Carhoo Lower

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhoo Lower, from 171 m² to 116,024 m² (11.6 ha, 28.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carhoo Lower 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.

• 6 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission for dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6108

• 30 Sept 2025Unconditional permission

  Importation of soil and stone for the restoration of a quarry in order to improve the agricultural output of the quarry and return it to an agricultural field. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 20/4969

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 25/6064

• 1 May 2025Conditional permission

  Permission for a soil and concrete recycling facility on the floor of the existing quarry, comprising aggregate processing plant (including crushing, washing and screening plant), wash water recycling plant (consisting of clean water tank, thickening tank, sludge tank, centrifuge and modular control building/site office), generator, concrete hardstands, materials reception area, quarantine area, open storage of soil, stone and concrete, product storage bays, storm water settlement pond, all ancillary site works and modification of the quarry restoration plan permitted by An Bord Pleanála planning reference number ABP-310214-21 (Cork County Council reference number 20/6446)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4819

• 18 Jul 2022Conditional

  Permission for new two storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5685

• 9 Nov 2020Conditional permission

  Permission for the development of a small-scale quarry with the extraction of rock using ripping and rock breaker and the on-site crushing and screening with mobile plant, and open storage of crushed rock. The installation and use of a mobile wheel wash and the continued use of the site access road, facility entrance from regional road R618, continued use of the existing weighbridge office, welfare facilities and existing septic tank and percolation area. The extraction of rock will extend to an area of 2.15 hectares. Following extraction, the site will be restored using stripped overburden, an eight-year quarry lifespan is sought.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6446

• 8 Oct 2020Incompleted application

  Permission for the development of a small-scale quarry at a former gravel pit. The development will consist of the extraction of rock using ripping and rock breaker and the on-site crushing and screening with mobile plant, and open storage of crushed rock. The installation and use of a mobile wheel wash and the continued use of the site access road, facility entrance from regional road R618, continued use of the existing weighbridge office, welfare facilities and existing septic tank and percolation area. The extraction of rock will extend to an area of 2.15 hectares. Following extraction, the site will be restored using stripped overburden, an eight-year quarry lifespan is sought.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6194

• 15 May 2020Conditional

  Importation of soil and stone for the restoration of a quarry in order to improve the agricultural output of the quarry and return it to an agricultural field.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4969

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  Construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment facility and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 18/5898

• 21 Jul 2008Conditional

  Construction of domestic entrance to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7973

• 24 Jun 2008Refused

  Dwelling, garage and septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7455

• 18 Jun 2008Incompleted application

  New domestic entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7348

• 12 May 2008Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6656

• 15 Jan 2008Withdrawn

  Construction of domestic entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/4162

• 20 Sept 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7149

• 20 Sept 2004Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7129

• 29 Jul 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5834

• 18 Jul 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & waste water treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3588

• 11 Feb 2003Conditional

  Granny flat extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/505

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 Carhoo Lower.

Recorded monuments

• CO072-034 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground. Spread of burnt material noted. Second fulacht fiadh (CO072-035---) c. 150m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-035 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In marshy ground. Overgrown oval mound of burnt material (L 15.6m; Wth 20.4m; H 1.5m); opening (Wth 16.2m) faces SE. Second fulacht fiadh (CO072-034---) c. 150m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-036001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. According to local information, mound of burnt material levelled. No visible surface trace. Fulacht fiadh (CO072-036002-) c. 30m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-036002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In small plantation of trees. Circular mound of burnt material (L 12.4m; Wth 11.5m; H 1.5m); opening (Wth 9m) faces SE. Possible fulacht fiadh (CO072-036002-) c. 30m to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-037 Country house
  Description

  Restored 3-storey late 18th-century house. Entrance front (S) of 5 bays with central 1-bay pedimented breakfront; central door with rectangular light, central Venetian window on 1st floor, central Diocletian window on 2nd floor, blind oculus in pediment. Gable-ended with chimneys on gables.Two-storey gabled additions to rear. Traces of weatherslating on back wall of house. One- and 2-storey stone-built farm buildings to rear around courtyard. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO072-153 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In tillage, c. 30m SW of well; boggy ground to SE. Large oval mound of burnt material (40m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE; H 2.35m); smaller circular mound (11m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW; H 0.9m) adjoins S side. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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

• Carhoo House, country house, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay three-storey house, built c.1750, having pedimented central bay to front (south) elevation, two-storey extension to rear (north), and recent front porch addition. Pitched slate roofs having rendered chimneystacks and gable copings with cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having blind oculus pediment gable, with exposed stone and brick walls to ground floor. Diminishing square-headed window openings with render sills having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows to second floor, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first and ground floor. Tripartite Diocletian window opening with render sill to second floor of breakfront, having central three-over-three pane timber sliding sash window with flanking two-pane pivoting sidelights. Venetian window with render sill to first floor of breakfront having central six-over-three pane timber sliding sash window with tracery overlight to upper sash flanked by two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with stone sills to ground floor of breakfront having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door with diamond timber tracery overlight, approached by flight of limestone steps. Square-profile rendered gate piers and rendered enclosing walls with limestone capping stones and wrought-iron gates to site.

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).

No address of the register names Carhoo Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Carhoo Lower · An Cheathrú Íochtarach

Area

1,147,414 m² (114.74 ha, 283.53 acres)

Civil parish

Magourney, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Magourney, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoo Upper, Carrigathou, Coolnagearagh, Leemount, Loughleigh, Monareagh, Nettleville Demesne

Placenames

Carhoo Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.