Ringabella

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ringabella, from 104 m² to 431,726 m² (43.17 ha, 106.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Ringabella 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.

• 25 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response

  Permission for retention of a) the removal of a section of the roadside boundary, b) the excavation of the land to the east of the existing dwelling, c) the expansion of the yard area and removal of trees and permission to construct a detached double garage with a first floor loft storage and office area at the side of existing dwelling and for all associated site works including the erection of a new section of road boundary wall

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1391

• 29 Apr 2026Invalid - prepare letters

  Permission for Retention of:- a) The removal of a section of the roadside boundary, b) The excavation of the land to the east of the existing dwelling, c) The expansion of the yard area and removal of trees and Permission to construct a detached double garage with a first floor loft storage and office area at the side of existing dwelling and for all associated site works including the erection of a new section of road boundary wall.

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 26/1096

• 28 Nov 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission to construct a detached double garage with a first floor loft storage and office area at the side of existing dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6610

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  (a) conversion of attic space of the dwellinghouse to ancillary living accommodation with all associated rooflights (b) conversion of garage and the first-floor visitor accommodation over to living accommodation ancillary to dwellinghouse (c) ground floor single-storey link extension between dwelling house and converted garage – together with all associated alterations and site works.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/7093

• 6 Sept 2019Conditional

  To construct a two storey extension to rear of existing single storey dwelling, part of which will be used for the purpose of a ‘granny flat’, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6201

• 24 Jan 2019Conditional

  1. Retention & completion of road boundary retaining wall with pedestrian entrance. 2. Retention of vehicular entrance and road boundary wall. 3. Permission to construct a new boundary sod and stone ditch with timber gates.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4131

• 12 Dec 2018Incompleted application

  1. Retention & completion of road boundary retaining wall with pedestrian entrance 2. Retention of vehicular entrance & road boundary wall 3. Permission to construct a new road boundary Sod & Stone Ditch with timber gates.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7275

• 17 Jun 2014Conditional

  Change of use from bar/restaurant to dwelling and alterations to elevations, namely: (1) demolition of existing ground floor extension and installation of 4 no. new windows to north elevation, (2) demolition of existing first floor extension and 1no. dormer window and 1no. door and 4 no. rooflights, and installation of 5 no. velux windows on the first floor eastern elevation, (3) removal of 3 no. windows and 1 no. door and installation of 2 no. windows to ground floor eastern elevation, and (4) removal of 2 no. windows and installation of 1 no. window to ground floor south elevation

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5290

• 26 May 2010Conditional

  Installation of wastewater treatment unit and retention of dwellinghouse as constructed, vehicular entrance as constructed and alterations to site boundaries from that permitted under Pl. Reg. No. 00/7484.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5298

• 7 Mar 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5753

• 29 Nov 2006Conditional

  Extensions to dwellinghouse and conversion of garage to utility room and playroom

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12796

• 10 Nov 2006Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12157

• 13 Apr 2004Withdrawn

  Reconstruction of dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2406

• 1 Sept 2003Conditional

  Alterations, ground floor, first floor and second floor extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4357

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Cork Harbour SPA 004030

Recorded monuments

• CO099-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (53.5m N-S; 52.3m E-W) enclosed by fosse (D 2.3m) NE->W; exterior depression and low rise W->NE. Interior saucer-shaped, slightly raised to N to compensate for slope. 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

• CO099-054 Burial
  Description

  On cliff-edge over Ringabella strand. Human skull found by O Ríordáin (1934, 86-9). Remainder of body removed by erosion of cliff-face. Position of skull indicated probably crouched posture of body, lying E-W on itsside. No evidence of grave-construction found. Dog whelk shell broken in characteristic manner for extraction of dye, and 'some pieces of burnt clay' recovered from soil above skull. O Ríordáin concludes skull is of an 'early type' and may be burial-plate of kitchen-midden dweller. 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

• CO099-090 Mine - lead
  Description

  Nineteenth century mining complex on N-facing slope, S of Ringabella Bay.Three shafts placed close together cut into rock; revetting walls built at top to hold back soil. At depth of 10m entry can be gained to upper galleries; there are two lower levels of workings, one which ends as an adit on shore of Ringabella creek (pers. comm. Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould). Shaft surrounded by extensive spoil; area heavily overgrown. According to Lewis (vol. 2, 1837, 639) 'at Ringabella are very extensive works, conducted by an English company of miners, and employing upwards of 400 persons'. Ore is an argentiferous galena lead sulphide (pers. comm. Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould). 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

• Ringabella House, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house with dormer attic, built c.1820. Hipped and pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Segmental-headed doorcase having timber glazed door with flanking sidelights. Outbuildings to site.

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 Ringabella, 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 high, 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 Ringabella.

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 Ringabella with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Ringabella · Rinn an Bhile

Area

1,985,703 m² (198.57 ha, 490.68 acres)

Civil parish

Tracton, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Farranbrien, the unit of the census

Census 2022

532 people lived in 194 households in the Farranbrien electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonavanig, Kilbeg

Placenames

Ringabella 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.