Carran

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carran, from 57 m² to 928,096 m² (92.81 ha, 229.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Carran 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional permission

  Construction of dwelling house, installation of waste treatment system and for all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/173

• 16 Mar 2020Conditional

  Construction of a 2 storey dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment system and polishing filter plus carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/144

• 4 Mar 2020Incompleted application

  Construction of a 2 storey dwellinghouse with wastewater treatment system and polishing filter plus carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/114

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  Permission sought for single storey extension to dwelling house and for all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/467

• 23 Jan 2014Unconditional

  Dwelling house and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 14/43

• 7 Jan 2009Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/5

• 4 Dec 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2606

• 6 Nov 2006Incompleted application

  Dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2316

• 10 Dec 2001Conditional

  Dwelling (change of plan)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 01/6666

• 31 Oct 2000Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6547

• 2 Dec 1999Conditional

  Extensions to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6611

• 19 Nov 1999Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/6290

• 26 Feb 1999Conditional

  Retention of dwelling (revised house type & layout)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/899

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Derryclogher (Knockboy) Bog SAC 001873
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Derryclogher (Knockboy) Bog 001873

Recorded monuments

• CO091-006 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  On S slope of Coomhola mountain. Irregular cairn cut by road to E. Arc of eleven stones forms low kerb on NW side. According to local tradition, associated with burials. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO091-022 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the S end of a terrace on a S-facing hillslope overlooking Coomhola valley. An oval area (20m E-W; 13m N-S) is defined by a collapsed stone wall (T 0.9m; H 0.4m) protruding above the surface of the bog. The interior slopes down to the S. Another enclosure (CO091-023002-) lies c. 70m to the NNW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO091-023001 Field boundary
  Description

  In rough pasture, on bog, on a S-facing hillslope overlooking the valley of the Coomhola Mountain. A network of relict stone field boundaries (T 0.55m; H 0.4m) occurs intermittently in a roughly rectangular area (c. 140m E-W; c. 90m N-S). The field boundaries protrude above the surface of the bog and occasionally disappear under the surface of deeper bog. The walls are generally curvilinear and many of the stone slabs are set at right angles to the line of the walls. An enclosure (CO091-023002-) is c. 60m to the SW. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO091-023002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture on bog, on a S-facing hillslope, overlooking Coomhola valley. A circular area (diam. 10m) is defined by the remains of a stone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.5m) protruding above the surface of the bog and is more clearly evident W-E. The interior slopes down to the S and the wall along the S arc is largely hidden in the bog. Relict field boundaries (CO091-023001-) are c. 60m to the NE and another enclosure (CO091-022----) lies c. 70m to the SSE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Architectural heritage

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

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 Carran, 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 high, 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 Carran.

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

Name

Carran · An Carn

Area

1,973,078 m² (197.31 ha, 487.56 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmocomoge, and its townlands

Barony

Bantry

Electoral division

Glengarriff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,181 people lived in 445 households in the Glengarriff electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cooleenlemane, Coorloum North, Cooryleary, Cummeenshrule (Co. Kerry), Derryduff Beg, Derrynakilla, Mill Big

Placenames

Carran 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.