# Carker, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Charcair.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 958,490 m² (95.85 ha, 236.85 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,670 m² (1.87 ha, 4.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Doneraile, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/doneraile.md
- Barony: Fermoy
- Electoral division: Skahanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 173 people lived in 66 households in the Skahanagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/12053
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41271
- Centre: latitude 52.233608, longitude -8.545185 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carker, from 1,272 m² to 469,098 m² (46.91 ha, 115.92 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2229004: 469,098 m² (46.91 ha, 115.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229004.md
- Parcel 2229007: 95,355 m² (9.54 ha, 23.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229007.md
- Parcel 2229000: 94,939 m² (9.49 ha, 23.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229000.md
- Parcel 2229005: 87,078 m² (8.71 ha, 21.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229005.md
- Parcel 2262138: 79,963 m² (8 ha, 19.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262138.md
- Parcel 2229003: 59,117 m² (5.91 ha, 14.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229003.md
- Parcel 2262135: 30,169 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262135.md
- Parcel 2229002: 18,670 m² (1.87 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229002.md
- Parcel 2229001: 5,617 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229001.md
- Parcel 2229006: 4,233 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229006.md
- Parcel 2229008: 3,982 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2229008.md
- Parcel 2262134: 3,086 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262134.md
- Parcel 2262137: 2,181 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262137.md
- Parcel 2262136: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262136.md
- Parcel 2262139: 1,272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262139.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 18 Oct 2024, Cork County Council 24/5980: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct a new dwelling house. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5980
- 1 Mar 2023, Cork County Council 23/4352: Conditional. Retention. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=23/4352
- 10 Jul 2007, Cork County Council 07/9470: Conditional. Permission. Construction of two storey extension to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/9470
- 12 Apr 2005, Cork County Council 05/2293: Refused. Outline permission. 2 no. dwellinghouses. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/2293
- 18 Feb 2004, Cork County Council 04/958: Conditional. Approval. Bungalow. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/958

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carker.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CO017-098: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-098----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-099----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO017-141----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCO018-055----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Farmyard complex, 1875–1880, Regional interest, registry number 20901721, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20901721. 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, registry number 20901722, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO&regno=20901722. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Carker, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 Carker.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/carker.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/carker.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/carker.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Carker with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Carkerbeg: https://everytownland.com/cork/carkerbeg.md
- Garryhintoge: https://everytownland.com/cork/garryhintoge.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/cork/newtown-44571.md
- Park North: https://everytownland.com/cork/park-north-44612.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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