Carrigcastle
Townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork; in Irish Carraig an Chaisil
- Area
- 109.1 ha
- 270 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 31,827 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigcastle, from 1,669 m² to 496,786 m² (49.68 ha, 122.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Carrigcastle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2024Conditional
Permission to construct 1) cubicle shed extension incorporating slatted tank and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6518
1 Dec 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of I)Domestic Garage and II) 2 No. entrances and roadside boundary wall.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6688
23 Oct 2020Incompleted application
Retention of i) domestic garage & ii) 2 no. entrances & roadside boundary wall.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6336
14 Dec 2016Conditional
To construct (i) cubicle shed incorporating slatted tank and feeding area (ii) Walled silage slab and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7124
10 Dec 2014Conditional
Retention of vehicular entrance to dwelling
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/6652
15 Aug 2014Conditional
Retention of (a) conservatory to front of dwelling, (b) attic conversion for domestic use with dormer windows and velux rooflights to rear of dwelling, (c) double garage and solid fuel store
Retention · Cork County Council, 14/5750
25 Jul 2013Conditional
Retention of grain store, calf house and slatted tank, silage base and effluent tank, pump house and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5435
24 Jun 2013Incompleted application
Retention of farmyard in its present state. (1) Retention of easy feed slatted shed for overwintering cattle complete with underground slatted slurry tanks, (2) Retention of grain store, (3) Retention of milking parlour, dairy, holding area and effluent tank, (4) Retention of calf house & slatted tank, (5) Retention of silage base and effluent tank, (6) Retention of pump house, (7) Retention of roofed silage bases and cubicle houses, (8) Retention of all other old stores, (9) Retention of disused milking parlour, and Retention of dwelling house and all associated ancillary site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/5198
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 Carrigcastle.
Recorded monuments
- CO015-038 Castle - unclassified
Description
In pasture, near foot of E-facing slope, overlooking Owenanare River. Quarrying on NE side has removed part of site; faint traces of grass-covered wall foundations visible; stones from demolition of castle dumped over edge of nearby scarp. Described by Bowman (1934, 139) as 'a square building, each side being about 33 feet'. Castle of the MacAuliffes (Ó Murchadha 1985, 9-10). 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrigcastle.
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 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 Carrigcastle.
- 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 Carrigcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Carrigcastle · Carraig an Chaisil
- Area
- 1,091,167 m² (109.12 ha, 269.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Barleyhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Barleyhill electoral division: 561 people in 193 households; 87% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barleyhill, Gooseberryhill, Lismire, Toorard
- Placenames
- Carrigcastle 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.