Carhue

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carhue, from 42 m² to 438,362 m² (43.84 ha, 108.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Carhue 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to decommission existing on site sewage system and construct a waste water treatment unit to serve existing dwelling with all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6550

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  A dwellinghouse, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4113

• 19 Nov 2015Conditional

  New domestic dwelling with waste water treatment system, percolation area, geothermal borehole and change of use of existing dwellinghouse into garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6611

• 25 Jan 2013Conditional

  Construction of a dwellinghouse with 3 no. solar panels, a wastewater treatment system, a well and associated site works, including a realighment of the southern boundary of the Cork/Banteer (R570) public road, opposite the junction to the private cul-de-sac, serving the proposed development

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4118

• 25 May 2012Withdrawn

  Dwelling house with wastewater treatment system & well, and 3no. solar panels, & associated site works including setting back of road boundary

  Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5113

• 5 Dec 2011Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, garage, site entrance, installation of a package treatment unit with soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6539

• 15 Aug 2011Refused

  Construction of detached dwelling, installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment unit with percolation area all other associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/5736

• 9 Feb 2011Withdrawn

  Construction of a new detached dwelling with the installation of a new proprietary waste water treatment unit with percolation area and all other associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4231

• 28 Jul 2010Refused

  Dwelling house with 3no. solar panels, treatment system, well & associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5917

• 31 Dec 2009Conditional

  Alterations and ground floor extension to existing dwelling and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8115

• 10 Feb 2009Conditional

  Extension to front of existing bungalow and elevational alterations

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4397

• 7 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of walled silage slab, dungstead, effluent tank and resurfacing of existing silage slab, construction of roofed animal house incorporating slatted tank, cubicles, calving boxes, creep area, feed passage and all associated concrete aprons

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5756

• 20 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Cubicle house, silage slab, underground storage tanks and dungstead

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/13575

• 22 Aug 2005Conditional

  Retention of alterations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6020

• 8 Aug 2003Conditional

  Extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3976

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 Carhue.

Recorded monuments

• CO061-141 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, overlooking stream valley to S. Circular area (diam. 38m) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m). Bank stone-faced externally in parts. According to Hartnett (1939, 229), outer fosse filled in but traces remain to N. Interior surface uneven. Surrounding field fences removed. 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

• CO061-181 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  O'Sullivan (1955, 4) noted a holy well in this townland -'Tobairin Beannuighthe'. He described 'collapse of stone work of old well' with an ancient whitethorn tree nearby, at which 'rounds no longer made' (ibid.). Exact location not known. According to local information, some older residents bless themselves when they pass place thought to be location of well, "somewhere along the road" which runs N-S between Carhue and Ballymacoo townlands. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carhue.

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

At the centre of the townland of Carhue, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carhue.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Carhue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Carhue · An Cheathrú

Area

1,585,612 m² (158.56 ha, 391.81 acres)

Civil parish

Inishcarra, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Dripsey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,618 people lived in 519 households in the Dripsey electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygirriha, Ballymacoo, Lisladeen, Lisnashandrum East, Lisnashandrum West, Reagrellagh, Scarteen

Placenames

Carhue 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.