Ballynaskeha
Ballynaskeha is a townland in the civil parish of Lisgoold, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile na Sceiche.
Parcel 2268890
- Area
- 955 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballynaskeha
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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.
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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
- 75.7 ha
- 187 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaskeha, from 114 m² to 585,175 m² (58.52 ha, 144.6 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 Ballynaskeha 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
11 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4671
21 Feb 2025Refused
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4277
5 Sept 2024Refused
A 10 Year planning permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 179 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 25no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 3 no. single storey spare parts containers, 3 no. Ring Main Units, 7 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L7691 and L7692 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 7 no. stream/drain deck crossings, temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be 4 no. entrances from the R626, L7691 and L7692. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5630
17 Jun 2021Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5682
8 Feb 2021Withdrawn
Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4269
30 Dec 2020Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/7007
6 Dec 2019Refused
Construct an 82 bedroom/en-suite single storey nursing home with enclosed landscaped courtyards and with associated offices, toilets, chapel, plant room, kitchen, dining, cold room, recreation room, nurses stations, sun rooms, bored well with associated primary and secondary water storage tanks for fire fighting, 92 car parking spaces, treatment unit, vehicular entrance and all associated site works.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 19/6925
19 May 2017Refused
Two mobile homes (1 for living and 1 for domestic storage), domestic vehicular entrance, screen fencing and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5248
24 Nov 2016Conditional
To replace existing single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse by constructing a new extension to dwelling, partly single storey and partly 2 storey, to erect a porch to front door of existing dwellinghouse, to construct a new road boundary retaining wall along part of the western boundary, and to carry out all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6920
20 Jun 2014Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, sewage treatment system and all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5325
4 Jun 2014Incompleted application
Construction of new dwelling, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, sewage treatment system & all other associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5187
28 Jun 2007Conditional
Constructuion of livestock housing with easy feed passage, slatted slurry tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9078
7 Oct 2005Refused
24 no. dwellinghouses with garages and sewage treatment plant and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/7352
19 May 2005Conditional
Demolition of cottage and construction of new dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3420
17 Oct 2003Refused
Dormer dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/5191
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 Ballynaskeha.
Recorded monuments
- CO064-038 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as broken line enclosing circular area (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 182), 'lios of circular plan and moderate size, but this has been levelled'. 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 Ballynaskeha.
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 Ballynaskeha, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynaskeha.
- 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 Ballynaskeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynaskeha · Baile na Sceiche
- Area
- 757,387 m² (75.74 ha, 187.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lisgoold, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Lisgoold, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,113 people lived in 343 households in the Lisgoold electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyleagh, Ballynabrannagh East, Ballysallagh, Clash West, Corballybane, Glengarriff More, Leamlara
- Placenames
- Ballynaskeha 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.