Altar

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Altar, from 27 m² to 260,832 m² (26.08 ha, 64.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Altar 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.

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  Permission for retention of 1) a detached ancillary garage including an attached overhanging roof and open yard/hardstand storage area 2) a detached ancillary domestic storage shed. Permission also sought for 3) construction of a single storey porch extension to an existing cottage 4) all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/210

• 25 Jan 2023Conditional

  Permission for retention for a domestic polytunnel and all associated works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/23

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  Retention of relocation of waste water treatment unit from position shown on planning ref. no. 17/130

  Retention · Cork County Council, 21/730

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  1. Alterations to existing dwelling, 2. Construction of extension to existing dwelling, 3.Waste-water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/400

• 3 Jul 2020Conditional

  Planning Permission for alterations to a dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/348

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  A single storey extension to south elevation of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/274

• 31 Mar 2017Incompleted application

  A single storey extension to south elevation of existing dwelling

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/184

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  Permission for alterations, extension and change of use of former school to dwellinghouse, to include demolition of single storey extension, erection of 2 storey replacement extension, fenestration alterations, replacement of existing septic tank with waste water treatment plant and associated site development works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/130

• 22 Apr 2016Conditional

  Planning Permission for Retention of alterations to existing dwellinghouse as permitted under planning register number W/00/6944, as follows; (a) Alterations to elevations including fenestration changes (b) Enlarged utility room and en-suite on ground floor (c) Boiler room extension (d) Internal layout re-configuration (e) Construction of an ancillary domestic garage (f) Re-location of vehicular entrance off access road (g) Re-location of driveway and hardstanding areas (h) Alterations to site boundaries, and planning permission is also sought for the construction of a detached single storey ancillary artist studio (non-commercial) and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/243

• 11 Feb 2016Conditional

  Permission for retention of site layout and domestic garage and associated site development works

  Retention · Cork County Council, 16/80

• 24 Jun 2013Unconditional

  (a) Change of design of dwelling house as per granted under planning reg: 05/3125; (b) Retention of existing dwelling house; (c) Use of existing dwelling house as guest accommodation on completion of main dwelling house

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/364

• 21 Jan 2011Conditional

  Two rooflights to attic of dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/25

• 16 Dec 2008Conditional

  (a) Change of design of dwellinghouse as per granted under planning reg: 05/3125; (b) Retention of existing dwellinghouse; (c) Use of existing dwellinghouse as guest accommodation on completion of main dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2198

• 8 Dec 2008Incompleted application

  (a) Change of design of dwelling house granted under planning reg: 05/3125; (b) Retention of existing dwelling house, (c) Use of existing dwelling house as guest accommodation on completion of main dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2153

• 11 Sept 2008Refused

  Dwellinghouse, mini treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1662

• 29 Aug 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, mini treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1584

• 25 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, mini treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1388

• 17 Jul 2008Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, mini treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1335

• 24 Jul 2007Conditional

  Retention of alterations to extensions to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2002

• 28 Jun 2007Conditional

  Dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1701

• 20 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Retention of alterations to extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1633

• 17 Aug 2006Withdrawn

  Construction of dwelling and installation of septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/1631

• 15 Aug 2005Conditional

  Garage/boat house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5847

• 12 Aug 2005Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5787

• 25 May 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse (change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3560

The 25 most recent of 43 applications.

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 Altar.

Recorded monuments

• CO148-005 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On a roadside platform, c. 30m from and 4m above the rocky shoreline of the NE edge of Toormore Bay. This wedge tomb was excavated in 1989 by Dr. William F. O'Brien (see summary: https://excavations.ie/report/1989/Cork/0000842/). It consists of a simple slab-built chamber aligned ENE-WSW. This gallery is formed by two orthostat rows of three slabs each (L 3.4m; Wth 1.9m at W end, 1m at E end). One roofstone remained in position above the E end; a second rested against the W end of the gallery. No clear evidence for a cairn was recovered during excavation, which may be explained by intensive post-medieval cultivation and the early 19th-century road construction. The socket for a backstone and a low stone kerb feature at the entrance were uncovered. The latter contained three fragments of cetacean bone deliberately deposited in this construction context, and overlaid two pits on either side of the entrance which contained shattered slaty stone, possibly tooling debris gathered after the deliberate shaping of the orthostats and capstones. Two cobble-hammers used in this activity were also recovered. A pit containing votive deposits of limpet, periwinkle shells and fish bones was found at the E end of the chamber, and a small spread of cremated human bone was uncovered inside the entrance area. Finds outside the chamber included struck pebble flint, including two end-scrapers and a broken hollow scraper, recovered in cultivation-disturbed contexts. Only a solitary fragment of struck flint was recovered from the chamber. (de Valera and O Nualláin 1982, 41, no. 61; Roberts 1988, Ch. 4, No. 19; pers. comm. Dr. W. F. O'Brien; https://excavations.ie/report/1989/Cork/0000842/) This is a National Monument in State care (no. 645) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Image _02 provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Architectural heritage

• The Altar Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Church of Ireland church, built 1847-52, comprising four-bay nave with single-bay single-storey flanking transepts (north and south), porch (west) and chancel (east). Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron and replacement rainwater goods and rendered belfry (west). Smooth rendered walls with square-headed recesses to porch and south transept, with raised tooled surrounds. Lancet openings to nave and chancel having fixed pane lead stained glass windows with tracery and hoodmoulding. Tripartite pointed arch opening to south transept having fixed pane timber windows with tracery. Pointed arch opening to porch with stained glass window dedicated to St. Michael. Cast-iron stained glass rose window opening to nave. Pointed arch door opening to porch with replacement timber battened door. Square-headed door openings to transepts with replacement timber battened doors. Interior comprises arched brace roof with stone imposts, timber panelling to walls, crow-stepped decoration to window openings with chamfered surrounds, polychrome tiles, tooled stone baptismal font and timber pews. Enclosed within graveyard by rubble stone walls and rendered gate piers with cast-iron gate.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Altar.

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

Name

Altar · An Altóir

Area

1,207,710 m² (120.77 ha, 298.43 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoe, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Toormore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toormore electoral division: 216 people in 91 households; 90% of households own their home; 17% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arderrawinny, Cove, Toormore

Placenames

Altar 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.