Buavanagh
Townland in the civil parish of Bregoge, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish Both Mhanach
- Area
- 62.7 ha
- 155 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 29,892 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Buavanagh, from 1,811 m² to 347,363 m² (34.74 ha, 85.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 9 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
24 Oct 2023Conditional
Permission for (1) The retention of dwelling house in an altered position to that which was permitted under planning ref: 22/4308, (2) The retention of altered elevations & floor plans of same dwelling house to that which was permitted under planning ref: 22/4308, (3) Completion of same dwelling house and (4) All associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6147
15 Feb 2022Conditional
To construct a new dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4308
1 Jun 2016Conditional
(1) Construction of extensions to milking parlour, (2) re-location of dairy room, (3) Retention of extensions to cattle sheds, (4) Retention of slatted cattle shed, and (5) all ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5321
30 Oct 2009Conditional
Two-storey extension to existing dwelling, alteration to existing facades, installation of a new septic tank & associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7491
26 Jul 2005Conditional
Extension to milking parlour and construction of open slurry tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5358
28 Jan 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/394
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 Buavanagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO016-198002 Church
Description
Site of Templemary Church in N part of graveyard (CO016-19801-). Depicted as rectangular structure (c. 12m WSW-ENE; c. 7m NNW-SSE) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; site of church 'traceable' according to OS Field Books of 1840, E end in 'Benanagh townland' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, 242). Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 236) describes 'the ruins of an ancient church or chapel'. Marked 'site of' on 1842, 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO016-199 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle SSW-facing slope, c. 350m NW of Buavanagh House. Circular area (34.1m N-S; 33.9m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m); external fosse (D 0.75m) W->ESE. Break in bank to SSE (Wth 2.8m) and NNW (Wth 3m). Interior and bank planted with deciduous trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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 Buavanagh.
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 Buavanagh.
- 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 Buavanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Buavanagh · Both Mhanach
- Area
- 626,656 m² (62.67 ha, 154.85 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bregoge, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Churchtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Churchtown electoral division: 1,286 people in 427 households; 70% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bregoge, Currymount, Templemary, Tinnascart, Tullig
- Placenames
- Buavanagh 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.