# Caherconnor, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Imphrick, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Cathair Chonchúir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 873,201 m² (87.32 ha, 215.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,620 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Imphrick, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/imphrick.md - Barony: Fermoy - Electoral division: Churchtown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,286 people lived in 427 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11726 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41158 - Centre: latitude 52.290748, longitude -8.703452 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Caherconnor, from 2,394 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres) to 438,783 m² (43.88 ha, 108.43 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2392853: 438,783 m² (43.88 ha, 108.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392853.md - Parcel 2392921: 419,754 m² (41.98 ha, 103.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392921.md - Parcel 4404769: 6,946 m² (0.69 ha, 1.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4404769.md - Parcel 2392933: 6,295 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2392933.md - Parcel 5721468: 4,920 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5721468.md - Parcel 2272960: 2,394 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2272960.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Caherconnor in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 20 Jan 2020, Cork County Council 20/4041: Conditional permission. Permission. A 10 year planning permission for the development of a 102.76 hectare solar PV farm and 3.425 kilometre underground electricity grid connection (0.34 hectares) giving a total combined area for both the solar farm and underground grid connection of 103.1 hectares. The proposed solar farm will consist of the installation of a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures, together with 1 single storey ESB control room, 12 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security fencing, existing site entrance from the L5529 road, access tracks, hardstanding area, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity. The proposed solar farm is located in the townlands of Ballyroe and Dromin, Ballyhea, Charleville, County Cork. The proposed underground electricity grid connection is to be installed entirely under public roads from the proposed solar farm at Ballyroe to Charleville 110kV ESB substation, which passes through the townlands of Ballyroe, Ballynadrideen, Ardnageehy, Rathnacally and Clashganniv in Ballyhea, Charleville, County Cork. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=20/4041 - 13 Dec 2019, Cork County Council 19/6966: Incompleted application. Permission. A 10 year planning permission for the development of a 102.76 hectare solar PV farm and 3.425 kilometre underground electricity grid connection (0.34 hectares) giving a total combined area for both the solar farm and underground grid connection of 103.1 hectares. The proposed solar farm will consist of the installation of a 40 year operation and subsequent decommissioning of a series of ground mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, mounted on steel support structures, together with 1 single storey ESB control room, 12 electrical transformation enclosures, underground cabling, inverters, CCTV poles and cameras, deer type security fencing, existing site entrance from the L5529 road, access tracks, hardstanding area, landscaping and biodiversity measures and all associated ancillary development works, for the purpose of generating renewable energy electricity. The proposed solar farm is located in the townlands of Ballyroe and Dromin, Ballyhea, Charleville, County Cork. The proposed underground electricity grid connection is to be installed entirely under public roads from the proposed solar farm at Ballyroe to Charleville 110kV ESB substation, which passes through the townlands of Ballyroe, Ballynadrideen, Ardnageehy, Rathnacally and Clashganniv in Ballyhea, Charleville, County Cork. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with this application.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/6966 - 18 Apr 2008, Cork County Council 08/6177: Conditional. Permission. Extension to agricultural machinery shed. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/6177 - 13 Mar 2008, Cork County Council 08/5417: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of agricultural shed to existing machinery shed and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=08/5417 - 28 Mar 2007, Cork County Council 07/6511: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slatted tank and extension to existing milking parlour. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/6511 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC, site code 002170, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002170 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CO007-140: Bridge, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO007-140----. Hump-backed road bridge (Wth 6.55; long axis NE-SW) over Awbeg River. Random-rubble construction. Three semicircular arches (span c. 3.5m); roughly shaped voussoirs. Pointed cutwaters on upstream side. Base of piers encased with cement. Random-rubble parapet wall with vertical stone coping. Bridge of 18th-century appearance. 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 - CO007-155: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO007-155----. In tillage, at base of S-facing slope, overlooking low wet land, Awbeg River c. 220m to S. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as small rectangular field (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) with double boundary fence on N and E sides; well at W end of outer N fence. Site not inspected. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Scart Bridge, bridge, 1770–1810, Regional interest, registry number 20900717, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20900717. Triple-arch road limestone bridge over Upper Awbeg River, built c. 1790, of random rubble limestone construction with later concrete reinforcement to base of piers, having dressed limestone voussoirs to round-headed arches and cut limestone V-cutwaters to north-west elevation. Rubble coping stones to parapets. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Caherconnor, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Caherconnor. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherconnor.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherconnor.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherconnor.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Caherconnor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaburren: https://everytownland.com/cork/aghaburren.md - Ballindillanig: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballindillanig.md - Ballynageragh: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballynageragh.md - Ballyroe: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballyroe-40801.md - Coolcaum: https://everytownland.com/cork/coolcaum-41734.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/caherconnor - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/caherconnor