# Abbey, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge, barony of Bantry, Co. Cork; in Irish An Mhainistir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 109,282 m² (10.93 ha, 27 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,044 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmocomoge, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/kilmocomoge.md - Barony: Bantry - Electoral division: Bantry Urban, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 3,358 people lived in 1,345 households in the Bantry Urban electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/8395 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40001 - Centre: latitude 51.676625, longitude -9.474904 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Abbey, from 176 m² to 13,540 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres); 1 neighbouring parcel touches its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2258770: 13,540 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2258770.md - Parcel 2724297: 13,044 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2724297.md - Parcel 5098597: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5098597.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-5-west-cork.pdf - G3 Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-5-west-cork.pdf - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-5-west-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 10 Jul 2019, Cork County Council 19/468: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/468 - 15 May 2019, Cork County Council 19/327: Incompleted application. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/327 - 5 Apr 2019, Cork County Council 19/225: Incompleted application. Retention. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/225 - 19 Nov 2012, Cork County Council 12/708: Incompleted application. Permission. See Part 9 of application form. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/708 - 25 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/1712: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/1712 - 28 Nov 2002, Cork County Council 02/5266: Conditional. Permission. Alterations to facade and extension to hotel. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=02/5266 - 10 Mar 2000, Cork County Council 00/1341: Conditional. Permission. Pedestrian walkway, pedestrian entrance with stone arch from public road, re-construction of section of wall, new sign & pedestrian bridge. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=00/1341 - 6 Aug 1999, Cork County Council 99/4320: Unconditional. Permission. Retention of interpretative sign. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=99/4320 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Abbey. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO118-028: Designed landscape feature, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO118-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO118-030001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO118-030002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Abbey. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Abbey, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/abbey.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/abbey.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/abbey.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Abbey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Beach: https://everytownland.com/cork/beach.md - Seafield: https://everytownland.com/cork/seafield-44978.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/abbey - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/abbey