Banefune

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Banefune, from 423 m² to 493,397 m² (49.34 ha, 121.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Banefune in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Banefune.

Recorded monuments

• CO025-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on S-facing slope. Depicted with hachures spiralling anti-clockwise from NW to NW to SSE on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured partially levelled bivallate enclosure on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible as cropmark of fosse in aerial photograph (CASAP) with faint trace of second fosse to W and N. 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

• CO025-014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop knoll. Circular area (24.8m NW-SE) defined by scarp (H 0.95m). Sharp fall of ground immediately outside scarp on E side and c. 4-6m beyond site N->NE. Low worn earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) SSE->SSW separated from scarp by fosse. Small quarry cuts into interior to SE; natural slope quarried into to N. Interior level; possible souterrain (CO025-01403-) at centre. Line of stones atop scarp to ESE. Ringfort (CO025-01402-) lies c. 15m to S. 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

• CO025-014002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop knoll. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured circular raised area (diam. c. 20m) on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; circular rise visible in area of site (diam. c. 20m); field boundary, depicted as skirting enclosure to S and W on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps, survives as low rise. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CASAP) as cropmark of fosse. Circular enclosure (CO025-01401-) lies c. 15m to N. 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

• CO025-014003 Souterrain
  Description

  In centre of circular enclosure (CO025-01401-). Depression, with stony surface to N, may indicate collapsed souterrain. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Banefune.

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 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 Banefune.

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

Name

Banefune · An Bán Fionn

Area

513,631 m² (51.36 ha, 126.92 acres)

Civil parish

Caherduggan, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Caherduggan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherduggan electoral division: 644 people in 229 households; 85% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymague, Caherduggan North, Clogheen, Twopothouse

Placenames

Banefune 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.