Ballincolly
Townland in the civil parish of Hackmys, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Chollaigh
- Area
- 126.6 ha
- 313 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 2,678 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincolly, from 11 m² to 218,011 m² (21.8 ha, 53.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Feb 2025Conditional permission
Permission for Retention to retain the following:- (a) Site floodlighting, (b) 2 no. ancillary single storey maintenance buildings, (c) 1 no. mobile tent structure for storage of battery powered lift machines, (d) Increase in concrete hardstanding area inside gated entrance and along north-east boundary and its use as an ancillary outdoor storage area and (e) All associated site works. Permission for the provision of a washdown separator to the existing power wash bay located on the extended concrete hardstanding.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4252
20 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Retention Planning Permission is sought to retain the following (a) Site floodlighting, (b) 2 No. ancillary single storey maintenance buildings, (c) 1 no. mobile tent structure for storage of battery powered lift machines, (d) Increase in concrete hardstanding area inside gated entrance and along north-east boundary and its use as an ancillary outdoor storage area and (e) All associated site works. Planning is also sought for the provision of a washdown separator to the existing power wash bay located on the extended concrete hardstanding.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6495
9 Oct 2023Conditional
the decommissioning of existing septic tank system and the installation of a new replacement packaged wastewater unit with tertiary treatment filter and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360737
27 Mar 2023Incompleted application
Construction of extension to existing industrial unit and all associated site works - Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No.15/4135
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 23/4545
12 May 2021Conditional
To construct a new light industrial unit (for plant hire business) to include a two storey section to the front of the building which will consist of ancillary plant and tool hire shop and office space on the ground floor and storage/office space on the first floor and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5295
2 Jul 2018Conditional
a new single storey dwelling, on-site waste water treatment system and polishing filter, enlargement of existing agricultural entrance, drive-way and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18670
19 Jan 2018Conditional
Construction of extension to existing industrial unit and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4135
4 Sept 2017Withdrawn
Construction of storage building attached to existing storage building for storage of electro-mechanical valves for use in dairy and pharmaceutical industry and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6287
9 Aug 2017Incompleted application
Construction of extension to side of existing storage building and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6067
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 Ballincolly.
Recorded monuments
- LI047-056 Hearth
Description
In pasture 400m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Garryderk North. Not depicted on OSi historic mapping. Hearth excavated in 1986 by Margaret Gowen on the Goatisland-Mallow gas pipeline where the monument was listed in Appendix 1 as site 1/6/1 (Gowen 1986,179). According to Gowen; ‘The remains indicated that the hearth was likely to represent a once off burning rather than having been in continuous use’. Monument has been fully excavated and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 30 August 2021
- LI047-096 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed pasture 340m W of a local road that marks the townland boundary with Garrynderk North. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible enclosure from aerial photographs (ASIAP). Visible as roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 27m) defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 20 August 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballincolly.
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 low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_938 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballincolly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballincolly · Baile an Chollaigh
- Area
- 1,265,814 m² (126.58 ha, 312.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Hackmys, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Colmanswell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Colmanswell electoral division: 535 people in 202 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagoul, Ballysallagh (Co. Cork), Garrynderk North, Garrynderk South, Rathgoggan Middle (Co. Cork), Rathgoggan North (Co. Cork)
- Placenames
- Ballincolly 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.