Barnacurra
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Barr na Cora
- Area
- 205.7 ha
- 508 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 10,818 m² (1.08 ha, 2.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Barnacurra, from 25 m² to 216,648 m² (21.66 ha, 53.53 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 Barnacurra 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
17 Jan 2023Conditional
To construct a dwelling house with entrance, waste water treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/4038
11 Aug 2022Refused
Permission to construct a dwelling house with entrance, waste water treatment system and polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5874
9 Oct 2017Conditional
Retention of the existing underground slatted effluent storage tank and permission to construct a new bovine livestock slatted unit incorporating existing cubicle house and sheds with 2 no. underground effluent storage tanks and a new uncovered silage slab with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6625
22 Sept 2017Incompleted application
Retention of the existing underground slatted effluent storage tank and Permission to construct a new bovine livestock slatted unit with 2 number underground effluent tanks and a new uncovered silage slab with all associated site and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6457
14 Dec 2016Refused
To raise the ground levels of existing entrance using earth materials such as subsoil, natural stone and top soil in order to create the safe ingress and egress for vehicular turning at his property
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7135
19 Oct 2016Incompleted application
To raise the ground levels of existing entrance using earth material such as subsoil, natural stone and top soil in order to create the safe ingress and egress for vehicular turning at property
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6607
16 Sept 2015Conditional
Retention of detached domestic garage as constructed, retention of dwelling in new location and retention of site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6074
20 Jul 2015Conditional
Permission for construction of a roofed slatted unit and retention of excavation of lands, alterations to ground levels, construction of an access type passage and laying of hardcore
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5608
1 May 2015Incompleted application
Retention of garage as constructed along with retention of dwelling and site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4898
28 Apr 2015Incompleted application
Construction of roofed slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4870
18 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Retention of domestic garage along with retention of dwelling and site boundaries
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4527
5 Jan 2015Incompleted application
Retention of detached domestic garage as constructed
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4002
15 Feb 2012Conditional
Construction of a roofed slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4236
15 May 2007Conditional
Construction of easy feed suckler house and slurry flow channel
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7790
20 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit and silage slab
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13518
11 May 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7083
5 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/8962
21 Nov 2003Conditional
2 no. dwellinghouses with common entrance
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/5830
3 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwelling with attached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4955
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
- CO022-018 Standing stone
Description
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on N-facing slope overlooking Glenlara River. Removed, no visible surface trace. Noted by Bowman (1934, 156) as 'broken, remaining portion 1ft 10in high, 6ft 3in girth'. 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
- CO022-019 Standing stone
Description
Not marked on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked adjacent to field fence on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Removed during field fence clearance c. 1979. Stone (L 2.33m; 1.1m x c. 0.26m) now lies c. 26m to S beside field fence (CO022-284----). 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 revision: 11 November 2009
- CO022-020 Standing stone
Description
Not marked on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Stone (H 0.9m; 0.6m x 0.43m) is triangular in plan and shape, long axis NNW-SSE. Three indentations (L 0.04m, 0.055m, 0.065m; Wth 0.02m) on S corner of E face, rough X-shaped cross on NNW face. 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
- CO022-284 Standing stone (present location)
Description
Not marked on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked adjacent to field fence on 1937 OS 6-inch map (CO022-019----). Removed during field fence clearance c. 1979. Stone (L 2.33m; 1.1m x c. 0.26m) now lies c. 26m to S beside field fence. 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 revision: 18 November 2009
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched corrugated-iron roof having rendered chimneystack and wrought-iron gutter hooks. Painted rendered walls having plinth course to south gable. Corrugated-iron roof and walls to addition, with concrete plinth. Square-headed openings, having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened door to front elevation, one-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to south gable, two-over-two pane and four-pane timber casement windows to rear. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber battened door to addition, latter approached by three decreasing steps. Lean-to outbuilding to north elevation, with corrugated-iron roof. Detached two-storey outbuilding to north-west, having four-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor, pitched slate roof, coursed rubble stone walls, external steps at gable to first floor, and square-headed timber louvered windows and timber battened half-doors. Painted rendered boundary walls terminating in square-profile piers with cast-iron gates and pedestrian gate to south. Coursed rubble stone and render boundary walls to north-east having blocked gate opening approached by render steps. Once part of a larger group, some of which remains to west of site, including house and outbuilding with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rubble limestone walls.
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 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 Barnacurra.
- 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
- Barnacurra, Newmarket5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Barnacurra · Barr na Cora
- Area
- 2,057,164 m² (205.72 ha, 508.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Barnacurra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Barnacurra electoral division: 246 people in 87 households; 90% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduane South, Ballyduane West, Blueford, Glenlara, Lisrobin East, Lisrobin West
- Placenames
- Barnacurra 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.