Castletown
Townland in the civil parish of Mogeely, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork; in Irish Baile an tSeanchaisleáin
- Area
- 158.6 ha
- 392 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 203 m² to 308,213 m² (30.82 ha, 76.16 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 Castletown 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
16 Nov 2020Conditional
The construction of a dwellinghouse, detached domestic use garage, a waste-water treatment system, a new splayed vehicular access to the site and all other associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/6530
15 Mar 2019Conditional
The retention of the following works: 1. Rear extension to existing dwelling, 2. Detached steel storage shed, 3. Detached residential office / studio building, 4. Site entrance and site boundaries as constructed along with all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 19/4649
10 Mar 2010Conditional
Single storey detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4558
11 Feb 2010Incompleted application
Single storey detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4263
7 May 2008Conditional
Retention of stone cladding to existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/6567
26 Mar 2008Incompleted application
Retention of stone cladding to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5646
21 Dec 2007Refused
Construction of extension and conversion of existing garage to granny flat
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13429
30 Jul 2007Conditional
Two storey dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/9931
11 Jun 2007Incompleted application
Two storey dwellinghouse
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/8563
30 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8524
20 Dec 2005Conditional
Reconstruction of partially ruined dwellinghouse for use as dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/9489
19 Dec 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/9448
31 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6303
20 Apr 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2558
24 Mar 2005Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1833
25 Jan 2005Conditional
Extensions to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/284
28 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7327
2 Sept 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/6675
26 Jan 2004Conditional
Construction of a two storey dormer style extension to single storey dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/338
17 Jul 2003Conditional
Two storey domestic garage/ workshop
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3537
15 Jan 2003Refused
Construction of one and a half storey extension to dwelling & domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/111
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 Castletown.
Recorded monuments
- CO066-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
On NE-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 42m). Levelled; no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO066-044 Country house
Description
Remains of early 19th century 2-storey house, 2 bays deep. Entrance front (NE) of 5 bays; central door flanked by sidelights; Ionic portico in front of door, moulded plaster detail. Tripartite windows overhead. Decorative details in plaster. Roof collapsed; originally hipped. Additions to rear. Remains of farmbuildings a short distance to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Castletown House, country house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Remains of detached seven-bay two-storey former country house, built c. 1830, with portico to front (east) elevation, having five-bay north and south elevations with single-storey bows. Now derelict and undergoing renovation and reconstruction. No roof. Concrete block chimneystacks. Render corbelled cornice. Rendered walls with render giant Doric order corner pilasters. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds. Portico to front elevation with Doric pilasters flanking Ionic columns, supporting Ionic entablature with frieze and dentillated cornice. Ruinous remains of outbuildings to west of house, having rubble stone walls, brick chimneystack, and square-headed openings. Rubble stone wall with elliptical-arched carriage arch with brick voussoirs and square-headed pedestrian entrance. Segmental-headed carriage arch with brick voussoirs and square-headed pedestrian entrance forming entrance to former stables to west. Ten-bay single- and two-storey former stables, now in use as house, with hipped slate roof, red brick chimneystack and rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber windows. Elliptical-arched carriage arch and round-headed door opening with replacement timber half-glazed doors. Yard to north-west having five-bay single-storey former outbuilding to south range, with hipped artificial slate roof having red brick chimneystack, rubble stone walls, and elliptical-arched openings. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding to north range, remains of hipped roof, rubble stone walls, segmental-arched window and door openings with brick voussoirs, and elliptical-arched door openings with brick voussoirs.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1533 (ZIP).
- 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 Castletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Castletown · Baile an tSeanchaisleáin
- Area
- 1,585,503 m² (158.55 ha, 391.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mogeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Dangan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dangan electoral division: 266 people in 87 households; 92% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynalahagh, Coolcap, Glenane More, Kilcounty, Knockanenakirka
- Placenames
- Castletown 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.