Carker

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carker, from 1,272 m² to 469,098 m² (46.91 ha, 115.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Carker 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.

• 18 Oct 2024Conditional

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5980

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  Retention of the following : 1) retention of the existing domestic garage/store and covered link area to the west of the dwelling, 2) retention of the existing car port, boiler and plant room areas to the east of the dwelling. All areas to be retained being ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling. Development is to a Protected Structure.

  Retention · Cork County Council, 23/4352

• 10 Jul 2007Conditional

  Construction of two storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9470

• 12 Apr 2005Refused

  2 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/2293

• 18 Feb 2004Conditional

  Bungalow

  Approval · Cork County Council, 04/958

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 Carker.

Recorded monuments

• CO017-098 Country house
  Description

  Heavily overgrown ruin of 18th-century house: 2-storey over basement. Entrance front (S) of 6 bays, central 2-bay pedimented breakfront. Central round-headed door ope, flanked by sidelights, with limestone surround. Brick-arched camber-headed windows. Bow-ended side elevations of 2 bays. Projections to rear containing staircases and fireplaces, windows in W elevation have 18th-century moulded sills. According to local information, built in 1790s onto earlier house; Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 21) suggests house incorporates part of '...old castle...'; house abandoned in 1957. Vacant 2-storey ornate ranges of farm buildings to rear, keystone in archway inscribed 'J.W.E. 1878'. Fine entrance piers survive. See Excavations 2003, 42. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO017-099 Milling complex
  Description

  On N bank of River Ogeen. Roofless 3-storey rectangular mill (int. 13.62m E-W; 5.68m N-S), S elevation of 4 bays. Window opes have wooden lintels. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.94m; D 1.94m) alongside E wall; contains wooden axle (diam. 43.5cm; L 3.1m) of breastshot waterwheel, cast-iron gudgeon and eight iron sockets for wooden arms (one survives), and remains of wooden shrouding with outline of buckets. Axle runs into mill over internal pit for pit-wheel. Central fireplace on internal W wall. Mill built against slope with rectangular 2-storey extension (int. 5.15m N-S; 5.89m E-W) on N side atop slope. Internal features of latter removed but appears to be remains of grain-drying kiln. Second mill to SE is 1-storey rectangular structure (5.5m N-S; 4.5m E-W). Wheel-pit (Wth 1.08m) alongside E wall, contains wooden axle (diam. 0.5m; L 2.4m) of breast-shot waterwheel with iron gudgeon. Launder (no longer survives) was supported on much-collapsed stone causeway to N. Interior overgrown: ramp of timber planks set in cement up to ope in NE corner; adjacent rectangular trough enclosed by low cement wall; both features probably associated with early-20th-century laundry. Structure to NW of mill complex is ruin of 2-storey, 4-bay house (18.2m E-W; 5.95m N-S) which is shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map. William Ashton had mill here in 1796, subsequently occupied by Barry who used mills for grinding corn and had a bakery in the yard (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 28-9). In 1850 passed to Edward O'Connor (Ned the Tucker) who converted it into a carding mill; later he carried on spinning and weaving, making flannel, blankets, frieze and tweeds (ibid.). In early 20th century, owned by his son John O'Connor, who turned it into a government laundry (ibid., 29-30). Indicated as 'Old Mill' on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with millrace taken from river by weir c. 900m to N; shown on 1906 OS 6-inch map as 'Carker Mill (Woollen)' with second smaller mill to SE, sharing mill pond to E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO017-141 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Archaeological monitoring carried out during the restoration of Carker House revealed the remains of an earlier building incorporated into the fabric of the 18th-century country house. This earlier building 'was identified only at ground-floor level in the rear portion of the house…measured c. 12.8m long (east-west) by 7.75m wide and appears to represent the remains of a 17th-century structure, possibly a fortified house (Sherlock 2006, 42). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO018-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, on E-facing slope, W of River Ogeen. Circular area (40m N-S; 39m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.7m); external fosse (D 0.8m). Entrance (Wth 5m) to ESE. Bank heavily overgrown S->NNW. Interior once planted with coniferous trees, stumps remain; raised on E side to compensate for hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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

• Farmyard complex, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Farmyard complex comprising three ranges of farm buildings, built 1878, set around three sides of courtyard to rear of Carker House. Eight-bay two-storey range to north, with segmental-arch vehicular entrance with red brick voussoirs, pitched slate roof and dressed limestone walls, semi-circular window openings to first floor with red brick dressings and remains of some timber fittings and square-headed door and window openings to ground floor having limestone sills, render surrounds and remains of timber fittings. Red brick voussoirs to carriage arch. Three-bay two-storey range to west with segmental-arch vehicular entrance with red brick voussoirs, pitched slate roof and squared limestone walls having cut-stone pediment to gable with decorative finial, circular window openings to first floor with cast-iron spoked windows, and square-headed window openings to ground floor having red brick dressings. Two-storey range to east, having pitched tile roof with limestone bellcote to south gable, rubble limestone walls, now overgrown. Walled garden to east. Gateway to west having square-plan rusticated gate piers with plinths and moulded copings and recent timber gate, set in rubble limestone walls and having inset camber-arch pedestrian gate with dressed stone voussoirs and timber battened door.

• Carker House, country house, 1680–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1780, having shallow central breakfront having cut limestone pediment, bow gable ends, and four-bay three-storey return, all built onto original front of three-storey house of c. 1700, latter apparently incorporating seventeenth-century structure at ground level to east side. House currently undergoing restoration from ruined state. Hipped slate roof to later block and return, with central rendered chimneystacks and recent cast-iron rainwater goods, and having carved limestone cornice to return. Steeply-pitched slate roof to earlier block, its east gable having stepped projecting chimneystack to east gable. Painted ruled and lined rendered walls throughout, façade of front block having cut limestone quoins to ends and moulded limestone string course at plinth level. Camber-headed window openings to front block, square-headed elsewhere, with replacement timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Front has nine-over-six pane windows to ground floor and six-over-six to first floor. Lunette window to pediment. Return and earliest block have six-over-three pane windows to top floor and six-over-six pane to lower floors, return having moulded limestone sills. Tripartite limestone entrance to breakfront, having plinth, square-headed doorway with timber panelled door, flanked by square-headed sidelights with moulded sills, moulded cornice, and fanlight having triple keystone. Outbuildings to rear. Brick-lined wall garden to east. Entrance gates to south comprising square-profile cut limestone piers with plinths, moulded caps, urns, and decorative wrought-iron double-leaf gates and set in rendered walls.

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

About 1 in 5 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 Carker.

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.

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

Name

Carker · An Charcair

Area

958,490 m² (95.85 ha, 236.85 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Skahanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Skahanagh electoral division: 173 people in 66 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carkerbeg, Garryhintoge, Newtown, Park North

Placenames

Carker 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.