Burges Upper
Burges Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Clonpriest, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Bhuirgéis Uachtarach.
- Area
- 38.4 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 5,133 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Burges Upper, from 516 m² to 328,375 m² (32.84 ha, 81.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Burges Upper 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
4 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission for retention of elevational changes & material change of use of garage to living space as a separate dwelling house for use ancillary to the main dwelling house and permission for proposed elevational changes and all associated works
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/5050
30 Apr 2025Incompleted application
Permission for retention of elevational changes & material change of use of garage to living space and planning permission for proposed elevational changes and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4815
14 Oct 2021Conditional
To construct a haybarn and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6799
22 Feb 2017Conditional
Amendments to previously permitted development (Planning Ref No. 12/6234), to construct a dwellinghouse and install a treatment unit and associated site works. This application seeks permission for new house design, change of house location and revised site boundaries.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4394
26 Oct 2012Conditional
Dwelling house, installation of treatment unit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6234
1 Jun 2010Conditional
Construction of new vehicular entrance & driveway to serve existing bungalow
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5361
8 Jun 2009Conditional
Construction of cattle shed with slatted tank & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5868
23 Mar 2009Incompleted application
Cattle shed with slatted tank & ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4874
27 Aug 2008Conditional
Alterations, attic conversion, installation of dormer windows and rooflights and construction of sunroom extension to dwelling and retention of alterations of all roof pitch levels from 34 degrees to 45 degrees and retention of 1 no. gable end window, front door opening and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/8598
12 Jun 2008Conditional
Construction of agricultural entrance and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7254
1 Mar 2007Conditional
Construction of silage slab with apron, concreting of existing yards and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5549
27 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of dairy, pump house, milking parlour, holding yard, roofed slatted unit incorporating slatted tank, feed passage, straw bedded area, cubicles, concrete aprons, cattle and sheep handling facilities in conjunction with silage pit and site entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10959
23 May 2006Conditional
Construction of cattle shed with slatted tanks and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7415
8 May 2006Conditional
Demolition of existing shed and store and construction of domestic shed, store and 2 no. stables
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6955
23 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Construction of domestic shed, store and 2 no. stables
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5025
3 Jan 2006Incompleted application
Shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4016
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 Burges Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Burges Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Burges Upper.
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 Burges Upper, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1597 (ZIP).
- 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 Burges Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Burges Upper · An Bhuirgéis Uachtarach
- Area
- 383,674 m² (38.37 ha, 94.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonpriest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Clonpriest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,234 people lived in 402 households in the Clonpriest electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglassin, Ballykilty, Burges Lower
- Placenames
- Burges Upper 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.