Castlefreke-Warren
Castlefreke-Warren is a townland in the civil parish of Rathbarry, barony of Ibane and Barryroe, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Coinicéar.
- Area
- 73.1 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 3,026 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlefreke-Warren, from 373 m² to 429,860 m² (42.99 ha, 106.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Castlefreke-Warren 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
14 Feb 2022Conditional
a) The construction of a new Coast Guard Station to facilitate the Irish Coast Guard search and rescue services for local emergency rescue. The proposed building will consist of a single storey vehicle store with a flat roof and a two-storey accommodation block with a meeting room, viewing area and plant equipment at first floor level. The proposed building will have a combined floor area of 405 square metres. The building has a maximum overall height of 7.625m above ground floor level. Proposed external finishes include aluminium-framed windows, local stone cladding, timber panelling and translucent glass walls and concrete plinth. b) Construction of an out building for the display of a rocket cart and to house generator and fuel store, with a floor area of 56 square metres and a height of 3.53 metres above ground floor level. Total floor area of the development including the out building is 461 square metres. c) Construction of two new vehicular access points, both to the north-west of the site. One is for the use of staff and visitors, and the other is for the egress of Coast Guard vehicles only. d) Provision of 10 no. parking spaces, an electric vehicle charging point and a vehicle wash down area with petrol interceptor on hard landscaping. e) Construction of an 18m radio aerial mast, entrance signage, and 3 no. 8m flagpoles. f) Construction of associated site works including gate to vehicular entrance, new waste water treatment system and external lighting. g) Site boundaries of post and wire fencing and stone wall to the road frontage
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/82
30 Apr 2012Conditional
to construct boat & accessories storehouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/288
20 Nov 2006Conditional
Extension and renovation of existing boathouse to include for training and changing room facilities, toilets and showers, viewing balcony and installation of proprietary treatment unit and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 06/2445
30 Jun 2006Withdrawn
Renovations of, alterations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/1239
17 May 2006Incompleted application
Renovation of and alterations and extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/891
1 Nov 2002Conditional
Off road loading bay/forest entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/4807
14 Mar 2000Refused
9 no. dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/1398
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilkeran Lake and Castlefreke Dunes SAC 001061
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kilkeran Lake And Castlefreke Dunes 001061
Recorded monuments
- CO143-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture on SW-facing slope overlooking Galley Head. Circular enclosure (diam. 54m); bank levelled but visible as differential growth pattern (GSAP). 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
- CO143-090 Fulacht fia
Description
Spread of burnt material visible after ploughing, according to local information. No visible surface trace. 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
Architectural heritage
- Castle Freke, demesne walls/gates/railings, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Rubble stone demesne walls, built c.1840. Rubble stone fabric with overhanging horizontal coping stones. Set along roadside and through fields.
- Kilkeran Cottage, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey house, built c.1870, having gable-fronted breakfront porch to front (south), canted bay window to side (west), single-bay single-storey extension with canted bay window to (east) and recent lean-to extension to rear (north). Replacement U-plan pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to central block, hipped to side (west). Pitched slate roof to addition, hipped slate roofs to canted bays. Timber-clad eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods throughout. Rubble stone walls throughout with ashlar limestone to side (west) canted bay window. Square-headed window openings with render sills throughout, having replacement timber-framed bipartite windows with one-over-one and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to side (east) elevation of breakfront porch, having replacement glazed timber door. Mortared and dry rubble stone enclosing wall with square-profile limestone gate piers and recent metal gate.
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 Castlefreke-Warren, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlefreke-Warren.
- 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 Castlefreke-Warren with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Castlefreke-Warren · An Coinicéar
- Area
- 730,849 m² (73.08 ha, 180.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathbarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Electoral division
- Rathbarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 569 people lived in 220 households in the Rathbarry electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlefreke, Castlefreke-Island, Donoure, Kilkeran, Little-Island
- Placenames
- Castlefreke-Warren 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.