Carhoo
Townland in the civil parish of Killeagh, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish An Cheathrú
- Area
- 78.3 ha
- 194 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 3,057 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhoo, from 390 m² to 341,534 m² (34.15 ha, 84.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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
No zone of a development plan covers Carhoo 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
18 Dec 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area and associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6868
8 Jun 2010Conditional
Alterations to existing dwelling house & all associated site works, including the construction of a new single storey extension to the front & side of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5405
29 Jul 2009Conditional
Construction of single storey dwelling, garage, entrance, patent wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/6540
27 Feb 2008Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5026
1 Feb 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, detached garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4517
17 Aug 2007Refused
Dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10344
17 May 2007Incompleted application
Dwelling and detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7866
30 Nov 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8837
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 Carhoo.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Carhoo.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carhoo.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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_1564 (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 Carhoo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Carhoo · An Cheathrú
- Area
- 783,216 m² (78.32 ha, 193.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Killeagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeagh electoral division: 1,588 people in 538 households; 78% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycurraginny, Ballyglassin, Ballymakeagh More, Dromdihy, Gortnagappul, Lagile
- Placenames
- Carhoo 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.