surround, hood-moulding and tracered stained-glass window. Round-headed window to porch, having chamfered limestone surround and latticed stained-glass window. Pointed arch doorway to gable-front with cut limestone surround having hood moulding, and timber battened double-leaf door with ornate strap hinges. Round-headed door opening to porch with recent timber battened door. Square-profile rubble limestone piers with carved caps and having recent cast-metal gates, set to rubble limestone and sandstone boundary walls to south and rendered walls to east.
- Elizabeth's Bridge, bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch slightly hump-back limestone road bridge, built c. 1820, over River Araglin. Roughly dressed masonry walls with rendered copings to parapet walls. String course above round arch, latter having cut-stone voussoirs. Carved limestone plaque to east parapet wall.
- Araglin Cottage, house, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached house, dated 1838, comprising two-storey L-shaped block having lower one-bay porch to re-entrant corner, box-bay window to north gable, canted-bay window to east gable and wrapped around to rear by L-plan single-storey block having hexagonal turrets to opposite corners. Slate roof, pitched to north and east elevations, with rendered offset quadruple chimneystack, ornate carved limestone bracketes to eaves and carved timber bargeboards. Hipped slate roofs to lower block. Crenellations to main elevations of lower block, turrets and to bay windows and porch. Coursed cut polychrome sandstone walls giving banded appearance to main elevations, with limestone plinth and having limestone plaques to gables. Front elevations of bay windows and lower blocks have moulded stone string courses to bases of crenellated parapets. Box-bay window flanked by buttresses to front elevation. Square-headed window openings with chamfered limestone surrounds, having replacement uPVC windows to lower block and to first floor of east gable. Margined timber sliding sash windows elsewhere to gables, two-over-two pane to first floor and double-light and two-over-three pane to ground floor. Arrow slits to turrets and to corners of canted-bay window. Tudor arch entrance doorway having chamfered and moulded limestone surround, ornately carved timber panelled double-leaf door with limestone step, and having limestone plaque above set under moulded pediment supported by corbels with hand details to front faces. Square-profile rubble sandstone piers to road entrance with recent metal gates.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Billeragh East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Billeragh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Billeragh East · An Bhiolrach Thoir
- Area
- 3,666,954 m² (366.7 ha, 906.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Gortnaskehy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortnaskehy electoral division: 330 people in 106 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynamuddagh, Billeragh West, Coolapreavan (Co. Tipperary), Crinnaghtane, Glenduff, Lyre (Barry), Propoge
- Placenames
- Billeragh East 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.