Shanballymore Lower
Shanballymore Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Templeroan, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Seanbhaile Mór Íochtarach.
Parcel 2199077
- Area
- 1,947 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 194 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Shanballymore Lower
Planning applications on this parcel
25 Feb 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/1152
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 100.6 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 2,269 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- G4
- Green Infrastructure
- Planning
- 39
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanballymore Lower, from 15 m² to 295,279 m² (29.53 ha, 72.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 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
24 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Intend to apply on behalf of Shanballymore GAA Club Planning Permission for the construction of sports facilities at Shanballymore GAA Club, Shanballymore Lower, Mallow, Co. Cork. The proposed development will consist of: A) Construction of an artificial grass playing area. B) Including new dugouts, floodlighting, ball-stop netting, electronic scoreboard, covered viewing stand and perimeter fencing to all playing areas. C) Construction of a single-storey gym building. D) Alterations to the existing club building. E) Alterations to the existing looped amenity walkway. F) Construction of a generator enclosure and associated fencing. G) Construction of 2 no. ball walls. H) All associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1976
28 Nov 2024Conditional permission
Permission for the construction of 5 no. dwelling houses and 5 no. residential serviced sites, pumping station, and all associated ancillary site development works including footpaths, roads, lighting, amenity areas, drainage, landscaping, parking and alterations to the front boundary. Vehicular and pedestrian access serving the development will be facilitated via the L-1234.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6253
23 Jun 2023Conditional
1) Demolish existing buildings on site and 2) Construct 5 nr dwelling houses consisting of 2 x 2 storey dwelling houses and 3 x single storey dwelling house, complete with services, boundary treatments and all ancillary site works, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5282
3 Oct 2022Withdrawn
Planning permission to 1) Demolish existing buildings on site and 2) Construct 5 nr dwelling houses consisting of 4 x 2 storey dwelling houses and 1 x single storey dwelling house, complete with services, boundary treatments and all ancillary site works, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6216
30 Aug 2022Incompleted application
Planning permission to 1) Demolish existing buildings on site, more particularly 1 public house and 1 dwelling house and 2) Construct 5 nr dwelling houses consisting of 4 x 2 storey dwelling houses and 1 x single storey dwelling house, complete with services, boundary treatments and all ancillary site works, all in accordance with plans and particulars submitted.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5972
7 Mar 2022Conditional
Permission for Retention and the continuance of use of an existing Pre school classroom permitted under Planning Reference 16/7097 and for Permission for Retention of a change of use of an existing unit from a pre school classroom previously permitted under Planning Reference 15/6787 to an Office and Administrative Store ancillary to the existing Pre school units and all associated services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4486
26 Jun 2018Conditional
1) Construct an amenity pathway including all associated lighting, 2) construct a new service road including alterations to existing vehicular entrance gate, 3) new boundary treatments and 4) alterations to existing pedestrian gate to serve new amenity pathway.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5648
12 Dec 2016Conditional
Retention of 1 No. stand alone timber cladded pre-school classroom and all associated services.
Retention · Cork County Council, 16/7097
9 Dec 2015Conditional
Retention of: 1 no. stand alone prefab pre-school classroom, 1 no. stand alone timber cladded pre-school classroom and for a lobby extension to existing separate pre-school classroom unit and all associated services
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6787
2 Jun 2015Conditional
Retention of two-storey detached garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5147
5 May 2015Incompleted application
Retention of a two-storey detached garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4915
5 Mar 2014Conditional
Construction of a new wall for GAA training purposes and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/4438
24 Apr 2013Conditional
Erection of resource room extension to national school and installation of new roof lights
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4755
22 Mar 2013Incompleted application
Construction of resource room extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4490
9 Feb 2011Conditional
Dwellinghouse, domestic garage and associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4226
9 Feb 2011Conditional
Alterations to boundaries and relocation of existing permitted treatment unit and percolation area (previously granted under Planning Reg. No. 09/6531) to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4220
29 Jul 2009Conditional
Installation of bio-cycle treatment unit & percolation area to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6531
9 Dec 2008Conditional
Sunroom Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10026
7 Nov 2008Conditional
Construction of sunroom extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9596
15 Feb 2008Withdrawn
Demolition of existing garage and construction of 2 no. dwellinghouses
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4797
30 Oct 2007Conditional
Retention of store room and car port
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12002
13 Nov 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/12215
29 Jun 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8509
27 Jun 2006Conditional
Construction of conservatory extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8418
28 Mar 2006Conditional
Alterations, extension and change of use of garage to pre school
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5913
The 25 most recent of 39 applications.
