Aldworth
Townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish An tAbhallort
- Area
- 73.6 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 1,206 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aldworth, from 59 m² to 417,638 m² (41.76 ha, 103.2 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Aldworth 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
16 May 2014Withdrawn
Construction of a two-storey dwellinghouse with sewage treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5007
20 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of 2 underground slurry storage tanks and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8832
12 Dec 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 03/6388
10 Dec 2003Conditional
Retention of change of flat roof to pitched roof incorporating raising the height of external walls on portion of dwelling and retention of detached domestic garage/garden store
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6308
4 Sept 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4441
17 Jan 2003Conditional
One and a half storey dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/132
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Aldworth.
Recorded monuments
- CO041-176 Fulacht fia
Description
In boggy pasture. Subcircular mound of burnt material (14.5m N-S; 12m E-W; H 0.2m). 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
- Aldworth Lodge, house, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, facing east, having shallow gabled breakfront, canted-plan single-bay single-storey extension to north end, single-bay single-storey lean-to to rear elevation. Single-bay two-storey extensions to rear. Hipped slate roof with decoratively carved timber bargeboards to breakfront, and rendered chimneystacks. Half-hipped slate roof to extension to north. Pitched slate roofs to rear extensions having timber bargeboards. Painted roughcast rendered walls with render plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and some replacmement windows to side elevations, all with limestone sills. Lozenge-shaped oculus to breakfront with fixed geometric glazing to timber window. Square-headed window openings to extensions having timber casement windows with render sills. Elliptical-headed recess to breakfront having fanlight over timber panelled door with flanking one-over-one pane timber sliding sash sidelights with painted stone sills. Farmyard to south comprising outbuildings to south and west. Seven-bay two-storey west outbuilding having pitched slate roof, painted rubble stone walls and square-headed openings, with flight of rendered steps to north elevation. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south with pitched slate roof, painted rubble stone walls, round-headed window openings to first floor having painted brick surrounds and square-headed window and door openings to ground floor. Painted rendered square-profile piers to road entrance with recent decorative metal gates. Recent square-profile rendered piers to west.
- Aldworth House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, having flat-roofed extension to full length of rear and to east gable. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Painted rendered walls, with render quoins to ground floor and render margins to first floor. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds and painted stone sills, having lozenge-shaped window to centre bay of first floor, having render surround and fixed geometric-glazed window. Double-light timber casement windows elsewhere to first floor and flanking entrance to ground floor, wider to end bays, with quarry-glazed overlights. Recent timber casement windows to end bays of ground floor and to extensions, latter also having some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed entrance door opening having moulded render archivolt, panelled render pilasters with plinths and moulded capitals, timber panelled door and cobweb fanlight. Square-profile rendered piers to north.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Aldworth.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Aldworth with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Aldworth · An tAbhallort
- Area
- 735,505 m² (73.55 ha, 181.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Kilshannig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilshannig electoral division: 1,140 people in 399 households; 85% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glannoge, Kilcolman, Knockansweeny, Knocknamona, Skarragh
- Placenames
- Aldworth 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.