Ballycormick

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycormick, from 119 m² to 214,897 m² (21.49 ha, 53.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballycormick 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycormick in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballycormick.

Recorded monuments

• OF046-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat land in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 27m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.8m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.3m) visible only from SE through S to SW. No entrance feature visible. Field fence intersects external fosse at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Borrisnafarney Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached Church of Ireland church, built in 1829 with funding from Thomas Ryder Pepper, having three-stage tower and three-bay nave. Chancel, choir and porch added to north-east in 1907. Set within churchyard. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, cut stone cruciform-headed pinnacles and castellated parapet to tower, pinnacles to porch and choir, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed stone walls with tooled stone eaves course to nave, string courses and plinth to tower, and ashlar angle buttresses to corners. Pointed-arched window openings to nave and tower with tooled chamfered stone surrounds, hoodmouldings and stained glass windows. Drop-arched window opening to chancel with tooled stone surround and stone tracery with stained glass. Pointed-arched louvered openings to tower with tooled chamfered stone surrounds and hoodmouldings. Pointed-arched door opening with tooled stone surround and timber battened door to tower accessing porch. Tudor arched door opening to tower with tooled stone surround and battened timber door, accessed by external cast-iron stairs. Pointed-arched door openings to north-east porch and choir with tooled stone surrounds, timber battened doors and plain fanlights. Interior with cast-iron roof trusses, terracotta floor tiles, gallery to rear, timber pews to nave, memorial plaques to walls. Forty-seven graves to graveyard with upright and recumbent grave markers and a mausoleum. Site is enclosed by random coursed stone wall with stile to north. Square-profile stone gate piers with wrought-iron gates.

• Borrisnafarney Church, mausoleum, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-cell mausoleum, built c.1830, with interred remains of the Bloomfield family. Set within graveyard at Borrisnafarney Church. Pitched stone roof with moulded stone coping to gables. Snecked stone walls with buttresses and arcaded cornice to north-east and south-west sides. Pointed-arched door opening with tooled stone surround, hoodmoulding and studded timber door having metal cruciform hinges. Plaster to interior walls with bricked-up shelves bearing name plaques of those interred. They read "Thomas Ryder Pepper 1828; Mrs Bloomfield 1828; Mrs Ryder Pepper 1841; Lieutenant General Benjamin Baron Bloomfield 1846; Harriot widow of Lieutenant General Benjamin Baron Bloomfield 1868".

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 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 low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Ballycormick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Ballycormick · Baile Uí Chormagáin

Area

1,070,381 m² (107.04 ha, 264.5 acres)

Civil parish

Borrisnafarney, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Cullenwaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

784 people lived in 279 households in the Cullenwaine electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Barnagrotty, Glaskill, Knockbane, Laghile (Co. Tipperary), Ollatrim (Co. Tipperary), Park (Co. Tipperary), Rathmoyle

Placenames

Ballycormick 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.