Abbey

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbey, from 176 m² to 13,540 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 1 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking; (b) retention of 3 no. signs, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term / holiday letting as constructed and (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term/holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/468

• 15 May 2019Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking, (b) retention of 3 no. signs, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term/holiday letting as constructed and (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term / holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/327

• 5 Apr 2019Incompleted application

  Permission for retention of (a) change of use of land to motorhome parking, (b) retention of signage, (c) retention of 2 no. dwellings for short term/holiday letting as constructed & (d) retention of amalgamation of 2 no. cottages for short term/holiday let into one

  Retention · Cork County Council, 19/225

• 19 Nov 2012Incompleted application

  See Part 9 of application form

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/708

• 25 Aug 2006Conditional

  Construction of a piled slipway c.43 metres in length and 10 metres wide, reclamation of c.0.425 hectares of land protected by revetment to create a roadway and footpath c.135 metres in length with turning area and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1712

• 28 Nov 2002Conditional

  Alterations to facade and extension to hotel

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5266

• 10 Mar 2000Conditional

  Pedestrian walkway, pedestrian entrance with stone arch from public road, re-construction of section of wall, new sign & pedestrian bridge

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1341

• 6 Aug 1999Unconditional

  Retention of interpretative sign

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/4320

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 Abbey.

Recorded monuments

• CO118-028 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CO118-030001 Burial ground
  Description

  On NW side of road overlooking Bantry Bay to N. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as rectangular area; enlarged to E and NW on OS 6-inch maps (1902; 1944); more recent enlargements to S and W. Area of 1st ed. burial ground is now in centre of graveyard and earliest gravestones (19th century) occur here. Site of Franciscan Friary (CO118-03002-) on NW side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO118-030002 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Site now occupied by graveyard (CO118-030001-); only visible remains are collection of sixteen late-medieval carved fragments in graveyard; mostly from door and indoor surround and parts of cloister arcading. Franciscan Friary in existence in 1466 and supressed in 1542 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 243); greatly damaged by English in 1568 and remains taken down by Domhnal O'Sullivan Bere in 1602 (O'Mahony 1967, 147). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Abbey.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Abbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Abbey · An Mhainistir

Area

109,282 m² (10.93 ha, 27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Bantry Urban, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bantry Urban electoral division: 3,358 people in 1,345 households; 51% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beach, Seafield

Placenames

Abbey 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.