Carkerbeg

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carkerbeg, from 122 m² to 471,080 m² (47.11 ha, 116.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Carkerbeg 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 Sept 2024Conditional

  Permission for upgrade and replacement of existing wastewater treatment system and alteration to surface water drainage and all associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5686

• 8 Jun 2021Conditional

  Carrying out the following works to an existing derelict dwelling 1) Modifications and alterations to the existing elevations. 2) Construction of extensions to the dwelling. 3) Carrying out of all associated site works including the installation of a treatment unit and percolation area.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5586

• 5 May 2021Conditional

  To construct a dwelling, domestic garage and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5199

• 18 Jun 2007Conditional

  Construction of conservatory extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8744

• 26 Mar 2007Conditional

  Construction of easy feed cubicle house with floor channel to existing slatted tank, extension to slatted tank, construction of milking parlour and overground steel slurry tower

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6440

• 13 Nov 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/12195

• 13 Nov 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/12200

• 13 Oct 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse, conservatory, domestic garage and septic tank

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11420

• 13 Oct 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/11419

• 9 Mar 2006Conditional

  Renovations and extension to dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5388

• 18 Feb 2004Conditional

  Bungalow

  Approval · Cork County Council, 04/958

• 23 Jul 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3648

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 Carkerbeg.

Recorded monuments

• CO017-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace; according to local information levelled c. 1846. 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

• CO017-092 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, c. 170m to S of Newtown Park house. Circular area (32m N-S; 30.8m E-W) enclosed by grass-covered earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.5m). External fosse hachured to W on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; survives to N and SE as gentle slope down to base of bank. Bank and interior previously planted with trees; stumps remain. 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

• CO017-094 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on NE-facing slope. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map as irregular tree-planted area; on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps indicated as roughly rectangular area (c. 25m x c. 18m). Circular area (22.4m N-S; 21.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.35m). Interior, lower than surrounding terrain, partially overgrown with bushes; fist-size stones scattered over surface; rock outcropping at N side and in centre. 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

• CO017-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage, below crest of hillock, on steep W-facing slope. Roughly circular area (13.7m E-W; 11.04m N-S) enclosed by low earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.2m). Interior lower than surrounding terrain; fist-size stones scattered across surface; partially overgrown with bushes. 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

• Newtown House, house, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built 1847, having substantial L-plan two-storey late nineteenth-century addition to south-west, its three-bay front elevation being recessed from main elevation. Hipped slate roofs with projecting eaves, rendered chimneystacks having clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Diminishing square-headed openings with limestone sills and six-over six pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening to middle of façade of main block, with replacement glazed timber door, sidelights and fanlight, approached by limestone steps. Range of outbuildings to north, along roadside, having pitched slate roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls. Entrance gate to north-west with cut limestone piers and cast-iron double-leaf gates.

• Lissa, country house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, with two-bay side elevations, four-bay two-storey block to rear c. 1830 and gabled porch addition to front. Now disused. Skirt slate roof with central rendered chimneystacks having ceramic pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to ground floor and six-over-three pane to first floor. Porch has render plinth, all elevations having paired pilasters with plinths and capitals, some with decorative scallop detail, framing square-headed window opening with fixed eighteen-pane timber window, upper panes being rounded, set in moulded timber frame, and also framing square-headed timber panelled doors in side walls. Cut limestone piers to east farm entrance to rear. Two-storey outbuilding with pitched slate roof having rendered eaves course, and rendered walls to east. Farmyard to north with long single-storey outbuiilding range to north side having single-pitch slate roof, and open front elevation with square-headed openings. Set in mature parkland landscape.

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 Carkerbeg.

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 Carkerbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Carkerbeg · An Charcair Bheag

Area

986,809 m² (98.68 ha, 243.85 acres)

Civil parish

Doneraile, and its townlands

Barony

Fermoy

Electoral division

Doneraile, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doneraile electoral division: 1,555 people in 599 households; 67% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carker, Kilbrack, Knockbrack, Newtown, Park North, Skaghardgannon, Sycamore

Placenames

Carkerbeg 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.