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Balteen

Balteen is a townland in the civil parish of Skull, barony of Carbery West (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Bailtín.

Parcel 2225462

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BalteenDrinaneLeamcon
100 m
15 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0
Area
4,282 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
Buildings
2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 168 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
Balteen

Planning applications on this parcel

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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.

Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.

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
41.1 ha
102 acres
Land parcels
12
registered freehold, median 5,801 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres)
Zoning
G3
Greenbelt1
Planning
13
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BalteenDrinaneCaheraviraneLeamconKnockKilpatrick
500 m
25 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balteen, from 188 m² to 208,036 m² (20.8 ha, 51.41 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balteen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balteen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balteen, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
Terrain model
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Balteen.
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 Balteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

The townland

Name
Balteen · An Bailtín
Area
411,096 m² (41.11 ha, 101.58 acres)
Civil parish
Skull, and its townlands
Barony
Carbery West (West Division)
Electoral division
Lowertown, the unit of the census
Census 2022
244 people lived in 102 households in the Lowertown electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Caheravirane, Drinane, Kilpatrick, Knock, Leamcon
Placenames
Balteen 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.