Carriganine
Townland in the civil parish of Macroom, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork; in Irish Carraig an Eidhinn
- Area
- 48.4 ha
- 120 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,846 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carriganine, from 46 m² to 107,604 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 55 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new combined entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5837
9 Sept 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new combined entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5839
7 May 2025Withdrawn
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new combined entrance, wastewater treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4856
7 May 2025Withdrawn
Permission for the construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, new combined entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4857
9 Dec 2021Conditional
2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7290
5 Sept 2018Conditional
Construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance together with all other ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6351
17 Dec 2015Refused
Retention of (a) a store and tool shed to store builders tools and equipment and (b) a concrete yard
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6878
19 Nov 2015Incompleted application
Retention of a store and tool shed
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/6609
21 Dec 2012Conditional
Construction of extension to front of dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/54017
18 Dec 2008Conditional
Raising of low-lying agricultural land with infill material consisting of building rubble, excavated sub-soil and top-soil
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10186
26 Nov 2008Incompleted application
Raising of low-lying agricultural land with infill material consisting of building rubble, excavated sub-soil and top-soil
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9846
26 Nov 2008Conditional
Construction of domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9845
30 Jan 2006Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4406
10 Feb 2005Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/702
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carriganine.
Recorded monuments
- CO070-092 Stone circle - five-stone
Description
In pasture, on S side of hill overlooking Lee River valley. Probable five-stone circle represented by two orthostats and three apparently displaced stones along fence to S. W stone is 0.8m L, 0.7m T and 1m H; E stone is 1.1m L, 0.4m T and 1.1m H. (O Nualláin 1984a, 37, no. 69) 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carriganine.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carriganine.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carriganine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Carriganine · Carraig an Eidhinn
- Area
- 484,308 m² (48.43 ha, 119.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Macroom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Macloneigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Macloneigh electoral division: 905 people in 318 households; 89% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gortyleahy, Lackaduff, Rockborough, Sleveen West, Tullatreada
- Placenames
- Carriganine 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.