Carhoo
Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarriff, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork; in Irish An Cheathrú
- Area
- 115 ha
- 284 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 1,844 m²
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 49
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhoo, from 61 m² to 452,905 m² (45.29 ha, 111.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 47 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt2 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 2 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
26 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response
(1) Permission for alterations and extensions to the dwelling, including alterations to the western elevation, extensions to the eastern and northern elevations, (2) permission to construct a new vehicular site entrance, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1710
14 Jan 2026Application withdrawn
(1) permission for alterations and extensions to the dwelling, including alterations and extensions to the dwelling, including alterations to the western elevation, extensions to the eastern and northern elevations, (2) permission to construct a new vehicular site entrance, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0052
28 Nov 2025Invalid - prepare letters
Alterations and extensions to the dwelling, including alterations to the western elevation, extensions to the northern and eastern elevations, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6616
23 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for installation of new wastewater treatment system to serve existing dwelling house, including decommissioning of existing septic tank system
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/195
11 Dec 2023Conditional
Retention of dwelling house, domestic outbuildings and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/703
21 Sept 2023Conditional permission
Construction of a new 200m2 4-bedroom two storey dwelling house and 25m2 single storey garage, a new septic tank with percolation area and associated site works including a new vehicular entrance from Clasharaggy Road
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/529
11 Sept 2023Incompleted application
The development will consist of the construction of a new 200m2 4-bedroom two storey dwelling house and 25m2 singe storey garage, a new septic tank with percolation area and associated site works including a new vehicular entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/503
25 Jan 2023Conditional
Extension to side of dwelliing, new vehicular entrance with drive-in and permission for retention of separate Garden Room / Store
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/24
22 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and all ancillary siteworks
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/786
23 Nov 2022Incompleted application
Extension to side of dwelling, new vehicular entrance with drive-in and permission for retention of separate garden room / store
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/714
9 Sept 2022Incompleted application
Extension to side of dwelling, new vehicular entrance with drive-in and separate garden room / store
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/569
6 May 2022Conditional
Construction of a single storey dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment unit, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/312
7 Jun 2019Withdrawn
The construction of 98 no. dwelling houses, a crèche, a new vehicle access from the L-4007-52, improvements to the L-40076-0 public road to the north of the site, a new surface water discharge point to the Inchydoney Stream to the south, and all associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/389
29 May 2019Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/363
23 Apr 2019Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment unit and to carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/263
26 Nov 2018Conditional permission
To construct 99 dwellinghouses and a crèche, including all associated site works. A natura impact statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the authority with this application.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/703
1 Oct 2018Conditional
Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/589
7 Sept 2018Incompleted application
Construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/536
8 Jun 2018Conditional
Construction of extension to existing dwelling house, installation of new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/325
17 Jul 2017Refused
Construct detached grandparent accommodation and domestic shed, ancillary to main dwelling, with revised site boundaries
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/473
26 Jun 2017Incompleted application
Construct detached grandparent accommodation, ancillary to main dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/396
3 Jul 2014Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site development works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/404
28 Jan 2013Conditional
Planning permission to erect a sunroom to bed and breakfast dwelling and planning permission for retention of and planning permission to complete a domestic garage with first floor storage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/43
22 Jan 2013Incompleted application
Permission to erect a sunroom to their bed and breakfast dwelling and permission to retain and complete a domestic garage with first floor storage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/27
13 Nov 2012Incompleted application
Erect a sunroom extension to their bed and breakfast dwelling and permission to retain and complete a domestic garage with first floor storage and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/699
The 25 most recent of 49 applications.
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
- CO135-048 Standing stone
Description
In pasture overlooking Inchidoney Bay to S. Irregular stone aligned NW-SE (H 1.65m; 1.2m x 0.65m). 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 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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Carhoo.
- 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
- 1,150,260 m² (115.03 ha, 284.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilgarriff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Kilkerranmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilkerranmore electoral division: 533 people in 196 households; 84% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyduvane, Clasharaggy, Cloheen, Creagh More, Garranagoleen, Gortnagearagh
- 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.