Cashelfean

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cashelfean, from 94 m² to 129,249 m² (12.92 ha, 31.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Cashelfean 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.

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, installation of proprietary wastewater treatment plant, upgrading of existing access road including new entrance on to county road L-95913-4 and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/384

• 16 Dec 2021Refused

  The construction of a new dwelling house, 215 square metres in gross internal area and two storeys high, as well as a new garage (45 sq. metres), site entrance, landscape, wastewater treatment system and percolation area

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/877

• 8 Aug 2007Conditional

  Construction of cubicle shed to include underground slatted tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2115

• 29 Jun 2007Incompleted application

  Construction of cubicle shed to include underground slatted tank and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1738

• 4 Jan 2007Refused

  Dwelling, detached garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/38

• 8 Dec 2006Incompleted application

  Dwelling, detached garage and associated works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2649

• 27 Oct 2006Incompleted application

  Dwelling, detached garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2261

• 23 Aug 2006Conditional

  Indoor riding arena and associated works for private use

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1685

• 8 Feb 2006Withdrawn

  Dwelling & installation of treatment plant

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/158

• 10 Mar 2005Withdrawn

  2 no. dwellinghouses and treatment units

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/1451

• 7 Nov 2000Conditional

  Retention of dwelling, garage/shed & entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6677

• 9 Oct 2000Refused

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6054

• 3 Aug 2000New application

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/4735

• 24 Mar 2000Conditional

  Reconstruction & extension to ruin for use as dwelling, septic tank & entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1697

• 30 Apr 1999Conditional

  Renovations & extension to outbuildings for use as dog kennels

  Permission · Cork County Council, 99/2198

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 Cashelfean.

Recorded monuments

• CO139-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (28.1m N-S; 27.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (max. int. H 1.45m; ext. H 2.1m); inner face worn NW->NNE. Interior raised 1.75m on N side to compensate for hillslope. 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

• CO139-004001 Burial ground
  Description

  In ringfort (CO139-004002-). Many grave markers noted in interior. 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

• CO139-004002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, near base of N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by stone and earth bank (H 0.9m), surrounded by series of drains. Burial ground (CO139-004001-) in interior. 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

• CO139-005 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on N-facing slope. It was described in the OS Name Book (Parish of Skull, no. 2) as 'A fort which was an old burying ground but at present used only for children.' (SMR file). It consists of a raised sub-rectangular area (H 0.9m; 17.2m E-W; 16.3m N-S) with many grave markers. One grave on the N side consists of a rectangular bed of stone slabs (L 2m; Wth 1m) with a headstone at the W end and two footstones marking the E. (Power et al. 1992, no. 2780) Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload/revision: 18 July 2014

• CO139-072001 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, in a sheltered hollow just N of the summit of Knockaughna. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.2m N-S; 2.2m E-W) defined by the lower courses of a drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.4m), which is in a jumbled state and is partially obscured by gorse and heather. Rubble is scattered in the interior and along the perimeter of the hut site externally. Another hut site (CO139-072002-) adjoins this hut at the W. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO139-072002 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, in a sheltered hollow just N of the summit of Knockaughna. The remains of a D-shaped hut site (3.5m N-S) defined by the collapsed lower courses of a curving drystone wall (T 0.5m; H 0.3m) with straight S side (L 3.2m). The drystone wall is partially obscured by gorse and heather. Rubble is scattered in the interior. Another hut site (CO139-072001-) adjoins this hut at the E. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO139-077 Hut site
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on an E-W terrace sheltered by a high rocky ridge to the S and just NW of the summit of Knockaughna. The remains of a rectangular hut site (3.7m N-S; 2.9m E-W) defined by the collapsed lower courses of a drystone wall (T 0.6m; H 0.35m) at the W, N and E, and by the vertical face of outcropping rock at the S. Rubble is scattered within the W half of the interior. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

• CO139-082 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough grazing land, at the foot of an outcropping rock. The holy well is roughly triangular in shape (L 0.7m at N; 0.6m at W and 0.9m at SW) and is defined by the vertical face of the outcropping rock at SW and elsewhere by stone slabs. The well is 0.4m deep and about half full of water. According to local information, it is still in occasional use. 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 Cashelfean.

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 high, 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 Cashelfean.

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

Name

Cashelfean · Caiseal Fiann

Area

4,050,699 m² (405.07 ha, 1,000.95 acres)

Civil parish

Skull, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery West (West Division)

Electoral division

Dunbeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunbeacon electoral division: 187 people in 80 households; 84% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherolickane, Coomfarna, Derryfunshion, Drishane, Kilcomane, Mauladinna, Ratooragh

Placenames

Cashelfean 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.