Ballyknock
Ballyknock is a townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chnoic.
Parcel 2265703
- Area
- 20,082 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres)
- Buildings
- 6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,211 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
- Ballyknock
Planning applications on this parcel
7 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling, waste water treatment unit, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4171
20 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6492
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.
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
- 66.7 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 20,082 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 1,425 m² to 294,427 m² (29.44 ha, 72.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknock 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Feb 2025Conditional
Permission for construction of a dwelling, waste water treatment unit, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4171
20 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6492
7 Mar 2017Conditional
Retention of attic conversion. Installation of 1 no. rooflight on the existing front elevation and 2 no. rooflights on the existing rear elevation to existing dwelling hosue and for a detached domestic garage as constructed and Permission for 3 no. new first floor gable windows rear & side elevations of existing dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4527
1 May 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/7443
23 Mar 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/6384
20 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/5251
11 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10503
6 May 2004Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/3063
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 Ballyknock.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyknock.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknock.
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 Ballyknock, 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 the townland of Ballyknock.
- 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 Ballyknock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 666,868 m² (66.69 ha, 164.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 750 people lived in 245 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinteosig, Ballymackibbot, Knockgorm, Monavarnoge
- Placenames
- Ballyknock 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.