Carrignaneelagh
Carrignaneelagh is a townland in the civil parish of Inchigeelagh, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Carraig na nGeimhleach.
- Area
- 62 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,695 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrignaneelagh, from 894 m² to 287,758 m² (28.78 ha, 71.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrignaneelagh 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
6 Feb 2026Grant with conditions
Full Permission for the construction of a livestock cubicle shed and slatted slurry storage tanks and and All associated ancillary site works, and drainage services
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0265
18 Dec 2025Invalid - case closed
Permission for the construction of a livestock cubicle shed and slatted slurry storage tanks and and all associated ancillary site works, and drainage services.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6866
10 Jan 2018Unconditional
Residential development of 3 no. four-bedroom two-storey detached houses with individual treatment units and percolation areas, alterations to road boundary on western boundary of site including adjoining site, new vehicle access, and all associated site works. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under planning ref: 12/4632
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 18/4030
23 Sept 2016Conditional
To construct a new extension on the eastern side of the existing machinery storage building for the purpose of machinery storage and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6357
1 Jul 2016Conditional
The construction of a new dwelling house, garage and installation of septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5624
14 Jun 2016Incompleted application
The construction of dwellinghouse, garage and installation of a septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/5434
8 Apr 2016Refused
Construct a new extension on the eastern side of existing machinery storage building for the purpose of machinery storage and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4779
2 Apr 2012Conditional
Residential development of 5 no. four-bedroom two-storey detached houses with individual treatment units and percolation areas, alterations to road boundary on western boundary of site including adjoining site, new vehicle access, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/4632
1 Nov 2011Conditional
Retention of altered site boundaries to existing dwelling (Reg. No. 10/5304) and retention of domestic garage
Retention · Cork County Council, 11/6317
30 Jul 2010Conditional
Construction of machinery storage shed and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5942
26 May 2010Conditional
Dwelling, septic tank & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5304
8 Aug 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10166
3 May 2007Conditional
Alterations and extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7503
20 Feb 2007Incompleted application
Residential development of 13 no. dwellinghouses comprising of 9 no. two storey detached dwellings and 4 no. two storey semi-detached,sewage treatment plant and associated site works and services
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5256
19 Jan 2007Incompleted application
Residential development of 13 no. dwellinghouses comprising of 9 no. two storey detached dwellings and 4 no. two storey semi-detached dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4308
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 Carrignaneelagh.
Recorded monuments
- CO082-008 Castle - unclassified
Description
At foot of NW side of Kilbarry Hill, on shelf of rough grazing. No visible surface trace of castle built by O Leary clan (Healy 1988, 35); according to local tradition, stones from castle used in constructing nearby Kilbarry House in early 19th century. According to O Murchadha (1993, 239), documentary sources suggest castle here 'not built before the 1570s'. 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 Carrignaneelagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrignaneelagh, about 1 in 10 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 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 Carrignaneelagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrignaneelagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Carrignaneelagh · Carraig na nGeimhleach
- Area
- 619,506 m² (61.95 ha, 153.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inchigeelagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Inchigeelagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 586 people lived in 229 households in the Inchigeelagh electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonshear Beg, Coolnacrannagh, Inchinaneave, Kilbarry, Rossmore
- Placenames
- Carrignaneelagh 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.