Clancool More
Clancool More is a townland in the civil parish of Ballymodan, barony of Kinalmeaky, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cluain Chúile Mór.
- Area
- 151.4 ha
- 374 acres
- Land parcels
- 216
- registered freehold, median 422 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses
- Planning
- 63
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
216 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clancool More, from 5 m² to 180,380 m² (18.04 ha, 44.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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
- R2Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses (Existing residential)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 163 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 77 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G4Green Infrastructure (Active open space)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Residential Reserve (Strategic Residential Reserve)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 1 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
18 Sept 2026Invalid - prepare letters
The proposed development consists of the construction of 7 no. two-storey terraced dwelling houses, comprising 3 no. 2 bedroom units and 4 no. 3-bedroom units. The development will also include all associated site development works, including new connections to the public water mains and public sewer infrastructure, at Saint Bridget's Terrace, Bandon, Co. Cork.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/2433
7 Apr 2026Grant with conditions
Permission to (i) upgrade the existing surface and install low level lighting on existing walkway around main pitch and (ii) extend the backstop net on both sides of the existing backstop net located on the Eastern side of the top pitch, all to existing GAA facility.
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0858
9 Jan 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of side and rear extensions to dwelling and permission for retention of domestic stores also to rear of existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 24/4020
4 Dec 2023Conditional
Single storey extension to and façade alterations of a single dwelling house. Demolition of existing domestic garage and the construction of a new domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6414
27 Nov 2023Incompleted application
Permission for retention of side and rear extensions to dwelling and permission for retention of domestic stores also to rear of existing dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 23/6372
12 Sept 2023Conditional
Permission to construct dwelling and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 23/5853
25 Aug 2022Withdrawn
Permission to erect floodlighting to 2 no. existing rugby pitches.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5945
26 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission for change of use of library area to student residential accommodation including the alteration and extension of first floor link bridge
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/4140
15 Nov 2021Refused
To construct a dwelling and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/7070
21 Oct 2021Incompleted application
To construct a dwelling and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6870
27 Apr 2020Conditional
Construction of a two storey extension to rear of dwelling house.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/4851
19 Nov 2019Withdrawn
To construct 2 no. detached dwelling-houses, shared parking area, new site entrance and all associated ancillary site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6746
18 Apr 2019Conditional
To erect floodlighting to existing hockey pitch
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/4976
30 Oct 2018Conditional
Permission to (i) install eight no. CCTV cameras located as follows: five to be fitted on existing Clubhouse, two to be fitted on existing 4m high light poles and one to be fitted on a new 4m high light pole (ii) increase height of fencing to existing ball alley as follows, increase height of fencing on the North-West and South-East Elevations by 2m and increase height of fencing on the North-East Elevation by 1.2m (iii) to replace existing spectator seating with new concrete seating area, all to existing GAA facility.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6854
13 Sept 2018Conditional
Retention of (a) Elevation changes to all elevations of existing dwellings No. 1 and No. 2, (b) Demolition of side annex of No. 2 and rear projections of No. 1 and 2, (c) Two storey extensions to the rear of existing dwellings No. 1 and No. 2 (d) Alterations to entrance wall of existing dwelling No. 1 and 2
Retention · Cork County Council, 18/6431
15 Feb 2018Conditional
Construction of a two storey extension to front rear and side of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4385
15 Feb 2018Conditional
Construction of a two storey extension to front rear and side of existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4384
7 Dec 2016Conditional
(a) Demolition of existing rear extension, (b) Retention and completion of new extension, (c) Retention of modification to roof of existing extension, (d) Retention and completion of modifications to existing dwellinghouse, (e) Retention of roof light to rear of existing dwellinghouse, (f) Demolition of existing sun room to front of existing dwellinghouse, (g) Construction of extension (porch) to front of existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/7059
25 Jan 2016Conditional
Construct a single storey extension to side and rear of dwelling (to be used asgranny flat) and extend existing front porch canopy along front of house
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4093
6 May 2015Conditional
Dwelling house and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4937
27 Apr 2015Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 15/4852
4 Apr 2013Conditional
Demolition of existing single storey pre-fabricated structure containing a classroom and ancillary accommodation and the construction of single storey additions to existing school building to provide two classrooms and ancillary school accommodation, modifications and alterations to existing structure to accommodate proposed works and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4589
21 Feb 2013Conditional
Retention of scoreboard and all associated site works
Retention · Cork County Council, 13/4287
4 Nov 2011Conditional
Construction of a detached classroom with toilets to serve existing school
Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6341
22 Jul 2010Conditional
Dwellinghouse and associated site works to include installation of a foul water effluent system and demolition of existing store/outbuilding
Permission · Cork County Council, 10/5846
The 25 most recent of 63 applications.
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 Clancool More.
