Ballyhigeen

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhigeen, from 5,242 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres) to 87,486 m² (8.75 ha, 21.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballyhigeen 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.

• 26 Jan 2016Conditional

  Renovation of farmhouse, including demolition of existing kitchen and W.C. to rear and adjoining outhouse to east side of existing house; construction of extension to rear and east side of house; incorporation of existing adjoining outhouse at west side into dwelling house living space; alterations to elevations; provision of new wastewater treatment installation and associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/43

• 18 Jan 2016Incompleted application

  Renovation of farmhouse, including demolition of existing kitchen and W.C. to rear and adjoining outhouse to east side of exisitng house; construction of extension to rear and east side of house; incorporation of existing adjoining outhouse at west side into dwelling house living space; alterations to elevations; provision of new wastewater treatment installation and assocaited siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/19

• 17 Dec 2015Incompleted application

  Renovation of farmhouse, including demolition of existing kitchen and W.C. to rear and adjoining outhouse to side of existing house; construction of extension to side and rear of house; alterations to elevations; demolition of detached outhouses; provision of new wastewater treatment installation and associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/712

• 12 Sept 2006Conditional

  Steel slurry storage tank on concrete base

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1834

• 11 Aug 2006Incompleted application

  Steel Slurry Storage tank on concrete base

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1633

• 23 Nov 2001Conditional

  Alterations,partial demolition of dwelling/loft and construction of porch and two storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6402

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 the townland of Ballyhigeen.

Recorded monuments

• CO136-036 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on steep S-facing slope. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m); more rectangular on 1902 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace. All adjoining field fences have been removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhigeen.

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 Ballyhigeen, about 1 in 10 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 the townland of Ballyhigeen.

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

Name

Ballyhigeen · Baile Thaidhgín

Area

230,373 m² (23.04 ha, 56.93 acres)

Civil parish

Lislee, and its townlands

Barony

Ibane and Barryroe

Electoral division

Butlerstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

458 people lived in 149 households in the Butlerstown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agha, Ballycardeen, Barreragh, Curraheen, Lisleetemple

Placenames

Ballyhigeen 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.