Brownsmills

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownsmills, from 71 m² to 4,261 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brownsmills 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.

• 13 Jul 2022Unconditional

  Retention permission for a single storey conservatory extension to the west elevation of unit 4 (dwellinghouse) at the former Mill Building - a Protected Structure (Ref: 00727)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5642

• 15 Jun 2022Incompleted application

  Retention permission for a single storey conservatory extension to the West elevation of unit 4 at the former Mill Building - a protected structure (ref: 00727)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 22/5392

• 15 Jul 2016Conditional

  Change of use of part of the first floor from commercial kitchen associated with former licenced premises to use as part of the domestic dwelling (amendments to the planning application as granted,Pl. Reg. No. 14/5136), Retention of works completed including the demolition of porch to the western elevation, alterations to the fenestration to the northern elevation, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5770

• 29 May 2014Conditional

  Change of use from existing public house and restaurant to a single occupancy domestic dwelling with separate commercial kitchen for use as an artisan food business, including alterations to the existing elevations and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5136

• 17 Nov 2011Unconditional

  Completion of two storey dwelling house permitted under Planning Reg. 06/8265

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 11/6420

• 14 Jul 2011Conditional

  Retention and completion of a 2 storey dwelling house currently under construction and retention of alterations to site layout and site boundaries as permitted under Planning Ref:06/8265. Retention of domestic shed and boundary wall. Permission to omit condition no. 3 of the governing planning permission (Planning Ref.:06/8265) which states the following; "The occupancy of the dwellinghouse shall be restricted to local persons with a housing need in accordance with SPL3-6 and 3.3.8 of the current Cork County Development Plan".

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5522

• 18 May 2009Conditional

  Construction of detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5597

• 23 Apr 2009Incompleted application

  Detached garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5273

• 31 Aug 2006Conditional

  Construction of fire escape stairs on the Mill Building (2 no. apartments)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10203

• 21 Jun 2006Conditional

  Two storey dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8265

• 23 Dec 2005Conditional

  Refurbishment and conservatory extension to Kiln House and refurbishment of mill to include conversion from 4 no. apartments to 2 no. apartments and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9873

• 22 Dec 2005Conditional

  Alterations to 1 no. 3 storey town house, change of use of 2 no. apartments into 2 no. 3 storey town houses (including conversion of ground floor storage areas) and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9684

• 2 Dec 2005Incompleted application

  Alterations to 1 no. three storey townhouse, change 2 no. apartments to 2 no. three storey townhouses and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8910

• 15 Nov 2005Incompleted application

  Alterations to 3- storey dwellinghouse and change of use of 2 no. apartments to 2 no. three-storey townhouses including conversion of ground floor storage area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8399

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 Brownsmills.

Recorded monuments

• CO112-014 Mill - corn
  Description

  Roadside, at head of Oyster Haven, and 1.8km NE of Kinsale. Rectangular corn mill (int.: 13.63m E-W; 5.24m N-S); 4-storeys with attic, gable-ended. Wheel-pit (Wth 2.2m; D c. 3m) along E gable, head race substantially higher(c. 3m) than ground level indicating wheel-pit housed high breastshot or overshot waterwheel which no longer survives. Underground arched tail race. Mill machinery powered by a line shaft of pulleys. Early 20th century grinding machines on ground floor: Blackstone Mill fitted with 30in french burr stones; Bentall Grinding Mill. On 1st floor there is a Huntley, Cronson and Hammond Separator. Other mill equipment includes hoppers,chutes, cupped elevator and sack hoist. Long 2-storey structure (long axisN-S) added to W end of N elevation incorporates a grain drying kiln (int.: 16.15m E-W; 3.18m N-S) at S end. Central furnace (1.77m x 1.39m) at groundfloor with ceramic grain drying kiln tiles at 1st floor. 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

• Brown's Mill, mill (water), 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay four-storey with attic former corn mill, built c.1810, having three-bay two-storey with attic block attached to north-west. Recent single-storey extension to side (west) elevation. Currently undergoing renovation for domestic use. Pitched slate roof to main block, hipped slate roof to two-storey block having rendered chimneystack. Rendered eaves course, rooflights and replacement cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Rendered walls throughout, having timber jib with simple cast-iron pulley mechanism to side (east) elevation of two-storey block. Square-headed window openings having replacement limestone and timber sills, with replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings having glazed timber doors with overlights. Freestanding steel and timber water wheel located to north-west. Rubble limestone enclosing walls having render coping and rendered octagonal-profile gate piers with moulded caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span rubble stone road bridge, built c.1820, spanning former Millrace. Round-headed arch having dressed limestone voussoirs. Partially rendered rubble limestone spandrels and parapets with render copings.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownsmills.

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.

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

Name

Brownsmills · Muileann an Bhrúnaigh

Area

10,598 m² (1.06 ha, 2.62 acres)

Civil parish

Ringcurran, and its townlands

Barony

Kinsale

Electoral division

Kinsale Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kinsale Rural electoral division: 5,605 people in 1,855 households; 75% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranarouga North, Knocknahilan, Knockrobin, Liscahane Beg, Spital-Land

Placenames

Brownsmills 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.