Ballytrasna
Ballytrasna is a townland in the civil parish of Castlelyons, barony of Barrymore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Baile Trasna.
Parcel 2272020
- Area
- 313 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 21 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
- Ballytrasna
Planning applications on this parcel
8 Feb 2006Conditional
Retention of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4647
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
- 169.2 ha
- 418 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 2,273 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytrasna, from 313 m² to 417,941 m² (41.79 ha, 103.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballytrasna 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
8 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission to demolish calf shed and permission to construct a cattle shed with slatted tank, straw bedded shed with slatted tank, extension to cubicle house, roof over existing soiled yard, effluent tank and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5814
14 Jul 2025Incompleted application
Permission to demolish calf shed and permission to construct a cattle shed with slatted tank, straw bedded shed with slatted tank, extension to cubicle house, roof over existing soiled yard, effluent tank and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5412
3 Aug 2023Conditional
Permission for retention of the following; dormer dwelling house, vehicular entrance, site boundary treatments, 4 no. outbuildings comprising detached garage, domestic shed, greenhouse and general purpose outhouse, all as constructed and permission for new treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5584
1 Apr 2022Conditional
Construction of detached domestic garage to include home office/gym/utility store (for uses incidental to the enjoyment of the dwelling house) and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4708
9 Mar 2022Incompleted application
Construction of detached domestic garage and all ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4505
16 Oct 2018Conditional
To alter front elevation of dwelling by removing dormer window and installing roof light in its place and construct porch to front elevation
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6737
1 Mar 2017Conditional
Retention of changes to external fenestration on ground floor of existing dwellinghouse, removal of existing chimney and addition of new chimney to western elevation, permission for construction of sunroom extension to western elevation and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4461
16 Feb 2015Conditional
Construction of dwelling house, detached garage, septic tank and percolation area, vehicular entrance and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4286
23 Oct 2014Unconditional
Widening of existing farm entrance, construction of a calf house, roofed feed areas, milking parlour, drafting/crush facilities, dairy washings tank, out-wintering pad, lagoon, machinery shed/feed store, silage slab, concrete apron and associated concrete works, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 09/6690 and An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. Pl 04.235643
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/6271
11 Aug 2009Conditional
Widening of existing farm entrance, construction of a calf house, roofed feed areas, milking parlour, drafting/crush facilities, dairy washings tank, out-wintering pad, lagoon, machinery shed/feed store, silage slab, concrete apron and associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6690
17 Nov 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse and wastewater treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9710
24 Oct 2008Refused
Widening of existing farm entrance, construction of a calf house, roofed feed areas, milking parlour, drafting/crush facilities, dairy washings tank, out-wintering pad, lagoon, machinery shed/feed store, silage slab, concrete apron & associated concrete works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9431
21 Dec 2007Refused
Dwellinghouse and associated site works including new septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13314
28 Nov 2007Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse & associated site works, including new septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12693
8 Feb 2006Conditional
Retention of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4647
6 Jul 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4785
26 Nov 2003Conditional
Dwelling, domestic garage and effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6002
29 Apr 2003Conditional
Bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1993
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 Ballytrasna.
Recorded monuments
- CO036-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 42m) enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (H 1.2m). Entrance (Wth 6m) to NE; ruined limekiln in bank to SE. 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 Ballytrasna.
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 Ballytrasna, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballytrasna.
- 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 Ballytrasna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballytrasna · An Baile Trasna
- Area
- 1,691,788 m² (169.18 ha, 418.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlelyons, and its townlands
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Electoral division
- Coole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,210 people lived in 405 households in the Coole electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghern East, Aghern West, Ballymurphy Upper, Kilmagner, Towermore Lower, Towermore Upper
- Placenames
- Ballytrasna 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.