Bluepool
Townland in the civil parish of Castlemagner, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish An Linn Ghorm
Parcel 2162167
- Area
- 58,719 m² (5.87 ha, 14.51 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- M4 Existing Mixed/General Business/Industrial Uses (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
R2 Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
C2.1 Business and General Employment (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
S6 Special Policy Area (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective - Townland
- Bluepool
Planning applications on this parcel
10 Mar 2021Conditional
Permission for retention of detached domestic garage to rear of dwelling and ancillary works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/4605
2 May 2012Unconditional
Construction of a creche, community centre, 50 bed retirement home with 15 associated independent living units and all associated site works and services including attenuation tank and pump house, extension of duration to permission granted under planning reg 07/4226
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4910
16 Jan 2007Conditional
Construction of a creche, community centre, 50 bed retirement home with 15 associated independent living units and all associated site works and services including attenuation tank and pump house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4226
1 Mar 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1282
28 May 2003Conditional
Construction of industrial unit
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2545
23 May 2003Refused
Two storey dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2455
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 20 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_658 (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
- 20.4 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 4
- registered freehold, median 16,409 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bluepool, from 4,590 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres) to 165,783 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Business and General Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Green Infrastructure (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C6Business and General Employment (Mixed/general commercial/industrial/enterprise 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
6 May 2026Awaiting f.i. response
Permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, installation of a wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1175
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bluepool.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bluepool.
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 20 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; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_658 (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 Bluepool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Bluepool · An Linn Ghorm
- Area
- 203,929 m² (20.39 ha, 50.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlemagner, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Greenane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Greenane electoral division: 1,440 people in 555 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garraunteefineen, Greenane, Kanturk, Pulleen
- Placenames
- Bluepool 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.