Beennamweel West
Townland in the civil parish of Kilshannig, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Binn na Míol Thiar
- Area
- 169.6 ha
- 419 acres
- Land parcels
- 194
- registered freehold, median 313 m²
- Zoning
- S5
- Community
- Planning
- 100
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beennamweel West, from 29 m² to 260,922 m² (26.09 ha, 64.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
- S5Community (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
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
28 Nov 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Permission for construction of a detached two storey house with single storey element, detached single storey domestic garage, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6625
2 Jul 2025Conditional permission
Permission for construction of dwelling house and garage (change of plan and layout from that previously granted under planning reference number 22/5081) and all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5304
4 Jun 2025Incompleted application
Permission for the development proposed amendments to the previously permitted development (Cork Co Co reg. ref. 22/5081) of a two-storey dwelling house with garage will consist of: a) increase the height of the house to allow for mechanical ventilation and all associated works, b) minor modification to internal layout and elevations, c) additional roof lights to east & west elevations
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5074
26 Mar 2025Refused
Outline permission for the subdivision of site into plots for 4 dwelling houses, each with independent access and independent services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 25/4531
21 Feb 2025Application invalid
Outline permission for the subdivision of site into plots for 4 dwelling houses, each with independent access and independent services
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 25/4267
31 Dec 2024Incompleted application
Permission for subdivision of site into plots for 4 dwelling houses, each with independent access and independent services.
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 24/6536
7 Oct 2022Conditional
Planning permission for the construction of a 2-storey detached dwelling house with attached domestic garage and site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6262
3 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing dwelling.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/6220
13 May 2022Conditional permission
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house with garage, domestic garage and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5081
7 Apr 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house with garage, domestic garage and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4772
11 Mar 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house with garage, domestic garage and site entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4536
17 Feb 2022Incompleted application
Construction of a two-storey dwelling house with garage, domestic garage and site entrance.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4335
27 Nov 2020Conditional
Construct a new dwelling house, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6653
11 Jun 2020Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5184
11 Dec 2019Incompleted application
Permission consequent on the grant of outline permission registration reference no. 17/05995 for permission to construct two storey dwelling, connection to public services and associated site works.
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 19/6946
7 May 2019Conditional
Change of use of part of ground floor dwelling from domestic to sessional pre-school service.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5146
2 Nov 2018Conditional
Construction of dwellinghouse, garage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6898
18 Apr 2018Refused
Change of use of part of ground floor dwelling from domestic to sessional Pre-School service
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4965
16 Mar 2018Incompleted application
Change of use of part of ground floor dwelling from domestic to sessional pre-school service.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4656
23 Oct 2017Conditional
Retention of 2 no. dwellinghouses and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6741
5 Oct 2017Conditional
One dwellinghouse on serviced site previously granted permission under register no: 07/6230 and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6593
4 Oct 2017Incompleted application
Retention of 2 no. dwellinghouses and associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 17/6587
13 Sept 2017Incompleted application
One dwelling house on serviced site previously granted under permission register no. 07/6230 and all associated site development works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6365
25 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of residential development of 9 detached two storey dwellinghouses and all associated site works, services and landscaping
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6215
21 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of a storey and a half style dwellinghouse and associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6157
The 25 most recent of over 100 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 Beennamweel West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beennamweel West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beennamweel West.
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 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 Beennamweel West.
- 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 Beennamweel West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Beennamweel West · Binn na Míol Thiar
- Area
- 1,695,585 m² (169.56 ha, 418.99 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
- Beennamweel East, Boola, Glannoge, Knockdrislagh, Rathcoola West, Shanavoher
- Placenames
- Beennamweel West 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.