Ballyvorisheen

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvorisheen, from 36 m² to 484,093 m² (48.41 ha, 119.62 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 Ballyvorisheen 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.

• 23 Oct 2019Conditional

  Demolish existing dwellinghouse and out buildings, and construct a new dwellinghouse, together with an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6545

• 4 Dec 2006Conditional

  Construction of overground slurry tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12915

• 1 Jul 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4979

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 Ballyvorisheen.

Recorded monuments

• CO077-008001 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In pasture, to N of Castlemartyr to Killeagh road. Low, oval mound (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. H 0.5m); stones partially exposed in SE quadrant, appear to form three sides of square (1.2m x 1.2m). According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, discovered cist (CO077-008002-) with larger cover stone containing two human skeletons. One of three tumuli in same townland; other two (CO077-00901-; CO077-010---) c. 400m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO077-008002 Cist
  Description

  In pasture, to N of Castlemartyr to Killeagh road. Low, oval mound (6m N-S; 4m E-W; max. H 0.5m); stones partially exposed in SE quadrant, appear to form three sides of square (1.2m x 1.2m). According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, discovered cist (CO077-008002-) with larger cover stone containing two human skeletons. One of three tumuli in same townland; other two (CO077-00901-; CO077-010---) c. 400m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO077-009001 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In pasture, atop hillock. Levelled; Windele (Borlase 1897, 14) gives brief description and sketch of tumulus containing 'a large cist in the centre'. According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, uncovered large stone cist 'eight feet square', containing large quantities of human bones; smaller 'stone chest' in same mound also contained two human skeletons and a third (18 inches square) contained 'slack lime'; cists broken up but bones 'replaced in their old sites'. One of three tumuli in same townland; one in same field (CO077-010---) 150m to ENE, second (CO077-00801-) lies 350m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO077-009002 Cist
  Description

  In pasture, atop hillock. Levelled; Windele (Borlase 1897, 14) gives brief description and sketch of tumulus containing 'a large cist in the centre'. According to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, uncovered large stone cist [CO077-009002-] 'eight feet square', containing large quantities of human bones; smaller 'stone chest' in same mound also contained two human skeletons and a third (18 inches square) contained 'slack lime'; cists broken up but bones 'replaced in their old sites'. One of three tumuli in same townland; one in same field (CO077-010---) 150m to ENE, second (CO077-00801-) lies 350m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO077-010 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  In pasture, atop hillock. Levelled; according to Fitzgerald (1858, 12), farmer, while levelling mound, discovered cist with large cover stone containing two human skeletons. One of three tumuli in same townland; second (CO077-00901-) lies 150m to WSW and third (CO077-00801-) lies 500m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Ballyvorisheen.

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 Ballyvorisheen, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1505 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyvorisheen · Baile Mhuirisín

Area

493,458 m² (49.35 ha, 121.94 acres)

Civil parish

Mogeely, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Mogeely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

781 people lived in 253 households in the Mogeely electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindinis, Carrignashinny, Clasharinka, Garranejames, Lismalaghlin

Placenames

Ballyvorisheen 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.