Britfieldstown

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Britfieldstown, from 32 m² to 393,970 m² (39.4 ha, 97.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Britfieldstown 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.

• 9 Feb 2026Grant with conditions

  Permission for construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage and all associated site works (Change of design to that permitted under planning reference 25/5226).

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0284

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose. Construction of a new vehicular entrance, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5226

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4742

• 22 Apr 2025Incompleted application

  Permission for construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose. Construction of a new vehicular entrance, installation of a domestic waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4737

• 11 Sept 2023Unconditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, a garage for domestic purposes, a vehicular entrance, to install a domestic water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 19/4334

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 23/5835

• 14 Sept 2022Incompleted application

  Construction of two-storey dwelling and single storey ancillary outbuilding, new entrance, new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site work - Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 17/5027

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 22/6066

• 14 Oct 2019Conditional

  (A) Retention of an existing straw bedded calving house. (B) Retention of extension to existing cubicle house and slatted tank. (C) Construction of an extension to existing slatted house, comprising of milking facilities, underground slurry flow channel, livestock handling facilities, livestock cubicles, extension to existing slatted tank and ancillary rooms. (D) Demolition of existing feed bin and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6472

• 18 Jun 2019Refused

  To construct a single storey dwelling house, site entrance, install a domestic waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5590

• 13 Feb 2019Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse, a garage for domestic purposes, a vehicular entrance, to install a domestic water treatment system and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4334

• 6 Feb 2019Incompleted application

  Construct a two storey dwelling, site entrance, waste water treatment system, boundary and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4251

• 20 Nov 2018Incompleted application

  To construct a two storey dwelling, site entrance, waste water treatment system, boundary and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/7033

• 27 Apr 2017Conditional

  Two-storey dwelling and single storey ancillary out building, new entrance, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 17/5027

• 23 Feb 2016Refused

  To erect a two storey dwelling, the installation of a waste water treatment unit and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4416

• 7 Aug 2015Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house, a garage for domestic purpose, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/5769

• 11 Sept 2014Refused

  Construction of dwellinghouse, garage for domestic purpose, installation of proprietary treatment unit and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5940

• 31 Jul 2014Incompleted application

  Construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5649

• 16 Feb 2012Conditional

  Construction of a single storey dwelling house, including the installation of a waste water treatment system and associated site works and the subdivision of the existing site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4255

• 16 Feb 2012Conditional

  Installation of a new waste water treatment system for an existing dwelling house with associated site works and the subdivision of the existing site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4254

• 9 Nov 2011Conditional

  (a) Retention of change of use of existing coast guard station house from commercial to private dwelling, (b) permission to decommission the existing septic tank on site and to install new euro-bio sewage treatment system and polishing filter, and (c) permission for modifications to existing entrance to site

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6374

• 11 May 2011Conditional

  Construction of extension to bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5003

• 29 Mar 2011Incompleted application

  Erect an extension

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4630

• 2 Mar 2010Conditional

  Change of use of existing dwelling to 2 no. separate dwellings, alterations to existing entrance and installation of septic tank and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4459

• 18 Mar 2008Incompleted application

  Laying of new foul sewer drain through the street from the coast guard station house to the existing treatment unit adjacent to Robertscove Bridge and retention of change of use of Coast Guard Station House from commercial to private dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5496

• 15 May 2007Refused

  Dormer style dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 07/7799

• 21 Feb 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/923

The 25 most recent of 30 applications.

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 the townland of Britfieldstown.

