Altamira

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altamira, from 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 638,872 m² (63.89 ha, 157.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Altamira 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.

• 27 Jul 2015Conditional

  Construction of domestic garage next to existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5663

• 14 Jun 2013Unconditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank - Extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 07/12295

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/5123

• 9 Nov 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12295

• 19 Sept 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10717

• 6 Jul 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 04/5176

• 15 Mar 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/1707

• 20 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1023

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 Altamira.

Recorded monuments

• CO007-086 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope. Circular area (45.8m E-W; 43.1m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.4m), worn in parts, with external fosse (D 0.8m) except to NW where skirted by roadway. Waterlogging in fosse to SE. Numerous gaps in bank; possible entrance (Wth 3.65m) to S. Interior features formed by low rises form no definite pattern. 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

• CO007-087 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SE-facing slope, c. 250m to NE of Altamira House. Circular area (c. 45.3m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m), with external fosse (D 1.3m). Bank planted with beech trees; gap (Wth 0.6m) in bank to ESE. Earthen bank cuts diagonally through fosse to N. Fosse infilled to SE where roadway runs outside it. Interior overgrown with briars. 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

• Altamira House, country house, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey over basement country house, built c. 1810, having three-bay front (north) and west elevations and four-bay south and east elevations, with recent single- and two-storey lean-to extensions to west elevation. Skirt artificial slate roof with cut limestone cornice stones below overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone string course between ground floor and basement. Camber-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and diminishing timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground and first floors, and three-over-three pane to second floor. Round-headed openings to west elevation, three-over-three pane to top floor with spoked fanlight and cut limestone sill and double-leaf door to first floor with timber spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed front door opening with cut limestone doorcase comprising pilasters with moulded plinths and capitals, flanking timber panelled door and decoratively glazed sidelights, surmounted by carved limestone cornice, ornate spider-web and petal fanlight and moulded limestone archivolt. Cut limestone threshold to entrance. Decorative stucco ceilings to interior.

• Altamira House, gate lodge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1810, having pedimented cut limestone distyle in antis portico and single-bay single-storey over basement extension to rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with cut limestone coping to pediment. Ashlar limestone walls too front and side elevations of main block, with carved limestone armorial plaque and incised diamond pattern to tympanum of pediment, having panels above openings to end bays. Rubble limestone elsewhere, with roughly dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with carved limestone surrounds. Portico having monolithic Doric columns with plinths and supporting frieze and pediment. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door flanked by carved timber pilasters. Sited across the road from gates to Altamira House which comprise carved limestone gate piers to vehicular and flanking pedestrian entrances, having moulded plinths, string courses and moulded caps, set to cut limestone boundary walls having cut limestone copings and terminated by similar piers, with cast-iron railings, and cast-iron single-leaf and double-leaf gates.

• Altamira House, farmyard complex, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding between paired farmyards to Altamira House, built c. 1810, having lean-to concrete-walled extension to rear. Hipped and pitched slate roof, with overhanging red brick eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings with cut limestone sills and some double four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed carriage entrance to central bay having cut limestone surround and recent sheet metal doors. Square-headed door openings to outer bays with cut limestone surrounds and timber battened doors. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west side of west yard, having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof with rubble limestone chimneystack and some cast-iron rainwater goods, random rubble limestone walls with red brick voussoirs to segmental-headed carriage entrances, having large opening to north end with roughly dressed limestone voussoirs. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to south, serving both yards. Corrugated-iron roof and roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with cut limestone sills and some timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to east end having cut limestone surround. Roughly coursed dressed limestone gate piers to north entrance of east yard. Cobbled surfaces to yards.

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

At the centre of the townland of Altamira, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Altamira · Altamira

Area

877,582 m² (87.76 ha, 216.86 acres)

Civil parish

Liscarroll, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Liscarroll, the unit of the census

Census 2022

627 people lived in 237 households in the Liscarroll electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Knockardbane, Lackeen, Moyge, Sunfort, Tulladuff

Placenames

Altamira 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.