Castlehyde
Castlehyde is a townland in the civil parish of Fermoy, barony of Condons and Clangibbon, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Carraig an Éidigh.
- Area
- 32.5 ha
- 80 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 2,065 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlehyde, from 115 m² to 254,007 m² (25.4 ha, 62.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jun 2025Conditional permission
Permission to construct a new dwelling house and detached domestic garage.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5204
6 Mar 2018Conditional
Demolition of existing uninhabitable dwellinghouse on site, construction of replacement dwellinghouse, detached garage, replacement of existing septic tank with new treatment unit, provision of new percolation area, site boundary treatments and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4531
7 Feb 2018Incompleted application
Demolition of existing uninhabitable dwellinghouse on site, construction of replacement dwellinghouse, detached garage, replacement of existing septic tank with new treatment unit, provision of new percolation area, site boundary treatments and all ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4313
10 Mar 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse, treatment unit, entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4554
30 Dec 2009Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse, treatment unit, entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/8109
29 Apr 2008Refused
Dwelling, treatment unit and associated site works
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/6375
26 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and installation of treatmen unit
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 08/5648
13 Dec 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9205
29 Mar 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1876
14 Jul 2004Refused
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5385
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 Castlehyde.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlehyde.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlehyde.
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 Castlehyde, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1251 (ZIP).
- 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 Castlehyde with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Castlehyde · Carraig an Éidigh
- Area
- 324,831 m² (32.48 ha, 80.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Fermoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Electoral division
- Castle Hyde, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 861 people lived in 270 households in the Castle Hyde electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlehyde East, Garraunigerinagh, Grange West, Sheepwalk East
- Placenames
- Castlehyde 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.