# Classes, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Athnowen, barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork; in Irish Clais an Ghainimh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 217,444 m² (21.74 ha, 53.73 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,221 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): G1 Public Open Space, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Athnowen, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/athnowen.md - Barony: Muskerry East - Electoral division: Ovens, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,051 people lived in 353 households in the Ovens electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/9594 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41513 - Centre: latitude 51.883879, longitude -8.636671 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Classes, from 9 m² to 85,140 m² (8.51 ha, 21.04 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2228194: 85,140 m² (8.51 ha, 21.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228194.md - Parcel 2262968: 75,795 m² (7.58 ha, 18.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2262968.md - Parcel 2228104: 28,157 m² (2.82 ha, 6.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228104.md - Parcel 2228187: 5,553 m² (0.56 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2228187.md - Parcel 5884177: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884177.md - Parcel 5884394: 1,221 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884394.md - Parcel 5884191: 924 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884191.md - Parcel 5884356: 717 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884356.md - Parcel 5884380: 717 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884380.md - Parcel 5884385: 346 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884385.md - Parcel 5884365: 9 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884365.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - G1 Public Open Space (Open space, park): Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation), Cork City; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://publications.corkcity.ie/view/486376427/572/ - C2.1 Light Industry and Related Uses (Industrial, enterprise, employment): Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Variation No. 3 (NPF Implementation), Cork City; 2 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://publications.corkcity.ie/view/486376427/568/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 18 Jun 2021, Cork City Council 2140293: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://planning.corkcity.ie/AppFileRefDetails/2140293/0 - 18 Jun 2021, Cork County Council 21/5686: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=21/5686 - 16 Dec 2014, Cork County Council 14/6634: Conditional permission. 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. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/6634 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Classes. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Classes. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bridge, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 20907326, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CO®no=20907326. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Classes, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/classes-41513.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/classes-41513.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/classes-41513.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Classes with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Barnagore: https://everytownland.com/cork/barnagore.md - Curraghbeg: https://everytownland.com/cork/curraghbeg.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/classes-41513 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/classes-41513