Recorded monuments

• CO113-013 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In boggy ground, on N-facing slope. Low irregular mound of burnt material. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-014 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Heavily overgrown. Front (H c. 8m; Wth 6.3m); arched recess (H 2.65m; Wth 3.05m). Funnel (diam. 1.8m). Stone walls on either side of front forming forecourt. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO113-015 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on are area of level ground c. 880m N of Robert’s Head (OD m). Located c. 320m W of the coastline at its closest point overlooking Robert’s Cove. The landscape slopes gently to the E towards the coastline at Robert’s Cove where there are abrupt sea cliffs. The surrounding area consists mainly of large arable fields defined by linear field boundaries. A narrow strip of rough pasture to the E connects the site of the signal station to the coastline. The adjacent stations in the signal station\tower chain are found at the Dunbogey, Barry’s Head (CO113-032----), located c. 6.7kms to the SW, now demolished, and at an unknown location at Fort Carlisle (later Fort Davis; CO087-058---- for fort complex; CO087-058001- for unknown site of signal station), which is located c. 9.2kms to the NNE. This signal station\tower at Barry’s Head is located c. 810m NE of a coastal promontory fort (CO113-044----) occupying a short headland overlooking Carrigadda Bay, and c. 1.7kms E of the site of a church (CO113-011002-) at Ballyfoyle that is set in an associated graveyard (CO113-011002-). An early nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) three-storey square-plan signal station\tower (ext. dims. c. 5.85m NE-SW x c. 5.85m NW-SE; wall T c. 0.72m), built with randomly coursed rubble stone masonry, with later modifications and additions. Flush squared sandstone quoins to the corners. The signal station\tower survives to its full height (H c. 11m). Remains of sections of lime render to the exterior; originally weather-slated but only very limited sections of slating now survive. The walls face NW, NE, SE and SW. The extant building is not of the standard\typical signal station\tower design as seen elsewhere along the N, NW and SW coasts. It is a tall three-storey structure with gabled walls to the NW and SE elevations. The original main doorway is located to the centre of the SE elevation at first floor level; this has been subsequently blocked\infilled with rubble stone masonry. There are two-square-headed window openings over this blocked doorway at second floor level located close to the gable apex. The SW elevations features five large square-headed window openings; a pair to both the ground and first floor levels, and a single window opening offset to the SE end at second floor level. There was possibly another window opening to the NW side at second floor level that was later infilled. The NE elevation features a single square-headed doorway at ground floor level to the NW end, a square-headed doorway or window opening to the SE end at first floor level, and a square-headed window opening to the SE end at second floor level. There was possibly another window opening to the NW side at second floor level that was later infilled. The NW elevation features a square-headed doorway at ground floor level to the SW end, a square-headed window opening to the NE side at second floor level, and a tall rubble stone chimneystack that protrudes from the peak of the gable apex. The NW elevation bulges slightly towards the centre to accommodate the chimney flue. The structure and the additions bear a strong resemblance to the signal station\tower at Mizen Head (CO152A001----). Kerrigan established that the signal tower was completed in 1804 (Kerrigan 1995, 277). A small single-bay two-storey addition abuts the NE side of the building at the SE end and larger single-storey addition abuts the NW elevation. A low flat-roofed rectangular-plan reinforced concrete water cistern set into the ground is located adjacent to the SE of the original structure. Fragments of a former enclosure survive to the NW of the signal station tower as a short section of tall rubble stone boundary walling but the rest of the original enclosure (see below) has now been removed. Hamilton’s 1806 map shows the signal tower located in a narrow rectangular-plan enclosure with a wide fan-shaped\oval end to the SE (Kerrigan 2003, 37). The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1841-2, identifies the site as ‘Old Signal Tower’ and shows the signal station\tower close to the centre of a rectangular-plan enclosure (ext. dims c. 100m NW-SE x c. 34m SW-NE) with a fan-shaped termination to the SE end. This map also suggests that there was possibly a narrower inner enclosure at this time. The Ordnance Survey second ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1897-1904, shows a narrow rectangular-plan enclosure with a wider rounded end to the SE (ext. dims. c. 58m NW-SE x c. 14m SW-NE at the N end and c. 36m SW-NE at widest part of rounded end to SE). The Ordnance Survey third ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1926-1937, shows that the enclosure has been widened along the NE side by this time. The signal station\tower is shown with a small square-plan addition or enclosure built against the NW wall, and with a larger square-plan enclosure or building extending from the same NW wall. The signal station was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 26/09/22

