# Bearforest Upper, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mallow, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 496,614 m² (49.66 ha, 122.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,528 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mallow, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/mallow.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Mallow Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,045 people lived in 1,684 households in the Mallow Rural electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 40994 - Centre: latitude 52.121364, longitude -8.628266 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bearforest Upper, from 215 m² to 254,220 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2216521: 254,220 m² (25.42 ha, 62.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216521.md - Parcel 2216520: 150,798 m² (15.08 ha, 37.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216520.md - Parcel 2273422: 45,139 m² (4.51 ha, 11.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273422.md - Parcel 2216528: 29,652 m² (2.97 ha, 7.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216528.md - Parcel 2273423: 3,782 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273423.md - Parcel 2273426: 3,590 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273426.md - Parcel 2273424: 1,556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273424.md - Parcel 2216524: 1,540 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216524.md - Parcel 2216523: 1,517 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216523.md - Parcel 2273425: 1,455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273425.md - Parcel 2216525: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216525.md - Parcel 2216522: 824 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216522.md - Parcel 2273421: 727 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2273421.md - Parcel 5435044: 383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5435044.md - Parcel 2216527: 265 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216527.md - Parcel 2216526: 215 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2216526.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 16 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf - G3 Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 13 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf - G3 Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf - G3 Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.corkcoco.ie/sites/default/files/2022-06/volume-3-north-cork.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 24 Oct 2024, Cork County Council 24/6013: Conditional. Permission. Permission for a) alterations to fenestration on front elevation, b) construct a new porch to front elevation, c) construct a new single storey extension to rear elevation, all to existing dwelling house, d) decommission existing wastewater treatment system and install a new septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/6013 - 21 Sept 2022, Cork County Council 22/6124: Conditional. Permission. Permission for retention of an existing dwelling house and domestic store as constructed and permission for revised site boundaries. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/6124 - 20 Nov 2019, Cork County Council 19/6763: Conditional. Retention. Retention of existing dog boarding kennels and an attached store for domestic use. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6763 - 5 Feb 2018, Cork County Council 18/4276: Conditional. Retention. Retention of existing dwelling, garage (domestic use) and entrance as constructed under Planning Reg. No. 416/73. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=18/4276 - 30 Jun 2006, Cork County Council 06/8525: Refused. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/8525 - 26 Oct 2005, Cork County Council 05/55074: Conditional. Retention. retention of existing dwelling house and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/55074 - 11 Feb 2003, Cork County Council 03/496: Conditional. Permission. Extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=03/496 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bearforest Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bearforest Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bearforest Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Bearforest Upper, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_961, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_961.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/bearforest-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/bearforest-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/bearforest-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bearforest Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyellis: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyellis-40469.md - Bearforest Lower: https://everytownland.com/cork/bearforest-lower.md - Carhookeal: https://everytownland.com/cork/carhookeal.md - Gortnagraiga: https://everytownland.com/cork/gortnagraiga.md - Knockaroura: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockaroura.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/bearforest-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/bearforest-upper