Callaros Oughter

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Callaros Oughter, from 17 m² to 318,971 m² (31.9 ha, 78.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Callaros Oughter 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 Dec 2025Grant with conditions

  Alterations & extensions to an existing dwellinghouse and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6733

• 16 Oct 2024Withdrawn

  Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, install a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/560

• 6 Mar 2024Conditional

  a) Demolition of existing northern and eastern single storey sections, b) Construction of single and two storey extensions to the northern and eastern elevations, c) Convert attic to habitable accommodation, d) Remove existing roof and raise roof / wall levels, e) Fenestration changes to all elevations along with all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/104

• 29 Jan 2024Refused

  Construct a dwelling house, domestic garage install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/42

• 23 Jul 2018Conditional

  Construct a cattle house with two no. slatted slurry tanks, a milking parlour, a dairy, a plant room, a cattle holding yard with a cattle crush and to carry out associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/437

• 13 Dec 2013Conditional

  Permission for renovation and extension to ruin for use as a dwelling, install treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/690

• 5 May 2009Conditional

  Two storey extension to existing two storey dwellinghouse and alterations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/515

• 17 Nov 2000Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6983

• 31 Jul 2000Refused

  Dwellinghouse & granny flat

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4650

• 27 Jun 2000New application

  Dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 00/3881

• 11 Jun 1999Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/3189

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 Callaros Oughter.

Recorded monuments

• CO147-032 Mine - copper
  Description

  On W-facing slope above pasture, 1.7km W of Goleen village. Isolated mine working; discovered 1929 by geologist T.J. Duffy; local tradition of "Danes Shaft". Inclined working driven 060° into upper part of prominent rock scarp; waterlogged infill deposit, not excavated. Probed length 3m plus; entrance (Wth 2m; H 0.5m). Outside entrance, denuded spoil dump spread over 6-8m; stone mauls exposed. (O'Brien 1987) A charcoal sample recovered from a depth of 0.4m within the mine sediment has been radiocarbon dated to 3360±90 BP (GrN-25562). A second charcoal sample from a different spoil layer is dated to 3410±50 BP (GrN-25563). (O'Brien 2002, 40-41). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO147-033 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy well known locally as 'Tobereenavoher' in the townland of Callaras Oughter (Callraí Uachtarach/callow of the wood) in the parish of Kilmoe (Cill Mua) in the barony of Carbery West. Presumably a natural spring, dry when visited. Possibly still in holy use. According to local information, [the well was] visited long ago on 23 June, the feast of St Eoin. See attached photograph of holy well still in use, courtesy of Finola Finlay The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 29 April 2022 Images 02, 03 , 04 , 05 provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

• CO147-035 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough grazing, atop rocky knoll. Roughly circular area (16.9m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by ruined stone wall (H 1m); outer facing survives to NNW. Interior overgrown; rock outcrop in N half. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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 Callaros Oughter.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Callaros Oughter.

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 Callaros Oughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Callaros Oughter · Callraí Uachtarach

Area

2,023,808 m² (202.38 ha, 500.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoe, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Goleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Goleen electoral division: 224 people in 101 households; 67% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 55% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvoge More, Boulysallagh, Cloghanaculleen, Coorlacka, Greenane, Kilbarry, Kilbrown, Knockeennagearagh

Placenames

Callaros Oughter 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.