Ballyhooleen

212 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhooleen, from 8 m² to 264,318 m² (26.43 ha, 65.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhooleen 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.

• 7 Aug 2026Awaiting recommendation

  Demolish existing agricultural buildings on the farm, construct a new agricultural building to replace the existing agricultural buildings for use in the maintenance and cultivation of his farm lands and all other associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2099

• 5 Jun 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission to demolish existing agricultural buildings on the farm, construct a new agricultural building to replace the existing agricultural buildings for use in the maintenance and cultivation of his farm lands and all other associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1495

• 27 Mar 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a detached split-level two-storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0770

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for Retention of (i) Extended lounge, toilets and smoking area to lounge / bar, (ii) Detached utility building and (iii) Detached lounge building, all to serve the existing licenced premises.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 24/6142

• 3 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4807

• 12 May 2023Conditional

  Construct an extension to their existing dwelling house and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4950

• 9 Sept 2022Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6042

• 28 Jun 2022Conditional

  1) The construction of a part single storey/ part two storey extension to the front/south elevation; 2) elevational alterations to the existing dwelling façade; 3) the placement of solar panels on the roof of the new extension; all to the existing one and a half storey dormer type detached dwelling; 4) the construction of a new detached single storey garage ancillary to the domestic dwelling; and including all associated site works and landscaping

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5517

• 28 Jun 2022Incompleted application

  Permission for change of house design from that granted under planning file 17/07098 from two semi-detached dwellings (known as type 1 house on the southern side of the site, onto the public road) to four number one bedroom apartments and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5515

• 4 Feb 2022Conditional

  (A) Retention permission to retain the change of use of an existing structure from that of an agricultural machinery store to use as a workshop and storage ancillary to the family pneumatics business, (B) Construct a new agricultural machinery store abutting the aforementioned existing structure and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4218

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house (change of plan to that permitted under 17/7098) and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6572

• 25 Aug 2021Incompleted application

  Permission for change of house design from that granted under planning file 17/07098 (known as type 3 house on the western side of the site) and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6336

• 22 Jul 2021Refused

  The construction of a single dwelling house, the construction of a detached domestic garage, the construction of a site entrance, the installation of a private well, the installation of a septic tank and associated percolation area and all ancillary works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6023

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  Dwelling house, detached domestic garage and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4486

• 28 Sept 2020Conditional

  Permission for works to an existing dwelling house to include the following a) retention of attic conversion to habitable space b) retention of two number rooflights on the northern elevation. c) retention of window on the eastern elevation. Permission for d) alterations to southern elevation e) alterations to internal layouts f) construction of a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6104

• 25 Sept 2020Incompleted application

  Construct an extension to the existing agricultural machinery store and all associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6089

• 24 Aug 2020Incompleted application

  The retention of a) attic conversion to habitable space b) retention of two number rooflights on the northern elevation c) retention of window on the eastern elevation. Planning permission for a) alterations to southern elevation b) alterations to internal layouts c) construction of a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5817

• 12 Mar 2019Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse (change of house design and layout from that permitted under PL. Reg. No. 14/5854), together with installation of new waste water treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4606

• 22 Feb 2019Withdrawn

  To construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4424

• 8 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  Change of plan of house design to that granted under Planning Ref: 14/5854 including modified front and rear elevation window arrangement, omission of rear sunroom and repositioning of house on site, together with installation of new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated ancillary siteworks.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4278

• 5 Dec 2018Conditional

  Retention of (1) conversion of attic to habitable accommodation and (2) rooflights to front and rear elevations of existing dwelling.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/7194

• 23 Mar 2018Refused

  Construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4726

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  Construct a storey and a half dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4522

• 28 Nov 2017Conditional

  Demolition of two existing unused agricultural buildings, the erection of three 3-bedroom and one 2-bedroom dwellings and ancillary site works and external spaces which include a connection to the existing main drainage and water infrastructure and provision of two car parking spaces per dwelling.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7098

• 11 Aug 2017Refused

  Construct a dwellinghouse with a domestic waste water treatment system, to install a domestic waste water treatment system to serve the existing dwellinghouse, and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6100

The 25 most recent of over 100 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 Ballyhooleen.

Recorded monuments

• CO097-024 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture. According to local information, mound of burnt material levelled c. 1981. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-025 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as rectangular field on 1842, 1902 and 1942 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly rectangular field (30m E-W; 18m N-S) enclosed by earthen fence (H 1.4m). Known locally as "fort". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO097-086 Enclosure
  Description

  In large tillage field, circular cropmark (diam c. 85m) identified from aerial photographs by Jean-Charles Caillere. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload/revision: 27 February 2023 Attached image uploaded courtesy of Jean-Charles Caillere

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyhooleen, 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 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 Ballyhooleen.

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.

• Ballyhooleen, Ballinhassig6 sales

Name

Ballyhooleen · Baile Húilín

Area

2,483,042 m² (248.3 ha, 613.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Dunderrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,734 people lived in 558 households in the Dunderrow electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheedy, Ballyleigh, Corran, Gogganshill, Gortnaclogh, Rigsdale

Placenames

Ballyhooleen 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.