Beenreagh
Beenreagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcorney, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Bhinn Riabhach.
- Area
- 103.4 ha
- 256 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 77,196 m² (7.72 ha, 19.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beenreagh, from 1,551 m² to 505,620 m² (50.56 ha, 124.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Beenreagh 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
16 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted house with underground tank and cubicles
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12327
28 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/5136
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
Recorded monuments
- CO040-080 Fulacht fia
Description
In marshy ground, on N side of stream. Overgrown horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt material (L 22.2m; Wth 13m; H 1.4m); opening (Wth 3.6m) faces N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO040-126 Fulacht fia
Description
In overgrown marshy ground beside road. Heavily overgrown, possibly circular mound, composed of dark soil and some brittle stones beneath c.0.3m of humic soil. According to local information, there is a hollow inthe centre. Nature of site uncertain but possibly a fulacht fiadh. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO040-129 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on NE-facing slope, overlookig Crinnaloo River. Roughlycircular area (32m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.85m) N->SE; earthen bank (int. H 1.45m) SE->W with external fosse (D 1.25m). Bankstone-faced in parts. Field boundary running NE-SW truncates enclosure on NW side. Limekiln marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map would have been located approximately at E side of enclosure; no visible surface trace. Slight lipvisible at base of bank due to ploughing of interior. Locally known as fort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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 Beenreagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Beenreagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Beenreagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Beenreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Beenreagh · An Bhinn Riabhach
- Area
- 1,034,262 m² (103.43 ha, 255.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcorney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Crinnaloo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 205 people lived in 73 households in the Crinnaloo electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigduff, Crinnaloo North, Crinnaloo South, Donoure East
- Placenames
- Beenreagh 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.