Ballinrostig

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrostig, from 132 m² to 139,960 m² (14 ha, 34.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballinrostig 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Grant with conditions

  The development will consist of change of use of 12no. existing short-term tourism accommodation dwellings and 1no. associated manager’s dwelling to use as standard residential housing units (13no. residential housing units in total) along with permission to decommission existing wastewater treatment system and install a new wastewater treatment system with associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0084

• 16 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to erect: a new storage/workshop unit , re locate existing steel storage container and demolish part of existing storage attached to main dwelling, including all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6815

• 4 Nov 2025Invalid - case closed

  Permission for change of use of 12 no. existing short-term tourism accommodation dwellings and 1 no. associated manager's dwelling to use as standard residential housing units (13 no. residential housing units in total) along with permission to decommission existing wastewater treatment system and install a new waste water treatment system with associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6377

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional permission

  Permission to retain existing farm buildings, including; 1) stable and fodder store, 2) hay and straw storage shed, 3) livestock shed, 4) pump-house, as well as enclosed yard and all associated site development works

  Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5345

• 13 Nov 2023Conditional

  Alter and extend existing two storey dwelling house to include; kitchen and bedroom two storey rear extension with pitched roof, construction of pitched roof over and re-location of entrance door to front porch, conversion of existing single storey, double garage to playroom and home study area with internal modifications to layout and changes to front elevation and window fenestration and all associated site and services development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6271

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  A glamping site with access to county road, containing, communal shower building and 3 No. toilet blocks, communal cooking/living building with external covered seating and wood fired BBQ, communal barn style building with indoor play/meeting area, domestic horticultural polytunnel, 5 No. Yurt style glamping tents, converted double decker glamping bus, steel storage unit for storage associated with glamping site, solid fuel store, chicken house, BBQ shack and domestic dwelling for the sole use of the owners. The domestic dwelling has an attached covered, storage/carport and utility/laundry area which does not have walls on all sides and which is uses for benefit of the dwelling and for servicing the glamping site, including all associated and on site effluent treatment unit and percolation area Known as Inch Hideaway.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4884

• 24 May 2013Unconditional

  Dwelling & septic tank, extension of duration to permission granted under planning Ref. No. 08/10206

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4967

• 9 Apr 2013Incompleted application

  Dwelling and septic tank, extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 08/10206

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/4616

• 17 Dec 2012Refused

  Change of use of 12 no. dwellings granted permission under planning reg. nos. 98/3524 and 01/3006 from short term lettings only to unrestricted occupancy

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6562

• 28 Nov 2012Incompleted application

  Change of use of 12 no. dwellings granted permission under Planning Reg. No's 98/3524 and 01/3006 from short-term lettings only to unrestricted occupancy

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6434

• 18 Dec 2008Conditional

  Dwelling & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10206

• 21 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8498

• 18 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7958

• 26 Jun 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7512

• 30 May 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7043

• 8 Dec 2006Refused

  One and half storey extension to dwelling to be used as separate dwelling unit and installation of treatment unit to replace septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13075

• 27 Jul 2006Conditional

  Construction of 1 no. dormer-type cottage for short-term holiday letting, together with sewage treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9273

• 19 May 2006Incompleted application

  2 no. dormer type dwellinghouses for short term holiday letting

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7337

• 20 Apr 2006Conditional

  Entrance to farmyard

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6520

• 16 Mar 2006Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5623

• 15 Mar 2006Incompleted application

  Farmyard entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5574

• 30 Jan 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4399

• 19 Dec 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9431

• 20 Jun 2005Conditional

  Retention of 2-storey holiday dwelling as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4286

• 20 Jun 2005Conditional

  Retention of holiday dwelling as constructed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4317

The 25 most recent of 28 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 Ballinrostig.

Recorded monuments

• CO088-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (c. 33m E-W; c. 32m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.3m) to S, W and N; scarp to E; shallow external fosse to S and W. 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

• CO088-118 Church
  Description

  In Ballincrostig. Cruciform church (long axis E-W); pointed window opes; sash windows with switch line tracery. Date stone on N transpet ...'Built in 1830. The other part July 1804'. Bellcote on W gable. 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

• CO100-037 House - vernacular house
  Description

  Roadside. Front (E) of 3 bays; central doorway. Gable-ended, thatched roof; chimneys on gables. Occupied. 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

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

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 Ballinrostig, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinrostig · Baile an Róistigh

Area

1,145,924 m² (114.59 ha, 283.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rostellan, and its townlands

Barony

Imokilly

Electoral division

Inch, the unit of the census

Census 2022

624 people lived in 211 households in the Inch electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardra Beg, Ballinbeg, Ballytibbot, Ballyvaloon, Glanturkin, Inch

Placenames

Ballinrostig 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.