Beenalaght
Townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Binn na Leacht
- Area
- 197.2 ha
- 487 acres
- Land parcels
- 103
- registered freehold, median 7,202 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 33
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
103 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beenalaght, from 206 m² to 118,110 m² (11.81 ha, 29.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Beenalaght 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
27 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of a dwelling and detached domestic garage, as well as carrying out all site works, including the installation of a waste water treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6600
17 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission to construct a building for the manufacture of continuous insulated metal sheeting, with 700 sq m of open storage of metal coils, metal sheeting and permission to relocated staff car parking and waste water treatment as granted under Planning Permission No. 20/4052 with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6861
23 Nov 2020Incompleted application
Permission to construct a building for the manufacture of continuous insulated metal sheeting and 700 sq m of open storage and permission to relocated staff car parking and waste water treatment as granted under Planning Permission No. 20/4052 with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6601
20 Jan 2020Conditional
Retention of (a) building no. 1 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing and forming of metal cladding sheeting and the production of steel purlin, steel flashings, steel gutters, (b) buildings no. 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing, and forming of insulated metal cladding sheeting, (c) 7 No. temporary portacabins, 5.1 Logistics Offices, 5.2 Logistics Offices, 5.3 Logistics Offices, 5.4 Canteen/Sales Offices, 5.5 Office, 5.6 Canteen, 5.7 Drying Room/Smoking Shed (d) temporary site security office / reception, (e) open areas for storage of metal coils, metal sheeting, insulated metal sheeting, steel purlins, steel flashings, and steel gutters. (f) 3 no. signage panels at site entrance and planning permission for the construction of a shed for storage of metal coils, open storage of finished products and a building for general offices with ancillary parking, construction of a waste water treatment unit, percolation area, construction of site entrance and road boundary, incorporating palisade fencing and stone wall, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4052
5 Dec 2019Incompleted application
Retention of (a) building no 1 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing and forming of metal cladding sheeting and the production of steel purlin, steel flashings, steel gutters, (b) building no 2 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing, and forming of insulated metal cladding sheeting, (c) temporary portacabins offices, (d) temporary site security office / reception, (e) open areas for storage of metal coils, metal sheeting, insulated metal sheeting, steel purlins, steel flashings, and steel gutters. (f) 3 no signage panels at site entrance and planning permission for the construction of a shed for storage of metal coils,open storage of finish products and a building for general offices with ancillary parking, construction of a waste water treatment unit, percolation area, construction of site entrance and road boundary and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6899
15 Nov 2019Incompleted application
Retention of (a) building no 1 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing and forming of metal cladding sheeting and the production of steel purlin, steel flashings, steel gutters, (b) building no 2 for the carrying out of cutting, rolling, pressing, and forming of insulated metal cladding sheeting, (c) temporary portacabins offices, (d) temporary site security office / reception, (e) open areas for storage of metal coils, metal sheeting, insulated metal sheeting, steel purlins, steel flashings, and steel gutters. (f) 3 no signage panels at site entrance and planning permission for the construction of a shed for storage of metal coils and a building for general offices with ancillary parking, construction of site entrance and road boundary, construction of a waste water treatment unit with percolation area, and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6725
23 Jan 2014Conditional
Retention of domestic garage and domestic shed with associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4113
13 Jan 2014Conditional
Retention of dwelling house, domestic garage, dog shed and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/4041
7 Dec 2012Incompleted application
Construction of building to carry out the pressing and folding of metal sheets and ancillary works, storage, offices, toilet and associated site works, demolition and removal of existing on site buildings. Permission for retention of alterations to existing site entrance to form double entrance for commercial and domestic use, concrete site access road, concrete yard for car parking and open storage of coils of metal sheets, and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6498
2 Dec 2010Conditional
Construction of two storey extensions to front and rear elevations of existing dwelling, elevational alterations to existing dwelling, detached garage, new site entrance and proprietary treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/8630
18 Nov 2008Conditional
Two-storey dwelling, garage with first floor storage over and installation of septic tank and entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9725
5 Aug 2008Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8252
9 Apr 2008Refused
Dwellinghouse, garage and wastewater treatment plant
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5918
9 Aug 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse, detached garage, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10202
18 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8776
18 Jun 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8750
25 Apr 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7273
1 Mar 2007Refused
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5557
16 Feb 2007Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5133
7 Dec 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13069
13 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12197
18 Oct 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/11534
15 Mar 2006Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5575
21 Dec 2005Refused
Demolition of dwellinghouse and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9584
24 Nov 2005Incompleted application
Demolition and construction of dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8669
The 25 most recent of 33 applications.
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 Beenalaght.
Recorded monuments
- CO050-009 Stone row
Description
In flat pasture, on spur at S foot of Bweengduff mountain; possible stone row (9842) in same townland. Row of six stones, aligned NE-SW, 11.1m in overall length. Stones decrease in height towards centre. NE stone is 1.4m L, 0.6m T and 2.9m H. Next stone, 1m to SW, is 1m L, 0.5m T and 2.9m H. Third stone, 1.8m from last, is prostrate; it measures 1.9m by 0.5m and is 0.45m T. Fourth stone, 1.4m further to SW, is 0.8m L, 0.4m T and 1.9m H. Fifth stone, 1m from last, is 1.1m L, 0.4m T and 2.4m H. SW stone, 0.7m from last, is 1.65m L, 0.7m T and 2.7m H. (Ó Nualláin 1988, 232, no. 12) 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
- CO050-010 Souterrain
Description
On S-facing slope, on W side of Beenalaght settlement. Heavily overgrown; possible roof slabs exposed and partially displaced. Stone walling visible within; interior inaccessible. 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beenalaght.
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, 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 Beenalaght.
- 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 Beenalaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Beenalaght · Binn na Leacht
- Area
- 1,971,588 m² (197.16 ha, 487.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilshannig, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Dromore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromore electoral division: 3,061 people in 953 households; 82% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboght, Boola, Garraunredmond, Glandine, Gowlane North, Knockavaddra
- Placenames
- Beenalaght 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.