Ballyvatta

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvatta, from 723 m² to 416,663 m² (41.67 ha, 102.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvatta 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Invalid - case closed

  10 year planning permission for the construction of, and a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of, a development consisting of a 118-hectare solar farm, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and underground grid connection route (red line boundary). The solar farm comprises of four separate land parcels divided by local roads. The underground cable route comprises public roads L7634, L7635, L7637, L7633, L7631, L7604, L7609, L7610, L3617 and R626 to connect to Knockraha 220kV substation & Lysaghtstown 110kV substation. The proposed solar farm and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) will consist of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures and in some areas on concrete shoes to protect possible underground archaeological features, together with electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, 3 no. HDDs, 3 no. temporary construction compounds, 1no. storage container, battery units, a synchronous condenser, the use of existing farm access tracks, existing site entrances, 1 no. new maintenance entrance connecting to an existing private access track ,inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security/boundary fencing, palisade fencing, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating and storing renewable energy electricity and transmitting it in the townlands of Condonstown, Pigeonhill, Aghaduff, Ballynabrannagh East, Ballynabrannagh West, Ballyvatta, Lysaghtstown, Ballinbrittig, Ballyleary, Ballynakilla, Cloneen, Garranes, Lackenbehy, Dooneen and Woodstock, Co.Cork. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of the planning application. The proposed development is covered by the provision of the Renewable Energy Directive III (directive2023/2024).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6005

• 19 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of an agricultural storage shed and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5144

• 29 Mar 2023Conditional permission

  Amendment of previous permission Reg. Ref: 17/5370 and ABP- 300434-17, which includes a enlarged site boundary, for alterations to an permitted solar farm to provide an additional area of 7.8ha to the south comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, MV/inverter stations, fencing, access tracks, CCTV cameras, a weather station, landscaping and all associated ancillary development works. The development also includes a 2.25km cable route to the south to provide a link to a future substation and all associated ancillary development works. The application also seeks to amend Condition 3 of permission granted under Reg. Ref:17/5370 and ABP Ref: ABP-300434-17 to increase the lifespan of the permitted solar farm from 25 to 35 years.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4564

• 22 Feb 2023Incompleted application

  Amendment of previous permission reg ref 17/5370 and ABP-300434-17 for alterations to a permitted solar farm to provide an additional area of 7.8 ha to the south comprising of photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, MV/inverter stations, fencing, acces tracks, CCTV cameras, a weather station, landscaping and all associated ancillary development works. The development also includes 2.25km cable route to the south to provide a link to a future substation and all associated ancillary development works. The application also seeks to amend condition 3 of permission granted under reg. ref. 17/5370 and ABP-300434-17 to increase the lifespan of the permitted solar farm from 25 to 35 years

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4304

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  Erection of a dwelling house, an on-site sewage treatment unit and all associated site development works at Ballyvatta, Leamlara, Co.Cork. This dwelling is to be a replacement dwelling for a ruinous dwelling already on this site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6279

• 8 Sept 2022Incompleted application

  Erection of a dwelling house, an on-site sewage treatment unit and all associated site works. This dwelling is to be a replacement dwelling for a ruinous dwelling already on this site.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6036

• 13 May 2019Conditional

  Installation of a cattle underpass incorporating a soiled water storage tank and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5188

• 2 Jun 2017Conditional

  Construction, operation and decommissioning of photovoltaic solar farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site of up to 48.4ha, to include inverter stations, 1 no. DNO substation, customer substation, switcher substations, field transformers, auxiliary transformers, GRP cabinets, monitoring house, single storey storage shed, battery containers, transformer containers, WC, fencing, temporary construction compound, access tracks, CCTV cameras, landscaping and all associated ancillary development works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5370

• 6 Oct 2014Conditional

  To demolish an existing dwellinghouse and to construct a new dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6142

• 18 Dec 2008Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10189

• 29 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of sheep handling facilities with dipping tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9129

• 12 Dec 2006Withdrawn

  Partial change of use of open slurry pit to cubicle house incorporating automatic scrapers, construction of milking parlour, dairy, pump house, ancillary dairy washings tank, holding and cattle handling yards, floatation channel, overground slurry storage tank with ancillary reception tank, dungstead, reconcreting of existing silage slab and yard and 1 no. shed incorporating cubicles and automatic scrapers and ancillary concrete aprons

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13205

• 28 Aug 2006Conditional

  Extension to dwelling and detached granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10083

• 25 Jul 2006Incompleted application

  Extension to dwelling and detached granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9227

• 3 Jul 2006Incompleted application

  Construction of extension to dwelling and detached granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8553

• 16 Dec 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9354

• 18 Nov 2005Conditional

  One and half storey dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 05/8504

• 19 Apr 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2513

• 12 Aug 2004Conditional

  Slatted house incorporating slurry pit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6150

• 8 Jul 2004Incompleted application

  Slatted house incorporating slurry tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5241

• 28 May 2004Conditional

  Dwelling with garage and treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3780

• 20 May 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/3514

• 16 Feb 2004Conditional

  Storey and a half style dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/865

• 11 Feb 2004Refused

  Dormer dwelling, garage and proprietary treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/737

• 6 Jan 2004Conditional

  Dormer dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/19

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 Ballyvatta.

Recorded monuments

• CO064-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on NNE-facing slope. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m); on 1904 OS 6-inch map as slight curve in E-W field fence. Levelled; differential crop growth traces outline of site; field curves to respect enclosure. 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 Ballyvatta.

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 Ballyvatta, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyvatta · Baile Mhata

Area

2,332,012 m² (233.2 ha, 576.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycurrany, and its townlands

Barony

Barrymore

Electoral division

Lisgoold, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,113 people lived in 343 households in the Lisgoold electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabrannagh East, Ballynabrannagh West, Ballynaglogh, Clash, Lisheenroe, Moanbaun, Monatooreen

Placenames

Ballyvatta 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.