Ballyellis

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyellis, from 707 m² to 215,989 m² (21.6 ha, 53.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ballyellis 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.

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  The demolition of an existing shed, reconstruction and remedial works to existing outbuildings and the construction of a new dwelling house and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5229

• 9 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/666

• 14 Dec 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse, Garage & Effluent treatment system

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/9169

• 22 Sept 2004Withdrawn

  Dwelling and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7176

• 25 Feb 2004Conditional

  Retention of extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1130

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Below Doneraile) 000074

Recorded monuments

• CO026-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular low platform (28m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by slight remains of earthen bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.9m); external fosse (D 0.3m). Bank incorporated into field fence system ESE->SE. Interior slopes down to S. According to local information, when site ploughed, patch of black material visible in interior. Circular enclosure visible, as cropmark of fosse, in aerial photograph (CASAP). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO026-014 Souterrain
  Description

  In tillage. Discovered in 1983 during ploughing (Crowley 1984, 43) and investigated by Cleary (1986, 144-6), who described at least two stone-built chambers joined by creepway. Chamber 1: roughly circular (2.7m E-W; 2.8m N-S; max. H 1.75m); creepway (L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m), roofed with three lintels, from W side to chamber 2. Chamber 2: roughly circular (2.7m E-W; 2.75m N-S; H 1.3m). Creepway (entrance: Wth 0.6m; H 0.35m) of drystone walling roofed with lintels, from S side of chamber 2, blocked by loose earth and stones. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO026-169 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of two concentric fosses of roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989). Ringfort (12093) c. 130m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO026-191 Burnt spread
  Description

  In tillage. Spread of small unburnt stones (c. 15m x c. 20m) in charcoal-enriched soil; material not consistent with fulacht fiadh. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Ballywalter Bridge, bridge, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge over River Awbeg, built c. 1830. Rubble limestone walls having rounded coping stones and terminating in roughly dressed square-profile piers. Cut limestone voussoirs to segmental arches having U-cutwaters to south elevation.

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 Ballyellis, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyellis · Baile Shaileastair

Area

574,617 m² (57.46 ha, 141.99 acres)

Civil parish

Wallstown, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Shanballymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

662 people lived in 238 households in the Shanballymore electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardleag, Ballygriggan, Ballywalter Demesne, Dannanstown

Placenames

Ballyellis 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.