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Below Doneraile) 000074
Recorded monuments
- CO018-068 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, on W-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Bivallate circular enclosure visible as cropmark of two banks, intervening fosse and external fosse in aerial photograph (CUCAP; AYP 89). 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
- CO018-115001 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of large complex enclosure visible in aerial photographs (CASAP, July 1989; CUCAP, AYP91). Central cropmark of fosse of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by second spiralling fosse which is in turn enclosed by outer oval fosse (diam. c. 150m). Area between two outer fosses and area of overlap of spiral fosse divided radially into small fields. Cropmark of possible ringfort (13171) to S in area between two outer fosses. Linear cropmarks adjacent to site may be levelled field boundaries. Very similar in morphology and size to early ecclesiastical enclosures at Bawnmore North (13876), Killeenemer (13882) and Lag (13889). 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
- CO018-115002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Within enclosure (CO018-11501-). Cropmark of levelled bank and external fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). 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
- CO026-007 Castle - unclassified
Description
In level pasture, c. 120m N of Awbeg River and c. 200m W of Shanballymore House. No structure survives, only concentration of uncut stones partially obscured by vegetation; no evidence of foundations. 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
- CO026-008 Mill - unclassified
Description
On N bank of Awbeg River. Three-storey rectangular mill (9.13m E-W; 5.6m N-S) of random-rubble limestone construction, built against S-facing slope. Broad low gable atop N and S walls. Interior empty shell. Wheel-pit (Wth 2.45m) contained within building on S side, accommodated by semicircular-arched opening in E and W walls. Second floor door on N elevation probably connected to higher ground on that side by wooden bridge. According to local information, mill never used as it was too close to Dannanstown Mills (15212) c. 300m to E. Not shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map; indicated on 1905 OS 6-inch map, but not named. 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
- CO026-132 Country house
Description
Two-storey house of 18th/early 19th-century appearance; occupied. Entrance front (S) of 5 bays, central elliptically headed door ope, modern windows. Gable-ended with attic windows, chimney on gables. Central gabled projection to rear, enveloped in lean-to addition extending full width of house. Large stepped chimney stack, protruding from W end of addition, possible remains of earlier structure. 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
Architectural heritage
- Church of Christ the King, church/chapel, 1930–1935 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted church on elevated site, built 1933, facing north. Four-bay nave elevations, single-bay chancel to south, sacristy to south-east, and lean-to porch entrance to north side of east transept. Pitched slate roof having concrete bellcote with metal cross finial to north gable, and metal cross finials to other gables. Snecked squared limestone walls, using stones from Buttevant military barracks chapel, with cut limestone plinth and having moulded cut-stone kneelers to corners. Corner buttresses to north and south gables, with inscribed stone to north-east buttress with datestone. Pointed arch window openings using combination of chamfered stone and concrete and having small leaded stained glass windows. Triple-light windows to chancel, transepts and gable-front, having stained-glass windows to nave and chancel. Pointed arch entrance doorway with chamfered surround, hood-moulding, relieving arch above and timber battened double-leaf door with strap hinges, flanked by pointed arch openings with leaded windows. Pointed arch door opening to porch with timber battened door. Open scissors-truss timber roof to interior, supported on corbels. Glazed timber internal porch screen with carved timber gallery. Pointed chancel arch and two-bay pointed arcades to transepts. Cast-iron railing from now demolished early nineteenth-century church relocated to front of church at bottom of concrete steps.
- Shanballymore House, farmyard complex, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Farmyard complex, built c. 1790, comprising L-plan multiple-bay two-storey range, with four-bay single-storey to west. Pitched slate roofs with corrugated-iron to end bays of two-storey section and to addition, having limestone open-work bellcote over central archway, and rubble limestone chimneystack. Rubble limestone masonry walls. Square-headed window openings with fixed timber boarding to first floor, and latticed windows to ground floor with dressed limestone voussoirs. Segmental-headed door openings with dressed limestone voussoirs. Segmental-headed central vehicular archway with cut limestone voussoirs. Segmental-headed vehicular entrances to addition, with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs. Square-headed openings to extension, one with timber battened door. Pair of ashlar limestone square-profile piers to road entrance with decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates, set into painted rendered walls terminating in second pair of rendered piers.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Shanballymore Lower, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Shanballymore Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Shanballymore Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Shanballymore Lower · An Seanbhaile Mór Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,005,860 m² (100.59 ha, 248.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeroan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Shanballymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 662 people lived in 238 households in the Shanballymore electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygriggan, Carrigaunroe, Carrigleagh, Dannanstown, Shanballymore Upper
- Placenames
- Shanballymore Lower 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.