• CO113-034 Country house
  Description

  Early/mid 18th century 2-storey T-shaped house over basement. Entrance front (E) of 7 bays; central wide breakfront with baseless pediment (Bence Jones 1978, 47). Wide central door ope incorporating decoratively glazed sidelights under wide fanlight; narrow rectangular windows on either side of ope. Central sash window at 1st floor flanked by similarly narrow windows; lunette in pediment. Steps over basement up to door. Hipped roof; two off-centre chimneys. Central hipped projection to rear with round-headed stairway window. Demolished c. 1984. Structure (castle/house) (CO113-036----) marked in vicinity of this house on Down Survey (1655-6) (1652) map, of which nothing appears to remain (Healy 1989, 233). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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

• Britfieldstown, outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings, built c.1800. L-plan nine- and two-bay two-storey block, having rubble limestone steps giving access to first floor of rear (west) elevation and remains of adjoining building to side (east) elevation. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs having partially rendered rubble stone chimneystack, limestone eaves course, render ridge cresting and gable copings. Occasional sections of render to rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed window openings with limestone sills to ground floor, having red brick block-and-start surrounds and red brick voussoirs. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to first floor, having exposed timber lintels to west elevation openings. Camber-headed door openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds and red brick voussoirs. Elliptical-arched carriage openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and red brick voussoirs. Square-headed door opening to side (west) elevation having exposed timber lintel. Recently inserted square-headed door opening with cast-iron lintel to front elevation. Remains of rubble limestone walls associated with now ruinous outbuildings located to north and east. Two-bay double-height outbuilding to north-east of complex. Pitched roof with remains of timber frame and rubble stone gables, having limestone eaves course and render coping to south gable. Rubble limestone walls. Blind camber-headed window openings with limestone voussoirs throughout. Camber-headed door openings with limestone voussoirs with replacement metal doors. Recently inserted square-headed door opening with rendered lintel, corrugated-iron sliding door and cast-iron rail to west elevation.

• Britfieldstown, walled garden, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached walled garden, built c.1800. Rectangular-plan with ground sloping gently northwards. Main entrance centrally located to east elevation. Rubble limestone walls, having red and yellow brick lining to interior elevations of northern and eastern walls. Breakfront entrance to west elevation, having rebated elliptical-headed opening with red brick voussoirs. Recently inserted entrance to north-east corner.

• Britfieldstown, gate lodge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey with dormer attic gate lodge, built c.1800, now disused. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystack and uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls. Square- and round-headed window openings with limestone voussoirs and replacement timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening with limestone voussoirs to front (south-east) elevation, having partially rendered limestone stepped approach and replacement timber battened door.

• Outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey outbuilding, built c.1800, having rubble limestone steps giving access to first floor of side (east) elevation and single-bay single-storey lean-to to side (west) elevation. Pitched slate and replacement corrugated-iron roofs having rendered chimneystack and partially rendered limestone eaves course. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed and pointed arch window openings having exposed timber lintels and timber battened shutters. Loop openings to ground floors of front and rear elevations. Camber-headed door openings with limestone voussoirs to front elevation, having replacement timber battened doors. Square-headed door openings elsewhere, having replacement single and double-leaf timber battened doors. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to west of complex. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with render gable copings. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window opening with render lintel. Square-headed door opening having render lintel and timber battened door.

• Robert's Head Signal Tower, signal tower, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay three-storey signal tower, built 1804-5, now ruinous. Remains of lean-to two-storey addition to side (north-east) and single-storey additions to rear (north-west). Roof now absent with rubble limestone gables, eaves course and chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls with limestone quoins, having sections of slate hanging to side elevations. Square-headed window openings with render sills and lintels. Blocked square-headed door opening to first floor of front elevation, having rubble stone voussoirs. Square-headed door openings with rendered lintels to ground floor. Detached concrete bunker to south-east having square and round-headed openings to north-west elevation and pair of square-plan raised projections to roof.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Britfieldstown, 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 Britfieldstown.

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.

No address of the register names Britfieldstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Britfieldstown · Baile an Bhritbhíligh

Area

1,821,625 m² (182.16 ha, 450.13 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyfoyle, and its townlands

Barony

Kinalea

Electoral division

Ballyfoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

404 people lived in 133 households in the Ballyfoyle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvarrig, Ballyfoyle, Doonavanig, Knocknamanagh

Placenames

Britfieldstown 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.