Ballyhane Lower
Ballyhane Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Kilbolane, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Fhiacháin Íochtarach.
Parcel 2276293
- Area
- 317 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 174 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
- Ballyhane Lower
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_740 (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.
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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
- 105.8 ha
- 261 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhane Lower, from 317 m² to 188,938 m² (18.89 ha, 46.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballyhane Lower 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
17 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission to: a) Demolish single storey section to rear of existing dwelling, b) Construct 1no. window on each of the existing south western and north eastern elevations, c) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing south eastern elevation, d) Raise the height of an existing chimney, e) Construction of two storey extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling, f) Construction of a new detached domestic garage, g) Widen existing vehicular entrance, h) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5433
23 Jun 2025Incompleted application
(a) Demolish single storey section to rear of existing dwelling, (b) Construct 1 No. new window on each of the existing South Western and North Eastern elevations, (c) Minor alterations to fenestration of the existing South Eastern elevation, (d) Raise the height of an existing chimney, (e) Construct a new extension to the rear of existing dwelling, (f) Construct a new detached domestic garage, (g) Widen existing vehicular entrance and (h) Install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5208
8 May 2023Conditional
Construction of a single-storey dwelling (change of design from that previously granted under planning ref 21/4723) and permission for change of site layout from that previously granted under planning ref. 21/4723, site entrance, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and carry out all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4905
22 Mar 2021Conditional
Construct a one and half storey dwelling house, site entrance, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and carry out all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4723
19 Feb 2021Incompleted application
To construct a one and half storey dwelling house, site entrance, mechanical aeration unit and soil polishing filter and carry out all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4408
29 Oct 2020Conditional
An extension to existing dwelling for use as an ancillary accommodation unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6376
6 May 2020Refused
Construction of an extension to gable end of existing dwelling for use as a separate dwelling unit.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4905
29 Jan 2014Conditional
Retention of sunroom extension to side of dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4154
8 May 2009Conditional
Construction of garage adjacent to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5467
21 Sept 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10799
17 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8972
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 Ballyhane Lower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhane Lower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhane Lower.
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 Ballyhane Lower, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_740 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyhane Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhane Lower · Baile Uí Fhiacháin Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,057,529 m² (105.75 ha, 261.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbolane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Milford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 692 people lived in 248 households in the Milford electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhane Upper, Kinteera, Laragh, Lyragh, Moanarnane, Moanavraca, Moanroe
- Placenames
- Ballyhane Lower 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.