Classes

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Classes, from 9 m² to 85,140 m² (8.51 ha, 21.04 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.

• G1Public Open Space (Open space, park)
  Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Cork · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Light Industry and Related Uses (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Cork · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  10 year planning permission for a 20kV overground and underground grid connection cable of c.1.26km in length (of which c.0.43 km is located in the administrative area of Cork County and 0.83 km is located in the administrative area of Cork City) to be provided on overhead poles and in excavated trenches and include associated underground ducting, joint bay and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The proposed grid connection cable will connect the solar farm substation permitted under Cork County Council planning reference 18/7410 (An Bord Pleanála reference 304045-19) which is now located within the administrative area of Cork City with the existing 110kV Coolroe substation. The works will be carried out within the solar farm boundary, on private lands and within the public road. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The

  Permission · Cork City Council, 2140293

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  A 10 year permission for a 20kV overground and underground grid connection cable of 1.26km in length (of which c.0.43 km is located in the administrative area of Cork County and 0.83 km is located in the administrative area of Cork City) to be provided on overhead poles and in excavated trenches and include associated underground ducting and all associated site development and reinstatement works. The proposed grid connection cable will connect the solar farm substation permitted under Cork County Council planning reference 18/7410 (An Bord Pleanála reference 304045-19) which is now located within the administrative area of Cork City, with the existing 110kV Coolroe substation. The works will be carried out on private lands and within the public road. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5686

• 16 Dec 2014Conditional permission

  The development comprises of a construction and demolition waste recovery facility which provides for the importation, processing and recovery of construction and demolition waste (principally mixed concrete, blacktop, bricks, tiles and ceramics) on a 0.35hectare site within the existing landholding. It includes provision for a hardstanding area for stockpiling and processing of waste materials and a waste inspection/quarantine shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 14/6634

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Classes.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Classes.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge, built c.1860, spanning River Lee. Segmental-head arches with cut limestone voussoirs, springing from rubble stone piers with V-cutwaters. Dressed limestone spandrels surmounted by dressed limestone parapet with cut limestone string course.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Classes.

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.

No address of the register names Classes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Classes · Clais an Ghainimh

Area

217,444 m² (21.74 ha, 53.73 acres)

Civil parish

Athnowen, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry East

Electoral division

Ovens, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ovens electoral division: 1,051 people in 353 households; 90% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnagore, Curraghbeg

Placenames

Classes 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.