Ballynakilla

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakilla, from 347 m² to 209,800 m² (20.98 ha, 51.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakilla 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  10 year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 118-hectare solar farm, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and underground grid connection route (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of four separate land parcels divided by local roads. The underground cable route comprises public roads L7634, L7635, L7637, L7633, L7631, L7604, L7609, L7610, L3617 and R626 to connect to Knockraha 220kV substation & Lysaghtstown 110kV substation. The proposed solar farm and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 3 no. HDDs, 3 no. temporary construction compounds, 1no. storage container, battery units, a synchronous condenser, the use of existing farm access tracks, existing site entrances, 1 no. new maintenance entrance connecting to an existing private access track ,inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing, palisade fencing, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating and storing renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Condonstown, Pigeonhill, Aghaduff, Ballynabrannagh East, Ballynabrannagh West, Ballyvatta, Lysaghtstown, Ballinbrittig, Ballyleary, Ballynakilla, Cloneen, Garranes, Lackenbehy, Dooneen and Woodstock, Co.Cork. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application. The proposed development is covered by the provision of the Renewable Energy Directive III (directive2023/2024).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6005

• 30 Apr 2025Conditional

  Permission to partially demolish a cubicle house and permission to construct a) cubicle house over an existing slatted tank, b) meal shed, c) machinery shed, d) farm office, e) drafting area shed with effluent tank and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4805

• 19 Jan 2022Conditional

  Permission to erect a 6 meter by 4 meter carport to front of existing double garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4071

• 8 Dec 2021Incompleted application

  To erect a 6 meter by 4 meter carport to front of existing double garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7284

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  Construct a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7122

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  To construct a storey and half style dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6563

• 30 Jun 2021Withdrawn

  To construct a storey and half style dwelling house, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, demolish and part demolish existing disused storage sheds, install a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5808

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6856

• 3 Apr 2020Conditional

  The fitting of photovoltaic solar panels to the south-west facing rear roof of the existing single storey detached dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4696

• 2 Apr 2020Conditional

  (1) Demolition of existing dwelling (2) Construction of a new dwelling (3) Material change of use of external store to office and store with elevational changes and (4) Installation of septic tank and percolation area and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4682

• 31 Oct 2018Conditional

  Retention of dormer type dwellinghouse, domestic garage and storage building, and associated site development works as constructed.This is a change of plan from that previously permitted under Pl. Reg. No. S/02/0088

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6876

• 3 Oct 2018Incompleted application

  Retain dormer type dwelling house, and domestic garage and storage building, and associated site development works as constructed on site.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6588

• 6 Sept 2018Conditional

  To erect 16 no Solar photovoltaic solar panels with total roof area of 16 m2 to roof of existing domestic double garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6362

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  Retention of detached domestic garage.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/5041

• 9 Feb 2016Conditional

  Construction of a slatted unit including floatation channel and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4232

• 14 Jul 2015Conditional

  Construction of a silage slab, effluent tank, extension to cubicle house, roofing of holding yard and associated work.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5545

• 2 Feb 2015Conditional

  (1) Retain the demolition of a cottage, (2) retain a single storey dwelling house as constructed, and (3) retain a single storey out building as constructed

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4172

• 15 Aug 2014Unconditional

  Dwellinghouse with intergrated garage, septic tank and associated site works, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg. no. 09/5001

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/5744

• 15 Aug 2012Conditional

  Construction of a one and half storey dwelling and detached garage with associated site and waste water treatment works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5756

• 16 Apr 2012Conditional

  Retention of 3 no. velux rooflights to rear elevation of dwelling, retention of extension to include boiler house, open storage and ancillary living accommodation and retention of revised site boundaries to dwelling house

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4764

• 17 Jan 2012Incompleted application

  Retention of 3 no. velux roof lights to rear elevation, retention of domestic garage to side elevation and retention of revised site boundaries to dwellinghouse

  Retention · Cork County Council, 12/4048

• 16 May 2011Conditional

  Two storey dwelling, entrance, treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5042

• 30 Jun 2010Conditional

  Demolition of existing domestic garage and construction of single storey extension with modifications to existing dwelling, new detached steel garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5613

• 1 Apr 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse with integrated garage, septic tank & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5001

• 10 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwelling (change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12966

The 25 most recent of 35 applications.

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 the townland of Ballynakilla.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakilla.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c. 1810, with gabled single-bay porch to front (west) elevation. Now disused. Hipped corrugated-sheet roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with diamond decorative motifs to porch. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed opening to rear with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window and chamfered sill. Square-headed opening to porch with fixed timber windows with coloured glass upper panes. Square-headed opening to porch with timber battened half-glazed door. Rendered walls and piers to entrance, with roughcast render decorative panels, and metal double-leaf gates.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynakilla.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Ballynakilla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ballynakilla · Baile na Coille

Area

2,064,114 m² (206.41 ha, 510.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycurrany, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Lisgoold, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lisgoold electoral division: 1,113 people in 343 households; 92% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloneen, Condonstown, Dooneen, Garranes, Killeena, Leamlara, Pigeonhill, Tibbotstown

Placenames

Ballynakilla 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.