Ballyisland

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyisland, from 133 m² to 232,056 m² (23.21 ha, 57.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballyisland 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.

• 11 Jul 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission to extend and refurbish an existing one and a half storey dwelling into a dormer style dwelling including; demolition of front and rear porches, proposed new side and rear extensions, a proposed new roof with increased ridge height and alterations to elevations including new dormer style windows. Permission is also sought to refurbish adjacent detached garage to be used as a garden room including alterations to elevations, minor alterations to the elevations of existing detached boat shed, to install a new domestic wastewater treatment system, improvement works to existing entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1859

• 11 Jan 2022Conditional

  Change of use of an existing agricultural building to a dwelling house including renovation, alterations and extensions to same, installation of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works. Permission is also sought for renovation of a ruinous dwelling for use as a workshop-store/plant room ancillary to the proposed dwelling, and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/8

• 10 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  Renovate and extend existing outbuilding to be used as living accommodation, install sewerage disposal and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/863

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  Permission for retention of extensions to a dwelling house; retention for study/playroom to be used as ancillary to dwelling; and retention for a Sauna and all associated site works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/428

• 25 May 2021Incompleted application

  Permission for retention for extensions to a dwelling house; Retention for study/playroom to be used as ancillary to dwelling; and Retention for Sauna

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/338

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  (1) Permission for retention of existing dwelling as constructed (2) Permission for extension to front of dwelling and permission to replace existing window with larger window incorporating door (3) Permission for retention of existing shed for uses ancillary to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/120

• 23 Apr 2008Conditional

  Dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/735

• 4 Apr 2008Incompleted application

  Dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/617

• 10 Dec 1999Refused

  Dwellinghouse, garage & biocycle treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6779

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: Lough Hyne Nature Reserve and Environs SAC 000097
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Hyne Nature Reserve And Environs 000097

Recorded monuments

• CO150-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking Lough Hyne to W; overlooked by rock outcrop and higher ground to E. Marked on OS 6-inch map (1842) as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). Levelled c. 1960: no visible surface trace. 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

• CO150-066 Standing stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, near the NW side of a NE-SW mixed pasture ridge. This standing stone (0.65m x 0.18m; H 1.58m) is rectangular in plan and is orientated NE-SW. It narrows slightly towards the top. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO150-067 Cupmarked stone
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the NW side of a ridge. Two cupmarks (diam. 0.09m; D 0.03m and diam. 0.08m; D 0.025m, respectively) are visible on the surface of an area of bedrock. There are several other unclear depressions of various sizes on the rock but these appear to be naturally occurring. 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

• Lough Ine House, hunting/fishing lodge, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former hunting lodge with full-height canted-bay, built 1830, with full-height canted bays to west elevation. Flat roofed porch addition to entrance, single-storey additions to north-east and five-bay single-storey addition to east. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks with uPVC rainwater goods. Flat roof to portico, supported by square timber columns with entablature. Pitched artificial slate roofs and flat roofs to additions. Painted rendered walls. Paired round-headed and square-headed openings with replacement single, bipartite and tripartite one-over-one and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows, retaining internal shutters. Round-headed opening to east elevation having one-over-one timber fixed pane French windows with fanlight. Round-headed door opening with replacement timber glazed door and paired round-headed overlights. Square-headed door openings with replacement timber battened doors. Former outbuildings to south-east. Detached two-bay two-storey gate lodge to north having pitched artificial slate roof, rubble stone walls with canted-bay and square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and door.

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 Ballyisland, 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 Ballyisland.

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

Name

Ballyisland · Baile an Oileáin

Area

429,017 m² (42.9 ha, 106.01 acres)

Civil parish

Creagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (East Division)

Electoral division

Castlehaven South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 193 households in the Castlehaven South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 28% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyally, Ballyoughtera, Dromadoon, Lahernathee

Placenames

Ballyisland 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.