Castlecooke

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecooke, from 183 m² to 216,738 m² (21.67 ha, 53.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Castlecooke 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.

• 9 Apr 2026F.i. consultees/awaiting recommendation

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0896

• 30 Jun 2025Refused

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5268

• 1 Apr 2025Withdrawn

  Permission for clearance of existing young conifer forestry, construction of a single storey dwelling, installation of an on-site wastewater treatment system, installation of a bored well, construction of a new site entrance and all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4567

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional permission

  Within County Cork, the proposed development will consist of refurbishment works to 39.3km of overhead line, 14 no. steel towers and 204 no. wooden polesets. These lie between Knockraha Substation, in the townland of Ballynenelagh, and the border with County Tipperary in the townland of Glenduff, crossing the County Cork townlands of : Ballynanelagh, Knockraha East, Meeleen, Shanballyreagh, Barnetstown, Mitchellsfort, Meenane, Skahanagh South, Skahanagh North, Coolquane, Scartbarry, Ballyready, Ballyda, Baneena South, Lackabeha East, Hollyhill, Ballinterry, Clykeel South, Ballynanelagh, Clykeel North, Knockauduff, Ballinvarrig West, Kill-Saint-Anne South, Kill-Saint-Anne North, Ballyoran, Glenarousk, Strawhall, Ballyvadona, Carrigabrick, Gearagh, Carrigatoortane, Mountrivers, Moorepark, Ballyderown, Knockanohill, Glansheskin, Kilclogh, Macroney Upper, Castlecooke, Coolaneague, Curraghanolomer, Ballard, Curraghavoe, and Glenduff. The proposed development includes 4 no. temporary construction compounds in the townlands of Moorepark, Ballinvarrig West, Barnetstown, and Skeheen. The works in County Cork will consist of: the replacement ('restringing') of the existing overhead line (OHL) circuit conductor wires; replacement of 7 no. towers and 82 no. polesets with similar dimensions and heights as the existing; installation of 5 no. new towers and 1 new no. poleset at Barrymore Substation and the removal of 2 no. towers; installation of replacement parts on towers and polesets; foundation refurbishment/strengthening and recapping/clearing of shear blocks; all associated site development works, including temporary works areas; clearance of shear block bases; vegetation maintenance works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance and levelling at the 4 no. temporary construction compounds, temporary works to existing tracks and new temporary access routes to each structure; and all associated works required to facilitate the proposed development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/6468

• 17 Jun 2020Conditional

  Construction of a slatted shed, silage wall and associated works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5227

• 8 Feb 2017Conditional

  Retention of detached one and half storey domestic garage/utility building with storage overhead

  Retention · Cork County Council, 17/4263

• 23 Aug 2013Conditional

  Construction of slatted house with ancillary underground effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 13/5636

• 26 Jul 2010Incompleted application

  Dwelling, proprietary treatment unit & polishing filter, entrance, bored well & all associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 10/5878

• 23 Sept 2009Refused

  Dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, entrance, bored well and associated site works

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 09/7142

• 19 Nov 2008Conditional

  Extension to side of single storey dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9754

• 5 Jun 2008Conditional

  Construction of slatted livestock unit (change of plan from that permitted under 07/8060)

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/7129

• 12 May 2008Incompleted application

  Alterations to slatted unit previously permitted under 07/8060 and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6641

• 5 Oct 2007Conditional

  Construction of extension to existing milking parlour, extension to holding yard and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11458

• 1 Aug 2007Incompleted application

  Extension to existing milking parlour, extension to holding yard and ancillary works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10005

• 24 May 2007Conditional

  Construction of slatted livestock shed and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8060

• 7 Sept 2006Conditional

  1 no. dwellinghouses

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/10391

• 29 Aug 2005Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and demolition of existing shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6219

• 31 Jan 2005Conditional

  Construction of garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/453

• 15 Oct 2004Conditional

  Garden Shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7755

• 13 Apr 2004Conditional

  Demolition of dwelling and construction of dwelling with biocycle unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2372

• 3 Jul 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse & garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3281

• 22 Apr 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/1867

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: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Araglin Valley 001029

Recorded monuments

• CO028-007 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In rough grazing, c. 70m W of stream. Partially overgrown roughly kidney-shaped mound of burnt material (23m N-S; 30m E-W; H 1.6m); opening (Wth 8m) faces SW. 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

