# Altamira, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Liscarroll, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Altamira.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 877,582 m² (87.76 ha, 216.86 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,328 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Liscarroll, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/liscarroll.md
- Barony: Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division: Liscarroll, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11908
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40066
- Centre: latitude 52.277454, longitude -8.788682 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2270406: 638,872 m² (63.89 ha, 157.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270406.md
- Parcel 5030816: 212,230 m² (21.22 ha, 52.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5030816.md
- Parcel 2270407: 4,607 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2270407.md
- Parcel 2219897: 4,229 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219897.md
- Parcel 2495583: 3,507 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2495583.md
- Parcel 3720176: 3,150 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3720176.md
- Parcel 2219898: 2,857 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219898.md
- Parcel 2219896: 2,701 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219896.md
- Parcel 5007780: 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5007780.md
- Parcel 2219899: 2,172 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2219899.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

7 applications, newest first.

- 27 Jul 2015, Cork County Council 15/5663: Conditional. Permission. Construction of domestic garage next to existing dwelling house and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5663
- 14 Jun 2013, Cork County Council 13/5123: Unconditional. Extension of duration. Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank - Extension of duration to permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 07/12295. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=13/5123
- 9 Nov 2007, Cork County Council 07/12295: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and installation of septic tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/12295
- 19 Sept 2006, Cork County Council 06/10717: Conditional. Permission. Two storey dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/10717
- 6 Jul 2004, Cork County Council 04/5176: Conditional. Permission consequent. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/5176
- 15 Mar 2004, Cork County Council 04/1707: Conditional. Outline permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/1707
- 20 Feb 2004, Cork County Council 04/1023: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/1023

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 Altamira.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO007-086: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO007-086----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO007-087----. 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

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)

- Altamira House, country house, 1790–1830, Regional interest, registry number 20900704, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900704. 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, registry number 20900705, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900705. 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, registry number 20900718, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20900718. 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.

## 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 Altamira, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Altamira.
- 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/altamira.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/altamira.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/altamira.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Altamira 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)

- Knockardbane: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockardbane.md
- Lackeen: https://everytownland.com/cork/lackeen.md
- Moyge: https://everytownland.com/cork/moyge.md
- Sunfort: https://everytownland.com/cork/sunfort.md
- Tulladuff: https://everytownland.com/cork/tulladuff.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.

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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/altamira
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/altamira