Castlepook North
Townland in the civil parish of Doneraile, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish Caisleán an Phúca Thuaidh
- Area
- 592.3 ha
- 1,464 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 4,497 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlepook North, from 9 m² to 400,240 m² (40.02 ha, 98.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Castlepook North 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
25 Sept 2020Conditional
Permission for retention of a two storey extension and minor alteration to elevation at rear of existing dwelling house.
Retention · Cork County Council, 20/6100
12 Jan 2015Withdrawn
Permission to substitute the electrical transformer station Permitted under Planning Ref. No. 11/4947 (An Bórd Pleanála Ref. No. pl 04.240434) for Castlepook wind farm with a relocated and larger Electrical Transformer Station comprising 2no. single storey control buildings with associated outdoor electrical equipment, including transformers, lightning protection masts and SCADA pole; effluent holding tanks, internal roads, boundary fencing around the perimeter of the compound, associated access track and all other associated site development works above & below ground
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4037
9 Dec 2014Incompleted application
Amended electrical transformer station at Castlepook Windfarm (pl04.240434 and Ref. No. 11/4947). The development will consist of a 38kV electrical transformer station comprising 2no. single storey control buildings and a substation with associated outdoor electrical equipment, including transformers, lightning protection masts and SCADA pole; effluent holding tanks, internal roads, boundary fencing around the perimeter of the compound, associated access track and all other associated site development works above & below ground
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6643
10 Nov 2014Conditional
Minor modifications to the previously approved Castlepook Wind Farm development comprising 14 wind turbines (An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL 04.240434, Cork County Council Ref. 11/4947). The development will consist of an increase in the maximum overall dimensions of the 14 permitted wind turbines (from 126m to 135m); substitution of two permitted guyed anemometer masts with two free-standing anemometer masts with a height corresponding to the amended wind turbine towers, which will be a maximum of 90m; realignment of the access to turbines No. T2, T4 and T10; and all associated site works, above and below ground.
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6379
22 Oct 2014Incompleted application
Minor modifications to the previously approved Castlepook Wind Farm development comprising 14no. wind turbines (An Bórd Pleanála Ref. PL04.240434, and Cork County Council Ref. No. 11/4947). The development will consist of an increase in the maximum overall dimensions of the 14 permitted wind turbines (from 126m to 135m); substitution of 2no. permitted guyed anemometer masts with 2no. free standing anemometer masts with a height corresponding to the amended wind turbine towers; realignment of the access to a number of the wind turbines and all associated site works above & below ground
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6270
23 Jul 2014Incompleted application
Minor modifications to the permitted Castlepook wind farm development consisting of an increase in the maximum overall dimensions of the 14no. permitted wind turbines (from 126m to 135m); substitution of 2no. permitted guyed anemometer masts with 2no. free standing anemometer masts with a height corresponding to the amended wind turbine towers; realignment of the access to a number of wind turbines; and all associated site works, above and below ground
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5603
9 Apr 2013Conditional
Construction of a single storey extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4618
3 May 2011Conditional
The development will consist of a Wind Energy Project comprising 14 wind turbines, access tracks, a fenced Electrical Transformer Station comprising a single-storey Control Building and Substation, an effluent treatment system, two anemometer masts, borrow pits and all associated site works, above and below ground. Each wind turbine will have an overall maximum dimension of 126 metres, comprising a tower 80-85 metres high, with a diameter of about 4 metres at the base, to which three blades of 41-45 metres length will be attached.
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/4947
19 Oct 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse, garage and installation of septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11779
7 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of slatted cattle house
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/8454
6 Sept 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6440
2 Sept 2005Conditional
Retention of barn/outbuilding for agricultural use
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6365
3 Aug 2005Incompleted application
Retention of garage/shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5543
25 May 2004Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/3650
14 May 2003Conditional
Windfarm to include 12 no. turbines, 50m anemometer mast, control building/ switchyard,fencing & access tracks
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2263
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: Ballyhoura Mountains SAC 002036
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Castlepook North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlepook North.
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
- 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 Castlepook North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Castlepook North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Castlepook North · Caisleán an Phúca Thuaidh
- Area
- 5,923,336 m² (592.33 ha, 1,463.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doneraile, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Streamhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Streamhill electoral division: 107 people in 42 households; 93% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhaght (Co. Limerick), Carker Middle, Carker North, Castlepook South, Jamestown (Co. Limerick), Skahanagh Beg, Streamhill East
- Placenames
- Castlepook North 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.