Bearforest Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Mallow, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork
Parcel 2273421
- Area
- 727 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Bearforest Upper
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Nov 2019Conditional
Retention of existing dog boarding kennels and an attached store for domestic use
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/6763
26 Oct 2005Conditional
retention of existing dwelling house and garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 05/55074
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_961 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 49.7 ha
- 123 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 1,528 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
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). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Green Infrastructure (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Oct 2024Conditional
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
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6013
21 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of an existing dwelling house and domestic store as constructed and permission for revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6124
20 Nov 2019Conditional
Retention of existing dog boarding kennels and an attached store for domestic use
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/6763
5 Feb 2018Conditional
Retention of existing dwelling, garage (domestic use) and entrance as constructed under Planning Reg. No. 416/73
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4276
30 Jun 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8525
26 Oct 2005Conditional
retention of existing dwelling house and garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 05/55074
11 Feb 2003Conditional
Extension to dwelling and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/496
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 Bearforest Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bearforest Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bearforest Upper.
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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_961 (ZIP).
- 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 Bearforest Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bearforest Upper
- Area
- 496,614 m² (49.66 ha, 122.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mallow, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Mallow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mallow Rural electoral division: 5,045 people in 1,684 households; 62% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyellis, Bearforest Lower, Carhookeal, Gortnagraiga, Knockaroura
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.