Carewswood
Townland in the civil parish of Ightermurragh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Coill an Charrúnaigh
- Area
- 47.5 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,405 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carewswood, from 916 m² to 125,952 m² (12.6 ha, 31.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 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
7 Nov 2024Application withdrawn
Permission for retention of existing unroofed ball alley. Permission for construction of a club house, wastewater treatment system and all associated works.
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 24/6108
11 Oct 2024Incompleted application
Permission for retention of existing unroofed ball alley, permission for construction of a club house, wastewater treatment system and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5925
28 Sept 2023Conditional
Retention of a single storey sunroom extension to the side of the existing dwelling house, retention of a single storey porch extension to the front of the existing dwelling and retention of a single storey garden/potting shed extension to the side/rear of the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/5958
2 Sept 2022Conditional
Permission to construct an all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve the proposed all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve an existing grass pitch and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5992
17 Feb 2021Withdrawn
Construction of an all-weather pitch, planning permission to erect floodlighting to serve the proposed all-weather pitch and for all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4369
13 Aug 2020Conditional permission
Construction of a single storey with mezzanine level detached dwelling and single storey detached outbuilding, planning permission for new waste water treatment system to serve the proposed dwelling and existing Carewswood Garden Centre, planning permission for new entrance and driveway to serve the proposed dwelling and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5726
22 Jul 2019Conditional
Construction of a 2-storey dwellinghouse with attached dormer type domestic garage, together with an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5839
16 Mar 2017Refused
209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units and 20 no. detached units, a crèche facility (508sq.m) with 2 no. first floor office units (152sq.m), 660sq.m total building area, 2 no. pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main street entrance pillars, wing walls, a kick-about pitch, multi-use games area, 4 no. Local Play Areas, open space areas, site landscaping and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4624
9 Feb 2017Incompleted application
209 unit residential development, consisting of 9 no. 2 bed terraced units, 12 no. 3 bed terraced units, 90 no. 3 bed semi-detached units, 78 no. 4 bed semi-detached units, 20 no. detached units/15 no of which are private serviced sites, Créche facility (508m2) with 2 no first floor office units (152m2), 660m2 total building area, 2 no pedestrian links into the existing Gortnahomna More residential estate, main site entrance pillars, wing walls, landscaping and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/4269
1 Dec 2016Unconditional
Two storey dwelling, attached domestic garage, entrance, well, proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works - Extension of Duration of Permission granted under Planning Reg. No. 11/5321
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 16/6997
23 Oct 2015Refused
Construction of 9 no. dwelling houses comprising of 1 no. two storey detached dwelling house and 8 no. two storey semi-detached dwelling houses, site boundary treatments, the relocation of an existing electrical substation, landscaping works with pedestrian access routes and footpaths, and all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6397
17 Feb 2012Unconditional
New entrance to garden centre including alterations to existing wall, driveway and asociated works, extension of duration of permission granted under planning reg 06/12718
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 12/4263
17 Jun 2011Conditional
Two storey dwelling, attached domestic garage, entrance, well, proprietary sewage treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5321
15 Mar 2007Conditional
Residential development of 200 no. dwellinghouses comprising of 27 no. four bed detached units, 18 no. four bed detached units with garages, 44 no. four bed semi-detached units, 12 no. four bed semi-detached units with garages, 68 no. three bed semi-detached units, 15 no. two bed terraced units and 16 no. three bed terraced units, 1 no. creche, double dressing rooms and 2 no. sports pitches and all associated works to include roads, services, landscaping, boundary walls, underground attenuation tanks and widening of N25 to provide right-turning lanes
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6114
8 Dec 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage (change of layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13076
27 Nov 2006Conditional
Construction of new entrance to garden centre including alterations to existing wall, driveway and asociated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12718
10 Nov 2006Incompleted application
Residential development - 173 no. dwellinghouses, 27 dwellinghouses with garages( total 200 ) 1 no. creche, 2 no. sports pitches and 1 no. multi use games area and associated site works and services including attenuation tanks
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/12152
12 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Construction of new entrance to garden centre including alterations to existing wall, driveway and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10550
14 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage (Change of layout)
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8922
2 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/7781
16 Mar 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5609
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 Carewswood.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carewswood.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carewswood.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1506 (ZIP).
- 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 Carewswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Carewswood · Coill an Charrúnaigh
- Area
- 475,117 m² (47.51 ha, 117.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ightermurragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Ightermurragh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ightermurragh electoral division: 3,052 people in 1,085 households; 74% of households own their home; 61% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bridgetown, Dower, Dromadda Beg, Gortnahomna More, Kilbeg, Knockglass, Lady's Bridge
- Placenames
- Carewswood 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.