Bawnishal

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnishal, from 26 m² to 316,970 m² (31.7 ha, 78.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Bawnishal 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.

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  Land re-contouring works on c1.69 ha of a folio size of c.4.2 ha on an agricultural site. The volume of material to be placed on the site is c5,300 m3 with an average fill level average of c300mm above existing. The clean inert soil and stone material placed here will allow the land to be improved for agricultural use after small scale commercial forestry operations. The material originates from site clearance activities at West Cork Distillers, Marsh Road, Skibbereen, Co. Cork

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/161

• 11 Feb 2022Incompleted application

  Land re-countouring works on c1.69 ha of a folio size of c4.2 ha on an agricultural site at Bawnishal, Clohane, Co. Cork . The volume of material to be placed on the site is c5,300 m3 with an average fill level average of c300mm above existing. The clean inert soil and stone material placed here will allow the land to be improved for agricultural use after small scale commercial forestry felling operations. The material originates from site clearance activities at West Cork Distillers, Marsh Road, Skibbereen, Co. Cork

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/73

• 25 Mar 2013Unconditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 13/174

• 24 Oct 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/1915

• 11 May 2007Refused

  Dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1237

• 22 Feb 2006Conditional

  Single storey conservatory to South West side of existing dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/267

• 25 Feb 2005Conditional

  Demolition of joinery workshop and ancillary works associated with same, construction of new commercial premises incorporating joinery workshop, offices and public showroom, installation of new septic tank system to serve new premises and retention of stores building

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1106

• 12 Nov 2002Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4980

• 7 Jun 2001Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/3260

• 15 Sept 2000Conditional

  Retention of reconstruction of existing dairy & installation of 2 no. septic tanks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/5574

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 Bawnishal.

Recorded monuments

• CO132-057 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Shown on OS 6-inch map (1842) as hachured univallate circular enclosure. In accessible due to heavy overgrowth. 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

• CO132-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, above-SW facing slope. Hachured circular enclosure on OS 6-inch map (1842). No visible surface trace. 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

• CO132-059 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture on SE-facing slope. Rectangular stone aligned ENE-WSW (H 3.2m; 1m x 0.8m). 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Bawnishal.

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

Name

Bawnishal · An Bán Íseal

Area

1,559,340 m² (155.93 ha, 385.32 acres)

Civil parish

Caheragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (west Division)

Electoral division

Killeenleagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeenleagh electoral division: 371 people in 132 households; 86% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrig, Cloghane Beg, Cloghane More, Coolbane, Dromcorragh, Lassanaroe, Lissangle, Maune, Milleennahorna

Placenames

Bawnishal 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.