Ballyroon

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroon, from 29 m² to 240,559 m² (24.06 ha, 59.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballyroon 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.

• 3 Mar 2023Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house and for associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/115

• 13 May 2019Conditional

  Construct a dwellinghouse and a store, install a waste water treatment plant and undertake all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/317

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  Permission for (a) Demolish existing porch to Southern elevation, (b) Construction of single storey extensions to the South, East and North elevations, (c) Decommission existing septic tank treatment system and replace with a new package wastewater treatment system and associated polishing filter along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/449

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  Construct a cattle house with slatted slurry tank and carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/267

• 1 Mar 2016Conditional

  Construct an agricultural building consisting of slatted house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/115

• 11 Jan 2016Withdrawn

  Construct an agricultural building consisting of a slatted house and all assoicated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/8

• 27 Aug 2009Incompleted application

  1. Construct 3no. single storey extensions; porch extension to front, sunroom to side and kitchen extension to side of existing dwellinghouse, 2. Construct a storey and half extension to the rear of the existing dwellinghouse, 3. Demolish existing ancillary store and existing adjacent store, 4. Fenestration changes to front elevation to incorporate the construction of 3no. dormer windows, 5. Alterations to existing dwellinghouse and to raise existing eaves and ridge levels, 6. Construct a new septic tank and percolation area, access road and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/958

• 14 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Construction of extensions to existing dwellinghouse, retention permission for existing extension and upgrading of drainage with mini treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1502

• 27 Apr 2001Conditional

  Retention of dormer bungalow (change of plan & site layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/2358

• 13 Apr 2000Refused

  Dormer dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/2159

• 15 Oct 1999Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/5615

• 19 Mar 1998Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 98/1047

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: Sheep's Head SAC 000102
• Special Protection Area: Sheep's Head to Toe Head SPA 004156
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheep's Head 000102

Recorded monuments

• CO138-027 Enclosure
  Description

  In a rough pasture hollow between gorse and heather-covered ridges. A D-shaped area (7m N-S) with the straight side at N (L 6m) is defined by the base of outcropping rock at N and elsewhere by the remains of a roughly constructed drystone wall (T 0.55m; H 0.6m) of mainly large stones. Rubble is scattered in the interior and along the perimeter. The entire enclosure is obscured by a dense overgrowth of gorse, heather and ferns. 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

• House, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with recent porch to front (south) and lean-to extension to rear (north). Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement two-over-two timber sliding sash windows with concrete sills. Rubble stone boundary walls and outbuildings to rear.

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 Ballyroon, 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 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 Ballyroon.

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

Name

Ballyroon · Baile Eiriúin

Area

475,643 m² (47.56 ha, 117.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Sheepshead, the unit of the census

Census 2022

198 people lived in 82 households in the Sheepshead electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherurlagh, Laharandota, Letter Lower, Letter West, Reagh

Placenames

Ballyroon 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.