Arlinstown
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymartle, barony of Kinalea, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an Arlóntaigh
Parcel 5626271
- Area
- 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 202 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Arlinstown
Planning applications on this parcel
17 Jul 2020Conditional
The construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5526
4 Apr 2003Refused
Dormer dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1541
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 169.1 ha
- 418 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,579 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 45
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arlinstown, from 46 m² to 380,341 m² (38.03 ha, 93.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Arlinstown 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 2025Conditional
Permission to construct a new dwelling house
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4921
7 Jun 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a 84SQM single storey extension to the front and alterations to the elevations of an existing dwelling, and associated site works on a site of approx. 0.5 hectares.
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5058
22 Feb 2024Conditional
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4297
20 Nov 2023Conditional permission
1) permission for retention of: a) alterations to site boundaries granted permission under Pl.Reg.No. 04/3001 and b) existing 2 storey detached granny flat constructed within the curtilage of existing dwelling house and 2) permission to install a domestic waste water treatment system.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 23/6298
14 Nov 2023Conditional
Permission for the construction of dwelling (change of plan from that granted under PL.Reg.No 21/6515), Construction of detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6275
20 Oct 2023Incompleted application
Change of plan, alterations to dwelling house previously permitted under Pl.Reg.No. 21/6515 to include for a) construction of single storey rear extension, b) change from window to sliding door on rear elevation, c) construction of new detached domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6132
25 Apr 2023Conditional
Construct a dwelling house, to install a domestic waste water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4808
8 Mar 2023Conditional
Permission for retention of single storey ground floor extension to south west elevation and rooflights to south east and north west elevations of existing dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4406
17 Jun 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a storey and a half dwelling with the installation of a septic tank and percolation area with a new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5422
18 May 2022Incompleted application
Permission for the construction of a storey and a half dwelling with installation of a septic tank system and percolation area with a new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5154
13 Apr 2022Incompleted application
Retention of a) alterations to site boundaries granted permission under planning reference 04/3001 and b) existing 2-storey detached granny flat constructed within the curtilage of existing dwelling house
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4823
10 Mar 2022Conditional
Construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached domestic garage, site entrance, boundary fence, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4530
9 Mar 2022Conditional
Construct a one and a half storey dwelling house and installing a waste water treatment unit and ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4517
14 Sept 2021Conditional
The construction of a detached 2-storey dwellinghouse with new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6515
10 Sept 2021Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6493
1 Feb 2021Withdrawn
Construction of a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4198
17 Jul 2020Conditional
The construction of a dwellinghouse and domestic garage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5526
14 Apr 2020Conditional
Permission for the construction of dwellinghouse (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 16/5174) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4729
13 Mar 2020Incompleted application
Construction of dwelling (change of plan from that permitted under Planning Reg. No. 16/5174) and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4542
30 Jan 2020Incompleted application
Change of house plans to grant of planning permission reg. nr: 16/05174 (granted on 12/06/2017). The proposed development consists of construction of a dormer bungalow, with waste water treatment system and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4136
13 Dec 2019Conditional
Construct a dormer bungalow and install a proprietary treatment unit together with other ancillary site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6970
20 Feb 2018Conditional
Construction of a milking parlour, collecting yard, animal handing area, dairy/office with store upstairs, slatted slurry tank, slatted slurry channel, dairy washing tank and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4432
15 Dec 2017Conditional
Construct an agricultural entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7287
30 Nov 2017Conditional
Construction of a new dwelling house, waste water treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7126
24 Nov 2017Incompleted application
Construction of an agricultural entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/7052
The 25 most recent of 45 applications.
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 Arlinstown.
Recorded monuments
- CO097-065 Ringfort - rath
Description
In tillage, near top of ridge, looking N. Roughly circular area (65.8m N-S; 68.2m E-W) enclosed by inner bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2.8m); outer bank (int. H 1.7m; ext. H 0.9m); intervening fosse. Causewayed entrance to NE. Field clearance stones dumped in fosse to W; cattle bones to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO097-077 Burnt mound
Description
In pasture, on a N-facing slope. According to local information, a barely discernible mound of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was noted here when the field was ploughed. There were no visible remains of this mound in 2005 when the field was under pasture. A spring well which was to the NW of the mound has been drained. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO097-078 Burnt mound
Description
In reclaimed pasture, on a N-facing slope. According to local information, a mound of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was encountered here during land reclamation works. There were no visible remains of this possible burnt mound in 2005 when the field was under pasture. Another possible burnt mound (CO097-079----) lies c. 100m to the WNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO097-079 Burnt mound
Description
In reclaimed pasture at the foot of a N-facing slope. According to local information, a mound of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was encountered here during the reclamation of this formerly marshy area. There were no visible remains of this possible burnt mound in 2005 when the field was under pasture. Another possible burnt mound (CO097-078----) lies c. 100m to the ESE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO097-080 Burnt mound
Description
In rough grazing, on an E-facing slope. According to local information, a mound of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was encountered and dispersed during drainage works in this field. There were no visible remains of this possible burnt mound in 2005. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
- CO098-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture. Circular area (46.5m E-W; 45.9m N-S) enclosed by inner earthen bank (int. H 1m); intervening fosse; outer earthen bank best preserved to W (H 1.2m). Gaps in inner bank to N (Wth 1m), ENE (Wth 4m) and NW (Wth 1.5m). Fosse substantial to W and N, used as pathway to E and S. Outer bank modified and incorporated into field fence system to E and S. Interior raised to E to compensate for slope. Trees growing on banks and interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO098-059001 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy rush-covered ground, on the W side of a stream which forms the townland boundary between Arlinstown and Fahanalooscane. According to local information, a mound of burnt material, which was found here during land drainage works, was levelled and the burnt material spread over the surrounding ground. There were no visible remains of this burnt material in 2005. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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 Arlinstown.
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 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 Arlinstown.
- 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 Arlinstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Arlinstown · Baile an Arlóntaigh
- Area
- 1,691,469 m² (169.15 ha, 417.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymartle, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Electoral division
- Ballymartle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballymartle electoral division: 1,409 people in 453 households; 79% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carhoo North, Fahanalooscane, Knockane, Knocklucy, Mill-Land, Scart, Shanavally
- Placenames
- Arlinstown 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.