• CO028-008001 Graveyard
  Description

  In farmland, on gentle E-facing slope, within Castle Cooke demesne. Trapezoidal graveyard (c. 25m E-W; c. 40m N-S) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank; gate, with stone-built piers, near W end of N side. Interior partially overgrown, planted with mature trees. Ruin of private church (14706) to N of centre. Contains only a few headstones, the earliest dated 1842, and a burial vault, all connected with Cooke Collis family of nearby Castle Cooke (14867). 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

• CO028-008002 Church
  Description

  In graveyard (14555). Fragmentary remains of rectangular church, of which only W gable (L 10.2m) with short return of N (L 2.95m) and S (L 1.9m) walls now stand. Built of roughly-coursed sandstone. West wall stands to full height with steeply pitched gable: gentle external batter; single central window with two-centred pointed arch; surrounds for ope are masonry, not cut stone. North wall incorporates re-used block of late-medieval appearance, built into top of wall. Probably private chapel for nearby Castle Cooke country house. Ruin is 18th-19th century in appearance. 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

• CO028-009 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On top of a steep cliff, overlooking Araglin River to E. Six-storey rectangular tower (14.5m N-S; 9.5m E-W) with rounded corners (see plans in Cotter 1994, 42-6). Ground-floor doorway near S end of E wall, guarded by machicolation at parapet level; door surround missing. Short passage inside outer door leads, through pointed-arch door, to lobby; this in turn gives access, through pointed-arch doors, N to main ground-floor chamber, W to stairs, and S to guardroom. Unusually large guardroom (5.82m E-W; 1.16m N-S) lit by single slit window in S wall; damaged opening in floor gave entry into unlit vaulted chamber beneath (3.6m E-W; 2m N-S). Main ground-floor chamber (7.7m N-S; 4.6m E-W) lit by slit windows in N and E walls; blocked embrasure in W wall was probably also window; S wall, between chamber and stairs, partially collapsed. Mural stairs rise to W from lobby to 1st-floor landing; latter lit by horizontal slit with shutter socket, and slit window with slop-stone, both in W wall of tower. Doorway, surrounds missing, leads E from landing to 1st-floor chamber; chamber roofed by wicker-centred vault (long axis N-S), lit by single slit window in N wall. Mural stairs lead N from 1st-floor landing to 2nd-floor landing in NW corner of tower; landing lit by slit window with slop-stone in N wall. Spiral stairs rise from here to wall walk. From 2nd-floor landing doorway, surrounds missing, leads E to lintelled mural chamber (2m E-W; 1.7m N-S); latter lit by slit window in N wall; garderobe at E end of N wall. From E end of chamber lintelled doorway leads into narrow lintelled chamber (c. 3m N-S; c. 0.6m E-W) in E wall. Badly damaged doorway leads from landing to main 2nd-floor chamber; latter (6m N-S; 5m E-W) lit by windows with single ogee-headed light in deep square-set embrasure, one at S end of W wall, one in centre of E wall. Narrow mural stairs lead up from S ingoing of E window to secondary chamber at S end of 3rd floor. Pointed-arch door in S ingoing of W window leads to secondary chamber (7m E-W; 3.5m N-S) at S end of 2nd floor. Latter lit by windows with ogee-headed lights, in W and S walls, and badly damaged window ope in E wall, light missing; fireplace at E end of N wall missing its arch; chimney flue exits through smoke-hole overhead in E wall. At 3rd-floor level a damaged doorway leads E from spiral stairs to mural chamber (5m E-W; 2.2m N-S) in N wall; chamber lit by window with ogee-headed light in N wall, and damaged window ope in E wall, light missing. Chamber covered by pointed wicker-centred vault (long axis E-W). Doorway, surrounds missing, leads S from spiral stairs to lintelled passage which enters main 3rd-floor chamber through N ingoing of W window embrasure. Chamber roofed by wicker-centred vault (long axis N-S); lit by lintelled slit window in E and W walls. Secondary chamber to S accessed only from main chamber on floor below (see above); chamber roofed by pointed wicker-centred vault (long axis E-W), lit by lintelled slit windows in E and W walls. Doorway, surrounds missing, leads from spiral stairs to main 4th-floor chamber; chamber unroofed, most of W wall collapsed; fireplace with flat relieving arch in S wall, possibly inserted; sockets underneath arch indicate missing lintel; central window embrasure in E wall with single ogee-head light. North end of chamber partially obscured by ivy and overgrown rubble; no visible access to garderobe here though evidence on 3rd floor indicates garderobe shaft extended to this level; likely that this section was originally walled off from main chamber as on floors below. Damaged embrasure at N end of E wall missing light; lower steps survive of blocked stairs which led from N ingoing of this embrasure, probably to wall-walk. Above this level badly damaged doorway gives access from spiral stairs to wall-walk on W side, now largely collapsed; wall-walk intact on E wall and SE corner, blocked by chimney on S wall; access to machicolation at S end of E wall; gun loops on each side of machicolation and at N end of E parapet wall. Difficult to interpret N end of tower at this level due to collapse and ivy cover; ledge on N and E walls indicate 5th-floor chamber; window ope high on N wall suggests 6th-floor chamber; arrangement may have been similar to Cloghleagh (14369), where N end rose a further four storeys above main tower. A Condon castle, originally named Dun Gallane, passed to Cooke family in 18th century (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 61) who built house c. 300m to NW of castle which was burnt 1921 and subsequently demolished. 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

