Ballybrowney Upper

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrowney Upper, from 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 667,233 m² (66.72 ha, 164.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybrowney Upper 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.

• 21 Apr 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  To construct 2No. Silage Pits, Agricultural Shed containing a Milking Parlour, Cubicle House with Slatted Tanks, Straw Bedded Area and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1012

• 30 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for :- a) Construction of a new detached single-storey dwelling house together with the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system and all associated site works and B) Retention of mobile home erected on site and permission for its temporary use during the construction phase of the proposed dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6985

• 16 Jan 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a milking parlour with effluent tank, feeding passage with slatted tank, dairy with feed bin and ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4050

• 3 Sept 2015Conditional

  Extension to side of existing dwelling, incorporating change of use of existing detached garage to residential accommodation

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5974

• 18 Aug 2015Incompleted application

  Retention of an extension to the side of the existing dwelling, incorporating the change of use of the existing detached garage to residential accommodation.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 15/5831

• 11 Feb 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/740

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 Ballybrowney Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybrowney Upper.

Architectural heritage

• Ballybrowney Bridge, bridge, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over tributary of River Bride, built c. 1830. Roughly coursed limestone and sandstone with lightly tooled voussoirs to elliptical arch, having cut-stone impost courses. Cast-iron mooring ring to south side of arch. Weir to downstream side. Rendered and coursed rubble stone wall to embankment.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballybrowney Upper, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1255 (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.

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

Name

Ballybrowney Upper · Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach

Area

673,609 m² (67.36 ha, 166.45 acres)

Civil parish

Rathcormack, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Rathcormack, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,643 people lived in 884 households in the Rathcormack electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 65% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrowney Lower, Ballybrowney-Mountain, Glanakip, Lisnagar Demesne, Maulane East, Maulane West

Placenames

Ballybrowney Upper 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.