Bawn
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish An Bán
- Area
- 82.1 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 5,148 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 452 m² to 241,525 m² (24.15 ha, 59.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Bawn 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
20 Mar 2025Conditional
Permission for the following works to existing dwelling house: - (A) Demolition of a ruinous rear single storey attached storage shed. (B) For alterations and for part single storey and two storey extensions to dwelling to include roof lights to roof of existing dwelling .(C) For upgrade of existing vehicular access road to serve said dwelling. (D) For new waste water treatment system to serve dwelling and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/141
1 Mar 2011Unconditional
Change of house plan granted under planning reg: 01/6917 and construction of garage
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/126
17 Nov 2006Conditional
Change of house plans granted under planning reg: 01/6917 and construct garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2414
20 Oct 2006Incompleted application
Substitution of house plans under planning reg: 01/6917 and construct garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2190
23 Feb 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1014
2 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4993
16 May 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2331
19 Dec 2002Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5711
23 Aug 2002Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3745
20 Dec 2001Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6917
9 Apr 2001Conditional
Construction of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 01/1909
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 Bawn.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bawn.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawn.
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 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 Bawn.
- 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 Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bawn · An Bán
- Area
- 820,753 m² (82.08 ha, 202.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Curryglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Curryglass electoral division: 427 people in 179 households; 86% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cappanaparka East, Cappanaparka West, Clydagh, Coomgira, Derreen Lower, Derreen Upper, Derreeny, Reen
- Placenames
- Bawn 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.