• CO028-039 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, to W of stream and just N of quarry. Recent digging of passage into field revealed burnt material (D 0.2m) visible in W section at topsoil level. Burnt material, extending westwards into field, is obscured by dumped soil. 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

• CO028-047 Country house
  Description

  On W-facing slope, c. 200m W of Castle (14345) and steep-sided wooded glen of Araglin River. Burnt in 1921 (Glin et al. 1988, 48) and now completely demolished, though ranges of stone-built farm buildings and gatelodge (with date stone of '1899') survive. Described as a 'late seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century' house (ibid.), with 'an irregular structure consisting of several gable-ended ranges, with C19 eaved roofs; and a 2 storey projecting gabled porch' (Bence-Jones 1978, 64- photograph there taken from SW). Associated farm buildings (14945) c. 1.5km to SE. 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

• Castle Cooke, gate lodge, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former gate lodge, dated 1899, having two-bay gable ends, south entrance gable facing road, and recent two-storey extension to east. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone brackets, quoins, ridge crestings and coursed rusticated limestone chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rusticated snecked limestone walls with bands of darker limestone at window head levels to each floor, and date-plaque to west gable set into crest-shaped surround top stone of which has decorative pediment detail. Square-headed window openings with carved decoration to lintels, those of ground floor having pediment details above, all with replacement uPVC windows. Shouldered door opening with similar detailing to windows, having replacement uPVC door. Painted rendered square-profile piers with cast-iron gate set to painted rendered walls with cast-iron railings.

• Castle Cooke, outbuilding, 1890–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of former demesne outbuildings, built c.1900, to south of site of demolished Castle Cooke. Now in use as farm outbuildings. Comprising three-bay two-storey outbuilding to south-west and three-bay two-storey laundry to north-west, two-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east, two-bay two-storey building to south-east, and walled garden to east. Outbuilding to south-east having pitched slate roof and rendered walls with render date-stone. Square-headed window openings with timber fittings. Segmental-headed opening with corrugated-iron door. South-west building has pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks, rubble sandstone walls, having decorative terracotta date-stone '1893' to north gable, over oculus with brick surround, square-headed window openings with timber fittings, brick voussoirs and render sills, segmental-arched vehicular entrance with dressed sandstone voussoirs and square-headed door opening, both entrances having corrugated-iron doors. Flight of limestone steps to south gable, leading to square-headed timber battened door with Ballyhooly marble threshold. Laundry building now roofless, having coursed sandstone walls with flight of limestone steps leading to first floor door opening, square-headed window openings with sandstone sills, square-headed door opening with dressed sandstone voussoirs and segmental-headed door openings under flight of steps and having slightly projecting voussoirs. North-east outbuilding now roofless, having square-headed window openings with render sills and square-headed door openings with dressed limestone voussoirs. South-east building has pitched slate roof and concrete walls, with square-headed windows, and segmental-arched vehicular entrance and inscribed date '1913' and initials to front gable. Walled garden to rear having segmental-headed archway with wrought-iron double-leaf gates and coursed sandstone walls. Walled garden to north-east having segmental-headed archway with sandstone voussoirs and flanking square-profile columns with crenellated caps, coursed sandstone walls. Pair of painted rendered piers to road entrance with cast-iron gates.

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 Castlecooke, 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 Castlecooke.

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

Name

Castlecooke · Dún gCoileáin

Area

2,432,581 m² (243.26 ha, 601.1 acres)

Civil parish

Macroney, and its townlands

Barony

Condons and Clangibbon

Electoral division

Castlecooke, the unit of the census

Census 2022

222 people lived in 70 households in the Castlecooke electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Coolaneague, Coolmoohan, Knockatrasnane, Macroney Lower, Macroney Upper, Propoge

Placenames

Castlecooke 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.