# Byblox, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Bhioblógaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 408,454 m² (40.85 ha, 100.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,741 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G3 Greenbelt1, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Doneraile, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/doneraile.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Doneraile, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,555 people lived in 599 households in the Doneraile electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11794 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41138 - Centre: latitude 52.222316, longitude -8.596863 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Byblox, from 947 m² to 378,819 m² (37.88 ha, 93.61 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5948871: 378,819 m² (37.88 ha, 93.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5948871.md - Parcel 2322589: 127,927 m² (12.79 ha, 31.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2322589.md - Parcel 5948853: 14,647 m² (1.46 ha, 3.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5948853.md - Parcel 2216422: 4,932 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216422.md - Parcel 2273520: 4,550 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273520.md - Parcel 5948858: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5948858.md - Parcel 2216423: 2,020 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216423.md - Parcel 2273519: 947 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273519.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 12 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf - G4 Green Infrastructure (Active open space): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 29 Apr 2011, Cork County Council 11/4935: Conditional. Permission. Construction of machinery shed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=11/4935 - 26 May 2010, Cork County Council 10/5295: Conditional. Permission. Retention of the south gable of the existing church as constructed and completion of works to same and ancillary site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/5295 - 19 Apr 2010, Cork County Council 10/4912: Incompleted application. Permission. Retention of the south gable of the existing church as constructed, completion of works to same church, and non-compliance with condition no.1 of planning ref.no. 07/7554 (namely demolition of convent building). File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=10/4912 - 4 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/7554: Conditional. Permission. Alterations, extensions and conversion of existing convent building to residential development of 7 no. townhouses, provision of car parking and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/7554 - 4 May 2005, Cork County Council 05/2982: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of dwellinghouse and demolition of 'Old Convent School House' and permission for construction of 15 no. dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/2982 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Above Doneraile), site code 000075 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO017-079: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-079----. In tillage, on gentle E-facing slope, below crest of hill and c. 100m W of Awbeg River. Byblox House, now demolished, once stood c. 400m to SE. Depicted as enclosed irregularly shaped area, planted with trees on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Cropmark of bivallate circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CASAP). 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Byblox House, gates/railings/walls, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 20808036, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20808036. Gates to Byblox House, built c. 1790, house now demolished. Comprising coursed limestone rubble S-curved entrance walls terminating in vehicular gates flanked by pedestrian gates. Square-plan ashlar flat-topped piers with plinths and moulded copings, and having urns to outer piers. Single- and double-leaf decorative wrought-iron gates. Ruins of three-bay single-storey gate lodge to west, having red brick chimneystack, rendered limestone rubble walls, and square-headed window and door openings. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Byblox, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Byblox. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/byblox.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/byblox.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/byblox.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Byblox with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carrigeen: https://everytownland.com/cork/carrigeen-41339.md - Doneraile: https://everytownland.com/cork/doneraile.md - Horseclose: https://everytownland.com/cork/horseclose.md - Oldcourt: https://everytownland.com/cork/oldcourt-44587.md - Richardstown: https://everytownland.com/cork/richardstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/byblox - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/byblox