Ballyherkin Lower

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyherkin Lower, from 125,500 m² (12.55 ha, 31.01 acres) to 125,500 m² (12.55 ha, 31.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Ballyherkin 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.

• 10 May 2024Withdrawn

  Permission for: 1) The construction of an earthen bund serving the existing circular overground slurry tank, 2) The construction of a reinforced concrete retaining wall, 3) The construction of a dry storage shed attached to existing shed, 4) The construction of protective fencing surrounding the storage tank, 5) The retention of an existing concrete underground storage tank, for the storage of biosolids and other organic fertilisers for use as a fertiliser and soil improver on nearby agricultural lands, 6) The retention of a dry store as constructed and 7) All associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4841

• 19 Apr 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for 1) the construction of an earthen bund serving the existing circular overground slurry tank, 2) the construction of a reinforced concrete retaining wall, 3) the construction of a dry storage shed attached to existing shed, 4) the construction of protective fencing surrounding the storage tank, 5) the retention of an existing concrete underground storage tank, for the storage of biosolids and other organic fertilisers for use as a fertilizer and soil improver on nearby agricultural lands, 6) the retention of a dry store as constructed and 7) all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4665

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 Ballyherkin Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyherkin Lower.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyherkin 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballyherkin 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyherkin Lower · Baile Thuircín Íochtarach

Area

125,500 m² (12.55 ha, 31.01 acres)

Civil parish

Nohaval, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Nohaval, the unit of the census

Census 2022

345 people lived in 113 households in the Nohaval electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinreenlanig, Ballinwillin, Ballinwillin, Ballybogey, Ballyherkin Upper, Curravohill

Placenames

Ballyherkin 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.