Recorded monuments
- CO110-027 Quarry
Description
Listed as a ‘quarry’ in the SMR (1988) and the RMP (1998). The evidence is not sufficient to warrant accepting this as the location of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 11 February 2015
- CO110-103 Souterrain
Description
In pasture, on a terrace on a S-facing slope in an area of undulating farmland. According to local information, a possible souterrain exists at this location (pers. comm. Cumann Seanchais na Banndan). There are no visible remains of this possible souterrain. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
- Clancool House, gate lodge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached formerly cruciform-plan three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c.1870, having central two-storey traversing block with gable-fronted break front bays to front (south-west) and rear (north-east). Canted bay window to front, box-bay to side (north-west), break-front porch to side (south-east) and lean-to additions to rear. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, gable copings, carved timber bargeboards to side (north-west) gable and uPVC rainwater goods. Slate roofs to lean-to additions. Hipped slate roofs to bay windows. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth to front elevation and side (north-west and south-east) elevations of traversing block. Exposed rubble stone walls with rendered plinth to side (north-west, south-east) and rear elevations and lean-to addition to rear elevation. Rendered walls to bay windows, porch and lean-to additions. Rendered corner buttresses to box-bay window. Square-headed window openings with render sills and replacement timber casement windows throughout. Raised render surrounds and moulded render hood mouldings to front and rear elevation openings. Tudor arch door opening to side (south-east) elevation within rendered gable-fronted breakfront porch, having tooled limestone step and timber panelled door. Rubble stone enclosing wall with tooled limestone coping, having tooled limestone and rendered piers
- Clancool House, country house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay three-storey former country house, built c.1820, having two-bay two-storey wing to side (north-east) with two-bay return to side (north-east) and single-bay two-storey lean-to extension to rear elevation of return. Five-bay two-storey block to west end of rear (south-east) elevation of house having two-bay two-storey extension to rear of block. Central two-storey gable-fronted end-bay and two-storey gable-fronted end-bay to east end of rear elevation of house. Additional porch to front elevation of house and lean-to garage to side (south-west) elevation of house. Gable-fronted bays to front and side (north-east) elevations of later wing and side (south-west) elevation of five-bay two-storey block. Gable-fronted oriels to second floors front elevation of house. Now in multiple ownership forming four separate houses. Pitched slate roofs throughout with exception of hipped slate roof to wing with rendered chimneystacks, eaves courses, rooflights, carved timber bargeboards to gables, finials to gable-fronted bays to wing and additional porch and cast-iron and uPVC rainwater goods. Slate-lean-to roofs to extension to rear elevation of wing. Corrugated-iron lean-to roof to additional garage with rendered parapet wall having render coping to front elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof to additional porch. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth to front, side (north-east and south-west) elevations. Rendered walls to rear elevation of lean-to addition to wing, side (north-east) elevation of projecting end-bay to rear elevation of house. Roughcast rendered walls to rear and side (north-east) elevations of five-bay block, central projecting bay and rear elevation of projecting end-bay to rear elevation of house. Remains of slate hanging to rear elevation of house and side (north-east) elevation of five-bay block. Ocular recess to gable-fronted bay to side (south-west) elevation of five-bay block. Oriels comprising of rendered walls with timber platbands supported on timber corbels and rendered gables. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills to west end ground floor to front elevation, rendered sills to rest with replacement timber and uPVC casement windows throughout. Render hood mouldings to front and side (north-east) elevation. Slit apertures to gable-fronted bays to front and side (north-east) elevations of wing. Pointed arch window opening to side (north-east) elevation of wing having rendered sill and replacement uPVC casement window surmounted by blocked fanlight. Round-headed door opening to front elevation having timber doorcase, tooled limestone step with double-leaf timber panelled doors giving access to internal porch with internal double-leaf glazed timber doors. Square-headed door openings having replacement glazed timber door surmounted by single-pane overlight and rendered hood moulding to front elevation of central house, replacement glazed uPVC door, double-leaf sliding glazed uPVC doors to side (south-west) elevation and glazed uPVC door surmounted by tripartite pane uPVC overlight to side (north-east) elevation. Timber panelled garage door to front elevation. Rendered and lined-and-ruled rendered enclosing walls having pointed arch door opening having single-leaf wrought-iron gate to side (north-east) and splayed entrances with square-profile piers and double-leaf wrought-iron gates to north-west. Various outbuildings to south-east. Located overlooking the New Road accessed via freestanding double-span road bridge to north west of house, spanning the Bridewell river having round-headed arches comprising of roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs springing from rubble stone piers. Rubble stone spandrels and parapet walls with render coping.
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 Clancool More, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clancool More.
- 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 Clancool More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Clancool More · Cluain Chúile Mór
- Area
- 1,514,217 m² (151.42 ha, 374.17 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymodan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Electoral division
- Ballymodan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,660 people lived in 1,643 households in the Ballymodan electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clancool Beg, Cloghmacsimon, Corravreeda West, Gully, Knockanreagh, Lissaphooca
- Placenames
- Clancool More 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.