Ahane Upper

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahane Upper, from 290 m² to 153,242 m² (15.32 ha, 37.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Ahane Upper 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.

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  i) Retention of existing dwelling house, 3 no. domestic stores & entrance all on site with revised boundaries & ii) Permission to construct porch at the front of the existing dwelling & domestic garage attached to the side of the existing dwelling house & all associated services & site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5417

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  To build uncovered silage pit, extend existing cubicle house, extend existing covered silage pit and convert to easy feed, build slatted cubicle house, extend roof over parlour collecting yard.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4371

• 4 Jan 2017Incompleted application

  Build uncovered silage pit, extend existing cubicle house, extend existing covered silage pit and convert to easy feed, build slatted cubicle house, extend roof over parlour collecting yard.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4006

• 8 Jul 2013Conditional

  Erection of one and a half storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, entrance road and all other associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5303

• 14 Jul 2010Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treaatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5760

• 8 Dec 2009Refused

  Dwellinghouse, domestic garage, installation of wastewater treatment unit and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7857

• 23 Apr 2008Refused

  Dwelling House & septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/6259

• 13 Jul 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8882

• 27 Jan 2006Conditional

  Construction of conservatory and porch extensions to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4363

• 18 Jul 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5122

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

• CO029-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture atop ridge, commanding extensive view all round. Circular, heavily overgrown area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m); external fosse (D 0.8m). Causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) to NNW. Large earthen mound (H c. 1.5m) in S half of interior may be remains of two lime kilns depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Field boundary skirts enclosure to N, E and S. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 296-7) as double-ramparted fort on J. O'Keeffe's land, with about half of outer rampart standing (H 6 to 9ft); two disused lime kilns in outer rampart and one in inner rampart (ibid.). Possible souterrain (CO029-185---) in interior. 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

• CO029-078001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 25m) on 1938 OS 6-inch map. Site removed by quarrying. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 297) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 39yd) on J. O'Keeffe's land. Broker (1937, 51) recorded levelled fort in 'Quarry Field', with souterrain (CO029-07802-). 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

• CO029-078002 Souterrain
  Description

  In levelled ringfort (CO029-07801-). Broker (1937, 51) recorded three underground passages which were 'formerly open'. 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

• CO029-185 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (CO029-077---). According to Bowman (1934, 297), 'two depressions, c. 18 ft. by 4 by 2 ft. deep, are in the interior. These are, evidently, the sites of Souterrains'. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Ahane Upper.

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

Name

Ahane Upper · Áthán Uachtarach

Area

1,229,097 m² (122.91 ha, 303.72 acres)

Civil parish

Cullen (Millstreet Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Duhallow

Electoral division

Cullen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cullen electoral division: 443 people in 173 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahane Beg, Ahane Lower, Euglaune, Knockeennagearagh, Lislehane, Lisnaboy Lower, Lissaniska, Mullaghroe South

Placenames

Ahane Upper 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.