Acres

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 4,979 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) to 634,791 m² (63.48 ha, 156.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Acres 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.

• 10 Jul 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, septic tank and percolation area

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/9464

• 2 May 2007Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/7478

• 25 Jul 2006Withdrawn

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/9212

• 22 Jun 2006Incompleted application

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/8297

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

Recorded monuments

• CO022-084 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of stream. Roughly rectangular mound of burnt material (20.4m x 17m; H 0.85m). 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

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Acres · Na hAcraí

Area

640,203 m² (64.02 ha, 158.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen (Kanturk Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Boherboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Boherboy electoral division: 753 people in 308 households; 76% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhoolahan West, Gortateeboy, Gortearagh, Kilnahulla More, Knockmanagh, Laharan East

Placenames

Acres 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.